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- In the Brazilian megacity São Paulo athletes from around the world run the traditional New Year's marathon. At the same time in an Amazonian jungle backwater 19-year-old Jô is running like a world champion. He has skipped town with the generous New Year's collection from the church and is being followed by the out-of-breath town sheriff Rui, a fan of the marathon. By pure luck he manages to capture Jô. Rui may have missed the race on TV, but not talented runner Jô. In the cell sit Jô and a dream. He trains Jô for a year until he is at his peak performance. They then make the long journey to São Paulo. Sheriff Rui sends his prisoner and marathon man Jô into the big race, the legendary New Year's marathon of 1999, the race into the year 2000. Surprises await.
- The writer Pia and the painter Gil live by the Rio Negro deep in the Amazon jungle. One night, during a lunar eclipse, Pia is murdered. Her death plunges Gil into a world of shadows. He leaves the town by the river and does not return to the house he shared with Pia until two years later. There, Pia is present in the flood of memories that keep coming back to him, and also lives on deep in his heart. This love, the comfort it brings him, and the girl Elsa lead him out of the darkness and back into the light, back to life. And he will meet Pia's murderer. 'Eclipse' is a love story set against the background of a crime: compelling, poetic, and delicately told.
- El Dorado, the myth and mirage of the golden man, still attracts desperadoes and starvelings into the Amazonian jungle--wild men who go about their search for the golden treasure as if in a dream, ecstatically, and with brute force. This is a story of likeable crackpots and underhanded cutthroats, of miserable drudgery, desperate lust for life, and a game that others always win in the end. An Indio who loves Campari and India, a former circus princess, become friends and eke out a living together. They make the dangerous journey from the gold fields deep in the jungle to the concrete jungle of São Paulo. 'Goldland' mixes fact and fiction, the authenticity of the characters and places, and a made-up story. This comes together in a unified whole of reality and poetry.
- São Tomé, a tropical island, the head of a pin off the west coast of Africa and right on the equator, the middle of nowhere. There lies an old woman, dying, who calls to her distant son. Her cry becomes concrete as a breadfruit of gigantic proportions, a huge thing, falls to the ground in front of the son's hut. 'Ma is calling me!' He names the monster Little Fruit, this vegetable meteorite, and begins his journey. Little Fruit treks across the island and into the city to Ma, through much danger and many challenges, spells and counter-spells. A turbulent tour. 'Little Fruit' is a burlesque, an African fairy tale, documentary and road movie, the description of a wondrous island world. Its residents are the actors in the 'song of Ma'.
- Laurie was born on the banks of the Black River, and she travels in order to stay on the move. Her journey starts in the legendary city of rubber barons which is now home to millions, Manaus. Rio Negro flows into the Amazon here, carrying four times as much water as the Mississippi. The trip continues along the river through Barcelos and São Gabriel, a city on the Equator, into the depths of Amazonia, where Brazil, Venezuela and Columbia meet. In this place Alexander von Humboldt wrote the following in 1799: I am very happy here, at the heart of this endless wilderness, and all the impressions will continue to delight me in the future. The tropical world is my element. 'Black River' is an essay about life on the Rio Negro, the largest backwater river on Earth, and a river movie somewhere between documentary and magic realism.