Glória Pires – MRQE

Memórias do Cárcere

Tue, 26 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Adaptation of Graciliano Ramos’s novel about his arrest and imprisonment.

Nise: The Heart of Madness

Fri, 05 Sep 2025 04:00:00 +0000

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.

Reaching for the Moon

Sun, 31 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

In 1951, New York poet Elizabeth Bishop travels to Rio de Janeiro to visit Mary, a college friend. The shy Elizabeth is overwhelmed by Brazilian sensuality. She is the antithesis to Marys dashing partner, architect Lota de Macedo Soares. Mary is jealous, but unconventional Lota is determined to have both women at all costs. This eternal triangle plays out against the backdrop of the military coup of 1964. Bishops moving poems are at the core of a film which lushly illustrates a crucial phase in the life of this influential Pulitzer prize-winning poet.

Lula, the Son of Brazil

Tue, 02 Sep 2025 04:00:00 +0000

The true story of a working class boy who moves to the nation’s financial capital at a young age and becomes one the most influential politicians in Brazilian history.

É Proibido Fumar

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

In São Paulo, Brazil, the lonely 40-something guitar teacher Baby lives a tedious life in a low middle-class apartment. She is addicted to her only companions: cigarettes. Baby has a constant conflict with her two sisters, over a couch she inherited from their deceased aunt. When Max, a restaurant musician, moves to the next door apartment, Baby has a crush on him and sees a chance to have a life again. Soon they start having a love affair, and Baby decides to quit smoking. However, her abstinence will be tough to deal with, when she notices Max still misses his ex-wife.

Se Eu Fosse Você 2

Mon, 01 Sep 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Claudio and Helena are on the verge of breaking up, until the couple experiences another strange phenomenon that looks to help them understand one another more.

Se Eu Fosse Você

Mon, 01 Sep 2025 04:00:00 +0000

The publicist Claudio and the housewife and choral teacher Helena have been married for many years, but they do not understand and respect the feelings and view point of the partner. Claudio sees Helena as a shopper and “little teacher of a choral” and Helena sees Claudio as an insensitive and rough man. On the night before the fiftieth anniversary of Claudio, they changed places with each other.

A Partilha

Wed, 03 Sep 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Reunited for their mothers funeral, four sisters Selma, Regina, Laura and Lúcia find themselves forced to divide much more than a spacious apartment in Copacabana. While dividing the articles from the apartments sale to splitting a toy tea set the sisters compare options, destinies, lifestyles, expectations. The divergences are inevitable, because theyve followed very different tracks. The turbulent sale of the apartment represents a turning point in their lives: they know they have never been so deeply involved as accomplices, or as sisters.

Pequeno Dicionário Amoroso

Wed, 03 Sep 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Luiza is an architect who just got out of a ruinous relationship. Gabriel is a biologist and he has finished a long marriage with divorce. When they both meet, chances that they can do well together are not that big. But they will try to, even if their friends Barata (a convict bachelor totally skeptical when it comes to love) and Marta (a mathematic analyst who wishes that human relations were just as exact as numbers are) think otherwise.