Di Moretti

Assembling the largest cast of black actors ever seen in a Brazilian film, this first fiction feature film by acclaimed documentarian Araujo is a moving and complex story about redemption between sisters, mothers, and daughters. (Film Forum)

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)

Based on the play by Mario Bortolotto, the story starts with the death of the patriarch of a family of lower middle-class São Paulo. He starts to watch the reactions of children to their death and the collapse of the fragile family structure.

In this multiplot drama, three characters reveal sorrowing -- but actually kind of funny -- stories of unfulfilled desires and postponed dreams.

Set against the turbulent atmosphere of the 1960s, Tropicália is a feature length documentary exploring the Brazilian artistic movement known as tropicália, and the struggle its artists endured to protect their right to freely express revolutionary thought against the violent repression of the Brazilian government. (imdb)