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- A rich woman hires an elite prostitute in order to verify her husband's faithfulness. Before long the experiment gets out of control.
- Fifteen year ago, Carlos went to the cinema to meet Júlia, his university colleague with whom he was in love. She never showed up. Carlos was left waiting in the lobby alone. While he waits, something happens which will change his life. A scene, an encounter, an unfinished sentence... Something insignificant, but which will determine the character's life. Fifteen years later, we follow three completely different versions of Carlos's life. In one, he is a man divided between the stability of a secure life in a lukewarm marriage, and the growing desire to live a great love affair. In the second, he is homosexual and places passion above all else. In the third possible life, Carlos is a man who hasn't yet discovered love, and lives through successive disastrous relationships in search of the perfect woman. One of them is his real life. Another is not his life. And a third is the life he'd like to lead. Which is his true life ?
- Fortune takes four human beings to the last frontier of passion, where love becomes divine. Like a comet, Rafael, the traveler, appears at the party for the patron saint of a small town in the interior of Minas Gerais. He is the one who brings passion and crime, then vanishes, leaving a poetic feeling in the air--which is always deadly to the ones who stay. Mrs. Ana de Lara, a proud, rich widow, and Missy, a child whose beauty and innocence are like the Tiê-Sangue, a red bird, are the traveler's victims. There is also Master Juca do Vale, a criminal whose passion turns him incredibly human, in this story of love, death, forgiveness, and resurrection.
- This is a comedy; a double satire of Brazilian soap operas and at the same time, about "savage capitalism" in 1990's Brazil where the Amazon jungle is exploited, while killing Indians and appropriating the land of its few surviving owners. The plot is headed mostly by Hugo Assis (Jose Mayer), apparently at first a major industrialist, and Elisa Medeiros (Fernanda Torres), a reporter investigating the suspect activities of Mr. Assis' company. Through Elisa, the powerful industrialist discovers his true origins. During a passionate love affair with her, Mr. Assis starts to become another person. As his company begins a massive gold extraction operation on indigenous lands, Elisa becomes engaged in an environmental struggle against this project and the exploitation of Indian homelands.
- A documentary, mostly in color, but with historical photography and pictures in black and white. It marks 100 years of abolition (Abolicao) of slavery in Brazil. It describes the many situations faced by Afro-Brazilians today, and in the past. This is done through archive footage of cultural celebrations, rituals, and interviews with black Brazilians all over the country.
- A bittersweet comedy in Spanish and English about a Cuban family that migrates to the United States. Robertico, Carmela and Roberto's youngest son, grow up feeling ashamed that his family might not be American enough. He has reached this conclusion by constantly watching American television and forming an opinion as to how Americans really are. Led by his desperation, he literally escapes into an American television sitcom in order to forget about his Cuban past. Not knowing what to do, his family prays to the Virgin Mary to ask for help. When the cultures clash, Robertico has to decide whether he is strong enough to withstand his own self-hatred, and learn not only self-esteem, but how to embrace his Cuban roots.
- This short is a tragic comedy about a poor unemployed worker, and his family, who live in a 'favela' (Brazilian shantytown). He wins a brand new red BMW car and sees his life transformed. His survival, which was already difficult, becomes dramatic and quite extraordinary.
- Kiko Goifman always knew he was adopted. At age 33 he finally decides to undertake a journey to find his biological mother, and film it as a documentary. He starts off with the few facts he knows, aided by two private detectives, his adoptive mother, and his wife. He also writes an online diary detailing his activities and findings, which gives him additional tips. The title 33 not only refers to Kiko's age, but also to the famous film noir ".33", the age of Christ - "like Kiko - a Jew" , and other coincidences involving the number 33.
- 2000 Nordestes, or its English (and well-translated) festival title "Too Much Brazil" is a 70-minute, feature-length documentary about Northeastern Brazilians at the turn of the 21st century. From the states of Ceará to Bahia, passing through Rio Grande do Norte and the states of Paraíba and Pernambuco, the film surveys the richest and oldest regional traditions influenced by the most modern mass culture in the era of globalization.