The Second Mother tells the story of Val, a hardworking housemaid in Sao Paulo, Brazil who has been working for a wealthy family for many years. When her estranged daughter, Jessica, comes to live with her while preparing for university entrance exams, Val's carefully structured life is turned upside down. Jessica challenges the social order of the household and becomes a catalyst for change, forcing the family members to confront their own prejudices and assumptions. As tensions rise and secrets are revealed, Val is torn between her loyalty to the family she works for and her love for her daughter. The Second Mother is a poignant and thought-provoking film that explores class differences and the complexities of family relationships.
Drained is a comedy-drama film set in Sao Paulo, Brazil. The story revolves around a pawnbroker who is struggling with his love life. He finds himself in bizarre situations and encounters various eccentric characters. With a broken engagement and a complicated relationship with his girlfriend, the protagonist's life takes unexpected turns. As he navigates through his daily encounters at the pawnshop and his personal life, he learns important life lessons.
A series of crimes against redheads scares the people from a little town. After the death of his brother, the 13 year old Alberto decides to investigate what is happening and is helped by the experienced but forgetful Inspector Pimentel.
As he does every single day, Elon goes to meet his wife at her workplace, but she is not there. He doesn’t find her at home as well, so he starts to retrace the path Madalena makes daily. In the morning after, Elon goes to the police station and files a report, runs into hospitals, morgues. Alone, he wanders through a metropolis, searching for news about the sudden and mysterious disappearance of his wife.
In this movie, a guitar-playing smoker navigates through romantic adventures, all while dealing with the consequences of his addiction. Set against the backdrop of Brazil, his life takes unexpected turns as he discovers the value of relationships amidst the chaos.
When I Was Alive is a haunting drama that follows a man's descent into darkness as he navigates through a downward spiral of memories from his past. The film explores themes of grief, loss, and the complex nature of memory.
A high class lady from Brazil falls into a fake kidnapping scam when she answers a stranger’s phone call. Believing that one of her daughters has been kidnapped, she is guided by a terrifying voice for 12 hours through the cities of Sao Paulo and Rio de Janeiro.
Silvia is an introspective young girl who is not interested in the daily routine between family and school. Everything abruptly changes when Artur arrives unexpectedly in her class, after being banned from several other schools. Silvia is amazed by the vitality of the boy, who actually suffers from a serious illness – hemophilia. The two immerse themselves in an intense and brief coexistence, interrupted by an accident in which Artur’s bleeds to death. Silvia gets sick and sees her life turn into a strange nightmare. The mourning gradually becomes an obsession, and obsession becomes a goal – Silvia will do anything to bring him back to life.
In one cell, the dominatrix has a writer so that he produces the matters to be fashionable in the month.
Diomedes is both a detective and a failure, who never solved a single case and plunges headlong into the bizarre world of the Great Circus, a famous circus in the past, today just a ghostly place, more like a burlesque madhouse, to find Enigmo, the magician who transformed water in wine, at the request of the pessinous Hermes.
Lucia understands the world through sounds. She, as the people the surrounds her, struggles in the pursuit of relating with others. Her particular perspective, however, will turn that gap of communication even bigger.
Different sketches elucidating how to maintain a healthy hevel of Insanity.
A talent scout brings a young singer to São Paulo, intent on introducing her to a renowned conductor. As they wait for the day of the audition, they stay in a hotel room where, between coffee and cigarettes, the scout foresees the singer’s future in the cigarette pack warnings as if they were tarot cards. During all this waiting, his true intentions will be revealed.
There are three friends in their fifties who, unable to have conventional relations with women, always call girls to call them to keep them company. They are the subjects who were born in the 60s, with all the explosions of rebellion and the search for freedom.
Produced for TV Cultura within the project Telefilmes IV: Music and City, this made-for-TV film follows the story of Erica, a 14-year-old teenager growing up in Brazil, who has to learn how to deal with her British mother who is going off the rails. Living amidst an anxiety that switches between fear and love for her mother, Erica tries to find her way in a ship that seems to be sinking rapidly. It is in this moment that she picks up a guitar, and in her relationship with it, finds a way to re-shape her reality.
Julia, a waitress without much going on in her life, accepts a job offer from Milo, a writer in crisis who needs an assistant to talk to. From these conversations on, she begins to perceive that love is where we least expect for.
Requiem is the film adaptation of the autobiographical story of Lourenço Mutarelli. It is made through the author's drawings and personal references and narrates, in a linked way, two episodes he experienced in 1988 and 1998, factors that were decisive for the construction of his identity and work.
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