Joana Fomm

Три призрака застряли в доме и преследуют каждого нового жильца, чтобы завершить свою миссию на Земле и перейти в следующую жизнь. Пока пара архитекторов не переезжает в это место и решает отремонтировать его. Однако они обнаруживают, что в доме находился старый концертный зал "Ферво", и сталкиваются с призраками.

Searching for Makunaima is a cultural and historical account of the most Brazilian character there is in fiction. The film begins with Makunaima, one of the founding myths of the native people from the border between Brazil-Venezuela-Guiana, first captured in the writings of the German ethnographer Koch-Grünberg at the beginning of the 1910s. With interviews in Portuguese, German, Spanish, and in the indigenous languages Macuxi and Taurepang, Searching for Macunaima reclaims this amazing character who represents Brazil in many ways (from literature to cinema to theatre) and remains relevant to date.

The arrival of the West Indian Companies to Natal in the XVII century is just the beginning of this violent story that pushes Bernarda and her family to run away from the city and from the invasion. In the Potengi Mill she meets the foreman's son Rafael and they immediately discover a passionate love. It will give them the force to try to survive during those violent years triggered by Jacob Rabbí, a German assigned by Prince John Maurice of Nassau to command the conquest.

"All Paulos in the World" is a cinematographic essay about Paulo José, one of the greatest artists in Brazil, in the year in which he turns 80 years-old.

Bernadinho and Pedro are students and face the classic tasks of fulfilling school obligations, taking good grades, being well behaved and complying with school rules, increasingly elaborated thanks to director Ademar. Frustrated, Pedro ends up finding a diary of how to cause chaos in school without being caught, which leads the two friends to follow the tips of the notebook.

A bank manager has a secret. He is compelled to bite society women hands.

Free adaptation of Machado de Assis's short story "Pai Contra Mãe", having some of Nireu Cavalcanti's 18th Century chronicles as inspiration, the film traces parallels between life in during the slavery period and in modern Brazil.

Moments before turning 90 years of age, Alberto remembers his life, lived in Copacabana, a neighborhood in Rio de Janeiro. The film is a comedy about old age nowadays, with Copacabana as a background.

Adaptation of the series shown in 1988. The humble farmer Zé do Burro makes a promise to Santa Bárbara to save his donkey Nicolau from death. The payment is to carry a heavy cross from the interior of Bahia to a church in Salvador. When you reach the steps of the church, with injured shoulders, you have to deal with the incomprehension of a conservative priest. Author: Dias Gomes.

The true story of the boy who became famous when he was cast for the main part on the Brazilian film Pixote: A Lei do Mais Fraco (1981). After the film was over, he tried to work as an actor on other projects, with little success. As time went by, he got involved with crime.

Exiled in Acapulco, the bon vivant Dino cheats a rich widow into financing his coming back to Brazil. To avoid getting caught, he hides in a coffin. His fake burial is celebrated in high style and it doesn't take long before he starts getting himself into weird situations.

In 1987, in Goiânia, two paper collectors find a radioactive capsule and sell it to the owner of a junkyard. Once the capsule is opened, more than 250 people end up contaminated by the substance called Cesium 137, being the biggest radiological accident in the history of Brazil.

A mirror bought in an auction changes the life of an executive and his wife. They become sexually aroused under the influence of the strange object, which belonged to a bordello in the past. Soon the friends who come to pay a visit also become affected by it.

Boy from a poor family loses his only asset: a colorless little horse that his imagination turns into a magical and colorful pretty stallion. To get his pet back, he leaves home and faces all dangers ahead with courage, getting involved in many adventures.

Middle-class girl gets involved with a jealous drug dealer, who wants to kill all of her previous boyfriends.

