Cléa Simões

A documentary film about the taboos, stereotypes, and struggles of black actors in Brazilian television "soaps". Based on his own memories and on a sturdy body of research evidence, the director analyses race relations in Brazilian soap operas, calling attention to their likely influence on Brazilian African-Americans' identity-forming processes.

Isabella es una gran cocinera brasileña que ha permitido que el restaurante de su marido en Bahia sea un éxito. Para controlar su enfermedad, debe colocarse encima de su marido, Toninho, cuando practican el sexo, lo que conduce a su machista esposo a cometer toda clase de infidelidades. Despechada lo abandona y se dirige a San Francisco junto a su amiga Mónica. Para curar su corazón partido se ofrece a la diosa del mar, Yemanja. Ésta le responderá... (FILMAFFINITY)

Tres estudiantes norteamericanos, Dick, su hermana Jessica y Kevin, el novio inglés de esta, están de viaje en Brasil cuando Dick, tras asistir a una ceremonia vudú, desarrolla unos extraños poderes. Entonces su jeep los deja tirados cerca de una pequeña plantación en la jungla, donde tuvo lugar una revuelta de esclavos hace 150 años. Dick usa sus poderes para devolver la vida a seis esclavos negros ejecutados que perseguirán a los chicos y a los habitantes de la plantación, clamando venganza por sus muertes.

A Deusa Negra is a love story that spans two centuries. In 18th century Yorubaland, Prince Oluyole is taken prisoner in the course of internecine warfare fanned by overseas slave traders. He is sold into slavery in Brazil. In present day Nigeria, at his father's deathbed, the young Babatunde promises to go to Brazil and search for traces of their once-enslaved ancestors. Beginning with a Candomblé ritual, his journey takes him ever deeper into this culture and, in a dream-like sequence, affords him a deeper understanding of his ancestors' suffering and powers of resistance. Balogun effortlessly links present with past, real with magical worlds and discourse with trance. The hypnotic atmosphere is also heightened by the music of the Nigerian drummer Remi Kabaka, which plays with repetitive patterns and distortions.

The lawyer Roberto leaves his career and his fiancée behind to chase the criminals who killed his entire family in a brutal massacre.

After assaulting a Hollywood film crew, a group of residents of a community in Rio de Janeiro decided to produce a film that would express the reality of Brazil - with the theme of Inconfidência Mineira.

A couple do everything in order to stay together, against their families' wish.

"Como É Boa a Nossa Empregada" is an erotic comedy from the 70's (called "pornochanchada" genre) divided in three segments: 1) "Lula e a Copeira": Lula uses frogs, bats and spiders to scare the ugly kitchen maid of his house and force her to quit the job. When his parents put an advertisement on the newspaper to hire a new maid, he waits the candidates outside the house to choose one very hot, telling lies about his family to the others. They hire the sexy Clara, who is subjected to a sexual harassment from Lula's father Rivadávia, the family's friend Dr. Ricardo and Lula, leading the trio to troubled situations. 2) "O Terror das Empregadas": The sixteen years old Bebeto chases all the maids of his house and neighborhood trying to have intercourse with them. His mother takes him to the psychologist Dr. Leonel, who convinces her that her son needs to have a sexual experience with a whore to help his self-esteem, and suggests the sexy and expensive prostitute Leila Sandra.

Jorge de Oliveira is an Afro-Brazilian poet who works in a publicity agency in São Paulo. Torn between his rich white lovers and his black family and friends, Jorge's situation serves as a springboard to a discussion about racial issues in Brazil.

A writer who specializes in exposing fake witchcraft journeys to Brazil to investigate a voodoo cult.