A pawn shop proprietor buys used goods from desperate locals – as much to play perverse power games as for his own livelihood, but when the perfect rump and a backed-up toilet enter his life, he loses all control.
The trajectory of a romantic couple of contemporary artists reveals how the limits, contradictions and obsessions of a romantic relationship are reflected in each of their artistic endeavors.
A Nigerian musician travels to Brazil to search for his estranged brother, who is living a life very different than the one his family thought.
제2차 세계대전 당시 약 3만 명의 브라질 군인들이 추축국과의 전투에 참여하게 된다. 브라질 원정군인들은 대부분 가난한 자들로, 전투에 필요한 훈련을 충분히 받지 못하고 생존을 위해 전투 기술을 익혔다. 캐슬 힐 기슭에서 무자비한 공격을 받고 공황 상태에 빠진 브라질 군 기마, 피아위, 로린도는 산 아래쪽으로 내려오지만 또 다시 공격을 받고 도망친다. 도망자로 낙인 찍혀 군법회의에 설 걱정에 휩싸인 브라질 군인들은 다시 적의 진지로 돌아가 지뢰 지대인 ‘47번 도로’의 지뢰를 제거해 위기를 모면할 계획을 세우는데.... 분초를 다투는 치열한 전쟁 속에서 그들은 살아남을 수 있을것인가?
A group of strangers from different countries end up on Rio's beaches. Seeking self-fulfillment, they look for answers to existential questions. Yet it isn't until their different paths cross that they begin to understand why they came.
Telmo is a retired theater director that realizes he doesn't remember the time he spent kept in jail during the military dictatorship in Brazil. He decides to stage a play and, with threads of memory, he improvises the lines with his young cast. Telmo dives into his own history and ends up revealing for himself what, being so painful, he'd rather forget.
Former political activist receives compensation from the Brazilian government for the disappearance of her husband, victim of the repression triggered by the Brazilian military dictatorship. With the money, she can buy her an apartment and free herself from this dreadful condition she lived for decades. At the moment of moving to the new home, however, a visit arises that forces her to review her entire life.
This is a film about Christopher Kirk, an American IT guy who moves to Colombia after reading about Pablo Escobar’s hippopotamuses. It is also a film about the story of V., a story that Kirk obsessively tells and retells about his infatuation with a mysterious Japanese-columbian woman. A story that may or may not have to do with his arrest in 2009 in Brazil for international drug trafficking. Moreover, it is also a film about two directors.
The paths that the artist traveled to create two essays that are landmarks of contemporary Brazilian photography.
Marias is a film about the feminine. Visiting the celebrations of the Virgin Mary's (Marias) from Brasil, Cuba, México, Peru and Nicarágua, the director Joana Mariani observes the similarities and disparities among their cultures, and listen to women who have their very particular stories about life, faith and devotion. The result is a very singular film that shows that the image of the Virgin Mary (Maria) is a lot more than a religious figure or the mother of Christ.
A German actor lands in Montevideo. Rude and speaking very little Spanish, he gets himself in trouble: only a few hours after his arrival, he gets lost and runs into a group of young men who try to rob him.
A documentary about the crowd of people that commingle throughout the 3.5km of the Minhocão, an overpass in the central region of São Paulo, built during Brazil's military dictatorship.
After thirteen years in Guantanamo, Muhammad is set free and taken to Uruguay. He has a second chance in an unknown place where he shall start to live a new life in freedom.