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- Under the burning sky on a roadside on the coast of Ceará, Motel Destino is the scene of dangerous games of desire, power and violence. One night, the arrival of young Heraldo definitively transforms the daily life of the place.
- In 1950s Rio de Janeiro, two sisters live restricted lives with their conservative parents. After they are separated and forced to live apart, they take control of their destinies, while never giving up hope of finding one another.
- After the death of her grandmother, Teresa comes home to her matriarchal village in a near-future Brazil to find a succession of sinister events that mobilizes all of its residents.
- The real life of Tommaso Buscetta, the so-called "boss of the two worlds," the first mafia informant in Sicily in the 1980s.
- A woman uses her bureaucratic job to convince divorcing couples to stay together and is utterly committed to getting pregnant by her husband in a future of dance parties, ritualistic orgies and fundamentalist Christianity.
- Iremar works at the rodeo in North East of Brazil. From his home, the truck used to transport the animals, he dreams of a future in the region's booming clothing industry.
- A father and daughter journey from Denmark to an unknown desert that exists in a realm beyond the confines of civilization.
- A troubled woman meets a mysterious younger man who triggers in her an obsession to both destroy and reinvent herself.
- A lower middle class family undergoes a series of challenging and profound changes, reinventing themselves and their family ties along the way.
- Stênio, the nightshifter of a morgue, has the ability to communicate with the cadavers that are brought to him every night.
- On the eve of a volleyball championship decisive for her future as an athlete, 17-year-old Sofía discovers an unwanted pregnancy. In an attempt to interrupt it clandestinely, she ends up becoming the target of a fundamentalist group.
- The movie tells the story of a family where no one is just what it seems. Paradoxically, all the betrayals and conflicts are resolved when a tragedy befalls them.
- Daniel (Gagliasso), a physicist, becomes obsessed with time travel in an attempt to save his murdered girlfriend.
- Malu, a 50 year old unemployed actress living off memories of her glorious past, shares a run-down home in a Rio de Janeiro slum with her conservative mother, whilst also dealing with a troubled relationship with her own daughter.
- After the death of their parents, Zeca and Vitor focus on solving practical matters, including how to deal with Lucas, the younger brother, a boy with Down Syndrome.
- A film documentary about the fate of the young actors of the award winning film City of God by Fernando Meirelles and Katia Lund. It shows how their lives unfolded after the film's worldwide success.
- Ana, a fake journalist and professional assassin, is assigned by the far right organization she works for, for a daring mission on the Isle of Prazeres. Using former journalist Sérgio as guide, she must be able to enter the site and eliminate two subversive refugees: the Reichian theoretician William, who shares his wife, Lucia with Sergio and the anarchist Nilo who lives with two sisters, Brigite and Monique in a tent at the seaside. In direct contact with the hedonism of the paradisiac stronghold of renegades, the hit-woman discovers, with difficulty, the revolutionary function of pleasure.
- Elisa, twenty years old, arrives at the Colony Asylum in the early 70s. She was sent there by her father for having gotten pregnant before marriage. In an unhealthy and inhospitable world, she will fight with all her strength to escape.
- Gilda (Karine Teles) is a free woman, in the most literal sense of the word. She has excellent culinary skills, raises pigs and chickens in the backyard of her home for slaughter and produces recipes capable of enchanting her friends, family and lovers. Her independence bothers the neighborhood, especially Cacilda (Julia Stockler), wife of Ismael (Higor Campagnaro) who is running for public office through a party linked to a religious group.
- Young female delinquents are sent to a correctional facility run by a lesbian, depraved nun.
- The quiet life of the small town Piedade's inhabitants is shaken up by the arrival of a big oil company, which barges in taking over houses and local businesses, throwing everyone out, to better reach and use the area's natural resources.
- Frenchwoman Elisa and her boyfriend Alain visit her cousin Flávia and ex-boyfriend Miguel, who are now a couple, in their beach house in Brazil. Heated passions lead to steamy sex and betrayal.
- Tati and Renet were already trading pics, videos and music by their cell phones, and on the last school trip they started making eye contact. However, what could be the beginning of a love story, turns to an end.
- Not so far from the Amazon there is a Brazilian desert where Betânia tries to reborn while the world ends.
- "I have already lived my death and now all that is left is to make a film about it." So said the filmmaker Hector Babenco to Bárbara Paz when he realized he did not have much time left. She accepted the challenge to fulfill the last wish of her late partner: to be the main protagonist in his own death. In this tender immersion into the life of one of the greatest filmmakers from South America, Babenco himself consciously bares his soul in intimate and painful situations. He expresses fears and anxieties, and also memories, reflections, and fantasies, in this face-off between his intellectual vigor and physical frailty, which were the hallmarks of his career. From the onset of cancer at the age of 38 until his death at 70, Babenco made of the cinema his medicine and the nourishment that kept him alive. "Babenco - Tell me when I Die" is Barbara Paz's first feature film, but is also in a way Hector's last work: a film about filming so never to die.
