Roberta Rodrigues

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...

10 yönetmen tarafından çekilen 11 filmden oluşuyor. Dünyanın farklı ülkelerinden gelen yönetmenler her bir filmde Rio'nun başka bir semtini "aşk temasıyla" beyazperdeye taşıyor. Her semtin farklılığını ve karakteristiğini yansıtan bu kısa aşk öyküleri, kültürler arası bir köprü kurarak uçurumları da kapatmayı hedefliyor.

Özgün bir Brezilya yapımı olan "Tanrı Kent"ten on yıl sonra çekilen bu belgeselde, filmin oyuncularının ve film ekibinin hayatlarının ne yönde değiştiğine tanık oluyoruz.

After being released from prison, Dr. Nise da Silveira is back at work in a psychiatric hospital on the outskirts of Rio de Janeiro where she refuses to employ the new and violent electroshock in the treatment of schizophrenics. Ridiculed by doctors, she is forced to take on the abandoned Sector for Occupational Therapy, where she would start a revolution through paintings, animals and love.

Hickson lived off the books, running from one place to another to make a living. His only great achievement in life had been to win over his wife Jéssika, an evangelical hairdresser and his girlfriend since childhood. The two lead a life without great prospects in the suburbs of Rio de Janeiro until Hickson gets a job at an evangelical radio station. With luck, talent and the help of Jessica, he soon becomes a pastor and has a meteoric rise in the church. But with fame and money comes envy. What now Hickson?

The biopic of Noel Rosa, one of Brazil's best poets and composers.

The project '5 x slum, now by ourselves' gathered over 80 young people from Rio's favelas (slums), selected through workshops, script and filmmaking techniques to create a feature film consisting of five stories that reflect different facets of the daily lives of residents of these communities - with the promise of escape stereotypical representations.

All Marina wants is to hear Bruno, her 9-year-old son, tell her he loves her. All he wants is to be able to tell her that.

Graça receives an unexpected financial settlement and decides to take part of her large family on a trip to Araruama. The journey quickly descends into chaos as the group faces a series of misadventures: travel mishaps, unexpected encounters, and escalating comedic situations. Along the way, Graça confronts past relationships and family conflicts, leading to humorous and unpredictable outcomes. The story follows the family’s attempts to navigate these challenges, blending farce, misunderstandings, and coincidences, ultimately highlighting the chaos and unpredictability of a large family vacation.

Four people with different values and standards meet in the urban chaos of Copacabana. Rita and Waldick come from the country, and befriend two Rio de Janeiro native guys, upon arrival: the playboy and surfer Paulo Roberto and a pimp called Tim.

The film is set in Morro do Vidigal, one of the most famous favelas in Rio de Janeiro. Rita needs to give her son Léo a party that means a lot to her. But on the day of the party, she discovers that all the money for the event, which she had been saving for months, was stolen by Dudu. From this disappointment, Rita, who works at the beach, needs to race against time to make Léo's party possible and save Dudu's life. To do this, she will need the help of her friends.

Dé, Adrianim and Martins are three black teenagers from Chatuba, Rio de Janeiro. When Dé receives the news that Almerinda, his grandmother, is in the terminal phase of Alzheimer's disease, he decides to enjoy the last days of her life together with his two best friends.

A journey into the psyche of Atanásio, a doorman in Copacabana, confused while attempting to understand his desires and aspirations.

Manuela is journalist in her thirties who faces love and professional crises. In an unexpected incident, she gets to know Elena, who takes her to a support group for women who love too much or are excessively jealous: the League of those who are Obsessive-Compulsive for Affection (L.O.C.A., Brazilian slang for "crazy"). The therapist seems to be an extremely mature and structured psychologist. Manuela sees this group as a chance to write an incredible article about the current female roles and wishes.

On New Year's Eve, six friends reunite to celebrate the new year. As the night progresses, the revelry soon gives in to long-seated conflicts as well as joys and hopes for a better future.

Based on 'Death of a Man in the Balkans (2012)', an original feature film of Miroslav Momcilovic, 'Sorria, Você Está Sendo Filmado' ('Smile, You're Being Filmed') tells the story of a suicide, in only one shot of 80 minutes, from the perspective of a web cam which only the suicidal knew was on, giving the viewer the feeling of watching everything from his window. "From the screenplay to the shooting, we are doing a kind of reality cinema," sets this movie director Daniel Filho.

Diogo and Emília have been together for 16 years. They have a teenage daughter and undergo a tedious phase. However, everything turns upside down when they find out their best friends, Ricardo and Bettina, have an open marriage. More than that: they are swingers, are super cool about this choice, and try to convince the other couple that it is possible to be quite happy with this liberal lifestyle. This news comes like a bolt from the blue. After reacting badly to the idea, Emília gets excited and convinces Diogo to, at least, go to a party with Ricardo and Betina's "gang". And that is when a series of events that will shake the couple's boring little life starts. Will they set their jealousy aside and become supporters of this practice?

Priscila thinks she is too uptight. When her mother goes on a trip she decides to use her temporary freedom to deal with her uptightness.

When two friends fall in love with the same girl, the situation can be complicated. Especially if that girl is Dora, recently widowed, and if the friends are André and Lucas, childhood friends of Narciso, her late husband. Too soon for Dora to open up to a new love, the two friends begin a fun dispute for a chance at the widow's heart and in the midst of their grief they discover that Narcissus was perhaps not the great friend they thought.

Wagner is a 22-year old Brazilian guy, who dreams about leaving the country for a better life, until he meets Justina, an experienced woman who turns his life upside down. Together they will discover that life has a lot more to offer.

