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- The real life of Tommaso Buscetta, the so-called "boss of the two worlds," the first mafia informant in Sicily in the 1980s.
- After the death of her grandmother, Teresa comes home to her matriarchal village in a near-future Brazil to find a succession of sinister events that mobilizes all of its residents.
- Kept apart by a terrible lie and a conservative society, two sisters born in Rio de Janeiro make their way through life each believing the other is living out her dreams half a world away.
- Love between a young man who lives against a system that wants him dead and a woman who resists the attacks of patriarchy against her own life.
- A woman uses her bureaucratic job to convince divorcing couples to stay together and is utterly committed to getting pregnant by her husband in a future of dance parties, ritualistic orgies and fundamentalist Christianity.
- Iremar works at the rodeo in North East of Brazil. From his home, the truck used to transport the animals, he dreams of a future in the region's booming clothing industry.
- A father and daughter journey from Denmark to an unknown desert that exists in a realm beyond the confines of civilization.
- Stênio, the nightshifter of a morgue, has the ability to communicate with the cadavers that are brought to him every night.
- Daniel (Gagliasso), a physicist, becomes obsessed with time travel in an attempt to save his murdered girlfriend.
- On the eve of a volleyball championship decisive for her future as an athlete, 17-year-old Sofía discovers an unwanted pregnancy. In an attempt to interrupt it clandestinely, she ends up becoming the target of a fundamentalist group.
- A troubled woman meets a mysterious younger man who triggers in her an obsession to both destroy and reinvent herself.
- A lower middle class family undergoes a series of challenging and profound changes, reinventing themselves and their family ties along the way.
- Malu, a 50 year old unemployed actress living off memories of her glorious past, shares a run-down home in a Rio de Janeiro slum with her conservative mother, whilst also dealing with a troubled relationship with her own daughter.
- The movie tells the story of a family where no one is just what it seems. Paradoxically, all the betrayals and conflicts are resolved when a tragedy befalls them.
- After the death of their parents, Zeca and Vitor focus on solving practical matters, including how to deal with Lucas, the younger brother, a boy with Down Syndrome.
- A film documentary about the fate of the young actors of the award winning film City of God by Fernando Meirelles and Katia Lund. It shows how their lives unfolded after the film's worldwide success.
- Ana, a fake journalist and professional assassin, is assigned by the far right organization she works for, for a daring mission on the Isle of Prazeres. Using former journalist Sérgio as guide, she must be able to enter the site and eliminate two subversive refugees: the Reichian theoretician William, who shares his wife, Lucia with Sergio and the anarchist Nilo who lives with two sisters, Brigite and Monique in a tent at the seaside. In direct contact with the hedonism of the paradisiac stronghold of renegades, the hit-woman discovers, with difficulty, the revolutionary function of pleasure.
- Gilda (Karine Teles) is a free woman, in the most literal sense of the word. She has excellent culinary skills, raises pigs and chickens in the backyard of her home for slaughter and produces recipes capable of enchanting her friends, family and lovers. Her independence bothers the neighborhood, especially Cacilda (Julia Stockler), wife of Ismael (Higor Campagnaro) who is running for public office through a party linked to a religious group.
- Not so far from the Amazon there is a Brazilian desert where Betânia tries to reborn while the world ends.
- Nuno is a man working at a hot dog stand, who also invented a machine which promises to revolutionize the shoe industry- a foot scanner. In the middle of a gasoline embargo and finding himself in a strange predicament, Nuno becomes mysteriously confined to his car, finding his life suddenly embargoed.
- Frenchwoman Elisa and her boyfriend Alain visit her cousin Flávia and ex-boyfriend Miguel, who are now a couple, in their beach house in Brazil. Heated passions lead to steamy sex and betrayal.
- Lucas the cook, seduces America, the presidential candidate.
- Young female delinquents are sent to a correctional facility run by a lesbian, depraved nun.
- Cristovam, a native from the brazilian hinterland, works in a milk factory in a former Austrian colony in Brazil. He feels lonely, ostracized by cultural and ethnic differences. One day, he discovers an abandoned house filled with objects that remind him of his origins. He slowly settles in this house. Curiously, more objects start to appear without explanation, as if the place was "alive".
- "I have already lived my death and now all that is left is to make a film about it." So said the filmmaker Hector Babenco to Bárbara Paz when he realized he did not have much time left. She accepted the challenge to fulfill the last wish of her late partner: to be the main protagonist in his own death. In this tender immersion into the life of one of the greatest filmmakers from South America, Babenco himself consciously bares his soul in intimate and painful situations. He expresses fears and anxieties, and also memories, reflections, and fantasies, in this face-off between his intellectual vigor and physical frailty, which were the hallmarks of his career. From the onset of cancer at the age of 38 until his death at 70, Babenco made of the cinema his medicine and the nourishment that kept him alive. "Babenco - Tell me when I Die" is Barbara Paz's first feature film, but is also in a way Hector's last work: a film about filming so never to die.
