Roberto Berliner

Confessions of a Brazilian Call Girl

Rachel is a girl, adopted by an upper middle class family, who rebelled at 17 and left her family and studies at a traditional college in Sao Paulo to become a sexy call girl. Shortly after starting work, she decided to write a blog about her experiences. Since some clients thought she looked like a surfer she adopted the name "Surfistinha" which means little surfer girl.

Malu

Malu — a mercurial, unemployed actress living with her conservative mother in a precarious house in a Rio de Janeiro slum — tries to deal with her strained relationship with her own adult daughter while surviving on memories of her glorious artistic past.

White House

Dé, Adrianim and Martins are three black teenagers from Chatuba, Rio de Janeiro. When Dé receives the news that Almerinda, his grandmother, is in the terminal phase of Alzheimer's disease, he decides to enjoy the last days of her life together with his two best friends.

Trago Seu Amor

A romantic comedy centered on Mia, a self-centered witch with an unusual power: anyone who kisses her either falls in love with her or falls back in love with the last person they loved. During one of her rounds, Mia encounters Yuri, who is heartbroken after breaking up with René. But when the witch convinces him to see her work, something unexpected happens — Mia falls in love with the young man’s ex-girlfriend.

Invencíveis

A Farra do Circo

This documentary highlights the evolution of Brazil's Circo Voador venue from homespun artists' performance space to national cultural institution.

Acsexybility

Located at the intersection of disability and queerness, this documentary enriches, implicates, and breaks open the conversation around sexual life in the disabled community. This film does not shy away from the complexities and challenges of queer life, but rather embraces them and in doing so, illuminates how they impact one another and bring new dimensionality to the position of the body within them. Resisting a normative lens, this filmmaker uses the observational power of the camera to document the raw sexuality, fantasies, and erotic expressions of a wide array of subjects with rare candor and vulnerability. Embodied sexual explorations are balanced against interviews that in their frankness and insightfulness criticize and deepen the lacking conversation around this intersection in the wider discourse.

João Saldanha

Player, coach, journalist and polemicist, João Saldanha (1917-1990) has always been a good fighter. The bravery he displayed on the field, in the short period he was a player, led him to accept the post of coach of the same team, Botafogo. He was also one of the most feared and controversial sports commentators of his time.

Confessions of a Brazilian Call Girl

Rachel is a girl, adopted by an upper middle class family, who rebelled at 17 and left her family and studies at a traditional college in Sao Paulo to become a sexy call girl. Shortly after starting work, she decided to write a blog about her experiences. Since some clients thought she looked like a surfer she adopted the name "Surfistinha" which means little surfer girl.

Malu

Malu — a mercurial, unemployed actress living with her conservative mother in a precarious house in a Rio de Janeiro slum — tries to deal with her strained relationship with her own adult daughter while surviving on memories of her glorious artistic past.

White House

Dé, Adrianim and Martins are three black teenagers from Chatuba, Rio de Janeiro. When Dé receives the news that Almerinda, his grandmother, is in the terminal phase of Alzheimer's disease, he decides to enjoy the last days of her life together with his two best friends.

Trago Seu Amor

A romantic comedy centered on Mia, a self-centered witch with an unusual power: anyone who kisses her either falls in love with her or falls back in love with the last person they loved. During one of her rounds, Mia encounters Yuri, who is heartbroken after breaking up with René. But when the witch convinces him to see her work, something unexpected happens — Mia falls in love with the young man’s ex-girlfriend.

Invencíveis

A Farra do Circo

This documentary highlights the evolution of Brazil's Circo Voador venue from homespun artists' performance space to national cultural institution.

Acsexybility

Located at the intersection of disability and queerness, this documentary enriches, implicates, and breaks open the conversation around sexual life in the disabled community. This film does not shy away from the complexities and challenges of queer life, but rather embraces them and in doing so, illuminates how they impact one another and bring new dimensionality to the position of the body within them. Resisting a normative lens, this filmmaker uses the observational power of the camera to document the raw sexuality, fantasies, and erotic expressions of a wide array of subjects with rare candor and vulnerability. Embodied sexual explorations are balanced against interviews that in their frankness and insightfulness criticize and deepen the lacking conversation around this intersection in the wider discourse.

João Saldanha

Player, coach, journalist and polemicist, João Saldanha (1917-1990) has always been a good fighter. The bravery he displayed on the field, in the short period he was a player, led him to accept the post of coach of the same team, Botafogo. He was also one of the most feared and controversial sports commentators of his time.

Nise: The Heart of Madness

After being released from prison, Dr. Nise da Silveira is back at work in a psychiatric hospital on the outskirts of Rio de Janeiro where she refuses to employ the new and violent electroshock in the treatment of schizophrenics. Ridiculed by doctors, she is forced to take on the abandoned Sector for Occupational Therapy, where she would start a revolution through paintings, animals and love.

Fausto Fawcett na Cabeça

Singer, poet and composer of iconic songs such as "Kátia Flávia" and "Rio 40 Graus", Fausto Fawcett is also the author of five novels and several performances that reveal a vast and unique universe. Starting from real and everyday signs with roots in Copacabana, his work crosses narrative, philosophical and temporal boundaries to establish futuristic visions and sensory experiences that shake up human adventure.

