Paradise Lost (2018)

Camila is a Portuguese therapist who works at Rio de Janeiro State University, where she attends Glória, the university's elevator operator. Throughout the sessions, Camila faces a very violent reality, since Glória was raped by her own father as a child and her brother Jonas is a dangerous bandit that is in prison. Increasingly frightened by the reports she hears, she feels threatened at the same time that Glória sees her as essential in her life.

Ever since their first contact with the Western world in 1969 the Paiter Suruí, an indigenous people living in the Amazon basin, have been exposed to sweeping social changes. Smartphones, gas, electricity, medicines, weapons and social media have now replaced their traditional way of life. Illness is a risk for a community increasingly unable to isolate itself from the modernization brought by white people or the power of the church. Ethnocide threatens to destroy their soul. With dogged persistence, Perpera, a former shaman, is searching for a way to restore the old vitality to his village.

Gatto and Barbot are lifelong companions for more then 40 years and have just moved to a big decayed and abandoned building downtown Rio de Janeiro, where they start to live and promote their dance company rehearsals. The difficulties of everyday life are merged to artistic creation and to their belief in the Orishas gods. Through dance they spread through the city, occupying their territories.

‘훌리오’는 평범하고 화복한 농촌 가정에서 자란 독실한 기독교인이다. ‘훌리오’의 유일한 고민은, 브라질의 여느 시골 청년들과 같이 앞으로 먹고 사는 문제였다. 그러던 어느 날. 도시에서 경찰 일을 하는 삼촌 ‘시세로’에게 일을 소개받은 ‘훌리오’는 경찰 제복을 입을 거란 꿈에 부푼 채 도시로 올라간다. 그러나 ‘시세로’에게 처음 소개받은 일은 일면식도 없는 남자를 살해하는 데 가담하는 것. 얼떨결에 휘말린 ‘훌리오’는 ‘시세로’에게 절대 이런 일은 못 한다고 펄쩍 뛰었지만, 절대 만질 수 없을 거금의 유혹에 ‘훌리오’는 점점 사람을 죽이는 일에 익숙해지고. 어느 날 청부업자 일을 하기 위해 들른 마을에서 만나게된 ‘마리아’에게 한눈에 반해 평범한 가정을 꾸리게되고, 가족들에겐 평범한 경찰이라고 거짓말한 ‘훌리오’는 여전히 이중적인 가면을 쓰고 살인 청부업자 일을 계속 한다. 하지만 한편으로 살해한 이들을 회상하고 양심의 가책을 느끼는 ‘홀리오’. 그러던 어느 날 삼촌 `시세로`에 대한 충격적인 비밀을 알게 되는데…

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체스게임은 화이트 칼라의 정치적 스캔들과 부정 부패를 그린 액션 스릴러이다. 미나와 베쓰와 마토나는 리오 데 자이네로에 있는 탈라베라브루스 교도소에 수감되어 있다. 미나는 이 그룹의 두뇌라면 베타는 충동적이고 마토나는 단순한 행동대원이다. 미나는 교도소 안에서 자신의 여동생(언니)인 줄리안을 통해서 밀반입한 마약 및 각종 물건을 밀거래한다. 미나는 상원의원 프랑코와 연루된 사회보장 관계 사기혐의로 복역중인데프랑코는 아무래도 미나가 자신의 비리를 당국에 알릴 것만 같다. 미나는 없애기로 작정한 프랑코는 교도소 감독관에게 뇌물을 주어 살인을 교사한다. 하지만 강인하고 영리한 미나를 제거하려는 음모는 실패로 돌아간다. (2015년 제15회 광주국제영화제)

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