Maeve Jinkings

Rio de Janeiro’dayız. Hayat güzel, insanlar plajda keyif yapıyor ve her şey çok rahat, hoş, sakin. Ancak, yıl 1971 ve Brezilya askeri diktatörlüğün git gide sıkılaşan pençesinde eziliyor. O gün, eski milletvekili Rubens Paiva ordu tarafından gözaltına alınır, karısı Eunice de daha sonra tutuklanır. Eunice günler sonra serbest bırakılır, ancak Rubens ortadan kaybolmuştur. Beş çocuğuyla ortada kalan Eunice, ailesinin paramparça oluşuyla hem aktivist hem de bir avukat ve kahraman olarak hayatını ve kendini baştan yaratmak zorunda kalır.

65 yaşındaki Clara, Brezilya’nın Recife şehrinde zengin ve köklü bir ailenin üyesi olarak dünyaya gelmiş olan emekli bir müzik eleştirmenidir. Üst sınıf insanların yaşadığı deniz kenarındaki Boa Viagem Avenue’da 1940’larda ilk olarak iki katlı bir bina olarak inşa edilen Aquarius’ın son sakinidir. O bölgeyi başka planları için kullanmak isteyen bir şirket, etraftaki tüm apartmanları satın almış durumdadır. Clara ise, ancak ölümüyle terkedeceğini söylediği evinden çıkmayı reddeder ve şirket ile arasında soğuk bir savaş başlar. Bu gerilim Clara’yı rahatsız etmekle birlikte günlük hayatını da etkiler. Bütün bunlar ona sevdiklerini, geçmişini ve geleceğini düşündürtecektir.

Downtown Recife’s classic movie palaces from the 20th century are mostly gone. That city area is now an archaeological site of sorts that reveals aspects of life in society which have been lost. And that’s just part of the story.

Recife’de servet sahibi sakinlerin yaşadığı özel güvenlikli, dolambaçlı sokakta geçen bu çıkış filmi Brezilya Rüyası’nın iki tarafını resmediyor. Filho paranoya, korku ve intikamla sarılı bir kültürün parlak zeminini kazıyor.

Brezilya'da geleneksel bir rodeo türü var.. Boğayı kuyruğundan tutup yere sermeye çalışıyorsunuz, adı "vaquejada". Film, bu ağır maço rodeo dünyasında cinsiyet kalıplarını bozan karakterler sunuyor. Örneğin bu vahşi ortamlarda çalışan kovboylardan İremar'ın en büyük merakı moda; kendisi kadın iç çamaşırları dikmeyi seviyor. Öykünün karakterleri arasında söz dinlemeyen inatçı bir kız çocuğu gündüzleri kapı kapı kozmetik ürünleri satıp akşamları güvenlik görevlisi olarak çalışan hamile bir kadın da var. Filmin gücü hayranlık uyandıran görselliğinden tüm duyulara hitap eden erotizminden geliyor. Filmde, karakterlerin doğayla, bedenleriyle kurdukları ilişki gibi organik, iki unutulmaz sevişme sahnesi var.

In 1965, a year after the military coup in Brazil, an oasis of freedom opened in the country's capital. The Brasília Film Festival: a landmark of cultural and political resistance. Its story is that of Brazilian cinema itself.

In 1974 rural Brazil under military dictatorship, the fragile balance of Jorge and Mariângela's relationship faces expropriation of their land for the construction of a hydroelectric dam, is further shaken by the unexpected intimacy between Mariângela and Jorge’s sister.

Isabel is a babysitter pregnant of her own child and can't wait to be a mother. Until she meets Joana.

Suellen is a toll booth attendant who starts using her job to help a gang of thieves steal watches from people driving to the coast. But only for a noble cause: to send her son to an expensive gay conversion workshop.

Veronica, a young woman, lives in Recife, one of the most violent cities in Brazil. Her life is filled with fleeting love affairs and passing romances. As her father feels his death approaching, he asks a favor: that she finds true love before he passes away.

Bethânia returns to her land, where the family’s old sugar mill was built, the Wanderley Mill. Between photographs, fantastic creatures, bills to pay and workers claiming their rights to the land, Bethânia faces herself in a present where both the past and the future look menacing.

Following in the footsteps of her idol and bandmate Jaqueline, Shelly intends to become a great singer of Brega. She enters show business in search of fame and fortune but, inserted in a world where everything is disposable, including love and human relationships, she will encounter great difficulties to achieve fame.