Um Casal Inseparável

Manuela (Nathalia Dill) is a beach volleyball teacher, determined, objective and self-confident, always ready for fight. She never guided her happiness to a relationship and never planned to get married. But one day, an unexpected encounter takes place and she meets Leo (Marcos Veras), a successful, charismatic, extremely seductive, although very romantic, pediatrician. The two fall in love and start living a life together, but a disagreement cause their separation. During the fights and moments of nostalgia, and with the help of the manipulative Esther (Totia Meirelles), Manuela's mother, they will find out why they are inseparable.

Pet Shop Boys: Discovery (Live in Rio)

Pet Shop Boys perform many of their biggest hits from West End Girls to Go West, with dancers and films before a wildly enthusiastic Brazilian audience. Playlist : 1. Tonight Is Forever | 2. I Wouldn't Normally Do This Kind Of Thing | 3. Always On My Mind | 4. Domino Dancing | 5. To Speak Is A Sin | 6. One In A Million/Mr Vain | 7. Paninaro | 8. Rent | 9. Suburbia | 10. King's Cross | 11. So Hard | 12. Left To My Own Devices/Rhythm Of The Night | 13. Absolutely Fabulous | 14. Liberation | 15. West End Girls | 16. Can You Forgive Her? | 17. Girls And Boys | 18. It's A Sin/I Will Survive | 19. Go West | 20. Go West (Reprise) | 21. Being Boring

Boa Noite

At 91, TV news anchor Cid Moreira opens the doors of his house and to his unconscious, revealing surprising facets of the man who entered the homes of millions of Brazilians every night for 30 years. Brazil’s most famous voice narrates his own history, deconstructing his mythical image and guiding the spectator through a maze of memories. Archival remembrances and images trace a panorama of his life, which is tied to the history of Brazilian TV.

Angola

Captures the tenacity and diversity of Angolan society. Beginning with a brief history of Angola's war for independence from Portugal, the documentary's up-beat pacing provides an engaging overview of Angola's social and economic landscape. City life, music, the economy, rural communities, and the effects of civil war and apartheid in neighboring South Africa are covered using scenes of every day life in Angola and commentaries from Angolans themselves.

Alceu Valença - Na Embolada do Tempo

Musician Alceu Valença revisits his career, from his first contact with music, when he was still young, through the 1970s, when several names in music from the Northeast gained space on the scene.

Afinação da Interioridade

Edited scenes with pop Brazilian singer and composer Gilberto Gil, trying to conclude a train of thought, but never finishing a sentence.

Pindorama: A Verdadeira História dos Sete Anões

A family like any other, that lives, lives and works in a house that walks. This is the life of Charles, Zuleide, Gilberto, Cleide, Rogério, Claudio and Lobão, seven dwarf brothers, descendants of the mythical clown Pindoba, the smallest and funniest clown in the world. Together they form the circus Pindorama, a troupe that circulates through the northeastern hinterland, pouring out joy, laughs, giving us fraternity classes and winning the hearts of Brazil.

A Family Submerged

Marcela’s world becomes strange and unfamiliar after her sister Rina dies. She feels lost in her own house, and her relationship with her husband and children seems to suffer. But when Nacho, a young friend of her daughter’s, unexpectedly drops by, she starts to talk and walk with him. Gradually Marcela begins to have conversations with relatives from another dimension.

My Name Is Daniel

In this disarming and personal documentary, Gonçalves explores precisely what it is that is wrong with him. His physical disability is obvious, but doctors have never managed to provide a diagnosis. As he undergoes a series of tests, he paints a picture of his life today and looks back over his past, assisted by a vast collection of VHS videos, for which he sometimes provides commentary to explain the context.

Milton Freire, um grito além da história

In a poetic account, Milton Freire recalls two visions that guided him in his subjective reconstruction, lived in a period of crises and hospitalizations in psychiatric hospitals.

Discovery: Live in Rio 1994

Pet Shop Boys filmed live in Rio De Janeiro, Brazil, at the end of their 1994 Discovery tour. They perform many of their most famous songs as well as cover versions and tracks from their hit album, "Very", before a wildly enthusiastic Brazilian audience.

Com Licença, Eu Vou à Luta

In Nilópolis, Eliane, a 15-year-old girl, who is the daughter of a lower-middle-class couple, falls in love with Otávio, a 33-year-old divorcee. Upon learning of the relationship, Eliane's parents forbid her to meet her lover.

Serra Pelada: The Legend of the Gold Mountain

Serra Pelada's discovery in 1979 precipitated one of the world's largest contemporary gold rushes. In a matter of days miners could make hundreds of thousands of dollars as chunks of gold kilos in weight were found.

Julio Sumiu

Rio de Janeiro, in the period in which the Police Pacification Units (PPUs) were beginning to be deployed in the city. Edna (Lilia Cabral) is the mother of Julio (Pedro Nercessian) and Silvio (Fiuk). One day she wakes up desperate to see that Julio just disappeared!