Gero Camilo

1960’larda inşa edilmiş ve 80’lerin başında Rio De Janeiro’nun en tehlikeli mahallelerinden birine dönüşmüş, sosyal konutlardan oluşan “Tanrıkent”te organize suçun destansı tarihi. Film 60’larda iki kenar mahalle çocuğunun seçtiği iki ayrı yolu takip eder.Fotoğrafçı olma hayalleri kurar ama fotoğraf makinesi alacak parası yoktur. Öte yandan, Küçük Ze çocukluğundan beri tam bir suçlu özellikleri taşır; acımasız, akıllı ve hırslıdır. Küçük yaşta planladığı bir genelev soygunu sırasında öldürmenin tadını alır, gün geçtikçe bu konudaki iştahı giderek artar. 70’lerde Ze, sakin ve becerikli Bee’nin desteğiyle, favela’nın (mahallenin) uyuşturucu ticareti üzerindeki kontrolünü sağlamlaştırır. 80’lerin başlarında “Tanrıkent”i çetelerarası savaş sarar ve amansız genç suçlulardan oluşan yeni bir kuşak çıkıp “eskilerin” yerini almaya çalışırken, artık bir fotoğraf makinesine sahip olan Rocket, onu bu bitmek tükenmek bilmez katliam döngüsünü belgelemede kullanır...

Eski bir CIA ajanı, Mexico City'de yaşayan 10 yaşındaki bir kızı koruma işini gönülsüzce kabul eder. Kız kaçırıldığında ise onu kurtarmak için her şeyi yapacaktır.

'Carandiru', içinde yaklaşık 8000 mahkum barındıran, halk arasında 'Carandiru' olarak bilinen Brezilya Sao Paulo Hapishanesi'nde 1992 Ekim'inde gerçekleşen bir isyanın öyküsünü beyazperdeye taşıyor. Babenco, bir isyan olarak başlayıp bir katliama dönüşen olayı ('9. Koğuş Katliamı'), öykünün merkezine AIDS'le mücadele için hapishaneye gelen, idealist bir doktor karakterini koyarak işlemeyi tercih etmiş. Zamanla hapishanedeki farklı grupların saygısını kazanan doktor, hızla gelişen olaylar karşısında çaresiz kalıyor.

"100 Days" is a feature film about Brazilian explorer Amyr Klink, who crossed the South Atlantic Ocean in 1984. It blends adventure, family drama, and emotional flashbacks from his childhood and teen years.

At the Brazilian research station in Antarctica, the team made up of scientists and military personnel prepares for a vigorous winter season. But on the first night, a young scientist is raped. Unable to identify her attacker, she will be forced to live with him for the entire season. The base's second-in-command begins a relentless investigation and will not rest until she discovers who committed the crime.

In the ghettos of the greatest metropolis in Brazil, a midst flying bullets, love and any number of hurdles, young people's stories mingle and collide in the search for dreams and choices. Inspired by true stories, the feature film 'Broken Town' reveals the struggle faced and the choices made by teenagers who have always been surrounded by weapons, crime, and hardship.

In the favelas of Rio de Janeiro of the 1930s, João Francisco dos Santos is several things — son of slaves, ex-convict, thug, homosexual and adopted father for a number of pariahs. João expresses himself on the stage of a cabaret as Madame Satã.

"The Baron" wanted to commit the perfect heist involving 3 tons of money and no violence. For this he would need the right people willing to get 1 million dollars to take part in this job. Based on true events, in 2005, 168,000,000 Brazilian Real (almost 80,000,000 US dollars) were stolen from a Brazilian Central Bank (Federal Reserve), making it the biggest peace-time robbery in history. It was perhaps the most audacious bank heist ever.

Neto is a middle class teenager living a normal life. After his father finds a marijuana cigarette on his pocket, he is sent to a mental institution, where he gets to know a completely absurd and inhumane reality in which people are devoured by a corrupt and cruel system.

1910 yılında Brezilya'nın en kötü bölgelerinden birinde yaşamakta olan Tonho için hayatının en önemli kararını verme günü gelmiştir. Babası ondan, ölen abisinin intikamını almasını istemektedir. Genç adam, eğer bu cinayeti işlerse, hayatının ikiye bölüneceğini bilmektedir. Bugune kadar yaşadığı yirmi yıl ve cinayetten sonra, öldüreceği kişinin ailesi tarafından kendisi öldürülünceye kadar geçecek zaman. Atalarından kalma bu kan davası geleneği ile buna karşı çıkma arasında bocalamaya başlayan Tonho için verilecek karar hiç de kolay değildir. Köylerine gelen küçük bir gezici sirk, onun düşüncelerini başka yöne çeker ama bu kan davası geleneği yakasını kolay kolay bırakmayacaktır.

On the porch of a farm, a woman tells stories while cutting and sewing scraps of cloth, creating images that form a towel. There are four stories of humor and magic. The fisherman's wedding with Iara, a mermaid from the rivers. The altar boy of a church that sees the procession of souls. The encounter between a Santa Claus in a store and a street boy and the adventures of Zé Burraldo, a naive guy who always lets himself be carried away by others.

A road movie that follows a solitary man as he sets of on a journey to the south of Brazil. The strange characters and absurd situations he encounters along the way present an extraordinary portrait of human relations.

