Jerry Gilli

Sandra returns to her cousin Mariana’s house in search of a photo of her late mother, who worked as a live-in maid for Mariana’s parents. Although they were raised together, Sandra, a dark-skinned Black woman, and Mariana, a light-skinned Black woman, experienced that house in vastly different ways. Their reunion forces them to confront long buried memories, issues of race, family, and belonging, while a supernatural force lurks around them.

Addresses the relationship of Fernando and Caio, starting with a strong physical attraction but ends up bumping into in the absence of dialogue.

When Rita fulfills her dream of becoming the carnival queen of a samba school she will have to fight against the dark forces of her internal and external world.

Sr. Raposo is a staged documentary about the daily life of Acácio, who found out he was HIV+ in 1995.

In the countryside in Brazil, a group of boys hangs out around a gas station with its manager, Élcio. The men drink beer, do lots of macho stuff, play soccer. In the midst of this, there is an exchange of looks that demonstrates repressed desires, the need to sublimate oneself to be in tune with the rest of the world.

A gypsy girl travels across the vast lands of Brazil to save her long lost childhood friend from a violent countess who drinks the blood of young women.

She glances at the horizon. The day is beginning to dawn.