Maria Luísa Mendonça

Virginia’s death during her 17th birthday shakes up a luxurious building complex. For most residents, it’s a passing tragedy. For her mother and her friends, it is the beginning of a transformation: the crack in their drywall cocoon.

​Júlio is a young, straight-faced and conservative dentist. After being dumped by his girlfriend, he receives news that he is the son of a popular, womanizing singer from the 1970s, whom he has never met. And he also discovers a brother who is completely different from himself, with whom Júlio never lived. So far...

Horacio, an old smuggler hiding from the law, lives in a surreal, baroque apartment with Petulia, his daughter, and Milton, his favorite thug. While he keeps his daughter locked up in her bedroom, Horácio flirts with his goon, for whom he has had repressed feelings for years. However, Milton's love for a mysterious woman, and Petula's attempts to free herself with the help of a former lover, clash with Horacio's tyrannical whims.

A group of friends working on an offshore oil rig maintain close bounds and do their best to face the difficulties presented by living and working isolated out in the middle of the sea. A job promotion triggers events that disrupt, in an irreversible way, the group friendship and the protagonist’s own life on land. He is tested by the force of destiny and experiences the drama of an ordinary man facing a gradual process of isolation.

A man who lost his taste and his blind wife; an almost deaf girl and her consumerist stepmother; an adult movie actor in love and his completely passionate woman; a sign language teacher and his dilemmas with dumb students. Characters full of love and full of inabilities to cope with their emotional side.

Recife, 1900. Malvina (Marina Ruy Barbosa), daughter of a wealthy merchant, falls in love with Gabriel (Johnny Massaro), however, on her wedding day he abandons her at the altar. Disconcerted, she commits suicide and then returns as a dark spirit. However she brings with her all the dead in the city. At first, the residents are happy, but then they discover that the natural course of life should continue to be followed.

A man who is tormented by his intuitions and by dreams goes away to find answers to his discomfort. Revelations are made to him along his path, until he meets his soul mate and is prepared to the Blue Desert.

Historia sobre la búsqueda de la identidad y un imbricado camino hacia ese encuentro. Analía, una chica de provincia de 20 años de edad, viaja a la ciudad de Buenos Aires con el fin de repartir unas artesanías. Mientras cumple su tarea, llega por error a un velorio musulmán. Desconcertada, aunque fascinada, participa del rito y recibe pertenencias de la difunta. Sin terminar su trabajo, Analía dilata su regreso. La ciudad la hace sentir una extranjera y despierta en ella una sensación de libertad adormecida. Guiada por el camino de su curiosidad y deseo, Analía comienza a frecuentar una Mezquita. Al azar elije el nombre, “Habiba Rafat” para sí, y bajo esta identidad vivirá nuevas experiencias. Consigue trabajo en un supermercado árabe. Vive sola por primera vez. Acompañada de su amiga Yasmín llega a ser parte de la comunidad islámica y se enamora… pero… ¿Cuál es el límite de sentirse uno mismo bajo una identidad inventada? (FILMAFFINITY)

Jorge, bastard child of the infamous Red Light Bandit, decides himself to pursuit a life of crime after meeting with his father, who has been incarcerated for the last 30 years.

Walter es un padre y marido ausente que trabaja en un hospital que lo consume tanto que practicamente no tiene tiempo para la familia. Su redención acontece cuando su esposa lo manda a por el pastel de cumpleaños de su hija, pero lo que no sabe es que en el transcurso del viaje de vuelta a casa, le sucederá lo imposible para que todo salga mal.

Zero es un genio científico pero infeliz y que odia su propia vida. Fue humillado públicamente en la universidad, hace 20 años y ha perdido al amor de su vida, Helena. A punto de ser despedido, Zero pone en funcionamiento el acelerador de partículas más barato del mundo antes de estar totalmente acabado. El experimento falla pero Zero accidentalmente vuelve al pasado y se ve ante la posibilidad de cambiarlo. Aprenderá que manipular los caminos del tiempo es más difícil (y confuso) de lo que parece.