THE DIONTI FAMILY is a lyrical family drama, infused with magic realism, about a father and the two sons he is bringing up alone. It depicts a striking part of the Brazilian countryside, rarely seen in cinema and tells a universally engaging tale about first love, loss and personal transformation.

Virgílio’s quiet, predictable life unravels with one message: a breakup from a woman he doesn’t remember. As he searches for her, he’s swept into a journey of memory, longing, and the unexpected chance to find the love of his life.

A look of the 21st century for one of the most important cultural movements in Brazilian history. The production brings a mix of interviews, concerts, artistic interventions and actors in small sketches. An intersection of the social and artistic contexts of 68 with the current one.

The trajectory of Antônio Carlos Bernardes Gomes, known as Mussum, from Trapalhões. His poor childhood, his military career, his relationship with Mangueira and his success with the group Originais do Samba, as well as behind the scenes as a member of Trapalhões.

The film is based on lyrics from the very famous Brazilian samba composer Adoniran Barbosa, following the aesthetics of his time. Notable facts and characters of his songs takes us through the story, a portrait of São Paulo city in the 50's, a place full of music, love stories and gentrification (poor people getting evicted from their places in order to build great buildings), subjects often explored in Adoniran's work, always with a good touch of humor. This way he became the 'poor people poet'.

A small poor community called Javé is under threat of being flooded by a new dam that is being built, and the only way to prevent this is to prove the town's historical value. As most of the inhabitants are illiterate, they have no choice but to ask for the help of Antônio Biá, a man who has been ostracized ever since it was discovered that he had sent out letters with lies about their reputations as a way to keep his job in Javé's seldom-used post office. He now has the task of documenting people's memories of how the city was founded, yet each inhabitant has his or her own version of what happened.

In a remote part of the Amazon, a traveling photographer has an intense affair with a preacher's wife, but secrets from her past threaten to ruin them both.

Inspired by Eduardo Coutinho's films, debutant director Davi Kinski proposes the documentary Poemaria, assembled from conversations with 24 personalities. The subject: poetry.

Tunico is the most famous “Pirate Parrot” of Rio de Janeiro and is always chasing reporters to appear on TV. After a serious accident at an amusement park, Tunico meets Beto, a mysterious young man who becomes his apprentice. This encounter will reveal the dark side of the relentless pursuit of fame at any cost, in a Brazil with more than 70 million televisions turned on every day.

New film by director Anna Muylaert based on "Geni e o Zepelim", a classic by Chico Buarque.

Filmed over a five-year period, Chronically Unfeasible dissects Brazilian problems, using six people who meet in a restaurant in São Paulo as models to illustrate political, sociological and economic disparities between Brazil's upper and lower classes.

At a bar table, old samba singer and composer Adoniran Barbosa tells a young waiter stories about a São Paulo that no longer exists. He fondly remembers the maloca where he lived with Joca and Mato Grosso, their passion for Iracema and other characters eternalized in his sambas, chronicles of a metropolis swallowed up by the voracious appetite of progress.

Brava Gente was a television series aired by TV Globo in Brazil between 2000 and 2003, initially as a special year-end. The program was adapted from stories and national stories, and plays by famous playwrights, screenwriters and signed by a number represented by several actors and actresses. The genres of the stories varied each week with the style of each director or author. Brava Gente in the stories ranged from comedies and dramas. In all 53 episodes were shown, broadcast on Tuesday nights.

After having her life course changed by a fake image and losing her childhood sweetheart to greed and power, Brisa, a strong woman, will struggle to rebuild her journey, raise her son, rediscover true love, and discover the truth about her origin.

Naïve and provocative Gabriela is a raggedy migrant worker who arrives in town to mesmerize all with her playful and simple, yet raw sensuality. Set in 1925, the story unravels in Ilhéus, a quiet northeastern coastal city thriving with cocoa crops and aspirations for progress, even though the traditional ways still rule.

Maria is an orphan girl who suffers from her stepmother's wickedness. She then decides to escape in search of the fringes of the sea and takes a long walk through Brazilian folk tales. On her journey, she meets several fantastic characters.

The series is set in the 1970s. In the story, the mayor clashes with the idealist Francisgleydisson, owner of Cine Holliúdy—the only cultural attraction in Pitombas, a fictional town in Ceará.

Interwoven with Shakespearean storylines, the miniseries depicts the daily life of a theater troupe from São Paulo, exploring the dilemmas and situations artists face both on and off stage.

When the mysterious call girl Danny Bond comes on the scene, a crime of passion changes forever the lives of all involved. Who will the victim be? And the villain? After all, in a story so full of secrets and infidelity, who can get away with it to live happily ever after?

Love stories unfold, based on songs by Chico Buarque.

The journey of Cassandra, who starts to see things get on track in her life with a place of her own for the first time, a boyfriend who she loves, Ivaldo, a job as a courier in downtown São Paulo, and fulfilling her dream of being a cover artist of Vanusa, a famous Brazilian singer from the 70s. Her life takes an unexpected turn, however, when her ex, Leide, shows up with Gersinho and claims he is Cassandra’s son.

In the mid 90s, Luís Cláudio Freitas is forecast as the great promise of the Brazilian boxing. His younger brother, Acelino "Popó" Freitas is new in the career so nobody takes him seriously.