Pablo Baião

Two women, long-time friends, embark on a love story. They are writers who do not write to publish but for themselves. Their mutual conversation, their desires, the risks and phantoms of existence, the privilege of the wounded and of condemnation, traverse their speech, are a confession.

One man, two lovers: Ana and Anna, living in identical apartments. Paranoia is the name of the game in this hallucinatory.

A phenomenon of popularity in the 1960s, Wilson Simonal saw his meteoric career fall apart when he was accused of collaborating with the Brazilian military dictatorship.

Threatened with death, three people in Brazil, Colombia and Mexico resist violence using weapons such as information, awareness and affection. Three countries, many lives, united by oppression.

A delicate and tenacious writer, widowed three years ago, engages in frequent conversations with a parrot. However, she’s always observed by a large portion of raw meat.

Carlos is a man doomed by restless memories, that meets with himself, in a time warp. Young Carlos faces the forgetfulness of old Carlos, who doesn't recognize his own appearance. They get a package. But the package seems odd. The knot that ties, the smell, the handwriting on the envelope: this could only be sent by his father, Ernesto, who has been dead for many years. A father who always created unusual situations. In this time warp, Carlos is split in two: one Carlos remembers and the other forgets the moments he spent with his father.

Two sisters live in the same house with their husbands in bedrooms separated by a single wall. One of the sisters, Lígia, is still a virgin. Dissatisfied, she wants to dissolve the marriage and thinks about suicide. To prevent her sister’s suicide, Guida offers her own husband, Paulo, for one night.

After his wife's death, Fernando becomes a quiet and introspective man who raises his son, Daniel by himself. Every night, while the boy is sleeping, Fernando "revives" his wife by touching her clothes and organizing her personal belongings. Paulo does not get along well with his mother-in-law, who judges him unprepared to raise the boy without help. Lonely, Paulo has to resist the advances of his recently divorced sister-in-law.

Based on William Shakespeare's "Macbeth". Elias is a successful executive who works in the second largest private bank in Brazil. One day, Elias meets a mysterious woman who claims to be able to predict his future and says he will become vice president that day and the next day, he will become president of the Bank. The wheel of fortune is bound activated and a series of murders is committed by Elias and his wife Clara, leaving a trail of blood on his way to power and making them executioners and victims of their own destinies.

Maracanã was built for the first World Cup in Brazil in 1950. Initially, it had a democratic space called General. The record analyzes the recent works in the stadium and shows classic fans.

Filmed over six years in four countries: Portugal, Brazil, Colombia and United States, this romantic drama tells the story of Luzia, a Brazilian screenwriter, and Adrian, a Colombian actor, that fall in love during a film festival in 2009 and will live a fragmented love story while competing in different film festivals around the world.

Police officer Jorge Capitão is a competent BOP captain and a Brazilian idol. But after he saved Argentina's greatest ace from a kidnapping, on the eve of the World Cup, he ended up becoming the nation's number 1 public enemy. Expelled from the corporation and discredited by the people, Captain must relearn how to work as a team to avoid an attempt on the Pope in the final of the tournament. That's when the sex shop manager Bia Alpinistinha, a medium and her very crazy mother, enters the scene.

Sentimental Education centers on the unique relationship between Áurea, a lonely 40 year old teacher, and a young man she has just met by chance – one of these encounters which mythology and literature are full of. A delicate soul who finds itself attracted to a beauty that seems to demand, disturb and move her. That shakes her up entirely. During the days following their first conversation, she will expose all her feelings through classes in which he will let himself be carried away. Until an unusual episode from the past is revealed and changes everything.

José Henrique Fonseca crafts an ambitious and long overdue homage to a central icon in Brazil’s 20th century history. Reminiscent of film noir classics, the biopic tells the glorious and tragic story of the legendary football striker Heleno de Freitas. The sumptuous black and white cinematography reflects the chic life of Rio de Janeiro in the 1940s as it fell under the spell of sports royalty. Heleno was no doubt one of the most popular players of his time for his bravura in the field and magnificent goal-scoring that lead the Botafogo team to the top and himself into a vicious downward spiral.

A little fisher village in Brazilian Amazon. Without aparent reason, the dweller start falling ill. Would it be a witchcraft? Felício looks desperatelly for the cure to save the life of his wife.

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1980년대 중반 폴란드 출신 교황 바오로 6세가 브라질 리우데자네이로에 세 번째 방문을 하는데 하필 유명한 슬럼가 favela 역의 한 호텔에 묵는다고 고집을 피운다. 국민의 95% 이상이 천주교인이기 때문에 교황이 위태로워져서도 안되고 한 방의 총소리도 근처에서 들리지 않게 하기 위해 브라질 정부는 몸살이 난다. 교황방문 6개월 전, 극심한 부패로 경외와 경멸을 동시에 받으며 경찰 위신은 바닥에 떨어져 있는 상태에 언제 어디서 총을 맞을지 모르는 이 지역에 두 명의 경찰 신참이 들어오는데...

남미 최대의 감옥 카란디루. 과밀수용으로 폭력과 전염병이 급속도로 번져가던 어느 날 에이즈 치료와 예방교육을 위해 한 의사(드라우지오 바렐라)가 도착한다. 바렐라는 카란디루에 발을 들여놓는 순간부터 거친 수감자들의 칼부림을 목격하고 열악한 환경에 몸서리치지만, 수 많은 환자들을 외면하지 못해 그곳에 남기로 한다. 감옥 한 쪽에 마련된 간이 진료실은 ‘이곳에 죄 지은 사람은 없다’는 수감자들의 각양각색 사연들이 오가는 특별한 공간이 된다. 자기는 원래 좀도둑에 불과했다고 주장하는 우연한 살인범 에보니, 아내‘들’의 사랑다툼이 방화로 이어져 감옥신세까지 지게 되었다는 미워할 수 없는 바람둥이 하이니스, 이름과는 정반대로 트랜스젠더 레이디 디와 사랑에 빠지고 옥중결혼식까지 올리는 행운의 사나이 투 배드(Too bad)... 바렐라는 다양한 죄수들을 만나 각각의 너무나 인간적인 범죄의 뒷이야기에 귀를 기울인다. 얼핏 보면 온갖 범죄자들이 모인 무법천지, 그러나 나름의 엄격한 위계질서를 가지고 움직이던 카란디루의 최대행사인 축구시합이 열리던 날! 축구장 밖에서 일어난 사소한 싸움이 카란디루 전체의 폭동으로 번지게 되고... 경찰기동대의 잔혹한 진압으로 카란디루는 순식간에 끔찍한 피바다를 이룬다. 운 좋게도 비극의 그날 카란디루를 잠시 떠나있었던 바렐라는 살아남은 자들의 생생한 고백을 전해듣는다.