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- Under the burning sky on a roadside on the coast of Ceará, Motel Destino is the scene of dangerous games of desire, power and violence. One night, the arrival of young Heraldo definitively transforms the daily life of the place.
- A sweet couple invite a third person over for the night, who brings a lustful energy to spice things up.
- Following a newspaper ad, ordinary women tell part of their life stories to director Eduardo Coutinho, which are then re-enacted by actresses, blurring the barriers between truth, fiction and interpretation.
- Rebecca is a girl healer whose fame attracts flocks to her father Lawrence Byrne's mission deep in the Amazon jungle. Rebecca and Byrne are dragged into an escalating conflict.
- In 1949, Catholic siblings Emilie and Emir flee from war in Lebanon to Brazil. During the journey, Emilie falls in love with Omar, a Muslim merchant. Emir, consumed by jealousy, tries to use their religious differences to split them apart.
- Wide Sargasso Sea is an attempt to catch the Brazilian poet Ana Cristina Cesar, who killed herself at the age of 31, in 1983. Icon of the marginal literature generation of Rio de Janeiro in the 1970s, Ana Cristina leaves footprints wherever she goes, leaving her feminine and oblique perspective for generations of yesterday and today. Starting from the appropriation of her literature by other artists, Wide Sargasso Sea seeks to capture the beauty and originality of her writing, whether through a drama play, a ballet dance or through the poetry of young writers. The documentary brings Ana Cristina to the screen for the first time by showing historical images of her never seen before while builds a visual narrative from her poems.
- A man's tale of love, obsession, and madness in the Brazilian Amazon. When Arminto returns to his childhood town to meet with his estranged father, he falls in love with a woman from his past. This love proves to be unattainable (and thus irresistible), making Arminto squander both his family inheritance and his sanity. On his path from passion to ruin, Arminto plunges deeper and deeper into the mythical world of the Amazon, turning his own life into fable.
- In Moscou, Eduardo Coutinho accompanies Grupo Galpão, directed by Enrique Diaz, in the rehearsals of the play "The Three Sisters", from Chekhov. The film consists in fragments of workshops, improvisations and rehearsals of the play.
- The life, work and ideas of one of the most important living Brazilian plastic artists, Cildo Meirelles, are shown on screen through his own words. Winner of the 2008 Velazques Award, Cildo goes over with admirable clarity topics as sophisticated and complex as his art installations, discoursing about conceptual art, the differences between expendability and disposability, and the best venue for a work of art when he was preparing for an exhibition of 80 of his works at London's Tate Modern, which was held between October 2008 and January 2009.
- Documentary about three people living in the North part of Rio de Janeiro, in poor neighborhoods: their lives, dreams and intimacy. They don't know each other, but have one thing in common: they're rappers, and dream of becoming professional musicians.
- A documentary about young Brazilians serving in the paratrooper brigade in Rio de Janeiro.
- The story of five people trying to recover from alcoholism or substance abuse.
- An encounter with the life and work of Fernando Lemos, the Portuguese photographer, painter, graphic designer, and poet who for the last 50 years has made Brazil his home after fleeing the Salazar dictatorship back home. An exploration into his personal history and politics, his influences and his artistic vision. Taking as its starting point the surrealist premise of automation in the creative process, a small crew set out to film during six days the day-to-day life of Fernando in his atelier and home in São Paulo. In a fulminating shoot, a true meeting of two generations, the film captures the artists constant inquietude, his independent way of thinking, and how he communicates this to the world.
- 5+5+ takes a personal and good humored look into the universe of contemporary art in Brazil. Taking a 1967 print by artist Carlos Vergara as its starting point, the film captures how this specific work participated in the personal histories of the various people who own it today. Having inherited a print from the series Five Problems, Five Illustrations (1967), the scriptwriter together with the director of the film, dig up its genealogy, investigate the context in which it was created and the impact its various copies have had on the lives of the people who have had them hanging in their homes through the years. Through touching interviews and abundant never before seen archival footage, the documentary paints a multifaceted picture of Brazilian society and its art scene in the late 1960s in light of the recent military coup and ensuing censorship. Interviewees include artist Carlos Vergara, experimental film director Ivan Cardoso, and a slew of surprising characters who through the most varied circumstances came into contact with this work in their lives.
- An intimate encounter with Frederico Morais, art critic and creator of the Sundays of Creation, a series of events that shook up Rio de Janeiro's Museum of Modern Art between January and July 1971. With interviews with such artists as Cildo Meireles, Amir Haddad and Regina Casé, the documentary recounts Frederico's trajectory from his arrival in Rio in 1965 to his fundamental role in organizing the Sundays of Creation, while shedding light on his views on the relation between artists and critics.