Marçal Aquino

Marçal Aquino, one of the most important contemporary writers in Brazil, talks about how literature liberated him. Felipe, an almost ordinary reader, says that he reads to free himself. The meeting between the two reveals that the wall that apparently separates them is much less thick than being could imagine.

José Nunes and Maxime Charasse are friends and minority partners in a struggling construction company. Faced with the need to protect their interests, they make a radical decision and find themselves bound by a dark secret.

A retired army sergeant, a police officer and his wife and a drug dealer apparently have nothing in common, but they will unite for a greater good. When people start using explosives to fish on the edge of Salvador, Bahia, this group will do everything to end this environmental crime. But in the search for the paths that seem most correct, each one of them will go through more personal and moral conflicts.

Cauby (Gustavo Machado) es un fotógrafo que viaja a un pequeño poblado que se interna en la selva del Amazonas, en la región de Pará. Allí se encontrará con una bellísima joven, Lavinia (Camilla Pitanga), la mujer de Pastor Ernani (Zé Carlos Machado), que tiene graves problemas emocionales. Esto no será un impedimento para que Cauby y Lavinia terminen teniendo una aventura sexual, mientras su marido intenta arreglar el mundo a través de su compromiso ético y social. Cauby intentará por todos los medios retener a Lavinia a su lado, pero lo que no sabe es que la joven siente una gran gratitud con su marido por haberla sacado de la prostitución y las drogas. La muerte de Ernani y la desaparición de Lavinia apuntarán a un único sospechoso: Cauby.

The Menezes, a powerful family of animal breeders from the Mid-West, have always been at the helm of all illegal dealings in the region. In recent times, they've watched as the system that protected them for so many years slowly disintegrates. Mirão Menezes lives at the mercy of the drug-trafficking industry, the ever-encroaching authorities, and the constant and violent power struggle with his brother Abílio. Mirão's daughter Elaine becomes involved with her father's pilot, finds herself pregnant and decides to flee with him after her Uncle Abílio bribes them. Brito, the hitman sent to find the couple and finish them off, is ironically also victim of a love story.

In Porto Alegre, the unemployed Ciro has a dull life in a simple apartment with a nameless stray dog that he had found on the streets. Ciro is supported by his parents and works every now and then in translation of Russian. When he meets the aspirant actress Marcela, who dreams on traveling to other places, they immediately fall in love for each other. However, Marcela has a lymphoma and travels for a treatment, and alone Marcelo becomes depressed and returns to his parents home.

Un propietario una casa de empeños compra bienes usados a los lugareños desesperados - tanto para jugar a juegos perversos de poder como para su propio sustento- pero cuando entran en su vida el trasero perfecto y un aseo estropeado, pierde el control.

Antônio Martins, respected theatrical critic, is a very rational man. But a chance meeting with young Inês, a nude painting model, is going to rock him. Inês keeps a relationship with painter José Torres Campana, an older man with a deep influence over her. Antônio gets jealous, and the three become characters of a drama saturated with desire and danger.

Un thriller psicológico repleto de animaciones tipo manga sobre la ilustradora joven y pobre de historietas Nina, que vive con su casera. Ella se hunde cada vez más en un violento mundo de fantasía.

Two businessmen hire a hitman to kill their third partner and are then blackmailed by the hitman as he takes over their company.

Brazil in the early 70s. Miguel, Eloi, Osvaldo and Paolo take part in armed attacks against the military dictatorship. They pay a heavy price with torture and arrest. Today the four friends still see each other. Only Miguel is politically active. On a photograph from a political meeting in Sao Paolo he recognises the policeman who tortured them 25 years ago and who was responsible for the death of Miguel's girlfriend. The policeman has been officially dead for a few years. On one of their fishing trips together, Miguel tells his friends of his discovery. When they hunt down and confront their nemesis they come into conflict with both themselves and each other.

Two hit men, a veteran and a beginner, chatter in a bar on Brazil-Paraguai border, while waiting for their victim to appear.