Sergio Bianchi

Dissection of Brazilian problems, using six people who meet in a restaurant in São Paulo as models to illustrate political and sociological theses. (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)

Valter goes to night school. Iara, his wife, says that the new tenants don't work, that they're probably criminals. Nobody knows where they're from, Iara tells him that they bring women home and cuss all the time.Valter doesn't have a gun, he's got a young daughter and son, is at work the whole day, doesn't see what is going on in the neighborhood, hears what his wife tells him, hears the loud music and laughter next door, in the early morning. And can't get any sleep. (imdb)

Theater director asks his actors for a research on human cruelty and misery in Brazil, while trying to raise funds for his next production, a play based on a story by Machado de Assis, "A Causa Secreta" (The Secret Cause). The troupe oblige and go around town witnessing long lines in National Health Services, inhuman conditions in public hospitals and poor people being constantly humiliated. They find people are becoming indifferent to human suffering. (imdb)

Not so much a story, as a situation: an abandoned mansion in downtown Sao Paulo and occupied by the strangest kind of people. Thereafter, in sketches, several scenes from the life of each.

Award-winning documentary film about the struggles of an Indian reservation in Parana.

The unexpected death of Antonio Carlos, an intellectual of the left, who wrote a book in which he denounced an international scandal in which authorities were tucked policies, affects the lives of three characters.