Claudio Jaborandy

Based on a true story, The Middle of the World is about a couple and their five children - ages ranging from 6 months to 14 years old - as they travel 3,200 km by bicycle across Brazil in search of a dream. (Buena Vista International)

In order to get funds to go to São Paulo, young woman living in the Northeast of Brazil decides to raffle her own body. (imdb)

Lena owns a forgotten bar next to a highway where the trucks zip by but rarely stop. She is eight months pregnant and has been abandoned by her former lover, Colonel Mattos, of the São Paulo police. One day, she meets Vilela, a former policeman wanted for a crime he committed in São Paulo. Colonel Mattos was Vilela's superior, and his presence is continually felt by the pair... (imdb)

Full glass, empty stomach and the day off from a worker becomes a standard example of hallucination.

Quem, do outro lado destas linhas, se arriscaria a afirmar, sem medo de faltar com a verdade, que nunca viveu ou que se considera isento de vir viver uma relação amorosa marcada por algum tipo de violência - seja ela física, moral ou verbal? (amorofilme.com.br)

The story of Brazilian popular singer Luiz Gonzaga and his son Gonzaguinha. (imdb)

After being released from prison, Dr. Nise da Silveira is back at work in a psychiatric hospital on the outskirts of Rio de Janeirom where she refuses to employ the new and violent electroshock in the treatment of schizophrenics. Ridiculed by doctors, she is forced to take on the abandoned Sector for Occupational Therapy, where she would start a revolution through paintings, animals and love. (imdb)

In the thirties, two sisters separated by fate face prejudice and sexism, one by the high society in a big city and the other by a group of renegades in the countryside. Despite the distance, they know that they can only count on each other and both of them will assert themselves in their own and surprising way. (imdb)

Brazil, 1988. An unemployed tractor driver hijacks VASP flight 375 and orders commander Murilo to crash the plane on the Planalto Palace to kill the president - whom he considers guilty for the country's devastating economic crisis. Based on a true story. (imdb)