Sabina Anzuategui

São Paulo, 1984. Agostinho, an old and tired Physics professor, is married to Januária, a retired school principal. In his classes, he begins to feel attracted to one of his students, Márcia, an HIV positive teenager. Quickly, the attraction of the two turns into an impossible love.

Serginho has a hard time finding his place in the world as he works with his uncle at the market, supports his depressed mother, and takes care of his little brother.

Leandro is a young man frustrated by his job. His master’s thesis is on the military dictatorship in Brazil. That takes him into a search for recently deceased artist Jairo Mendes’ controversial film The Beheading Game, which was censored by Brazilian censors in 1973.

Julia es una profesora de literatura inglesa lesbiana de 35 años luchando contra la depresión de perder a su pareja, Antonia. Sintiéndose totalmente abandonada después de la enigmática separación, Julia es arrojada a un desesperado y doloroso proceso. Su vida y sus valores se tiñen de una melancolía insoportable y la medida de su vida se reduce a fragmentos fuera de foco. Su confusión interna y los conflictos impiden un proceso ahora necesario: de readaptarse a su nueva vida. Es imposible para ella ocultar su dolor cuando intenta narrar las emociones. (FILMAFFINITY)

Free adaptation of Machado de Assis's short story "Pai Contra Mãe", having some of Nireu Cavalcanti's 18th Century chronicles as inspiration, the film traces parallels between life in during the slavery period and in modern Brazil.

The story of Orisbela, a young and religious woman who comes from Portugal to Brazil to marry Francisco de Albuquerque, a rude sugar-cane plantation owner, in 1570.

An investigation into three São Paulo urban legends: The Devil Baby, the Blonde of the Bathroom and the Clown Gang. Originated in rumours, they were reported by the extinct tabloid Notícias Populares (NP) at different times. From this search, a universe is revealed where fantasy and reality are confused.