Comedy in 4 segments. In "Arroz e Feijão" (Rice and Beans), owner of a boarding-house seduces her young countryboy tenant. In "As Três Virgens" (The Three Virgins) three spinsters are influenced by the behaviour of their teenager niece, whom they are lodging. In "O Arremate" (The Purchase) a colonist turns his virgin daughter in to a landowner, to have his debts forgiven. And, finally, in "Vereda Tropical" (Tropical Trail), a man becomes sexually obsessed by a watermelon, to the point of having sexual intercourse with it. The stories are based on prize-winner short stories, from a Playboy contest.

Neglected wife tells husband about mysterious deaths occurred by the influence of Iemanjá, Afro-Brazilian deity, goddess of the waters

Symbolic film from the Underground Movement of Brazilian Cinema (Cinema Marginal) about a woman, three men and some apes. In the director's own words: “a fable where realism and logic have no place, and in which sex is a translation of all the tortures, circumstances and violent actions.”

Барбара, жительница Сан-Паулу, трудится в инвестиционной компании и категорические не довольна той должностью и положением, которые она занимает. Начальник Рикардо приглашает девушку провести время вместе. Они едут к нему на квартиру, занимаются любовью, а потом Рикардо увольняет уже не интересную ему сотрудницу. Теперь Барбаре нужно искать работу, и незнакомец предлагает ей место в борделе. Сомневаясь, девушка вместе с двумя подругами решает посетить это место. Они решают украсть базу данных богатых клиентов и встречаться с ними в собственной квартире. Очень скоро их гнездо разврата становится известно в городе, как Дворец Ангелов. Бизнес процветает.

Барбара, жительница Сан-Паулу, трудится в инвестиционной компании и категорические не довольна той должностью и положением, которые она занимает. Начальник Рикардо приглашает девушку провести время вместе. Они едут к нему на квартиру, занимаются любовью, а потом Рикардо увольняет уже не интересную ему сотрудницу. Теперь Барбаре нужно искать работу, и незнакомец предлагает ей место в борделе. Сомневаясь, девушка вместе с двумя подругами решает посетить это место. Они решают украсть базу данных богатых клиентов и встречаться с ними в собственной квартире. Очень скоро их гнездо разврата становится известно в городе, как Дворец Ангелов. Бизнес процветает.

Макунаима — ленивый антигерой, афроамериканец, рожденный в Амазонии. Повзрослев, он осознает цель своей жизни, которая ведет его в Большой Город. После смерти матери он с двумя своими братьями едет в Рио-де-Жанейро. В пути с ним происходят большие чудеса. Встав под поток воды, он становится белым и фантатически красивым. Макунаима упивается своим новым цветом кожи, который изменяет его жизнь и открывает двери разных карьерных возможностей в столичном Сан-Пауло. Оставаясь большим ребенком, Макунаима влюбляется в девушку-революционерку, которая участвует в герилье с оружием в руках, борясь против военной диктатуры. У них рождается черный ребенок. После того, как девушка и ребенок будут убиты, Макунаима будет мстить, но, в конце концов, возвратится обратно в джунгли.

The life and times of Brazilian singer/songwriter Dolores Duran.

During the Brazilian military government, journalist Estêvão is sent from Rio de Janeiro to Brasilia to cover the important statement of a minister, but takes the opportunity to deliver incriminating documents to another one.

A volatile young man, Edu is a typical Rio de Janeiro middle-class kind, who flirts with multiple women at the same time. None of them, however, had managed to make him fall in love, until he met with mysterious Tatiana.

Poor and beautiful girl is hired by a sales promoter to advertise a new brand of soap. The success is immediate, but the need for a new face hinders her way to stardom.

Originally produced for German TV, Improvised and Purposeful is a firsthand look at the "Cinema Novo" movement (otherwise known as the 'Brazilian New Wave'). Director Joaquim Pedro de Andrade focuses on six Cinema Novo filmmakers working in Rio in 1967.

Womanizer suddenly finds a woman who makes him change the way he looks at women. He falls in love, and believes she is in fact all women in one. Because of that, he has to face an important decision: to go on with his old life or embrace this special relationship and become a monogamous man.