Movies: Ambivalent

Bob Spit, a comic book character, lives in a post-apocalyptic desert inside the mind of his creator, the legendary Brazilian cartoonist Angeli. When Angeli decides to kill off Bob, the old punk leaves this wasteland and faces his creator....

A restaurant owner going over the edge when an armed robbery is attempted at his establishment. He holds everyone captive at gunpoint – criminals and customers alike – and situations corrode into a nightmare state, guided by manipulation and raw comp...

The young Beto ventures to the Brazilian countryside in search of a collection of rare drawings. There he meets Samir, the collector, and his family ruined by the demise of the cocoa plantations. The journey and the encounter will irrevocably change ...

Five teens are forced into a thirty day digital detox. No cell phones, electronics, internet or video games. Their lives will forever be changed....

In 2017, a routine archaeological dig is taking place on the site of a proposed housing development in the village of Fenstanton in the Cambridgeshire Fens. When human remains are found alongside a variety of Roman artefacts, none of the team at Albi...

Three young hikers in the woods settle down by a campfire to relax and have a good time, but someone is watching them....

A documentary on three families struggling to survive in Brazil....

January 1st, 2003. When Brazil celebrates President Lula′s historic investiture, two middle-class, provincial families gather in an old, poorly maintained house. As they prepare a big party, secrets, hidden desires and frustrations are revealed....

A girl and her experiences with sexuality on the night of a full moon....

Four robbers are stranded in a village credit union after immediately botching a would-be series of bank heists in rural midwest America....

Three metropolitan stories entwine in São Paulo. Would-be actress Marina arrives in the city looking for independence, falls madly in love with Justine, a bisexual rock singer, and is swept up into her wild, edgy lifestyle. Marina shares a flat on Av...

This is the story of Vicente, a successful, married, economist with a nine-year-old son. It also tells the story of Antônio, the same man, living as a hugadores—one of the homeless, trash scavengers who live and work in Brazil’s enormous garbage dump...

A satiric tragi-comedy about two women and their lover Robert who is an emigrant that keeps coming back. This film shows chaotic post-communist Europe after the fall of totalitarianism. Two opposite characters, women, meet during the Velvet Revolutio...

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The story of the decline of the Soares family in the final months of the 19th century. Isabel is the dying mother, and her daughters are Maria and Ana. The three women try hard to forget about their pasts in the coffee farm and face the industrial ti...

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After a big break up Anna decides to move back to her hometown where her brother and sister-in-law still live. While there she develops an unhealthy obsession with the house she grew up, which just so happens to be around the block from her brother's...

Loon is a dystopian horror short that follows Freya, a young woman born to the apocalypse. After being imprisoned in a steel cage by a disgruntled ex soldier, she must fight her bloodthirsty captor, before all hope is lost....

Er Housheng is a blind musician who travels Inner Mongolia with his lover/partner Liu Lanlan performing a saucy, bawdy form of musical duet comedy. Er’s female audiences are particularly enthralled with his combination of sensuality, Rabelaisian eart...

Brie, a pregnant young woman moves to the countryside, to start a new life. She gets more than she bargained for, when doctors, who operate aboard an old warship, rip the baby from her womb. Fuelled by an insatiable desire for revenge, she goes after...