Jofre Soares – MRQE

Memórias do Cárcere

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

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

Chuvas de Verão

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

Unusual and exciting surprises await a recent retiree who wrongly thinks his twilight years will be quiet.

A Hora e a Vez de Augusto Matraga

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

Augusto Matraga is a violent agressive farmer who, after being betrayed by his wife and trapped by several enemies, is bitten up and left for dead, being rescued by a couple of humble small farmers who nurse him for a long time until he is well again. Influenced by the couple, Matraga starts a long penitent life while waiting for his hour and chance to payback, starting a fight between his violent nature, his hidden desire of vengeance and the mysticism and goodness which is also part of him.

A Terceira Margem do Rio

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

After an extended period directing original screenplays, dos Santos returned to the creative engagement with literature that was the wellspring of his early masterpieces, offering a combinatory adaptation of five stories by the renowned Brazilian novelist João Guimarães Rosa. Openly embracing a mode of magical realism, dos Santos’ celebrated film tells the story of a farming family defined by the absence of its father who abruptly abandoned his wife and children, sailing away down the river, including his son who continues to communicate with his father, speaking daily to him from the river bank. While offering an evocative vision of rural Brazil as a timeless land of mystery and solemnity, The Third Bank of the River is also bitingly satiric in the remarkable depiction of religious belief when the family moves to the city and its youngest member, a mesmerizing little girl, is revealed to be a kind of saint, capable of miraculous acts. -Harvard Film Archive

São Bernardo

Sun, 24 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

The story of Paulo Honório, a poor ploughman who becomes a rich farmer. Obsessed by his desire to get even richer, he doesn’t pay much attention to his wife, Madalena, a teacher who reacts against his tyrannical ways.

Guerra Conjugal

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

Many stories revolving around a poor couple who, in spite of hating each other, still live together under the same roof.

O Amuleto de Ogum

Sat, 23 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

An ubiquitous folk singer narrates the tale of a young boy, who apparently becomes immune to gunfire after his mother arranges for him to have an amulet bearing Ogum’s blessings. As time goes by, he becomes a valuable member of a mobster’s hit-team, but ends up joining a group of people who resist his original employers.

O Dragão da Maldade contra o Santo Guerreiro

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

A new incarnation of Cangaceiro bandits, led by Coirana, has risen in the badlands. A blind landowner hires Antônio to wipe out his old nemesis. Yet after besting Coirana and accompanying the dying man to his mountain hideout, Antônio is moved by the plight of the Cangaceiros followers. The troubled hitman turns revolutionary, his gun and machete aimed towards his former masters.

Vidas Secas

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

In vivid images, the documentary-like story of a drover and his family in the northern badlands of Brazil during the drought. A family in the search of new hope and destiny.