Petrus Cariry

The elderly Perpetua, feeling the approach of death, decides to prepare Zeca, her beloved grandson, to the inevitable. She tells him the story of a king and a queen, a wealthy and powerful couple who lost their only child but wishes to bring him back to life. Meanwhile, Damião e Josefa work hard to support their family and to prepare their daughter Fátima's wedding. At the end, the tale told by Perpétua and the destiny of that family will cross.

The dry quarry and a forest that still beats. A very sick father reviews the daughter. Resentments are brought to the table. The memory of the dead awakened by blood, objects, shadows and dreams affects Clarisse at this scenario of beauty and agony. Husband and business are expecting she in the city for a cathartic outcome.

A priest captures and arrests a vampire. He visits him for a regime of scientific experiments and strangeness. Over time the encounters become a hallucinated erotic and supernatural relationship.

Marta is a botanical scientist who lives apart from her roots, when she accepts a visit from Diná, a sweet and nosy old lady who desperately tries to penetrate her intimacy.

In an isolated fishing village, Esmerina is married to a fisherman and has 26 children. The oldest son secretly desires to leave to see the world beyond the sea. The daily routine of this family is suddenly altered when a mysterious boat runs aground on the beach entering Ana, a girl who survived the shipwreck.

Alice's life changes when Laura, the daughter of her neighbor on the wall, knocks on her door to ask if she knows anything about her mother. No one has seen her for days, neither Alice nor Laura, nor the lonely residents of the building.

The Man Who Became Cabinet tells the story of an employee who, so obsessed with the routine and mechanical tasks of his work environment, eventually becomes one of the cabinets in the office.

On the eve of the Feast of St. John, Francisca, who is a widow about to turn 75, is on the verge of exploding like fireworks.

After a long time apart, a mother and her daughter meet again in the desert, between ruins and memories. The daughter destiny denies her mother dream. The past is circle that imprisons both the dead and the alive. The daughter wants to break it but shadows are spying out.

Cosme and Maria, with their son Benedito and nephews Matheuzinho and Bruna, jump into a somewhat untrustworthy Jeep to go on a journey from the coastline to Barbalha city, where they plan to attend a special feast that they've always longed to take part in. All along the way, the trip is full of discoveries of landscapes and histories. The three children feel the enchantment of this unforgettable family adventure, and realize that they will always be great friends.

In the interior of the Inhamuns, the driest and poorest piece of land in Ceará, the ghost town of Cococi, among ruins and neglect, is a kind of living museum from immemorial times. In the middle of the deep caatinga, wandering among the ruins and the shadows, lives Dona Laura, 70 years old, brooding over memories and pain.

The film tells the story of a woman who lives in a village of mining workers.

The raft man Manuel Jacaré was swallowed by the sea when Orson Welles was filming It's All True in 1942. The fact evokes memories of the dictatorship of the Estado Novo, of World War II, of Ceará fishermen's struggle for labor rights and housing in their traditional space - target of real estate speculation.

Young Alice lives with her mother Helena in Ciarema, in a house facing the sea. The residence suffers from the advance of the sea levels. The daughter, an environmentalist, plans to move elsewhere, but the mother wants to stay in town. They need to find a solution together.

The Gran Circo Teatro Americano takes its attractions to the northeastern hinterland. In the city of Aracati, the troupe puts on a fun play about the crisis in hell. With a rochamboesque plot and inspired by string literature, the attraction shows the arrival of the bandit Lamparino to hell and how Lucifer participates in international capitalism. Meanwhile, behind the scenes, loves and tragedies move the lives of artists.

In an ancient family mansion, mother Sydia and daughter Nina spend a tense night of isolation just as a solar storm threatens to collapse the Earth’s gravity. What begins as a fraught domestic moment quickly shifts when a mysterious visitor, Lara, arrives, and the house’s long‑missing employee, Joana, returns with disturbing news from the outside world. As the cosmic and terrestrial crises gather, the four women are forced to face buried secrets, generational trauma and shifting power dynamics. Their physical refuge becomes a battleground of psychological and symbolic upheaval, where the end of the world becomes mirror to the end of the old order — and perhaps the beginning of something new.

After taking in an abandoned child, Teresa meets Antônio and the two begin a journey on the roads. The common past, for them, is the memories of a city submerged at the bottom of a dam. Life is a dream, but the future is uncertainty.

Following Alexander Taylor, a teacher in the slums of Kibuna, this is a reflection about the modern times, mixing social criticism and cinematic experimentation to reflect about the overconsumption of images, fake news and social media.