João Miguel

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)

In the great restaurant of life, there are those who eat and those who get eaten. Raimundo Nonato (João Miguel) finds an alternative way, a life of his own: he cooks... (imdb)

The memories of Guiga, from early childhood to young adulthood: his family, relatives, friends, fears, dreams and reality in a still provincial city of Salvador, Bahia, from the 50s to the 70s. (imdb)

"Mutum" is a coming of age story seen through the eyes of a ten year old boy. Thiago lives with his family on an isolated farm in the arid backlands of Minas Gerais, Brazil. As the story unfolds and Thiago is forced to confront separations and betrayal within the home, Thiago begins, little by little, to see and understand a place that he had never been able to before, thus slowly letting go of his innocence.

Leo (Cauã Reymond) is a journalist with financial problems living with his depressed flatmate Ângela (Luíza Mariani), the mother of a small boy. After meeting transvestite Marcin and cab driver Wilson, the four decide that with nothing else working out, their only option is to plan a heist. (Barbican Film)

Shortly after World War II, the city of Rio de Janeiro experiments a period of great cultural, political and economic effervescence, when all the dreams - or nearly all - seem possible. In this exciting scenery of transformation, Paulo discovers love, friendship and sex through his childhood and adolescence in the 1950's and 1960's. (mostra.org)

Xingu tells the story of the Villas Boas brothers and the adventure of creating the first major Indian Park in Brazil.

A mourning and depressed truck driver goes on the road to forget his sad past and ends up meeting a boy that might bring him back to life.

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)

A road movie that follows a solitary man as he sets of on a journey to the south of Brazil. The strange characters and absurd situations he encounters along the way present an extraordinary portrait of human relations.

In his anthological play, Pretty, But Sluty, the renowned Brazilian writer, Nelson Rodrigues, works with the idea of temptation that has chased man since the beginning of time... (imdb)

A man meets a old version of himself. They get a package and recognize by the handwriting that it was written by their father Ernesto. They start remembering.

A thriller set in a world sharply divided between progress and devastation, where people are given the chance to make it to the "better side" but only 3% of the candidates succeed.

One day, Eduardo arrives at his house and discovers that Julia, his wife, tried to commit suicide. She left her husband and two children without saying goodbye. After some time, she comes back home. He tries everything to set her straight, but the impossibility of knowing her fully grieves him. The shadow of the suicide and the inevitable ghost of a new chance hover over their heads.

The famous philosopher and mathematician René Descartes (João Miguel) arrives in Brazil, where he travels in the tropics. An imaginary landing in which Descartes appears on the effect of hallucinogens experiencing the wild and contemporary lands of the country.

Pacarrete, an old and crazy ballet dancer from Russas, countryside of Brazil, just want to keep her dreams alive. (imdb)

Emilia arrives at her Aunt Inés' hostel located on the Argentina-Brazil border, looking for her missing brother. In this lush jungle a dangerous beast which takes the form of different animals seems to be roaming around. (imdb)

Fifteen years after the first film, Raimundo Nonato (João Miguel) is a master chef in jail, delighting both the prison director and the leader of the inmates with his culinary talent. Until one day, Italian mobster Dom Caroglio (Nicola Siri) comes to dispute the power at the prison, and to have the privilege of being served by this charismatic cook.