Rômulo Braga

The name of Brazil’s biggest airport, Guarulhos, references the fact that it was built on indigenous territory. In a blend of realistic and stylised scenes, the film follows a member of the ground staff as she seeks her roots beneath the runway.

William is a middle-aged writer who lives alone in a small, untidy house and can't settle down doing what he loves. Confused and distressed, he flirts with death. With the rope around his neck, about to jump off a chair, the man looks around at his house and sees little “magical” objects that remind him of his past and passions, thus making a decision.

In the Brazilian countryside, a family straining to care for their bedridden patriarch have their lives changed when a shady nurse offers a diabolical deal: put their elder to rest and host an Argentinian drug kingpin who urgently needs a place to hide.

When he meets Anaíra, a beautiful woman who breathes life into his whole being, Captain Dalberto leaves his job as a police officer and buys a boat. The newly married couple moves in with Dalberto’s brothers, but the captain leaves for a trip to Iquitos, Peru. At home, Dalmo, the older brother, tries to control the passion he feels for his brother’s wife. Anaíra, feeling abandoned, approaches Armando, the younger brother, and they have an affair. Dalberto’s return puts all three men, now completely in love with the same woman, under the same roof.

The couple Laura and Israël have a five-year-old son, Lucas. They live together but seem to have lost interest in one another's thoughts and cares. Their relationship seems headed for the rocks, and the only one who seems to still be looking for something from life is Lucas.

A recently divorced father, who cannot reconnect with his 10-year-old daughter, is forced to travel with her to the countryside to meet his own father, who abandoned him as a child and now is an old man who wants to die. The forced intimacy with the father he hates and the immediate connection between daughter and grandfather test all his limits, but might also be the chance to get closer to his daughter again.

Audiovisual letter.

발렌티나는 성전환 수술을 받고 여성이 되었지만 따돌림으로 학교를 그만두었다. 아무리 현재 외형이 여자로 보일지라도 남자였다는 과거는 혐오와 차별의 근거가 된다. 학교로 돌아가기 위해서 그 과거를 지워내야만 한다. 그래서 어머니와 함께 자신의 과거를 모르는 낯선 동네로 이사를 간다. 새롭게 얻은 ‘발렌티나’라는 이름으로 고등학교에 재등록하려고 하지만, 그러기 위해서는 어머니뿐만 아니라 아버지의 서명이 필요하다는 사실을 알게 된다. 집을 나가 연락이 두절된 상태인 아버지가 서류상 어머니와 여전히 부부 관계이기 때문이다. 다행히도, 정식 입학에 앞서 진행된 여름학교에서 자신을 기꺼이 도와주는 친구들을 사귀고 그들 덕에 아버지를 찾게 된다. 그런데 난관은 여기에서 그치지 않는다. 파티에서 잠시 잠든 틈에 성추행을 당하고 그와 동시에 트랜스젠더라는 소문이 퍼지면서 일부 학부모들이 입학을 반대하고 나선다. 시스젠더 여성으로서의 패싱에 실패한 발렌티나는 아버지를 따라 또다시 떠나고 싶어 한다. (제9회 디아스포라 영화제)

The narrative takes place in 1888 and tells the story of Lenita, a young woman, raised by her father, with an educated background, who disregards the existence of a man at his intellectual height. The film exposes the character's internal conflicts and the conventions of the time.

Mário returns to his hometown after 15 years to bury his father. But he returns as Marie, a trans woman. There she finds her childhood best friend Estevão and her past with him. With Estevão's help, Marie sets out on a journey to bury her father in the city of Crato.

The inhabitants of the Brazilian city of Contagem yearn for a better life. At the core of it all is Selma, a woman dreaming about the heart of the world: it could be anywhere, as long as it's a place where to feel happier.

The world ends and Emanuel needs to guide João to the portal that takes the deserving to eternity. Emanuel is desperate to ascend, but João will challenge the master's right to paradise. A queer-Christian adaptation of the Apocalypse: Book of Revelations.

In the 1932 drought of Ceará, several concentration camps were created to imprison and prevent refugees from reaching the city of Fortaleza. Remnants narrate fragments of his memories and unfulfilled regrets, witnessed in the ruins of concentration camps and in the cult of the “souls of the dam”, resistant to the strong historical erasure.

After helping her girlfriend Tereza kill herself, Leandra is kidnapped by Tereza’s father and taken to a secluded family house where both struggle to understand her death.

A tale of love and death in a world where the state of exception has become the rule and the last days of humanity never end.

A man caught in the verge of freedom. He penetrates a city where the boundaries between reality and dream disappear. He crosses the landscape without belonging to it anymore. A farewell before departing.

In an isolated fishing village, Esmerina is married to a fisherman and has 26 children. The oldest son secretly desires to leave to see the world beyond the sea. The daily routine of this family is suddenly altered when a mysterious boat runs aground on the beach entering Ana, a girl who survived the shipwreck.

The story of a family who has their lives crushed by the tragedy of the floods in Mariana (Minas Gerais, Brazil)

Diego, a young quadriplegic who finds himself alone at home after the death of his mother, with the difficult task of surviving days without feeding until someone succeeds. Immobilized due to his physical condition, he searches in his past and in a possible future, in a timeless flow of consciousness of childhood memories, love relationships, intimate desires and personal conflicts, new foundations for a life that begins in the acceptance of a new body.

For many years, the mountain is moved between two countries - Brazil and China. Romulo, an ex-mineworker and now a sailor, heads into his first journey taking part of the mountain towards another one.

