Sara Silveira

Two tales of migration. In the first, after a tailings dam disaster floods her hometown, rural worker Joana (55) moves to São Paulo to find her sister Tania, who lives with her grandson Jaime. Joana enters the universe of insecurity, replying to an application for house cleaning. She bonds with her colleagues, and their struggle for better conditions gives Joana’s life a new meaning. Her relationship with young Jaime brings back old memories. In the second part, after the death of her estranged father, Flavia (32) moves to her farm with her wife Mara. The couple suffer a shock of reality when facing the harshness of rural life. The contact with the abandoned house reveals to Flavia unknown aspects of her father. She begins to suspect that there is something supernatural in the woods.

На протяжении многих лет семеро друзей встречаются каждый месяц. Традиция приедается, и их клуб постепенно начинает распадаться. Настроение у участников меланхоличное и упадническое, ритуалы заменяются нарушенными обещаниями. Но компания снова расцветает, когда сообщество обзаводится новым поваром. Он невероятно талантлив и готовит для собравшихся по-настоящему виртуозные банкеты из любимых блюд. Это помогает освежить отношения и вновь объединить старых друзей. Есть лишь одна проблема: на следующий день после очередного пиршества одного из мужчин находят мертвым. «Клуб ангелов» основан на одноименном романе-бестселлере бразильского писателя Луиса Фернандо Вериссимо 1998 года.

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.

История упадка семьи Соареш в последние месяцы 19 века. Изабель — умирающая мать двух дочерей, Марии и Аны. Женщины стараются забыть о своем прошлом на кофейной ферме и встретить надвигающееся на Бразилию индустриальное время.

Karen sings and plays the trumpet in a vigorous rock band in Brasilia, but no one there is interested in it. At 27, she has lost hope in the city her grandfather helped to build. She follows in the footsteps of her ex-partner in the band, Artur, and tries her luck in Berlin.

Бразилия, 1821 год. Суеверный плантатор Антонио в результате разных болезней теряет родных, плантация оказывается в бедственном положении. Антонио посыпает голову пеплом, считая, что разочаровал бога, а оставшихся в живых родственников отправляет в город Серра. На загнивающей плантации остаются в изобилии чернокожие рабы, полоумная бабушка успешного белого человека и его новая жена — 21-летняя племянница последней супруги, Беатрис. За главного временно остаётся свободный чернокожий Иеремия, намеренный вернуть «проклятой» земле былое благополучие.

1986. In the waiting room of a clandestine abortion clinic, the receptionist, a patient and a accompanying await the passage of Halley's comet, while the doctor faces difficulties with one of the procedures.

Богатая и одинокая женщина Ана нанимает помощницу по хозяйству и потенциальную няню для будущего ребёнка. Между женщинами возникает крепкая дружба, и даже больше, но ещё нерожденный младенец оказывает сильное влияние на состояние Аны.

Узнав правду о том, что женщина, которую он считал своей матерью, на самом деле украла его, когда он был маленьким ребенком, Пьер (он же Фелипе) вынужден иметь дело с последствиями действий этой матери, а также попытаться наладить отношения со своей биологической семьей.

In the city of São Paulo, the routine of gravedigger apprentice Deodato changes when a new working girl arrives at the cemetery. Together, they must re-register the abandoned tombs, but strange events make the apprentice wonder about the consequences of messing with the dead.

Кто-то в городе убивает рыжеволосых людей. В поиске странного убийцы пересекаются пути пожилого инспектора и 13-летнего мальчика.

Through the recovery of found Super-8mm footage captured by his brother during the 70´s dictatorship, André tries to revive the memories of his father, who’s been waiting for his missing son for over 30 years.

Théo goes to the funeral of his childhood best friend. Then, memories return.

São Paulo today. Brazil is in full economic upswing. This is a story of friendship and delusion between three young friends in a big city. Their life is marked by an ordinary routine where nothing much happens except the alienation impregnated by the consumer society and the lack of perspectives. An urgent film representing the historical moment of a generation.

Silvia is a young teacher at an elementary school. One day, her class is interrupted when the students notice her double walking on the other side of the street. Silvia tries to ignore the apparition, but this strange event begins to permeate her daily life and transform her pesonality.

In a small town in the countryside in the south of Brazil, a teenager that uses the codename Mr. Tambourine Man spends his time in Internet, at school, smoking pot with his best friend Diego and with his dysfunctional mother. He dreams on leaving his hometown to watch a Bob Dylan's show but seems to be hopeless stranded in the spot.

Bastu's grandchildren and friends help her pick up the strands of her life after her husband dies.