Duetto takes place in 1965 and tells the story of 18-year-old Cora, a Brazilian from an Italian family who, after losing her dad in a tragic car accident, goes with her grandmother Lucia to Puglia, Italy, where her ancestral homestead still stands. Lucia, aiming to sell an old family land lot, reencounters her sister Sofia and her husband Gino, whom she hasn't spoken to in 40 years.

Down on his luck and recently divorced, Paulo has begun driving a cab around Rio, hoping he’ll make enough to send his ex money to support their ten-year-old son. He mostly works nights, so in addition to his encounters with a colourful variety of customers, colleagues, cops and others, he must cope with loneliness, fatigue and new faces in his life.

Silmara, an industrial worker and a woman of exuberant beauty, supports her arsonist father and gets involved with two different pop stars, from whom she learns traumatic life lessons.

Summer 1996, north-east coast of Brazil. Tamara is enjoying her last weeks at the fishing village she lives in before departing to Brasilia for her studies. One day, she hears about a teenager nicknamed Heartless after a scar she has on her chest. Over the course of the summer, Tamara feels a growing attraction for this mysterious girl.

The story of a family who has their lives crushed by the tragedy of the floods in Mariana (Minas Gerais, Brazil)

A marginal version of Brecht’s piece, “Baal”.

A short film omnibus featuring the work of five directors representing five countries involved in the 2017 BRICS summit, an annual international relations conference held between Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa. The collection—taking the concept of time as a unifying theme—depicts the economic, political, and social alienations and contradictions that create, compound, and structure issues as wide-ranging as poverty, class stratification, and homeless; familial distress; spousal abuse; and natural disaster.

Dirceu, 30 years old, has origins that go back to the aristocracy of Northeast Brazilian backlands. Settled in a kind of subjective amnesia, Dirceu tries to bury his family's past. He is a demolition man in Recife, an urban landscape undergoing an uncontrolled process of transformation. Maria shares the same country origins, but she uses the city for a different purpose. She is a carefree and joyful music student. If Dirceu aspires to a world that is stable and present, Maria lives in discord with the present. To her, nothing is as it should be. Maria's apparition unleashes in Dirceu an urge for being somebody else. On a route of escape through the desert of the backlands, a unique encounter is set to happen. Boa sorte, meu amor (Good luck, sweetheart) is an anti-romance of the impact between music and silence.

In the Brazilian countryside, a family straining to care for their bedridden patriarch have their lives changed when a shady nurse offers a diabolical deal: put their elder to rest and host an Argentinian drug kingpin who urgently needs a place to hide.

André is a broken man, who lives isolated in a forest. The forces of nature embrace his body as he drowns in his effervescent inner world. Between the insomnia and the dreams, André is haunted by his past. He wishes to deconstruct himself, heal his sorrow and take the responsibility from his acts. He puts himself before the abyss where he must embrace his ghosts and change his skin in order to survive.

Aluisio loves the shop and his animals. Cristina can’t wait to sell the place.

The story of a mother and daughter with opposing views on the path to success in life takes the audience on a contemporary journey about character, ethics and honesty.

Discussing the limits between good and bad, the plot is set in Rio de Janeiro and tells the story of Romero Rômulo (Alexandre Nero), an ex-politician that has a life less obvious then it seems.

Maria da Paz is a committed baker who becomes a wealthy businesswoman twenty years after a tragedy strikes on the day of her wedding to Amadeu. From this broken union a baby is born, Jô, who seeks power and despises her mother’s humble origins. Afraid that her parents’ reunion might spoil her plans, Jô starts an alliance with the charming Régis to convince Maria to marry him and, together, they plan to steal all of Maria’s fortune. In this exciting telenovela written by Emmy Awards winner Walcyr Carrasco, Maria’s optimism must be stronger than Jô’s ambition when the baker finds out about the betrayal and her own daughter’s dangerous secrets.

Federal ajanların sıra dışı bir soyguna ilişkin soruşturmanın şifresini çözmek için yaratıcılıklarını sergilemeleri gerekir.

When an adventurous young man goes missing after a fight, his mother Cassia and his twin sister Maria begin a dangerous journey in search of answers in a town where brute force overcomes the law.

In this contemporary romantic comedy about love in all its forms, All the Women in the World tells the story of Paulo, a bohemian dreamer that lives his relationships intensively, falling deeply for all the women he meets. Never able to forget Maria Alice, his greatest love, he counts on the advice of his two best friends to face the emotions of his accomplishments and breakups.

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.

Inspired by film noir and North American pulp fiction from the 1930s and 1940s, “Forbidden City” follows the adventures of a former police officer turned private eye. Specialized in adultery cases, the detective employs his power of seduction and ends up mixing his personal and professional lives, getting involved in complex plots that might be a threat to his own life.