Chico Díaz

Short stories revolving around a bar and a hotel in Recife, unveil a mosaic of exotic characters living in the Brazilian underground: a butcher married with an evangelical woman, a necrophile in love with a bar owner, a transvestite, and many others. (imdb)

Two hit men, a veteran and a beginner, chatter in a bar on Brazil-Paraguai border, while waiting for their victim to appear. (imdb)

Benjamim Zambraia is a lonely man, a famous model with a tragic past. Some time in the past, he showed some officers the exact location where the woman he loved was hiding with her guerilla lover. As a result, the two were killed. One day, he casually meets a woman who looks very much like his former love, and this fact changes his life. Could she be the daughter of his great love? Or her reincarnation? (imdb)

Policarpo is a chauvinistic patriot, a major who tries to find solutions for Brazilian problems using only the resources of his own country. His visionary and idealistic temperament is behind his strange ideas about how to build a great nation. (imdb)

A Lebanese photographer living in Brazil in the '30s manages to take pictures of Lampião, a legendary Brazilian outlaw, kind of a tropical Robin Hood. (imdb)

A journalist is placed upon the management of a large broadcasting company to the capital of Brazil at the time of local elections. She must now face ideological and ethical questions, brought back by a left-wing former boyfriend and her own colleagues. At the same time, a free-lancer spy is sent by an obscure figure in politics to manipulate the elections and its media coverage. (imdb)

Good-looking middle-class boy, arrested because of a minor offense (a fight in a bar), is put in a fetid small cell with six dangerous and poor criminals, and ends up being brutally raped. (imdb)

In Northeastern of Brazil, the father of the twelve years old illiterate Maria sells his daughter to Tadeu to be employed as a housemaid and have a better life. (imdb)

In Brasília, Brazil, the daily routine and aspirations of a group of young people, among them an actress, a politician's son, and a hitchhiking girl. (imdb)

Nopumoceno, the most successful businessman in the Cabo Verde archipelogo, is an ambitious, clever opportunist, known during his lifetime as "eternity single". However, he is then discovered by his illegitimate daughter to have gotten his fortune and his women in unorthodox and incredible ways. (imdb)

Paulo works as a high school literature teacher, his wife Teresa is a local shopkeeper, and their daughter Bel is still in school. They live in a rented flat in Saens Peña Square, in the heart of Tijuca, a neighborhood in the North Zone of Rio de Janeiro. An unexpected and alluring job offer may have a profound effect on the routine of this family and even jeopardize a 20-year marriage.

Young guy from the poor Northeast region of Brazil comes to Rio de Janeiro to try his luck. Naturally, he is faced with many adversities along the way. (imdb)

A fragmented style, patchwork of interviews with Caetano Veloso's friends, mixed with conversations, thoughts, scenes of dance and literature excerpts. (imdb)

A middle-aged man leaves his family and friends to live alone in a canoe in the middle of a river in central Brazil, and never again set foot on land. His only contact with people happens through his son Liojorge, who leaves food on the waterfront.

Jéssica, 15 years old, lives in a village in the Northeast of Brazil. She can't bear her fathers cruelty and escapes to Recife, a metropole. But after getting involved with prostitution and drugs, she dreams of a better life in Germany.

O Contador de Histórias (The Story of Me), a Luiz Villaça;a movie based on the life of Roberto Carlos Ramos, is a story about how affection can change reality. The youngest of 10 brothers, Roberto showed a special talent to tell stories, by changing through narrative his own experiences about frustration into beautiful and touching fables. At age 6, the boy filled with imagination goes to live in a newly opened government institution, which main goal is to help young and poor children. (imdb)

Little girl and her imaginary friend

Orestes, a rich factory owner, falls for the beautiful Fulvia. They communicate using pigeons, to avoid being discovered by her husband. (imdb)

Writer and poet Clarice Lispector investigates and develops the old question of what came first, the egg or the chicken. (imdb)

A man who is tormented by his intuitions and by dreams goes away to find answers to his discomfort. Revelations are made to him along his path, until he meets his soul mate and is prepared to the Blue Desert.

An important part of Brazilian history, this is the story of Anayde Beiriz - as played by Tania Alves - poetess, journalist, teacher, a revolutionary in her time (the 1920s and 1930s), and known for her sexuality. Her great love for João Dantas triggered the assassination of Joao Pessoa, the Governor of Brazil's Parahyba State. These events were then used politically as pretext for the "Revolution of 1930." (imdb)

A young girl is raised as a man by an old cowboy. Her purpose is to kill her parents' murderers and go to the sea. (imdb)

Three women in conflict (played by the same actress, Lucélia Santos), for lack of a strong father presence in their childhood: a writer, whose relationship with the husband is falling apart; a passive woman having to face an opressive and empty marriage; and a young woman who've decided to get shelter in a world of her own. (imdb)

A collaborative work between nine directors from different countries and belief systems, and based on a concept by Guillermo Arriega, Words with Gods is a contemplative film about faith and its lack thereof. From atheism to Hinduism, from Islam to Buddhism, each director tells a story based on the belief system of their native culture. Yılmaz Erdoğan once again gets the chance to work with Bahman Ghobadi in this film which brings together one of the most exciting list of directors among short (film.iksv.org)

The journey of idealistic Vitor, a young federal judge who decides to dismantle the mafia that dominates the border between Brazil and Paraguay. Inspired by true events. (imdb)

A soldier comes back from Paraguayan War and encounters a theater group from nowadays.

Mixed with fiction and documentary, the film relives the interviews conducted by the writer Clarice Lispector published in the magazines "Manchete" and "Fatos and Fotos" in the 1970s.

Cruel and brave Brazilian outlaw called Corisco, living in the backcountry in the Northeast, an arid region, rapes 12-year-old Dadá, who becomes his woman, following him and his gang. Although they were supposed to fight against social injustice, they terrorized the small villages along their way.

Literary adaptation which imagines the last months, in 1936, of Fernando Pessoa using the name Ricardo Reis: Against the European politics of that year he has romantic encounters at a hotel in a constantly rainy Lisbon.