Marcelo Durst

The quiet life of the small town Piedade's inhabitants is shaken up by the arrival of a big oil company, which barges in taking over houses and local businesses, throwing everyone out, to better reach and use the area's natural resources.

Two teenagers from opposite sides of town, with very little in common except for their passion for music meet in 1970's Rio de Janeiro, at the height of the military dictatorship _ and of Brazil's booming underground rock scene.

左腕を骨折して入院中の5歳の少女アレクサンドリアは、脚を骨折してベッドに横たわる青年ロイと出会う。彼は彼女にアレキサンダー大王の物語を聞かせ、翌日も病室に来るようささやく。再びアレクサンドリアがロイのもとを訪れると、彼は総督と6人の男たちが織り成す壮大な叙事詩を語り始める。＜＜ターセム監督が製作した、美しい美術品のような感動巨編。自殺願望のあるスタントマンが幼い少女を操るために始めた虚構の物語が、やがて夢と希望を紡いでいく様子を丹念に映し出す。傷ついた青年役にリー・ペイス。彼を慕う少女を演じるのは、これが映画デビュー作となるカティンカ・ウンタール。CGに頼らず、世界遺産を含む世界24か国以上で撮影された驚きの華麗な映像に息をのむ。＞＞

A baby is kidnapped in a Brazilian airport. Years later, the mother lives in Lisbon and works in a strip-tease bar so she can survive. When she is fired, she joins a gang of bank robbers...

Scoundrel João Fausto, a former Portuguese officer, arrives in Tiradentes,in the State of Minas Gerais, Brazil. Using his status of former Imperial Court member, he tries to become lover of both ms. Lima and ms. Rocha, with the intention of taking their money.

After a restless night he is awoken by his doorbell insistently ringing. Through the peephole, he sees a stranger. He doesn't know why that man is there but is immediately certain of one thing: he represents a terrible threat. He quickly dresses and manages to sneak away, no doubt in his mind that the stranger is pursuing him, and that the nightmare has only just begun.

Brazil in the early 70s. Miguel, Eloi, Osvaldo and Paolo take part in armed attacks against the military dictatorship. They pay a heavy price with torture and arrest. Today the four friends still see each other. Only Miguel is politically active. On a photograph from a political meeting in Sao Paolo he recognises the policeman who tortured them 25 years ago and who was responsible for the death of Miguel's girlfriend. The policeman has been officially dead for a few years. On one of their fishing trips together, Miguel tells his friends of his discovery. When they hunt down and confront their nemesis they come into conflict with both themselves and each other.

Two hit men, a veteran and a beginner, chatter in a bar on Brazil-Paraguai border, while waiting for their victim to appear.

A documentary about the fathers of Bossa Nova: João Gilberto and Antonio Carlos Jobim.

Daniel O'Neil is a promising writer who has to work hard when Dora, his rich girlfriend, breaks up with him. Expelled from the hotel where he lives in Copacabana, Daniel moves into the small apartment of Meg, his best friend. He puts them both in danger when he gets a ride with a drug dealer who ends up being chased by the police and asks Daniel to keep two packages of cocaine.

Making-of about the recording and release of the album Tudo Ao Mesmo Tempo Agora (1991), with the brazilian rock group Titãs.

The story of Frank, a different creature, born to the song "Singing in the rain", that goes in search of happiness.

The government decides to change the way people kiss. There is a youth competiton to invent a new kind of kiss, and the final is between two groups, one from the north and one from the south of São Paulo.

A cinematographic poem made of a long travelling by fifteen characters, in search of an asynchronous marriage with sound.