Ana Carolina

Woman runs away having the company of her daughter, the ultimate brat, in a journey full of bizarre events. (imdb)

In order to leave her past and family values behind, woman has relationships with many men and, among many doubts, tries to find out her own identity and happiness. (imdb)

Financial and administrative problems in a religious school for girls force the Government to interfere. While waiting in the conference hall to communicate the fact to the school administrators, the intervenor falls asleep and a crazy dream begins, involving teachers, students and strange characters. (imdb)

Fictional story based on Sarah Bernhard's visit to Brazil in 1905. The actress, experiencing a personal and professional crisis at the time, is induced by her personal Brazilian maid, Amélia, to make a performance in Rio de Janeiro. After arriving, Amélia suddenly dies in fever. Sarah is forced to stand the company of Amélia's exotic sisters.

The facts that marked the life and career of one of the most important presidents of the country, named as the best president that Brazil has ever had, according to opinion polls. The film shows his speeches, the daily routine and the tragic end of the leader, in a suicide that has generated controversy. Vargas ruled Brazil twice. As a legitimately elected president, another as a dictator.(epipoca.uol.com.br)

A debate about the agrarian reform in Brazil, in free and poetic form, showing the countrymen's struggles and hardships, and rural unionism issues after the military coup, kind of a nonlinear interpretation of Mário Chamie's poem "Lavra-Lavra".

The life of irreverent poet Gregório de Mattos, who lived in Bahia, Brazil, in the 17th century. Nicknamed Mouth of Hell, he used his transgressive poetry against the élite of the time. (imdb)

A film essay on Brazilian industrialization

Inspired by the painting "First Mass in Brazil" by Victor Meirelles, the story revolves around a group of filmmakers trying to rebuild a milestone in the history of Brazil: the staging of the first mass in the country.

It's 1939, and the world is teetering on the edge. On the day World War Two breaks out, a group of people discuss the state of the world in a little bar on a South American beach, far away from the front. Parallels with the contemporary rise of extremist ideologies in Brazil (and around the globe) are hard to ignore (IMDb).