Marlom Meirelles

Spanning 10 years and 10,000 miles, One Day We Arrived in Japan shows the stories of three Brazilian families who set off to Japan in search of a better future – a mother and daughter, a young couple, and a family of four with a small child. The film captures the passage of time, forming layers of memory and revealing how the families’ dreams and expectations stand up to a grueling new reality on the other side of the world. Since 1990, hundreds of thousands of Brazilians of Japanese descent have gone to Japan to work. This unique documentary brings to light the gripping personal stories behind a major transnational phenomenon.

In Rosario Square in Caruaru, the church rosary should save the skin since the body is not safe. ABOUT LIVING takes a look at the ways and paths that implies prostitution and the speech of a woman with body and skin turned by the tears of everyday life, passing through the dangers and tastes of those who face this life and survives the misfortunes of survival.

The lives of an elderly couple are changed when a girl is abandoned near their home. Isolated from the world on a farm in the countryside of Pernambuco, the two gradually realize that the changes brought by the child are starting to separate them, and may be irreversible.

Transvestite, black, peripheral and adept at candomblé: this is Mãe Dorinha!