David França Mendes

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)

Free adaptation of Machado de Assis's "Dom Casmurro". Bento marries an actress, and soon afterwards she gets pregnant. He begins to suspect the child isn't his, but his best friend's. (imdb)

2000 Nordestes is a documentary about Northeastern Brazilians at the turn of the 21st century. From the states of Ceará to Bahia, passing through Rio Grande do Norte and the states of Paraíba and Pernambuco, the film surveys the richest and oldest regional traditions influenced by the most modern mass culture in the era of globalization. (imdb)

An almost forgotten writer is interviewed by a journalist. To seduce her and reconquer the fame and the notoriousness the he once had, he starts to invent various stories that in fact he isn't writing.

In 1945, Japan surrendered to the United States and the Second World War was over. Right? Wrong. For eighty percent of the Japanese community in Brazil, Japan had won the war and defeat was nothing more than American propaganda. The few immigrants that accepted the truth were persecuted. (imdb)