Hilton Lacerda

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)

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)

Documentary on the life and times of one of the most prominent Brazilian samba composers, Cartola (Angenor de Oliveira). (imdb)

For 20 years, a small population of the upper Amazon has celebrated the Feast of the Dead Girl. The event celebrates the miracle performed by Santinho, related to a missing girl. The girl was never found, but the fabric torn and stained with blood is to be worshiped and considered sacred. The festival has grown indifferent to the pain of the dead girl's brother, Thaddeus...

Director of a fake documentary about the fear in contemporary society puts people in touch with their own phobias. Mixing actors and non-actors, a director sadist seeks true that according to the precept that guides the film, could only come from a phobic object in front of your fear.

A portrait of the guests in a filthy hotel, the Texas Hotel.

The story of a young doctor who faces an unexpected illness.

Zizo is a nonconformist and anarchis poet who who has lived in his private world until he meets Eneida. She becomes their contemporary and peripheral consciousness promoting great changes in your life. (Jornal O Globo)

1978. While the military coup that assaulted Brazil in 1964 starts to teeter, we follow a romance involving an 18 year-old soldier and the cultural ringleader of an anarchist cabaret. "Tattoo" depicts the conflicts and reflections of a whole generation observed from a marginal perspective. Through the vantage point of the exception, the film elucidates the norm. (imdb)

The rite of passage from youth that has poetry as its guiding light, and prose as its basis. (imdb)

The summer is coming and Elias has been dreaming of the sea a lot. In the factory where he works, his responsibilities increase as the holiday season approaches. After one more night working overtime, Elias and the workers decide to go out and have some beer. That is when new encounters and desires open up to his horizons. (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)