João Emanuel Carneiro

The true story of Assis Chateaubriand, the first magnate of communications in Brazil. Due to his influence during the late 1930s up to the early 1960s, he has come to be called 'the Brazilian Citizen Kane'.

A man returns to his hometown and resumes a dangerous old affair...

A 50 year-old woman who analyses her past. She pictures herself when she was 20 years old and she re-creates the story of her life through a game of innumerous possibilities. What if she wouldn't have gone to that ball? What if... instead of meeting the man of her life, with whom she married and had kids, she would have called a girlfriend and they went to the theater? What would be her destiny? What would have happened? In the plot the present talks to the past. A young woman projects her future in a fascinating game between memories and desires.

Célio Rocha believes he was assigned by God Himself a difficult mission: to persuade his childhood friend Otávio Sabóia, a corrupt entrepeneur in the construction business, to give away all his possessions to the poor.

Cansado de los errores cometidos por la humanidad, Dios (Antônio Fagundes) decide irse de vacaciones a las estrellas. Pero para eso, necesita que un santo se ocupe de sus deberes, mientras esté ausente. Decide procurarlo en Brasil, país muy religioso pero que nunca tuvo un santo reconocido oficialmente. El guía de Dios en Brasil será Taoca (Wagner Moura), astuto gomero y pescador que ve en ese encuentro inesperado la oportunidad de resolver sus problemas materiales. Luego, se junta a los dos la solitaria Madá (Paloma Duarte), una joven arrebatada por una gran pasión. Desde la costa de Alagoas al interior de Tocantins, pasando por Pernambuco, Taoca, Madá y Dios viven diferentes aventuras, mientras buscan a Quinca das Mulas (Bruce Gomlevsky), el candidato de Dios a santo brasileño.

Reunited for their mother’s funeral, four sisters – Selma, Regina, Laura and Lúcia – find themselves forced to divide much more than a spacious apartment in Copacabana. While dividing the articles – from the apartment’s sale to splitting a toy tea set – the sisters compare options, destinies, lifestyles, expectations. The divergences are inevitable, because they’ve followed very different tracks. The turbulent sale of the apartment represents a turning point in their lives: they know they have never been so deeply involved as accomplices, or as sisters.

Claudia Maccari, an Italian doctor who has a Brazilian adopted son suffering from leukemia, goes to Rio de Janeiro to find the child's biological mother for a transplant. She is reluctantly helped by a Detective.

Filmed over a five-year period, Chronically Unfeasible dissects Brazilian problems, using six people who meet in a restaurant in São Paulo as models to illustrate political, sociological and economic disparities between Brazil's upper and lower classes.

Orfeu is a popular composer from a samba school. He lives in the favela and falls madly in love when he meets Euridice, a newcomer to the neighborhood. But the local drug boss Lucinho stands between them and will drastically change both their lives.

En los asfixiantes pasillos de la Estación Central, en Río de Janeiro, una antigua maestra se gana la vida escribiendo las cartas que le dictan los analfabetos. Endurecida por la soledad y por la adversidad, Dora ha ido cayendo en una estoica indiferencia. Sin embargo, cuando una de sus clientes muere atropellada a la salida de la estación, decide hacerse cargo de su hijo y llevarlo a casa de su padre en una remota zona del nordeste de Brasil.

En los asfixiantes pasillos de la Estación Central, en Río de Janeiro, una antigua maestra se gana la vida escribiendo las cartas que le dictan los analfabetos. Endurecida por la soledad y por la adversidad, Dora ha ido cayendo en una estoica indiferencia. Sin embargo, cuando una de sus clientes muere atropellada a la salida de la estación, decide hacerse cargo de su hijo y llevarlo a casa de su padre en una remota zona del nordeste de Brasil.

El destino de Joao, preso en una cárcel de Río de Janeiro, nunca debería haberse cruzado con el de María, aislada en su apartamento. Sin embargo, el 31 de diciembre de 1999 Joao se escapa de la prisión y se produce un encuentro inesperado entre ellos, mientras llega el primer día...