Karen Akerman

Greice, a 21 year old Brazilian girl, studies at Fine Arts university in Lisbon. In the early days of summer, she gets involved with the mysterious guy: Afonso. The couple is accused for a strange accident that occurs at the students welcoming night party. Greice needs to return to Fortaleza, her hometown, to renew his residence permit. Hidden in a hotel, while preventing her mother from discovering the problems in which she was involved and with the help of some friends, Greice tries to find a place of comfort in the world.

The mythological story of the first woman on Earth, who came before Eve. She is created by God to be Adam’s wife. However, Lilith does not accept a position of inferiority in relation to man, she rebels and goes to the desert. Lilith reappears as Eve’s double, eats the forbidden fruit, takes revenge on Adam, on God, and becomes the first woman to rise up against the ruling patriarchal system.

In 2019, the leakage of messages exchanged by authorities in Brazil undermines the credibility of Operation Lava Jato. A group of journalists follows the unfolding of the case, in a sequence of crises that puts Brazilian democracy at risk.

A batch of 110 love letters exchanged by two lovers in the 1950s, discovered in Mato Grosso do Sul, is the starting point for this film.

On the violent border between Brazil and Paraguay, a war is being waged around the expansion of agribusiness. On one side sits lawyer Luana Ruiz, the heiress to contested lands and one of the strongest supporters of president Jair Bolsonaro. Ruiz, like other ruralistas—rural wealthy elites and agribusiness producers who advocate for Indigenous cultural annihilation—has become empowered and her ideas of hate have flourished under Bolsonaro's anti-Indigenous agenda. On the other side sits teacher, Guarani-Kaiowá leader and activist Alenir Ximendes, embodying powerful Indigenous resistance and communal ideals. Having personally suffered losses at the hands of the ruralistas, Ximendes emerges as a powerful force against Ruiz, fighting for the protection of her community, their lands and Indigenous constitutional rights. This film contains sensitive images and dialogue in its portrayal of this urgent struggle for sovereignty.

Hilda must be responsible of a decision that she took long time ago. Her life is altered by the news that her son is coming to visit her after several years away. She tries to replenish her weathered image by the passage of time. This will stir her reality and her link with the past.

데사나 토착민인 45세의 유스티노는 마나우스 항구에서 경비로 일하고 있다. 그의 딸이 의학 공부를 위해 유학을 준비하던 어느 날, 유스티노는 원인을 알 수 없는 열병을 앓게 된다.

Syrian brothers Adel and Hadi Bakkour take to the streets of Rio de Janeiro fighting for democracy in the country where they chose to live. History repeats itself: before they had to leave Aleppo to protest for freedom. Back he inherited his mother, Lawahez, and his father, Abdo. The family is reunited six years after the separation, in a changing Brazil.

파타고니아행 거대 유람선에서 청소를 하는 소년은 우연히 배의 구석진 통제구역에서 비밀 장소를 발견한다. 창고의 문은 라틴 아메리카의 한 아파트로 연결되는데, 소년은 선상 생활이 지겨우면 이곳으로 숨어들어 샤워를 하고 그곳에 사는 여성을 지켜보는 등 두 세계를 오가며 지낸다.

After relocating to Tokyo, a Brazilian writer begins a new novel, provoked by her experiences in Japan and by one of the last scenes she witnessed in Rio de Janeiro: a female swimmer tearing up the horizon with powerful strokes in the wide, open sea. Those two women apparently share no connection, until their lives start to interfere in one another, strangely linked through the sea. Hannah, the writer, plunges into a journey of self-discovery in Japan, while Ana, the swimmer in Rio de Janeiro, oddly has her body transformed into some kind of inner Ocean.

예순여섯 살의 노나는 과거의 연인에게 복수하고 칠레의 작은 해안가 마을 ´피칠레무´에서 산다. 노나가 온 후, 마을에는 원인불명의 연쇄방화가 발생한다. 이웃들은 그녀를 의심하지만, 노나는 ´재창조´라는 신념에만 충실할 뿐이다.

When a child is forced to become the house's adult because her father is sick and her mother is dead, there's an inversion in the natural order of things. Childhood becomes a saga. And the frustrated parenthood turns into a conviction.

2016년 8월, 브라질의 첫 여성 대통령인 지우마 호세프가 상원의원에 의해 대통령직에서 해임되었다. 그녀는 일련의 부패 스캔들과 혐의들 후에 공격을 받았다. 이 법정 드라마는 호세프의 변호인단의 관점에서 정치적으로 동기부여된 재판을 기록한다.

Cinematographic transcreation of a text censored in 1968.

If I didn’t blossom, if I remained unbloomed, it’s because my roots were poisoned. I know it's false, an induced error, but... this is me.

The Forensic Psychiatric Hospital is a medium-security level, closed structure, with a rehabilitation component. The service provided includes psychiatric, psychological, medical, therapeutic and social care. The 32 men who inhabit the unit were considered exempt from punishment by the court. They feel time going by. Slowly. The film settles in this individual time.

The Forensic Psychiatric Hospital is a medium-security level, closed structure, with a rehabilitation component. The service provided includes psychiatric, psychological, medical, therapeutic and social care. The 32 men who inhabit the unit were considered exempt from punishment by the court. They feel time going by. Slowly. The film settles in this individual time.