- Joca, a Brazilian boy of 13, and Basano La Tatuada a Paraguayan indigenous girl living on the border between the two countries, marked by the waters of the Rio Apa. Joca is in love with Basano and wants to do everything to win her love.
- After taking a hit from producer Missiê Jack, composer Simon opens a record label to face his rival. Before long, a war between them dominates 1980s pop music.
- Cristovam, a native from the brazilian hinterland, works in a milk factory in a former Austrian colony in Brazil. He feels lonely, ostracized by cultural and ethnic differences. One day, he discovers an abandoned house filled with objects that remind him of his origins. He slowly settles in this house. Curiously, more objects start to appear without explanation, as if the place was "alive".
- Nuno is a man working at a hot dog stand, who also invented a machine which promises to revolutionize the shoe industry- a foot scanner. In the middle of a gasoline embargo and finding himself in a strange predicament, Nuno becomes mysteriously confined to his car, finding his life suddenly embargoed.
- Berlin's Tempelhof Airport was opened in 1923 and, under Adolf Hitler, extended to become the world's largest airport which was finally closed in 2008. But even today Tempelhof Airport remains a place of arrivals and departures being used simultaneously as a refugee shelter and a leisure park for the inhabitants of Berlin. A historically unique moment for a portrait of this city within a city, but also of a European society in a state of emergency, caught between crisis and utopia.
- A photographer turned paparazzi is caught in the downward spiral of a fabricated tabloid story.
- Bob finds himself trapped in a post-apocalyptic desert inhabited by glamorous mutant '80s pop stars out for blood - Bob's blood.
- A young girl of 13 lives with her mother on an isolated property. They are awaiting the return of their father and husband. But instead, another man appears, transforming the relationship between the mother and daughter.
- "A Lei da Selva" tells the story of how the lottery invented to finance a zoo was incorporated by Rio de Janeiro's popular culture and, in the hands of organized gangsters, transformed itself into an immense crime empire.
- Inspired by Jorge Luis Borges' The Disinterested Killer Bill Harrigan, Garoto follows a young couple who find themselves in an enchanted place where they experience an amorous and spiritual adventure. A girl, a boy, a murder, some great landscapes, the sound of wind. Like a young couple on the lam film shot by Straub/Huillet. It achieves a beauty few films can.
- Eva dreams of having a child in paradise, while a seropositive boy reads Moby Dick at the bottom of an empty pool. Eva is Tânia, a young woman studying to pass a public exam and become a judge. The other Eva is Vanessa, an executive who works at a large publicity agency. Vera, Tânia's mother, coordinates, in fits and starts, an NGO that takes care of HIV-positive children. She has always been a courageous woman and a fighter, as well as a passionate advocate of all liberties. But the fact that her daughter wants to be a mother through the belly of her partner is something she cannot admit. This unthinkable situation brings out a flood of questions, and painful memories of her past as a rebel start to come up. Despite the major differences between them, these two women, mother and daughter, both of them born in a wealthy middle class, still believe in the virtues of dialogue and in the achievements of democracy, while a militarized shallow looms over them. Their story is a portrait of the last months of a period, before the recent presidential election in Brazil.
- The Divine Divas are the icons of the first generation of Brazilian transvestite artists in the 1960's. One of the first stages to host men dressed as women was the Rival Theatre, ran by Américo Leal, the director's grandfather. The film shows the intimacy, the talent and the stories of a generation that revolutionized the sexual behavior and defied the moral of a time.
- The series rescues the zeitgeist of Recife in the 1990s, using fiction to portray the boiling period of the Manguebeat movement.
- Two parents' desperate but divergent reactions to son Felipe's suicide from depression.
- The trajectory of musician and comedian Mussum as vocalist of the group "Os Originais do Samba" and later in cinema and TV as a member of "Os Trapalhões", a group that revolutionized the way of making humor on Brazilian television.
- SOS Fairy Manu follows the misadventures of Manu, an apprentice fairy godmother who aims to solve the problems of all the inhabitants of the Enchanted Kingdom with her magic umbrella wand. With João, her cowardly friend, and Duke, a frog who believes he's a nobleman, SOS Fairy Manu helps unusual fairy tales characters like a big-footed Cinderella, and a Little Wolf, who suffers badly at the hands of the Three Little Pigs, while having to deal with Witch Valquíria. But Manu's spells do not always go as expected. She often makes things worse by thinking she knows enough to solve everything by herself and has to find a way to get out of the situations she created.
- The members of Noturna Theater Company decide to share horror stories while they are locked down inside the theater during a stormy night.
- Algeria, February 2019. A wave of protests takes over the streets of Algiers against the 5th candidacy of then president Bouteflika. Nardjes, a young activist, finds in the movement a space to demand a better future for her country.
- Sao Paulo, Brazil. Isabel, a 25-year-old girl, is kidnapped. The first ATM the criminals try to withdraw money from is broken. It's almost 10:00pm. The kidnappers realize they will not be able to get to the next one on time. What was meant to be an express kidnapping becomes an all-night imprisonment.