Ozualdo Ribeiro Candeias

The film consists of 3 stories adapted from the Brazilian TV series Além, Muito Além do Além (Beyond, Much Beyond the Beyond): O Acordo (The Agreement), A Procissão dos Mortos (Procession of Dead), and Pesadelo Macabro (Macabre Nightmare).

Transposition of the classical play "Hamlet" to the Brazilian rural scenery. Farmer's son returns home after his father's death and can't stand the thought of his mother marrying his uncle. (imdb)

At the riverside of Rio Tiete, in São Paulo, prostitutes, a pimp, a retarded man, a handicap, people in the margin of the society live their ordinary hopeless lives without any expectation and waiting to die and join themselves in the boat of hell. (imdb)

Account the saga of a gunman who faces a bloodthirsty gang. A western set in the pampas. Sound funny? Prepare to mmet the Brazilian version of Sam Peckinpah and Sergio Leone. (roughly translated from udigrudi.com.br)

Chief of Police Rui, a happily married man of principles, is in charge of investigating Joana, a teacher who's accused of political crimes. After some false starts, he manages to arrest her, but is startled to learn that she's also a nun. The revelation doesn't alter the natural course of events: he must torture her in order to obtain a confession, and gets increasingly attracted to her. (imdb)

Another existential western from Brazilian master Candeias

A Brazilian film which never reached the big screen, owing perhaps to Candeias' raw, audience-unfriendly style

Man leaves the country and heads for the big city, where he wins a lottery. (imdb)

Comedy from Brazilian master Candeias.

The saga of rural women who decide to leave the countryside and get into prostitution. Their miserable lives are marked by fortuitous meetings with truck drivers, pimps, thieves and lunatics. (imdb)

A man finds a suitcase full of cash, which leads to a bloody hunt from its previous owners.

A short photo movie about the street Triumpho, a place in São Paulo where generations of filmmakers, producers and technicians worked doing cheap yet remarkable movies.

An adaptation from a graphic tale, A Visita do Velho Senhor tells a simple story of a man visiting a woman.

Inspired by a Bolivian song, O Candinho is the story of a country man who, out of the country, makes a long wander around the city of São Paulo. The character, played by Eduardo Llorente is lame and has a mental disability, a strong believer in a divine salvation, carries a saint with the image of a Christ, who is presented to whom he meets along the way.

Three actors, a text adapted from Tennessee Williams, a dry studio, with no set design, nothing.