With her husband having lost his job, Helena opens her own grocery store, but is soon plagued by strange occurrences.

Lisa, a beautiful young Russian woman, is married to Victor, a Portuguese. Fernanda, the Spanish ex-wife of Victor, taking advantage of the coming wave of illegal immigrants in Portugal, wants to do business with false passports. Since then, and to Lisa's desperation, her home becomes a halfway house for immigrants of various nationalities and different races, all in search of a better future. Among them is Andrei, a young Ukrainian orthopedist who is wanted by the Russian mafia. Andrei falls in love with Lisa, who sees in him the opportunity to get out of that life. But things are not simple.

In an empty city, scorched by the sun, the young and old confuse the fever of sunstroke with the delicate birth of passion. Like ghosts, they hover around buildings and endless flatlands in search of the ever elusive love. Inspired by 19th century Russian short stories, the plots weave and unravel together in the improbable city of Brasilia – a distorted mirror-image of the Soviet utopia – located in the heart of the Brazilian desert.

Бейби – не просто заядлая, но страстная курильщица; Пикассо мог бы нарисовать с нее никотиновый аналог «Любительницы абсента». Она одинока, однако появление на этаже нового, весьма колоритного соседа-ровесника, становится поводом для обоснованных любовных воздыханий. Впрочем, это – центральная, но единственная линия бразильской кинопанорамы, жанр которой формулируется так: «маленькие комедии большого дома».

Silmara, an industrial worker and a woman of exuberant beauty, supports her arsonist father and gets involved with two different pop stars, from whom she learns traumatic life lessons.

Person is a documentary about the life and work of filmmaker Luiz Sérgio Person. The documentary brings the reconstruction of the history of the São Paulo filmmaker through the personal journey of his daughter, Marina. Through interviews with friends, family, and people who worked with Person, she seeks to discover more than dates and biographical data.

Clarisse notices a small green leaf growing out of her right arm.

During the Carnival in the historical site of Pelourinho, Salvador da Bahia, we follow the lives of the tenants of a falling-to-pieces tenement house who try to get by using creativity, irony, humor, and music.

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.

1942, in the middle of Northeastern Brazil, two very different men meet along the road: Johan, an aspirin salesman avoiding the German draft, and Ranulpho, a rural Brazilian seeking escape from the drought.

Betrayed wife of a powerful and corrupt Senator, turns him in, and his fraud schemes and lies are exposed. After one of his lovers commits suicide, he has his illegitimate son kidnapped and taken to a decadent seaside resort in the country's extreme southern coast. The Senator chooses another former lover to take care of his son, and the two of them become involved beyond that of a mother son relationship.

A trip to the mental institution hell. This odyssey is lived by Neto, a middle class teenager, who lives a normal life until his father sends him to a mental institution after finding drugs on his pocket. The maconha cigarrete is just the final drop that exposes the family tragedy. Send to a mental institution, Neto gets to know a completely absurd, inhumane reality in which the people are devoured by a corrupt and cruel institution system. The documentary type language used by the director give this movie a sensation of realty that increases even more the impact of the emotions Neto goes through. In the mental institution, Neto is forced to mature. The transformations that he goes through change this relations with his father.

This program from the Brazilian Historical Panorama series proposes a reflection on the 60s in Brazil based on its audiovisual memory. With excerpts from texts and opinions by Augusto Boal, Lygia Clark and Torquato Neto, among others, scenes from movies and newspaper headlines, the documentary allows the 1960s to speak for itself.

Young executive woman returns to small town of Dois Córregos and remembers the time, in the late 1960s, when she met her uncle there, a man who was running away from the military dictatorship ruling Brazil at the time.

In the 1950s, while radio is slowly being surpassed by television as the leading broadcast medium, Tito Balcárcel, a voice actor, becomes romantically involved with Lúcia, a fan of his who drags him into a mysterious crime plot.

Five friends meet for lunch. Nothing could be more mundane, but for some reason, no one stayed for dessert.

50 years of Brazilian history seen from the point of view of a friendship among two intellectuals.

50 years of Brazilian history seen from the point of view of a friendship among two intellectuals.

Geraldo Viramundo (Diogo Vilela) is a nice guy with absurd ideas. Genial and / or insane, he decides to leave her small town in Minas Gerais and win the world. Your goal is to destabilize the system and their accomplices are the prostitutes and the destitute.

Former athlete enters an old cinema in São Paulo's decadent city centre and meets an intriguing and mysterious woman, very much like the leading lady on the film. He gets involved with her and her problems and in no time is being accused of a crime.

The lives of three teachers in the outskirts of São Paulo, their love lives, their interaction with the poor surroundings, their family problems.