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- DirectorRichard ValentiniThe racing pigeons are splendid animals. Equipped with a special faculty guidance, they can be released to hundreds of miles away from their place of birth and still can orient themselves and return back to home. This documentary is a portrait of a fantastic racing pigeons which takes place every year in the Florianópolis region (Brazil) with the participation of several pigeon fanciers.
- DirectorLucy WalkerKaren HarleyJoão JardimStarsVik MunizOn the outskirts of Rio de Janeiro is Jardim Gramacho, the world's largest landfill, where men and women sift through garbage for a living. Artist Vik Muniz produces portraits of the workers and learns about their lives.
- DirectorHerman BarckRodrigo Diaz DiazJoana GalvãoStarsMariana BarrosCintia BonsaiDeh BonsaiA collection of short movies by Brazilian film makers, made to break stereotypical opinions, and celebrate differences as well as create a little stir.
- DirectorAlessandra AldéVicente FerrazThis is the first documentary produced in Brazil that discusses how media and politics are influenced by each other, the evolution of advertising techniques on electoral campaigns and its consequences in the recent Brazilian political history.
- DirectorAndré RistumStarsRodrigo SantoroCauã ReymondDébora FalabellaA film about the reunion of a family broken by the pain and because of the pain can be reunited. An intense story, told in a soft and sensitive way, showing the search and dedication of a man rediscovering family and the love that unites the brothers, finally forming a real family.
- DirectorEduardo NunesStarsJulio AdriãoRegina BastosRaquel BonfanteIn a Brazilian coastal village where everything seems motionless, Clarice grasps her life in a single day, unlike those she meets and who are living this day like any other. She tries to understand her obscure reality and the destiny of the people around her in a circular time that haunts and disorients.
- DirectorSteven RichterStarsCarolina FauquemontAna Carolina LimaJulio MachadoCenter of Gravity deals with universal questions about love and our expectations toward the beloved, the thin line that simultaneously divides and unites one another.
- DirectorMarcio de LemosStarsFelipe KannenbergEstela NunesPatricia PichamoneThe film takes us into the dreaming head of Ana. In the dream, she meets Julio, a longtime lover she separated from 10 years earlier, one day before he is scheduled to leave the country for Norway. Having only the few hours that destiny has once again reserved for them, they set on a nostalgic journey through the great metropolis of Sao Paulo, visiting hidden and well-known spots and other traditional places they used to enjoy during their younger years. Places that once nurtured their love and will now help its rebirth. But who says we have to accept what is presented to us by destiny? After all, as an old American proverb says: Dreams are wishes our heart makes.
- DirectorSérgio BorgesStarsEdjucu MoioMário JorgeSarug DagirBlurring borders between documentary and fiction, this film portrays a few moments from the lives of three men from Belo Horizonte: a transsexual prostitute and academic, a Hare Krishna soccer fan and a would-be writer.
- DirectorChristiane JatahyStarsCristina AmadeoPedro BrícioDani FortesDocumentary or fiction? Actors or characters? A recording of real life or scenes? Did it really happened or was it all staged? - This is the first film by acclaimed stage director Christiane Jatahy, with cinematography by Walter Carvalho and produced by Tambellini Filmes. The film is about the subtle boundary between reality and fiction. On Christmas's Eve, during twelve hours straight and in a single location, five actors were filmed uninterruptedly by three hand-held cameras. They were waiting for someone. They wonder if he will ever come. The reunion of these five friends, the absences, the joys and the pains are shared by all at the peak of tension. The film within a film reveals itself. The main purpose of the film is to probe deeply into human complexities. To expose each of the actors through an alteration of their emotional states: the web of subtle, emotional relationships among individuals in a group of very close friends. The recording of this radical encounter also brings back memories of a generation who is presently in their forties. Born after the military putsch, this generation experienced their childhood right through a dictatorial regime, a masked dictatorship though, fed by the support by from the medium class, in times where what was really happening was not supposed to be revealed; in short, a generation who lived inside a bubble, with no political education and no rights to their own biography. A generation that believed what was said in soap operas and TV commercials and raised themselves with little freedom of learning and thinking. Daily exposed to the mediocrity of media products imported from the USA, the children of the Brazilian dictatorship very often had politically engaged parents who passed to military grandparents the responsibility of their upbringing and education. Today, fully conscious of this situation, this generation exposes itself with braveness and anguish.
