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- 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.
- In a world troubled between capital and hunger, free thinking about the importance of enjoyment and enjoyment as an act of resistance. No longer representation as a metaphor for the relationships sold by American cinema, but life lived as a metaphor for resistance to bad politics lived in the world.
- Silvana is a tired woman. The world no longer belongs to her, the invisible bothers her, the daily life oppresses her. What she wants sometimes is to abandon everything and go back home.
- On a hot night in Rio de Janeiro, two men are in search of pleasure and violence. They invite two prostitutes to accompany them on this risky and intense adventure.
- Passion, suspense, feminicide! About to finish the last scene of her experimental film FAMA, director Silvia Passos is murdered. In the face of the crime, investigator Mariza Ramos will have to find out who the killer is.
- Joana D'Arc, a former public school teacher in Rio de Janeiro, tries to recover her home, lost to the City Hall. The trajectory is shared by the pirate fisherman Pharaó, from Guanabara Bay.
- A soldier coming home after the Paraguay War meets a theater group. A shock between war and art.
- A couple lives isolated in a country house at the top of a hill, full of natural beauties. Their routine is changed when an unusual group of mannequins seems to gain life, and start to watch over them.
- During carnival Flaviana lives a pretty difficult dilemma; how to disguise from her last night lover who refuses to get out of her shower?
- On the 1st of March, 1982, Niteroi city makes history by hosting one of the greatest Brazilian cultural movements, the so-called 80's Rock Generation. The Fluminense FM Radio is on the air, known as "The damned" station which mixed irreverent ideas, daring takes, and creativity with playlists featuring music concebido of mainstream broadcasting spaces. Daring to believe in something new made the Maldita FM one of the most important underground means of communication, launching Brazilian rock bands and independent music, and creating a legion of fans.
- Couple of artists Cavi Borges and Patrícia Niedermeier's memories of a trip are transformed into an essay film. The scenery consists of landscapes located in Brazil, the US, Germany, Syria, France and Hungary, where a series of choreographies and other performances created by them are recorded.
- Ana, a Portuguese actress, has come to Rio de Janeiro to play the lead in a film about Carmen Miranda, the eccentric actress and singer who put Brazil on the map for its samba and carnival culture. The characters in the story come to life by alternating black-and-white and colour film, but they are at odds with each other as the myth clashes with everyday reality. Felipe Braganca and Catarina Wallenstein (who also plays the lead role) address a generation of Brazilians eagerly searching for a new identity. References to the Tropicalism art movement and the celebration of 'cultural cannibalism' - which arose in part as a form of resistance to the military junta of the late sixties - also play a prominent role in this tropical nightmare. (IFFR)
- Benjamim Zambraia is a young drunk who wanders around the city and is sometimes treated with pampering and sometimes with a beating by his parents (Helena Ignez and Otávio Terceiro). As in Chico's book, the boy is obsessed with a big stone.
- TV Series
- The failed actor Rui (Pedro Monteiro) inherits a millionaire apartment from his father and decides to put the sale on to realize his dream. Rui wants to star in a remake of a famous film by Chuck Norris fighting in Vietnam. At the same time he must try to sell the apartment, negotiate the rights to produce the film and still deal with his love life.
- Malditos Cartoonistas is a documentary (later turned into a TV series) directed by Daniel Garcia and Daniel Paiva. The documentary was released in 2010 during Rio Comicon, featuring interviews with 25 cartoonists, who spoke about various aspects of their work. Among the artists who participated in the 90 minutes of the film are Ziraldo, Jaguar, Nani, Angeli, Ota, Allan Sieber, Arnaldo Branco, and André Dahmer, among others. In 2012, testimonies recorded between 2007 and 2012 were gathered in a TV series of the same name, shown on Canal Brasil. The series had 13 episodes, each with a specific theme, such as the profession of cartoonists, the influence of the internet on cartoons and charges, and the work of women cartoonists, among other subjects. In 2011, the documentary won the HQ Mix Trophy in the "best production in other languages", and was awarded at the CineSul Festival and the Petrópolis National Film Festival. In 2013, the TV series won the HQ Mix Trophy again in the "best production in other languages" category.
- On New Year's Eve six friends reunite to celebrate the new year. As the night progresses the revelry soon gives way to long-seated conflicts as a well as joys and hopes for a better future.
- This film seeks to rescue the role of filmmaker Neville D'Almeida by using many rare images, numerous interviews, vast archival and audiovisual material.
- Vampiro Nicolau procura através dos séculos: Nina, seu grande amor.
- Two brides wait in a church room while their marriages don't begin. But they are not anxious, as expected: they do act like ghosts in existential horror. As they wait to be called to the start of their respective ceremonies, they reflect on their relationships and lives.
- Tells the life of Brazillian bandit, Luís Garcia. His crimes against state and rage against part of the population and real murders commited by him against priests, that shocked part of the population, making him a wanted man.
- Rutger is an E.T whose mission is to spend 72 hours on Earth researching on human behavior. To avoid suspicion, he disguises himself as a "documentary filmmaker" and choose the city of Rio de Janeiro to give his first step.
- Focusing on the real-imaginary doubt, the film delves into the role of the stage actor alongside the set-up of Sam Shepard's 'Mente Mentira'.
- A love triangle is formed by two men and a woman in the Rio de Janeiro of the late 1970's. Paralel to the relationship situation, the poor community where they live go through a significant change when local authorities decide to remove the population with the intention of avoiding a possible tragedy.
- A questioning about the wonders of the city of Rio de Janeiro and how the royal family came to the city in 1808 influenced its infrastructure, architecture and even the lifestyle of Rio.
- December 1970: Brazil is under a military dictatorship. The Swiss ambassador in Brazil is kidnapped by a group of rebels. 40 days later they trade the ambassador by seventy political prisoners. The documentary find those prisoners 40 years later. Who are they? How they pass trough prison, torture, exile. How they manage to live?
- It tells the story of the musicians who revitalized Lapa, from the end of the 90s, in meetings on the small stage of "Bar Semente". The documentary is a historical record of a stronghold of cultural effervescence that remained in the affective memory of Rio de Janeiro.
- Two complete strangers suddenly become best friends after a few drinks in a random bar downtown.