Germano Mathias - O Catedrático do Samba

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THE ARTIST AND THE FORCE OF THOUGHT, reflects the relationship between balance and imbalance within the partiality of movement of the dancer Marcos Abranches. It oscillates the body to wake up from the emptiness and isolation caused by the imbalance. The movement's lack of aesthetics is felt by abandonment and rejection, understanding that relief is in the support of love. Investigating body movement in a world without anguish, without pain, without despair. Search for life. Find in dance the balance of the body and the beauty of the soul.

The work mediated by digital apps and platforms is growing worldwide. But the advance of the “gig economy”, called in Brazil “uberization”, has aroused debates about the precariousness and intensification of work.

There are three friends in their fifties who, unable to have conventional relations with women, always call girls to call them to keep them company. They are the subjects who were born in the 60s, with all the explosions of rebellion and the search for freedom.

Nosferatu arrives in a town escaping from Van Helsing. He brings not only his curse, but ghosts from his past. In this escape, he dives into a macabre dance searching for an actress and faces the horror of eternity and the pain of an endless existence.

After a traumatic night, a wounded man receives an unexpected visit. As he recounts what he has lived through, he plunges into a psychological game where desire, violence, and memory intertwine. In this space, eroticism, laughter, and discomfort intersect, revealing that intimacy carries the shadow of social norms. More than telling a story, it exposes an intimate territory where politics, pain, and pleasure become inseparable.

After surviving the massacre in which the police killed ten landless workers in Pará’s Amazon region, Fernando dos Santos becomes the only survivor to reveal his identity and testify. Still shaken, he recounts how the police murdered his boyfriend and tortured his companions, yet the film portrays him as far more than a victim: a courageous man who left the city’s comfort to chase the dream of owning land, using humor and intelligence to endure the solitude of being a gay man in rural Brazil. Alongside him is José Vargas, an idealistic lawyer defending the survivors and their right to justice. As he faces threats and isolation, the film exposes the human cost of truth, resilience, and the struggle for dignity in a land scarred by violence and inequality.

Laessio Rodrigues de Oliveira was the biggest rare book thief in Brazil. After running the scheme from inside the prison, Carmen Miranda's fan tells everything straight away.