- DirectorAnna MuylaertStarsNaomi NeroDaniel BotelhoDani NefussiAfter discovering the truth about being stolen by the woman he thought was his mother as a child, Pierre (AKA Felipe) must deal with the consequences of his mother's actions and must try to cope with his biological family.
- DirectorCláudio AssisStarsIrandhir SantosJuliano CazarréMatheus NachtergaeleZizo (Irandhir Santos) é um poeta inconformado e anarquista, que banca a publicação de seu tablóide. Em seu mundo próprio, onde o sexo é algo tão corriqueiro quanto fumar maconha, ele conhece Eneida (Nanda Costa). Zizo logo sente um forte desejo por Eneida, mas, apesar de seus constantes pedidos, ela se recusa a ter relações sexuais com ele. Isto transtorna a vida do poeta, que passa a sentir falta de algo que jamais teve.
- DirectorPaulo MachlineStarsBetty GofmanLourenço MutarelliSimone SpoladoreA talent agent summons a young singer to Sao Paulo in order to present her to a renowned maestro. While they wait for the day of the audition, they stay in a hotel room where, over cigarettes and coffee, the agent reads her future by using cigarette packs as if they were tarot cards. It is during this wait that his true intentions are revealed.
- DirectorKátia LundJoão Moreira SallesStarsNilton CerqueiraCarlos Luis GregórioPaulo LinsDocumentary about urban violence in Brazil, especially in Rio de Janeiro. Policemen, drug dealers, and shantytown dwellers get trapped into a daily war that knows no winners.
- DirectorGustavo PizziStarsKarine TelesCamilo PellegriniOtávio MüllerWhat's the importance of luck in life? How much effort and talent is enough to guarantee a solid carrier? Is luck part of the craft? Bianca is an excellent actor but theater doesn't pay the bills yet. In order to make a living, she impersonates movie divas and promotes events. Bianca auditions for a big international production and gets the part. The director of the film, inspired by her work, changes the character he wrote into a version of Bianca. Is this the chance of a lifetime? Craft is a Brazilian independent film, made possible through co-productions and partnerships with companies such as Canal Brasil and Link Digital. This is Gustavo Pizzi's first feature. The film discusses matters such as talent, hope and fate.
- DirectorEryk RochaStarsFernando BezerraJosé Paes de LiraLuciana DomschkeExpedito is a retired gentleman who has lost ties with life. Among other anonymous ones, he walks around the city of Rio de Janeiro witnessing conflicts of others.
- DirectorGustavo PizziStarsKarine TelesOtávio MüllerAdriana EstevesIrene has only a few days to surpass the anxiety and discover a new strength before sending her eldest son away to the world.
- DirectorIberê CarvalhoStarsRita AssemanyOthon BastosAndré DecaAfter returning to his hometown with his sick mother, Marlombrando meets his long-lost father and the Drive-in cinema where he spent his childhood. Almeida keeps the cinema up and running with the help of Paula, who takes care of the film projection and the snack bar, and Jose, an old friend of Almeida's, who is in charge of selling tickets at the box-office and tidying up the premises. Marlombrando's arrival and the demolition threatening the Drive-in will bring a new sense of direction in their lives.
- DirectorLaís BodanzkyStarsMaria RibeiroClarisse AbujamraPaulo VilhenaWhen Rosa's mother makes a surprising disclosure to her one day, Rosa decides to break out of her usual obligations. In so doing she discovers that life holds many surprises in store for her.
- DirectorLaís BodanzkyStarsFrancisco MiguezDenise FragaFiukMano has to deal with adolescence dilemmas and his family destruction, after his father leaves their house.
- DirectorLaís BodanzkyStarsLeonardo VillarTônia CarreroCássia KisIn an old-time dance hall (the "gafieira") in São Paulo, one evening is all it takes to meet different characters as they remember the past, live the present, wonder about the future, have fun, flirt, fight and, naturally, dance.
- DirectorSergio OliveiraRenata PinheiroStarsMaeve JinkingsDandara de MoraisMagali BiffBethania Wanderley (Maeve Jinkings) has to return to the place where she was born, a decadent sugar cane mill, to prevent the former cane workers from taking over the land. She will have to deal with her past and her prejudices.