Silvio Guindane

Winner of the Best Film Award at the 2006 Montreal Film Festival, Carlos Diegues's intensely moving drama follows the personal odyssey of a 55-year-old man who returns to the Rio slums in an attempt to discover why his mother abandoned him at birth. (phillyfests.bside.com)

Two children flee together with a grown up from a slum in Rio because this older person has had problems with the local drug lord. They end up in the house where a rich American lives with his daughter. (imdb)

Jefferson and Washington are brothers, and have a common friend, Kennedy, whom they've known since they were kids. Jefferson enters the military life, but Washington and Kennedy turn to drug dealing instead. When Washington dies, Jefferson returns to São Paulo and goes around town with Kennedy, trying to find Washington's body, which was missing. In their desperate search, they remember a very important event of their past. (imdb)

Focused on a friendship for 24 hours, traces the reunion of three childhood friends who grew up together: Jaiminho, a football player on the rise abroad, Pibe, a realtor and Macu, the young protagonist who remains in the neighborhood, flirting with crime.

A group of students in the senior year of high school who have to face to choices of the everyday life. The problems within groups in the school and with having to face the future. (imdb)

A couple, Lauro and Renata, travels to a remote area surrounded by rain forest in Rio De Janeiro. Once they are there, Lauro is told by a bar owner that gruesome murders are taking place in that area. Intending to keep this information hidden from his girlfriend, Lauro and Renata discover they might be not alone when staying in a isolated house. (imdb)

Júlia (Mônica Martelli) suffers a kidnap-lightning, performed by Sapeca (Sílvio Guindane) and Casé (Claudio Gabriel). Arrested in her husband's dark-tinted armored car (Tarcisio Filho), she believes they are in search of easy money so they can use drugs. But gradually, she notices that the duo does not just want this. (adorocinema)

Paulo (Ricardo Duque), a film editor, arrives at home and find his wife murdered. While the police investigates the crime, Paulo begin his own quest to find the criminal.

Known in Brazil for her romantic comedies, Julia Rezende shifts gears in this feature film with a dark Coen Brothers-like drama about 4 friends -Vladimir, his wife Clivia, Regina and Primo- who concoct an outrageous plan to get out of their financial doldrums: to kidnap a millionaire, Regina's former boss. However, They lack experience and the proper "criminal" element in their individual souls. As the plan moves forward, their frustrations, ambitions and fears emerge, often hilariously. (imdb)

The story of Cadu, a public defender who sees his life change after being mistaken for a drug dealer and end up stuck.

After witnessing a suicide, an unobtrusive police clerk decides to investigate two neglected cases on her own, both involving abused women. (imdb)

In the 90s, Rio de Janeiro was shaken by a wave of kidnappings. Security forces call controversial agents to help save the city from thugs and also from the police itself. imdb

Inácio, a functional schizophrenic, is a doorman in a building in the South Zone of Rio. He ends up obsessing over one of the residents, making the relationship with his mother unsustainable.