Inês Peixoto

A woman wakes up in the middle of the night and notices the presence of a stranger inside her house. This unusual meeting between people from completely different worlds will have surprising consequences for both.

A woman wakes up in the middle of the night and notices the presence of a stranger inside her house. This unusual meeting between people from completely different worlds will have surprising consequences for both.

Mesmerized by the image of an active volcano on the other side of the world, a woman sets out to meet her fury. On the way, without being able to return, she finds herself in an extraordinary pregnancy, starting the account of the journey that gives shape to this play-film, a journey between theater and cinema inspired by the narratives of fantastic realism.

In the 19th century Minas Gerais hinterland, an outsider discovers a mysterious bar.

After the death of his wife, Otto starts having trouble to sleep without his natural medicine: a lettuce tea she made every night.

En el Brasil rural, en una región de clima árido y poca vegetación, vive Irene, una chica con una familia tradicional, que se lleva mejor con la criada que con las hermanas. Un día, Irene se entera que el padre tiene una segunda familia y otra hija de su misma edad, también llamada Irene. Sin que nadie lo sepa, se arriesga a conocer a su hermanastra, y conoce a una Irene muy diferente, con la que experimenta entonces una nueva posibilidad de ser. Irene repite la doble vida del padre, entrando en un juego de secretos y mentiras.

Luzimar cycles each day to and from work at the local cotton mill in his hometown of Cataguases, Minas Gerais, Brazil. He is a hard-working man, trying to make the most of what he has. One day, his childhood friend Gildo reappears, driving a fancy car and boasting of his successful life in São Bernardo do Campo, São Paulo. As the two sit down for a beer, memories, regrets and old resentments slowly resurface.

Carlos is a man doomed by restless memories, that meets with himself, in a time warp. Young Carlos faces the forgetfulness of old Carlos, who doesn't recognize his own appearance. They get a package. But the package seems odd. The knot that ties, the smell, the handwriting on the envelope: this could only be sent by his father, Ernesto, who has been dead for many years. A father who always created unusual situations. In this time warp, Carlos is split in two: one Carlos remembers and the other forgets the moments he spent with his father.

Young couple is just about to get married when the to-be groom ia called to pick up his fiancée at a motel. Afterwards they go through a crisis even before getting married.

Zezé is an 8 year old boy who, although a naughty boy, has a good heart. He leads a very modest life, due to the fact that his father has been unemployed for a long time, and has the habit of having long conversations with a sweet orange tree which is in his backyard. Until one day he meets Portuga, a man who begins to help him and soon becomes his best friend.

This is the story of Vicente, a successful, married, economist with a nine-year-old son. It also tells the story of Antônio, the same man, living as a hugadores—one of the homeless, trash scavengers who live and work in Brazil’s enormous garbage dumps. Vicente seems to have it all, but as we watch his life begins to crumble little by little. Meanwhile, Antônio, already at rock bottom, struggles to rebuild his life.

Show fun and cynically the filmography of a completely unknown director who has many projects and screenplays, but has no film produced.

Abandoned to the convent as a baby, Joaquina is about to take her vows as a nun when she learns the truth about her parentage – that her mother still lives, and her father was real-life revolutionary icon Tiradentes, who fought and died for Brazilian independence.