Una mirada atrás a la edad dorada, a las "épocas felices". Paulo fija su primer recuerdo en los festejos en las calles brasileras por el fin de la Segunda Guerra Mundial de la mano de sus padres. Desde ahí recorreremos los años cincuenta, y los personajes típicos de la sociedad brasilera de aquella época; la relación con su mejor amigo y con sus padres y abuelo. Una visita a un cabaret y el encuentro sorpresivo con su padre cambiará la historia de las relaciones de una manera fascinante.

In an empty city, scorched by the sun, the young and old confuse the fever of sunstroke with the delicate birth of passion. Like ghosts, they hover around buildings and endless flatlands in search of the ever elusive love. Inspired by 19th century Russian short stories, the plots weave and unravel together in the improbable city of Brasilia – a distorted mirror-image of the Soviet utopia – located in the heart of the Brazilian desert.

A man is abandoned by his wife and then falls in love with his neighbor, the perfect, ideal woman. The only problem: she doesn't exist!

A man is abandoned by his wife and then falls in love with his neighbor, the perfect, ideal woman. The only problem: she doesn't exist!

Claudio and Helena are on the verge of breaking up, until the couple experiences another strange phenomenon that looks to help them understand one another more.

Thales (Marcos Palmeira), a successful businessman, is in crisis with his profession. He is married to the rich and spoiled Renata (Mariana Ximenes), and works with her father, the powerful businessman Augusto (Antônio Fagundes). One day, while on vacations at the home of his friends Rui (Otavio Muller) and Pamela (Maria Luisa Mendonça), Thales decides that will stop working. This unusual decision affects the lives of everyone around him.

The father of a family of lower middle class of São Paulo dies. But he did not realize this and starts to watch the reactions of his children and the collapse of the fragile family structure. Based on a novel of Mário Bortolotto.

An upper-middle class punk singer Andre, Magnata spends his time with his low-class friends, singing in clubs and wasting money. When he accepts a challenge to steal a Ferrari, he gets involved in a thriller that can lead him to a tragic consequence.

Querô is an orphan teenager, living alone near the docks in Santos, Brazil. Her mother, a prostitute, died when he was a baby, and he was raised in the bordello where she worked. Believing he rules his own destiny, he refuses to compromise with anyone else, the corrupt policemen always chasing him, the oppressive discipline in the juvenile institution Febem, or the drug dealers who try to lure him. But this independence has a price.

Basado en el cuento “Manuscrito hallado en un bolsillo” de Julio Cortázar, el director Roberto Gervitz nos propone el juego del título, llevado a cabo por Martín, pianista de un night club. Su imposible juego consiste en dibujar rutas del subterráneo de Sao Paulo en un pequeño cuaderno, tomar un tren y seguir a diferentes mujeres al azar, de llamativa belleza por lo general, para ver si alguna de ellas elige alguna de sus rutas preestablecidas. Si esto sucede, cosas del destino, aquella bien podría ser la mujer de su vida.

La película está basada en las experiencias del doctor Drauzio Varella en la prisión estatal Carandiru, en São Paulo, Brasil, durante sus trabajos de prevención del SIDA. En la prisión se encontró con cientos de convictos bajo condiciones infrahumanas hasta el punto culminante de 1992 cuando una revuelta provocó el asesinato de 111 hombres.

A mother, with her three daughters, exacts revenge on her former fiancé for killing her husband and sons.

Living with his parents, 17-year-old Juan hangs out with several intellectuals who would like to photograph the human soul. The girlfriend of the group's financier is Ana, and Juan is attracted to her, despite the knowledge that she spent two years at a clinic because she was "crazy." Juan sees Ana when he can and trains as a door-to-door salesman, but when the German photographer on the soul project gives him a viewfinder, it changes his life, putting him on the path to his later success as a Hollywood director.

The true story of the boy who became famous when he was cast for the main part on the Brazilian film Pixote: A Lei do Mais Fraco (1981). After the film was over, he tried to work as an actor on other projects, with little success. As time went by, he got involved with crime.