The Joy of Things

Janaína is a black screenwriter embarking on a new audiovisual project. She meets the rest of the team, where all of whom are white, on a farm. Pedro, the leader of the script room, disappears. Janaína investigates and makes unimaginable discoveries.

Two neighboring couples are shocked after their teenage children's fight, with absurd consequences. What could be a common misunderstanding grows and reveals the limits and influence of parents in raising children.

Demônia is a devilish being. Or an evil woman.​

Two young Portuguese women try to put down roots in Brazil. Teresa is newly arrived; Francisca has been there a while. This sure-footed, loving portrait of two counterparts, attracting and repelling, is also an ode to Belo Horizonte: a city with no tourist attractions, but bags of atmosphere and lust for life.

Mauricio is a former player trying to establish himself as an agent in the lucrative world of football. In his new career path, he must grapple with the ghost of his failed playing career and his troubled relationship with his father.

Two brothers of Chinese origin go downtown in search of a present for their grandmother. The further they walk, the further away they seem to be from their goal.

Basketball gave teenager Tamiris the chance to study at a private school. There, she began to divide herself between training and theater classes. For the first time in contact with making art, Tamiris discovers other ways to release the energies of her teenage body, until she is abused during a class.

Laura and her mother are spending their vacation on the seashore, in Sao Paulo, at a middle-class beach house. Laura's adolescent body is changing but not in harmony with her coming of age. She's less bothered by that than the situation the two of them find themselves in.

'Whole Man' follows the journey of Marcelo, a 25 year-old gay guy, through Sao Paulo's nightlife, in an obsessive search to fulfill his desires. Some love affairs after, he can't feel satisfied. Along his night journey, Marcelo realizes he doesn't even know what he is looking for, therefore revealing his loneliness. Before the night gets over, Marcelo invites a close friend to sleep over and feel less alone.

With executive production by Fernando Meirelles and direction by Fred Luz, actors Alexandre Rodrigues and Edson Oliveira are Buscapé and Barbantinho, two friends who meet again in today's City of God: bigger, more diverse and connected.

Tete hates her feet. When she meets Hector, a gracious boy of Chinese descent, she decides to change her looks.

Memories of the inhabitants of São Paulo in the 1940s and 1950s, the city center’s golden age. Featuring stars such as Vida Alves, as well as ordinary people like Reynaldo Carvalho, who worked as a hotel doorman for 15 years.