Cristina Amaral

Two tales of migration. In the first, after a tailings dam disaster floods her hometown, rural worker Joana (55) moves to São Paulo to find her sister Tania, who lives with her grandson Jaime. Joana enters the universe of insecurity, replying to an application for house cleaning. She bonds with her colleagues, and their struggle for better conditions gives Joana’s life a new meaning. Her relationship with young Jaime brings back old memories. In the second part, after the death of her estranged father, Flavia (32) moves to her farm with her wife Mara. The couple suffer a shock of reality when facing the harshness of rural life. The contact with the abandoned house reveals to Flavia unknown aspects of her father. She begins to suspect that there is something supernatural in the woods.

A tale about the apocalypse of the working class.

Dadinho, an old samba composer, is taken by his granddaughter to his brother’s funeral, composer from a rival samba school. Along this path a history of rivalry, samba and betrayal emerges from the past.

In 1965, a year after the military coup in Brazil, an oasis of freedom opened in the country's capital. The Brasília Film Festival: a landmark of cultural and political resistance. Its story is that of Brazilian cinema itself.

Veronica Oliveira - Faxina Boa is a unique cleaning professional in São Paulo. Through a drift in Vila Buarque, the neighborhood where she was born and returned to work, she tells us a little about her trajectory.

Is the end of the school year, the heat comes, and with it regular power cuts in the suburbs of Rio de Janeiro. Karol, Junior, Ronaldo and Caio have a harsh summer ahead of them. In a country where living conditions are increasingly precarious, these four young people will faced with the uncertainties of adulthood, invent new ways, perhaps unthinkable, to continue growing and dreaming.

Bené spent many years looking for his spiritual evolution in a small country town. He has made great progress and is fully integrated into the community, but will be put to the test when he meets Letícia and is brought into the underworld of the big city.

Zu, a twelve-year-old boy on the way to buy flour for his mother, winds up in the clutches of armed paramilitary narcotics officers.

A dialogue between the auteur's memories and the images he shot and kept during his long film career - sketches of live that were never shown, never seen, never edited.

The São Silvestre Road Race is a famous long-distance running event held yearly in the city of São Paulo, Brazil, on December 31st. The movie recreates the experience of running the race in 2011.

On a same night, five people from a small country town have the same nightmare. Upon the arrival of a pilgrim, the village is taken off its mediocre routine and the characters are thrown on the vortex of an uncommon situation. Each one’s truth will come to light, releasing them of the wicked hypocrisies, fears and diseases, compelling them to take control of their fate and rewrite their life.

Silmara, an industrial worker and a woman of exuberant beauty, supports her arsonist father and gets involved with two different pop stars, from whom she learns traumatic life lessons.

Person is a documentary about the life and work of filmmaker Luiz Sérgio Person. The documentary brings the reconstruction of the history of the São Paulo filmmaker through the personal journey of his daughter, Marina. Through interviews with friends, family, and people who worked with Person, she seeks to discover more than dates and biographical data.

Carapiru is a member of one of Brazil's remaining indigenous peoples, living in harmony with nature and making wise use of the local flora and fauna. But Carapiru is suddenly forced to fend for himself and flees into the nearby rain forest, building a new life for himself with the help some sympathetic settlers. However, after rebuilding his life Carapiru is uprooted once again, this time by government agents. A expressive visual storytelling in this study of the native peoples of Brazil in the 21st century.

Betrayed wife of a powerful and corrupt Senator, turns him in, and his fraud schemes and lies are exposed. After one of his lovers commits suicide, he has his illegitimate son kidnapped and taken to a decadent seaside resort in the country's extreme southern coast. The Senator chooses another former lover to take care of his son, and the two of them become involved beyond that of a mother son relationship.

Aurélia, a young black woman who works at a factory and lives in a working-class neighborhood in São Paulo, is seeing Fábio Tavares, who gets involved with a racist neo-nazi group.

Two sisters living their lifes.

A short film about the meeting of a Trappist monk and a Zen Buddhist master.

A Polish Jew becomes a prostitute after failing to get a marriage in Brazil. Meanwhile, the public health doctor Oswaldo Cruz ends up involved in the Vaccine Revolt.

In a hospital that struggles not to close its doors, two children discover their first love.

Young executive woman returns to small town of Dois Córregos and remembers the time, in the late 1960s, when she met her uncle there, a man who was running away from the military dictatorship ruling Brazil at the time.

In the 1950s, while radio is slowly being surpassed by television as the leading broadcast medium, Tito Balcárcel, a voice actor, becomes romantically involved with Lúcia, a fan of his who drags him into a mysterious crime plot.

Experimental documentary about the life and work of obscure samba musician Vassourinha (1923-1942), born in São Paulo, who only recorded six 78rpm records, dying at 19.

Chronicles the life of military lieutenant, later communist militant and Brazilian politician Luiz Carlos Prestes.

By Ministry of Culture.

Five friends meet for lunch. Nothing could be more mundane, but for some reason, no one stayed for dessert.

Documentary about the discovery of a ditch in a cemetery located in São Paulo, in which were found the carcass of Brazilian political prisoners who fought against the military dictatorship.

Documentary about the discovery of a ditch in a cemetery located in São Paulo, in which were found the carcass of Brazilian political prisoners who fought against the military dictatorship.

50 years of Brazilian history seen from the point of view of a friendship among two intellectuals.

A look at the Brazilian black movement between 1977 and 1988, going by the relationship between Brazil and Afrika.

Silvia, a former prostitute from a country town, after winning the corner of Loto, buys the main hotel in her town and, in retaliation, turns it into a brothel. After successive confusions among the guests, all involved in excusable activities, she ends up killing her gigolo lover who always extorted money from her. The manager tells the police that he arrests everyone except Silvia, as she flees to Rio de Janeiro. For lack of evidence, she escapes later judgment and becomes a victorious owner of sauna and massage houses. Valdo, a sensationalist journalist, decides to do a story about her, putting her in evidence and arousing the interest of a trio of cheaters who try to sell her a business in bankruptcy. One of the men pretends to be a great businessman, having as a partner a sophisticated Frenchwoman...

An existential profile of primitivist painter Ana Moisés in her atelier in Embu, on the outskirts of São Paulo.

An existential profile of primitivist painter Ana Moisés in her atelier in Embu, on the outskirts of São Paulo.

An existential profile of primitivist painter Ana Moisés in her atelier in Embu, on the outskirts of São Paulo.

Ring whose previous owner was a prostitute with supernatural powers causes double personality in a young woman about to marry. After some time, her face gets disfigured, forcing her to wear a mask.