Movies: Cristina Amaral

Silmara, an industrial worker and a woman of exuberant beauty, supports her arsonist father and gets involved with two different pop stars, from whom she learns traumatic life lessons....

Carapiru is a member of one of Brazil's remaining indigenous peoples, living in harmony with nature and making wise use of the local flora and fauna. But Carapiru is suddenly forced to fend for himself and flees into the nearby rain forest, building ...

Chronicles the life of military lieutenant, later communist militant and Brazilian politician Luiz Carlos Prestes....

In 1965, a year after the military coup in Brazil, an oasis of freedom opened in the country's capital. The Brasília Film Festival: a landmark of cultural and political resistance. Its story is that of Brazilian cinema itself....

Bené spent many years looking for his spiritual evolution in a small country town. He has made great progress and is fully integrated into the community, but will be put to the test when he meets Letícia and is brought into the underworld of the big ...

Documentary about the discovery of a ditch in a cemetery located in São Paulo, in which were found the carcass of Brazilian political prisoners who fought against the military dictatorship....

Person is a documentary about the life and work of filmmaker Luiz Sérgio Person. The documentary brings the reconstruction of the history of the São Paulo filmmaker through the personal journey of his daughter, Marina. Through interviews with friends...

50 years of Brazilian history seen from the point of view of a friendship among two intellectuals....

Two tales of migration. In the first, after a tailings dam disaster floods her hometown, rural worker Joana (55) moves to São Paulo to find her sister Tania, who lives with her grandson Jaime. Joana enters the universe of insecurity, replying to an ...

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The documentary addresses the project, which took 30 years to complete, about the recording of 44 songs created for each poem in Mensagem, one of Fernando Pessoa's most emblematic books....

Aurélia is a young black woman who works at a factory and lives in a working-class neighborhood in São Paulo, whose boyfriend Fábio gets involved with a racist neo-nazi group....

A musical about a woman who hates music....

Young executive woman returns to small town of Dois Córregos and remembers the time, in the late 1960s, when she met her uncle there, a man who was running away from the military dictatorship ruling Brazil at the time....

Immersive documentary in the film editing process. Twenty Brazilian cinema editors expose the nuances of this art, its secrets and processes....

Disagreements, incommunicability between people. What is said is not heard, what is heard is not understood. Everything is ambiguous. What appears to be is not, except poetry....

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A tale about the apocalypse of the working class....

Ring whose previous owner was a prostitute with supernatural powers causes double personality in a young woman about to marry. After some time, her face gets disfigured, forcing her to wear a mask....

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