Hermila Guedes

Two men, one escaping war, the other poverty, embark on a road trip in 1942, selling the twin forces of cinema (for dreaming) and aspirin (for pain) across the desolate landscapes and tiny hamlets of northeast Brazil. The powerful imagery of this Brazilian Western evokes a lost time and innocence. (Museum of Modern Art)

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)

A man falls in love with a teenage girl, who is exploited by her own grandfather, who sometimes takes her to a gas station to show her naked to whomever pays him some money. (imdb)

A couple in obsessive love conditions.

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.

In Fortaleza, Brazil, a bunch of guys commits one of the most daring thefts in the history. Based on real facts...

Zézé Gamboa's sardonic historical drama follows a good-hearted, apolitical con man who, on the eve of Angolan independence in the mid-1970s, pulls off a massive swindle at the expense of the Portuguese colonial administration -- and soon after finds himself hailed as a hero of the national liberation struggle. (tiff.net)

In the throes of an existential crisis, a newly graduated medical student seeks meaning in bodily pleasures in this brooding, sensual and thoroughly remarkable study of modern-day alienation from Brazilian director Marcelo Gomes. (tiff.net)

Marked by losses and mismatches, José's eccentric family seek to be happy while locked in Paraíso Perdido, a nightclub that has stopped in time, where they sing popular romantic music. (imdb)

The carnival is over. A young French woman was brutally murdered in the city of Recife. Officer Breno returns early from his vacation to investigate the crime, surprising his son with three friends staying at his home. (imdb)