It is a documentary about the trajectory of the liberation of the Brazilian woman's body and exposes the differences of this trajectory to white and black women. The film presents interviews, archive images that illustrate some of the factors that contributed to this liberation in Brazil - such as music, dance, fashion and the contraceptive pill - and proposes a discussion about feminism through the deconstruction of the masculine. The film incorporates fictional scenes where men do not realize their macho and racist behavior and full of class prejudices, rooted and accepted by society.

The search for a successor provokes the beginning of a clash between two young and talented executives of his group: Daniel Bastos, a lad of simple origins and excellent character, who is not only handsome and charming, but also intelligent and skilled, and Olavo Novaes, an ambitious and unscrupulous man who is ready to fight for the position, at any cost. To fight against Olavo‘s treacherous plans, Daniel will have the help of the sweet and sensitive Paula, a young lady raised as an only child who founds, on the eve of her mother‘s death, that she is adopted and has a family. What Paula does not know is that she has an identical twin sister, the wicked Taís, who is as ambitious and unscrupulous as the man who becomes her main ally, Olavo Novaes. Antenor, for his part, decides on having an heir when he meets the headstrong and honest Lúcia, a woman who will make this cold businessman find true love is and a real reason to live.

Nanda must rethink her plansof studying in Amsterdam when she discovers she is pregnant. After losing the support of her boyfriend Léo, the young girl decides to return home, where she suffers a serious accident and dies.However, Helena, her doctor, is able to save her new-born twins: Francisco and Clara. Unfortunately, Clara suffers from Downs Syndrome. Helena feels a strong emotional tie to Clara and adopts her.Years later, the twins’father Léo, a young and wealthy businessman, returns to the scene, wanting to gain custody of the children.However, Helena and Alex fight to the end to retain guardianship of the twins, whom they have raised with such love.

Leo's envy of his brother Pedro will cause much pain and suffering, beginning with the death of Luciana, Pedro's fiancée.

The series surrounds the damaged relationship between a saxophonist and a woman who falls in love for a former boyfriend, whom she had left to marry him.

In the coastal city of Caramirim, the three surfing sisters from the Jequitibá family fight for environmental protection in the region. But Violeta wants to build a hotel complex on the site.

With lightness and humor, the soap opera tells the story of Heloísa, a kind and hardworking woman whose life is transformed when she becomes involved with her boss's family and business partners.

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.

In 1856, the emperor Dom Pedro II lived a marriage of appearances with Teresa Cristina, with whom he was forced to marry at a young age by his parents' political alliance, having two daughters with her: Isabel and Leopoldina. He truly loves Countess Luisa, a cultured and time-ahead woman who fights for the abolitionist cause and women's rights, married to Eugenio, the emperor Napoleon's cousin. At the same time there are sisters Pilar and Dolores: the first went to a convent after her mother's death in childhood, growing up among books and dreaming of studying medicine - inspired by the story of Elizabeth Blackwell, the first doctor in the world -, while the second stayed at home to take care of her father, Colonel Eudoro, growing up repressed, illiterate and without vanity.

A moving tale of courage and resilience in the struggle for freedom – this is the role that life has cast for headstrong Morena in Brave Woman. Raised in a poor neighborhood in the outskirts of Rio de Janeiro, this tough and humble woman will spare no effort to protect her family and gain her independence.

After the breakthrough success of 'The Cariocas', the spin-off 'The Brazilians - The Women' embraces all the diversity of Brazil and its women. Powerful, fragile, funny, protective, beautiful, talented, insightful, and especially unique; they all have a certain charm. No matter what their birthplace, age, lifestyle or preference, these remarkable women have one thing in common: they are Brazilian. Brilliantly witty and entertaining, every independent episode provides an exclusive look at the life experiences of the women who inspire everyone.

Na nova série de comédia Tô de Graça, Rodrigo Sant'Anna interpreta Graça, uma catadora de latas e pedinte, que sustenta seus muitos filhos e o marido desempregado. Assista agora!

"The Cariocas", a series in ten stand-alone episodes, tells the story of ten modern-day women against the beautiful backdrop of Rio de Janeiro and its stunning urban landscapes. Our protagonists are uninhibited, adulterous, vindictive, suicidal, envious, brides, betrayed, deluded. Women with distinct beauty and quaint peculiarities, each one has a particular way of life.

2000'li yılların başında genç bir uyuşturucu satıcısının hapishaneden çıktıktan sonra City of God’ın yeniden tartışmalı hale gelmesiyle bölge sakinleri kendilerini uyuşturucu kaçakçıları, milisler ve kamu yetkilileri arasında sıkışmış olarak bulurlar. Bu döngüden kurtulmak ve zalimlerle yüzleşmek için toplumun birleşmesi gerekir.

The series is based on the award-winning Brazilian film City of God, which itself was nominated for Oscars in four categories, including Best Director for Fernando Meireles. Based on the story of two friends, Laranjinha and Acerola, who live adventurous and dangerous lives in a Rio de Janeiro slum, 'City of Men' brings into sharp relief the condition of children and adolescents in these areas, realistically yet with a dose of humor.

Luzia is a hard working mother whose life is turned upside down when she falls in love with Beto Falcão, a declining singer who regains his fame after taken for dead. But this romance jeopardizes the ambitious plans of Beto's ex-girlfriend and a devious bawd who will do anything to put an end to the musician's infatuation. In order to save her life, Luiza leaves her little children behind, flees the country and becomes DJ Ariella. Years later she comes back to fight fiercely for a second chance at reuniting her family, unaware she will soon meet again the love of her past and her tormentors.