- The quiet life of the small town Piedade's inhabitants is shaken up by the arrival of a big oil company, which barges in taking over houses and local businesses, throwing everyone out, to better reach and use the area's natural resources.
- Bob finds himself trapped in a post-apocalyptic desert inhabited by glamorous mutant '80s pop stars out for blood - Bob's blood.
- Eva dreams of having a child in paradise, while a seropositive boy reads Moby Dick at the bottom of an empty pool. Eva is Tânia, a young woman studying to pass a public exam and become a judge. The other Eva is Vanessa, an executive who works at a large publicity agency. Vera, Tânia's mother, coordinates, in fits and starts, an NGO that takes care of HIV-positive children. She has always been a courageous woman and a fighter, as well as a passionate advocate of all liberties. But the fact that her daughter wants to be a mother through the belly of her partner is something she cannot admit. This unthinkable situation brings out a flood of questions, and painful memories of her past as a rebel start to come up. Despite the major differences between them, these two women, mother and daughter, both of them born in a wealthy middle class, still believe in the virtues of dialogue and in the achievements of democracy, while a militarized shallow looms over them. Their story is a portrait of the last months of a period, before the recent presidential election in Brazil.
- A documentary that follows Mc Linn Da Quebrada, a black trans woman, performer and activist living in impoverished São Paulo. Her electrifying performances (with plenty of nudity) brazenly take on Brazil's hetero-normative machismo.
- Elisa, twenty years old, arrives at the Colony Asylum in the early 70s. She was sent there by her father for having gotten pregnant before marriage. In an unhealthy and inhospitable world, she will fight with all her strength to escape.
- Tati and Renet were already trading pics, videos and music by their cell phones, and on the last school trip they started making eye contact. However, what could be the beginning of a love story, turns to an end.
- Joca, a Brazilian boy of 13, and Basano La Tatuada a Paraguayan indigenous girl living on the border between the two countries, marked by the waters of the Rio Apa. Joca is in love with Basano and wants to do everything to win her love.
- Senator Maria Pilar (Dira Paes) is a good example that the backstage of the power of Brasilia (capital of Brazil) do not belong only to the world of men.
- SOS Fairy Manu follows the misadventures of Manu, an apprentice fairy godmother who aims to solve the problems of all the inhabitants of the Enchanted Kingdom with her magic umbrella wand. With João, her cowardly friend, and Duke, a frog who believes he's a nobleman, SOS Fairy Manu helps unusual fairy tales characters like a big-footed Cinderella, and a Little Wolf, who suffers badly at the hands of the Three Little Pigs, while having to deal with Witch Valquíria. But Manu's spells do not always go as expected. She often makes things worse by thinking she knows enough to solve everything by herself and has to find a way to get out of the situations she created.
- Two parents' desperate but divergent reactions to son Felipe's suicide from depression.
- Berlin's Tempelhof Airport was opened in 1923 and, under Adolf Hitler, extended to become the world's largest airport which was finally closed in 2008. But even today Tempelhof Airport remains a place of arrivals and departures being used simultaneously as a refugee shelter and a leisure park for the inhabitants of Berlin. A historically unique moment for a portrait of this city within a city, but also of a European society in a state of emergency, caught between crisis and utopia.
- January 1st, 2003. As Brazil celebrates President Lula's historic investiture, two middle-class provincial families from Rio Grande do Sul gather in an old, poorly maintained house, around a champagne-fired barbecue, family secrets and frustrations. Domingo could be a day like any other, a sweet and peaceful day. But the changes promised to the Brazilian people by the new president deeply worry Laura, the matriarch, who fears to see his authority and wealth disappear a little more.
- Sao Paulo, Brazil. Isabel, a 25-year-old girl, is kidnapped. The first ATM the criminals try to withdraw money from is broken. It's almost 10:00pm. The kidnappers realize they will not be able to get to the next one on time. What was meant to be an express kidnapping becomes an all-night imprisonment.
- "A Lei da Selva" tells the story of how the lottery invented to finance a zoo was incorporated by Rio de Janeiro's popular culture and, in the hands of organized gangsters, transformed itself into an immense crime empire.
- After a short exchange program to Dublin, 13-year-old Liz develops anorexia nervosa. Having a diary with a blue butterfly on the cover as her only confidant, how will she find hope?
- As the Trans World nightclub opens, a series of murders of transgender people starts in São Paulo. While the mystery unfolds, an LGBTQI therapy group is led by lesbian psychologist Hanna "Guta Ruiz".
- A young girl of 13 lives with her mother on an isolated property. They are awaiting the return of their father and husband. But instead, another man appears, transforming the relationship between the mother and daughter.
- Series of 13 episodes of interviews hosted by José; Trajano, a journalist who has traveled through major Brazilian media outlets and who, after living in São Paulo for some decades, has the chance to rediscover his roots in Rio and, at the same time, surround himself with expensive things and subjects in his affective universe.