A portrait of the city of São Paulo through the life of four of its inhabitants: an economist and analyst of the financial market, a metallurgist who works at Volkswagen, a motorcycle courier and a railway worker. Each character calls attention to one aspect of the economy in a period of social tension: the three weeks before the start of the soccer World Cup. The director creates the movie by observing the daily life of the characters, without making interviews or commentaries. Future June aims to reflect on this historical moment and on the ways that the current economic model determines social and human relations.

Junior, as he’s known, since he’s essentially still a child, seems to be having a tough time getting on in life. He shares cheap lodgings with another fellow and earns money doing strenuous night shifts at a warehouse. It’s no surprise that he lives for football and desperately hangs onto the dream of perhaps every Brazilian kid – to become a famous player. Although he trains hard with his amateur team, he’s not one of the best. He won’t admit to the mounting jealousy he feels as he watches his talented friend doing extremely well on the pitch. What’s more, his prospects don’t look so rosy now that his young girlfriend Carine is pregnant, and he also has to deal with her dominant mother poking her nose in...

Beside the savage desire to realize the enormities which he brooded on, nothing was sacred.

Beside the savage desire to realize the enormities which he brooded on, nothing was sacred.

Beside the savage desire to realize the enormities which he brooded on, nothing was sacred.

Beside the savage desire to realize the enormities which he brooded on, nothing was sacred.

리우데자네이루 인근 마을에서 어린 여자아이가 유괴당하는 사건이 발생했다. 아이를 데려간 것은 의문의 여성. 갑작스런 아이의 실종에 부모는 깊은 충격에 빠지고, 가장 유력한 용의자는 아이의 아빠인 ‘베르나르도’의 젊고 매력적인 내연녀 ‘로사’. 경찰서에 불려 온 ‘로사’는 유괴 혐의를 부인하지만, 곧 ‘로사’가 ‘베르나르도’ 몰래 그의 집을 찾아가 이름을 속이고 그의 아내와 아이와 친밀하게 지내왔다는 사실이 밝혀진다. ‘로사’는 자신은 아이를 데리고 나왔을 뿐 이 모든 걸 계획한 주범은 따로 있다고 말한다. 경찰의 심문이 계속됨에 따라 숨겨졌던 사실이 하나씩 드러나면서 진실 게임은 점점 더 나락을 향해 가는데… 한 겹 한 겹 드러나는 끔찍한 진실의 실체… 경악을 금치 못할 충격적인 피날레가 다가온다!

Love is a cold war. A couple discuss their relationship on a Berlin Park

Inspired by popular cult, O COVEIRO is part light part darkness, a bedtime story and almost a nightmare. A child is born and his parents die of fright just to see him. André Gil Mata revisits the traditional Portuguese tale, in a fantastic movie where heads bounce, but you hear a song.

On a Saturday, unhappy with her marriage, Carol gets ready to leave, her husband usually goes to a soccer match and bring his friends back home for lunch. The dish of the day is feijoada. This film is an adaptation of the short story "Feijoada Completa" by Luis Fernando Verissimo, in turn inspired by the homonymous Chico Buarque' song.

“There must be a different solution than the one from hell’. Full unadulterated terror (and music). 'The best class always ends with a lesson'. Almost baroque in its ambition and detail, Akerman and Seabra Lopes’ mesmerising short film delves deeply into the hard-wired dread of music lessons. Sewn around Schubert’s steely Opus 1, which is itself based on the no less terrifying legend of Goethe's Erlkönig, their film is a revelation.” International Film Festival Rotterdam.

“There must be a different solution than the one from hell’. Full unadulterated terror (and music). 'The best class always ends with a lesson'. Almost baroque in its ambition and detail, Akerman and Seabra Lopes’ mesmerising short film delves deeply into the hard-wired dread of music lessons. Sewn around Schubert’s steely Opus 1, which is itself based on the no less terrifying legend of Goethe's Erlkönig, their film is a revelation.” International Film Festival Rotterdam.

“There must be a different solution than the one from hell’. Full unadulterated terror (and music). 'The best class always ends with a lesson'. Almost baroque in its ambition and detail, Akerman and Seabra Lopes’ mesmerising short film delves deeply into the hard-wired dread of music lessons. Sewn around Schubert’s steely Opus 1, which is itself based on the no less terrifying legend of Goethe's Erlkönig, their film is a revelation.” International Film Festival Rotterdam.

On the triple frontier between Brazil, Colombia and Peru, the twin towns of Letícia and Tabatinga form an urban island surrounded by the Amazon rain-forest. Following the ordinary events and the constant come and go of people along the border, Terras portrays the presence and the influence of the frontier on the lives of its inhabitants.

In a time of timeless and revolutionary talents, Wilson Simonal shined as nobody before and innovated as only a few could. All of a sudden, everything vanished. This film maps the spectacular trajectory of the ex-Army corporal that ruled as a monarch, and was condemned to ostracism for an offense to which he pleaded not guilty.

In a lake surrounded by buildings, a man builds a boat.

Large boats navigate the Amazon River daily, transporting people, animals and goods. This film portrays one of these trips.

In 1908, Titoe leaves her country, Japan, to try her luck in Brazil. Her intention is just to get rich and return in five years. But life has other plans for her.