Edgar Moura

Maria, a Ukrainian doctor, comes to Portugal to spend a year with Greco, her husband who is also a doctor. Upon arrival at Faro airport she is the only person from Kiev approached by agents of Immigration and Customs that lead her to a room of interrogation, without any explanations. All this occurs because the authorities suspect that something illegal should be behind her trip, since she is from Eastern Europe and her husband is Senegalese.

Through conversations held with fifty four of the most distinguished cinematographers working in Brazil and abroad over the last forty years, the documentary explores the working environment, the new tools and the different styles of the professional who controls the light and the shades behind the camera.

Ricardo es un travesti. Tras un intento de suicidio, vuelve a sus raíces y aprende como vivir con la ayuda de su hermana, y sobretodo, de la vitalidad de su sobrino Vasco, un niño con síndrome de Down.

Documentary about the great Brazilian photographers who helped develop Brazilian cinema and their opinions on their work, making movies in Brazil and in general, and other subjects. As a bonus, they all agreed to shoot the same scene following their individual concepts, and the result is shown for comparison.

A star medical examiner is called to Brasília, the administrative capital of Brazil, to confirm the identity of a beautiful, young congressional aide's dead body. But his scientific rigor soon leads him to details of a multi-layered political scandal.

In 1908, Titoe leaves her country, Japan, to try her luck in Brazil. Her intention is just to get rich and return in five years. But life has other plans for her.

Sofía va a casa de su primo Matheus a cuidar de sus dos hijos, Júlia y Lucas, mientras él va a una fiesta. Encuentra un libro mágico que los transporta al Bosque Mágico, donde conocen a personajes de cuentos de hadas como Pinocho y Caperucita Roja. Pero su presencia comienza a interferir con las historias originales, por lo que Matheus intenta traerlos de regreso al mundo real.

Mariana is a 17 year old girl, who, after being rapped by drug addict, finds out she's pregnant and, in her path, discovers how difficult it can be entering adulthood.

Vita, a young and beautiful African woman learns that finding love and happiness need not come at the sacrifice of one's identity.

In 1980, a small plane carrying the Prime Minister, the Defense Minister and six others crashed during takeoff in Camarate, Portugal, killing all on board. The police investigation decided it was an accident caused by pilot error. But controversy raged for twenty years, and the Parliament investigated it no less than six times. Finally, in 2000, in response to a suit by the families of the survivors, the High Court had to decide whether to open a criminal investigation, or close the case forever.

The story of a family of bull fighters.

Jaime es un muchacho de 13 años que vive en Oporto con su madre, quien ha dejado a su padre, y el amante de ésta. El niño está haciendo todo lo posible para que sus padres arreglen sus problemas y vuelvan a estar juntos. Piensa que la separación fue causada por el robo de la motocicleta de su padre, lo que provocó que éste perdiera su trabajo. Por tanto, Jaime comienza a trabajar para conseguir dinero con la intención de comprar una nueva motocicleta.

The film presents us with a reflection on the Spanish Civil War in the Portuguese society, At a time when Salazar ruled.

El campeón de kickboxing, David Sloan, su entrenador Xian y su hermana Isabella viajan a Río de Janeiro, donde David tiene que participar en una exhibición. Allí les esperan una serie de desagradables encuentros, que obligarán a David a mostrar su destreza en la lucha, tanto dentro como fuera del ring.

Exiled in Acapulco, the bon vivant Dino cheats a rich widow into financing his coming back to Brazil. To avoid getting caught, he hides in a coffin. His fake burial is celebrated in high style and it doesn't take long before he starts getting himself into weird situations.

The fairy tale story of Maria da Graça, a small town girl with big time dreams of becoming a singer, who moves to Rio de Janeiro to pursue her ambitions.

Orestes, a rich factory owner, falls for the beautiful Fulvia. They communicate using pigeons, to avoid being discovered by her husband.

This epic Brazilian film was based on the equally epic novel by Antonio Callado. Set between 1954 and 1964, the film's focus is the saga of Jesuit priest Nando. Fed up with civilization, he ventures deep into Amazon country to live with and work among the Xingu Indians.

In this highly stylized Brazilian drama a sax player fondly remembers one wonderful night spent with his life's love and decides to find her again. He embarks upon a quest through the wild streets of Rio to find her. Along the way he meets an assortment of odd urban underworld characters.

High Court judge returns to the small town where he was born, bringing along his beautiful and young wife. The local men get aroused and start looking for young lovers at the local bordello. Their wives even make promises and novenas asking the disappearance of the new couple. One day, the judge dies, leaving his wife unsatisfied. The corpse, as if wanting revenge, keeps an erection on.

The story of an American soccer player trying to make it big who turns to Pele, the greatest soccer player of all time, for guidance.

