Ana Carolina

Di Cavalcanti was the first Brazilian artist to truly capture the face of Brazil. He spent his life portraying the country with courage and originality. From the creation of Brazil’s first Modern Art Week in 1922 to the 1960s and 1970s, his work became a familiar presence in Brazilian homes, eventually reaching an international audience. His creativity, freedom, excesses, and suffering found expression in his paintings. Guided by pleasure and wisdom, Di experienced both pain and glory. Di is, indeed, Brazilian!

Documentary on one of Brazil's most controversial personalities: Getúlio Vargas, an ex-president.

On set, in the middle of the Atlantic Forest, a stressed film director begins another day of filming, reproducing the celebration of the first mass in Brazil. Suddenly three strange agents emerge from the forest and abruptly interrupt the scene. Authoritarians, they confiscate the filmed negatives. The paranoid director grumbles: "Are they from the government?". The execution of the film is compromised. Will the director in trouble be able to complete his film?

Financial problems in a religious school for girls force the government to interfere. While waiting in the conference hall to communicate the fact to the school administrators, the intervenor falls asleep and a crazy dream begins, involving teachers, students and strange characters.

A 10-part documentary about 10 Brazilian filmmakers: Linduarte Noronha, Jorge Furtado, Ruy Guerra, Murilo Salles, Paulo Caldas, Walter Salles & Daniela Thomas, David Neves, Julio Bressane, Ana Carolina and Carlos Reichenbach.

Fictional story based on Sarah Bernhard's visit to Brazil in 1905. The actress, experiencing a personal and professional crisis at the time, is induced by her personal Brazilian maid, Amélia, to make a performance in Rio de Janeiro. After arriving, she is forced to stand the company of Amélia's exotic sisters.

A woman runs away in the company of her daughter, the ultimate brat, in a journey full of bizarre events.

Tereza tries to leave her past and forge her own destiny and happiness by going through several affairs.

It’s 1939, and the world is teetering on the edge. On the day World War Two breaks out, a group of people discuss the state of the world in a little bar on a South American beach, far away from the front. A Brazilian communist faces off against a Portuguese capitalist; an Argentinian fascist against a Trotskyist French actress. On this remote sandbank, they all defend their ideologies that have been overtaken by reality. Parallels with the contemporary rise of extremist ideologies in Brazil (and around the globe) are hard to ignore.

Documentary that uses metaphors to deal with industrial development in Brazil. From the attempt to build a national industry to the almost immediate invasion of foreign capital.

Actress Stela Freitas answers a series of questions that seek to show the figure of the Rio de Janeiro movie spectator, their habits, their preferences, how and why they watches movies.

A debate about the agrarian reform in Brazil, in free and poetic form, showing the countrymen's struggles and hardships, and rural unionism issues after the military coup, kind of a nonlinear interpretation of Mário Chamie's poem "Lavra-Lavra".

The life of irreverent poet Gregório de Mattos, who lived in Bahia, Brazil, in the 17th century. Nicknamed Mouth of Hell, he used his transgressive poetry against the élite of the time.