As he does every single day, Elon goes to meet his wife at her workplace, but she is not there. He doesn’t find her at home as well, so he starts to retrace the path Madalena makes daily. In the morning after, Elon goes to the police station and files a report, runs into hospitals, morgues. Alone, he wanders through a metropolis, searching for news about the sudden and mysterious disappearance of his wife.

Brazil, 18th century. The colony of Portugal endures a decline in gold production. A Portuguese minority rules over a corrupt and autocratic society. Joaquim is an efficient soldier, famous for capturing gold smugglers. While waiting for his promotion to Lieutenant, he leaves for a risky mission in search of new gold mines - the only way to buy the freedom of Blackie, a slave he is in love with. Inspired by the true story of Tiradentes, the first leader of the Brazilian revolutionary movement.

The living call for revenge. The dead minerals and vegetables demand revenge. It is the hour of general protest. It's time for the destroying flights. It's time for the barricades, the shootings. Famines, desires, cravings, lost dreams, miseries of all countries, unite.

Three workers gather around the preparation of a party in a museum. Apparently unknown, contacts between the three reveal profound implications in the past. In the center of the clashes there's a child. Lurking, the Devil.

Iris lives alone in a spacious apartment by the sea. The green horizon seems to distance it from the city in comfortable isolation. At nightfall, the place hosts known and unknown in a frantic party flow. Iris is the main attraction. But on a hungover morning, she finds a corpse in the living room. As in the distorted reflection of a crooked mirror, Iris feels repeating steps of her childhood friend, Tiara, a medical student who had run over a guy at the exit of a nightclub. After the incident, Tiara plunges into a spiral of self-pity, sentimental emptying and violence. The case is well known in town and Iris does not want to become another ghost in this dark repertoire of stories. In All the colors of the night, reality works as a dimension of imagination, memory and madness.

In a distant province, Prana is chosen to marry Ozu, leader of her village. When young Kalki arrives at the place, they fall in love, but Ozu won't let this love being consummated.

The Man Who Became Cabinet tells the story of an employee who, so obsessed with the routine and mechanical tasks of his work environment, eventually becomes one of the cabinets in the office.

João is a 32-years-old musician that opts for the isolation of a farmhouse in the Brazilian countryside after Flora, his pregnant wife, breaks up with him. Three months pass and he’s finally ready to make amends with his wife and follow the birth of his son. But then João is surprised by the mysterious appearance of Max, his best friend, who’s been missing for years and was thought to be dead.

When the Netuno Circus returns to Fernando de Noronha, it brings back a young man with a turbulent past. Pedro is now Zolah, the human cannonball. When secrets surface, bizarre family reunions rival the circus performances.

A man gets home and finds his wife dead. In a silent impulse he takes her body and plunges on the road. This man had never left his hometown, Brasília. When his wife dies, he leaves pushed by this emotional collapse, and submerges the road and it’s fortuity, searching to reconstruct his own reality. She survives in his memory. The road and its environment play an essential part in this man’s process: the landscape and the people, spontaneously. The Sun Against My Eyes follows this trip, from the countryside plateau to the fluminense hills.

The painter Lauro seems to have a good life: he lives with his beloved wife Erika, and is successful working with art. However, he is not happy. One day, Lauro runs into Theo, a friend he hasn't seen in years. Both have already been in love with the same girl, Clara, who no longer lives in the city. It doesn't take long for the two to start remembering them as stories from the past, while taking a long walk through the streets of Vitória.

The difficulties and frustrations faced by a woman after adopting a baby. She tries but doesn't succeed breastfeeding the child and that changes their relationship.

Three families, in three different situations, have to deal with a sudden change in their lives, caused by a loss or a re encounter. Three mothers sing their love for their children while facing difficult times. A film about affection on the borders of painful happenings.

An experimental collective film lasting little more than an hour, compiled from 10 episodes by a total of 14 different young Brazilian filmmakers. The project was an initiative of the directing duo Felipe Bragança and Marina Meliande, who sent a ‘letter of concern’ to inspire the participants. In it, a 16-year-old girl wrote about her dreams, which have been translated by the directors into films about love, youth and the possibilities of cinema.

Based on Guimarães Rosa's (classic Brazilian author) short story, the movie tells the story of Augusto Matraga, a bankrupt and violent farmer who lives above the Law in Minas Gerais' hinterland. During a difficult time, he finds himself in the middle of a trap that nearly kills him. Born again, Matraga resorts to faith and hard work in the pursuit of redemption. Years later, he arrives at the village reigned by the hinterland's ruler and his thugs. This new friendship will challenge his destiny. Inside Matraga, the Saint and the Warrior will duel until his time comes.

Two men talk by a window while they observe the neighborhood.

Thiago lives with his family on an isolated farm in the arid backlands of Minas Gerais, Brazil. As the story unfolds and Thiago is forced to confront separations and betrayal within the home, Thiago begins, little by little, to see and understand a place that he had never been able to before, thus slowly letting go of his innocence.

In São Paulo, in the late 1960s, the convent of the Dominican friars became a trench of resistance to the military dictatorship that governs Brazil. Moved by Christian ideals, frets Betto, Oswaldo, Fernando, Ivo and Tito came to support the guerrilla group Ação Libertadora Nacional, commanded by Carlos Marighella.

A young student (Mel Lisboa), a literature professor (Felipe Camargo) and a wounded warrior who is always with his face covered (Sergio Marone) are three militants, who are confined in an apartment in Belo Horizonte. There they confront their emotional and political options, involving loyalty, betrayal and desire.