Daniel de Oliveira – MRQE

Sweet Mother

Fri, 22 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Picucha may seem old-fashioned, but she has modern ideas and a great sense of humor. As the matriarch of a big family, she is involved in the daily lives of her children, grandchildren and other relatives. Undeterred by the typical problems of old age, she uses her many years of experience to solve problems in the best way possible.

Morto Não Fala

Sat, 30 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Stênio, the nightshifter of a morgue, has the ability to communicate with the cadavers that are brought to him every night.

Aos Teus Olhos

Sat, 30 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Rubens is a carefree, charismatic swimming instructor who finds himself accused of displaying inappropriate affection toward one of his students by the boy’s mother. Other parents and colleagues are only too eager to condemn him.

400 Contra 1 – Uma História do Crime Organizado

Wed, 27 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

The story of William da Silva Lima, the last survivor of the group that founded the Comando Vermelho at the end of the 1970s. It shows him living together with the political prisoners incurred under the same National Security Law and his leadership in the Ilha Grande Prison creating a type of unheard of conduct and solidarity in the Brazilian prisons. The film goes on to tell of the group’s actions on the streets of Rio de Janeiro during the beginning of the 80s when they irritated the police with their daring robberies, as well as portraying the surprising love story between William and Tereza. The narrative weaves its way between the intimate conflict and the spectacular assaults and escapes.

Jean Charles

Fri, 22 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

The tragic true story of Jean Charles de Menezes, the innocent Brazilian shot dead by British police in 2005 at the height of the London terrorist alerts.

A Festa da Menina Morta

Fri, 22 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

“The Dead Girl’s Feast” narrates the story of Santinho, a young man who has been exalted to the position of a saint in a remote riverine community of the upper Amazonas state, after performing a miracle upon the suicide of his own mother. The film seeks to be an intimate picture of the ones who are involved in this sect and of the infinite human capacity of fabricating faith and seeking for some sense in the horrifying experience of death.

Zuzu Angel

Sat, 30 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Covering the last years of the famous Brazilian fashion designer in her doomed quest for justice, Zuzu Angel follows the case of her activist son Stuart’s arrest, torture, murder, and subsequent corpse disposal by the military forces in early 1970s Rio de Janeiro, during the darkest era of Brazilian military regime and media censorship.

Cazuza – O Tempo Não Pára

Sat, 30 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Inspired by the moving book Só as Mães São Felizes, by Lucinha Araújo, Cazuza’s mother, the film covers a little more than 10 years of the singers crazy and brief life from the beginning of his career in the Circo Voador venue, in 1981, to the huge success and the apotheosis of his shows with the Barão Vermelho band, his solo career, his relations with his parents, friends, lovers and passions, and the courage he had to face his final years, with HIV, until his death, in 1990.

Senrei

Mon, 25 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

In São Paulo, in the late 1960s, the convent of the Dominican friars became a trench of resistance to the military dictatorship that governs Brazil. Moved by Christian ideals, frets Betto, Oswaldo, Fernando, Ivo and Tito came to support the guerrilla group Ação Libertadora Nacional, commanded by Carlos Marighella.