Marcelia Cartaxo

Legendary criminal. Proud homosexual. Cabaret star. Passionate lover. Killer. Devoted father of seven adopted children. Saint or devil? Madame Satã. (Wellspring Media)

Macabea has just moved to the big city after her aunt, who raised her, died. She gets a job as a typist and moves into a boarding house with three other women. In her spare time she listens to time Radio Station; on Sundays she likes to ride the subways. She describes herself saying, "I am a typist and a virgin, and I like Coca-Cola." Then she meets Olimpico, a north-easterner like herself, who has dreams of becoming a Congressman. (imdb)

Free adaptation of Machado de Assis's short story "Pai Contra Mãe", having some of Nireu Cavalcanti's 18th Century chronicles as inspiration, the film tries to trace a parallel between life in Brazil during the slavery period and life in modern Brazil. (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)

Fictional story based on Sarah Bernhard's visit to Brazil in 1905. The actress, experiencing a personal and professional crisis at the time, is induced by her personal Brazilian maid, Amélia, to make a performance in Rio de Janeiro. After arriving, Amélia suddenly dies in fever. Sarah is forced to stand the company of Amélia's exotic sisters.

The Brazilian back lands. Quaderna, an old clown and bard, narrates, from his cart in the middle of the street, the History of his Family, a bloody saga of Kings, Bandits, Mystics and Backlands Poets. Among his tragic-comic memories is the arrival of the Judge, a powerful Inquisitor from the coast, who summons him for an inquiry in which he is the suspect in the murder of his Goodfather and accused of taking part in a popular revolution. (imdb)

Little girl and her imaginary friend

A severe episode of contamination by radioactivity occurred in Brazil. The contamination began on September 13, 1987, when a device used in radiotherapy of the premises of an abandoned hospital was found in the central part of Goiânia. The instrument irresponsibly left, was found by scavengers in a junkyard site, they understood that it was junk.

Rich girl travels with her fiancé (a cousin) to the family farm, where they're going to marry. But finds another cousin in love with her who does everything to hamper the wedding. (imdb)

The History of Eternity is a synesthetic essay about love, desires and dreams. The entire narrative takes place in the same village with approximately 40 inhabitants in a desert landscape, a geographical point in northeastern Brazil with specific references in relation to time and space. A secluded place where everything happens at a measured pace, inspiring extremely visceral moments within the cycle that repeats itself eternally on the stage of human tragedy. (imdb)

Rich executive being threatened by a burglar who had been caught trying to steal his mansion hires a hitman to kill him in prison. But another man is killed instead, leaving a widow and three kids. Full of remorse, he tries to help the family, taking everyone home. Soon, conflicts arise from the impossible coexistence of such contrasting families under the same roof. (imdb)

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

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

Cicero is a 12-year-old boy who finds his father dead in the bathroom, victim of a massive heart attack. The boy's mother, who spends long periods away from home, returns to Sao Paulo, interrupting the filming of her film in the Amazon rainforest. Cicero convinces her to take a long trip across the northeast of the country to bring his father's ashes to his hometown.

Cassiano and Tião are brothers living apart from one another in the Amazon. Cassiano holds a tract of land in Rondônia he received from the Brazilian Institute of Land Reform (INCRA). Tião is a squatter in southern Pará. The film tells the story of the two brothers in different situations and dives into the reality of the occupation of the Amazon promoted by the military government.

A single mother lives with her only son. She can't find him when she returns from work. After a relentless search, she finds out that he was killed by the police and his body is missing. She begins a journey for the right to bury his body.