Rubens Ewald Filho

In 1965, a year after the military coup in Brazil, an oasis of freedom opened in the country's capital. The Brasília Film Festival: a landmark of cultural and political resistance. Its story is that of Brazilian cinema itself.

With archive footage and testimonials from former filmgoers, a story of movie theaters that were located on the avenues of São João and Ipiranga and its surroundings, in São Paulo's city centre. Known as Cinelândia Paulistana, this area lived its heyday in the 1950s, reaching more than 15 cinemas in full operation.

Before the streaming era, the video stores were the key for the beginning of home video experience in Brazil. The documentary narrates the history of São Paulo's mom-and-pop video stores from its appearance to the vanishing of this platform. Owners, employees, customers and critics talk about the experience of renting a movie.

In 1982, almost five million people took theaters to see Erotic Things, the first Brazilian porn film. The production is today considered a major episode in the history of Brazilian cinema because it was launched during the country's military dictatorship. Thirty years later, The First Time of Brazilian Cinema found the producers and actors to tell the inside story of this fascinating journey.

A simple and handy manual to take the boredom under the narration of a sick mind, crazy in any big city. Mojo, a lonely young fanatic about movies and American culture, has dreams that will never come true. After spending his days holed up in a building, he decides to vent his repressed impulses by running over mutton dogs.

Мистер Хьюго возвращается туда, где прошло его детство. Там живыми образами наполняются его воспоминания. Он вспоминает этот дом, некогда служивший роскошным борделем, и некоторое время являлся единственным пристанищем, ему и его матери, которая была вынуждена там работать. Маленьким мальчиком он находиться при ней, очень часто оставаясь в одиночестве. Предоставленный самому себе в таком окружении, он не мог не найти приключений, кажущимися странными для ребенка его возраста. Именно там его завораживает сумбур взрослой жизни, наполненной безудержным сексом. Жрицы любви не оставляют без внимания появление в их доме юного Хьюго. Устав от общества богатых стариканов они частенько заходят в его комнату, окружая Хьюго женской лаской, но мать ревностно охраняет своего сына от чрезмерного интереса к нему своих коллег. За этими волнительными воспоминаниям и возвращается к эти местам уже немолодой Хьюго...

Saul and Mônica return to São Paulo after three years and find his family's colonial mansion abandoned, inhabited only by his old nanny, Bá, and his brother, Domício.

Bondomil, a quiet little town, becomes famous because in its main square there's a tree with strange fruits, with the format of the male sex organ, supposed to be an aphrodisiac for women. Soon the population grows wild, and tourists gather around it.

The story of how D. Pedro I proclaimed the Brazilian independence on September 7th, 1822, and rose from prince of Portugal to first emperor of Brazil.