The dictator of a small Caribbean island receives the New York Times daily, sent by a nephew. Through the newspaper, he gets in touch with the world. Guerrilla groups try to neutralize this information system.

Macabéa has just moved to the big city after her aunt, who raised her, died. She gets a job as a typist and moves into a boarding house with three other women. In her spare time, she listens to a radio station called Time; on Sundays, she likes to ride the metro. Then she meets Olímpico, a northeasterner like herself, who has dreams of becoming a congressman.

Mientras sustituía a un cámara del Centro Popular de Cultura (CPC) en 1962, Eduardo Coutinho filmó una manifestación de protesta por la muerte del líder campesino João Pedro Teixeira. El presidente del CPC ofreció a Coutinho la dirección de una película basada en un libro de João Cabral pero, debido a la falta de acuerdo con el escritor, el proyecto pasó a basarse en la vida de Teixeira y en los movimientos campesinos del norte de Brasil . Su rodaje comenzó dos años después, pero el material hasta entonces realizado fue requisado y parte del equipo fue detenido tras el Golpe de Estado acontecido en Brasil el 31 de marzo de 1964. En 1979 Coutinho retomó el proyecto, pero le dio una perspectiva distinta. Se reunió con los campesinos que habían colaborado en el pasado, y con los familiares de Teixeira, y recogió sus reacciones ante la dictadura brasileña de las dos décadas pasadas, usando también el material que había podido recuperar del antiguo proyecto.

Mientras sustituía a un cámara del Centro Popular de Cultura (CPC) en 1962, Eduardo Coutinho filmó una manifestación de protesta por la muerte del líder campesino João Pedro Teixeira. El presidente del CPC ofreció a Coutinho la dirección de una película basada en un libro de João Cabral pero, debido a la falta de acuerdo con el escritor, el proyecto pasó a basarse en la vida de Teixeira y en los movimientos campesinos del norte de Brasil . Su rodaje comenzó dos años después, pero el material hasta entonces realizado fue requisado y parte del equipo fue detenido tras el Golpe de Estado acontecido en Brasil el 31 de marzo de 1964. En 1979 Coutinho retomó el proyecto, pero le dio una perspectiva distinta. Se reunió con los campesinos que habían colaborado en el pasado, y con los familiares de Teixeira, y recogió sus reacciones ante la dictadura brasileña de las dos décadas pasadas, usando también el material que había podido recuperar del antiguo proyecto.

The story of João "Jango" Goulart, the Brazilian left-wing president deposed by the military.

A small town girl, who's an aspiring singer, tries to make a living out of music in the big city of Rio de Janeiro.

Account an important part of the history of Brazil, through its main character, Anayde Beiriz a poet, journalist and revolutionary and libertarian teacher of the early twentieth century, known for its sexual liberalism, which shocked the pre-Revolution in the state of Paraíba during 1930. His love for João Dantas eventually forge João Pessoa's death, at that time, governor of of Paraíba. These events served as a trigger for the a revolution.

Severino do Quixadá (Renato Aragão), a humble northeastern shepherd of goats, rescues Captain Virgulano or simply Captain (Nelson Xavier) and his band of cangaceiros of an ambush armed by the lieutenant Zé Bezerra (Jose Dumont), its eternal persecutor. Captain escapes taking with him the mysterious box that he removed from the interior of the assaulted train in the city of Cajarana. Seeking to escape the shooting, Severino ends up finding himself in the cangaceiros' camp, along with the mishap friends Mussum and Zacarias who, taking advantage of the confusion, fled the chain.

A group of eccentric people gather at a popular bar in Ipanema, Rio de Janeiro. Among its costumers, we find Ana, an actress, and her husband Zeca, a writer in crisis about his work.

The routine of a group of brazilian teenagers living in Brasília, Brazil's capital. Their aspirations, dreams and illusions presented in a context of a country that was on the final years of a dictatorship back in the 1980s.

Based on fact, this is the story of the struggles of Japanese immigrants who traveled to and settled in Brazil looking for a better life.

Paulo Otávio is the host of a pirate radio station on the slums of Rio de Janeiro. He struggles to mantain the station working, since the only help he's got comes from news reporter Calói. Their story goes beyond as the city starts to face a crime wave.

An accident at a construction site, resulting in one death, sets one worker off on a struggle for justice that exposes the mechanisms of exploitation and the class relations of a country that had undergone one decade of fast-paced ‘conservative modernisation’ at the hands of the military. As a sort of sequel to the classic The Guns (1964), following the fate of those characters as they move from enforcers of exploitation to exploited, it offers more than a snapshot of the period: the correspondent time lapses in fiction and reality capture the passage of a chunk of Brazilian history between the two films, and, therefore, also the transformations in cinematographic approaches to the social and political between the two moments. Equally daring in content and form, and in the originality of the adequacy of one to the other, it won the Silver Bear at Berlin.