Baltazar
Seu Romeu
El comediante Nilo Perequê protagoniza el programa de televisión llamado Llorar de risa. Después de ganar el primero al mejor comediante del año, decide cambiar su carrera de manera radical y dedicarse al drama.
Self
This documentary highlights the evolution of Brazil's Circo Voador venue from homespun artists' performance space to national cultural institution.
Genásio
Robinson
Una ingenua apuesta entre amigos transforma a Máiquel, un hombre común, en un asesino. Máiquel se deja llevar por los acontecimientos y se convierte en el héroe de toda una ciudad, respetado por bandidos y polícias, y amado por las mujeres, hasta que comete su primer error y se ve forzado a tomar las riendas de su destino.
Vaporupe
Middle-class girl gets involved with a jealous drug dealer, who wants to kill all of her previous boyfriends.
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.
