Nina de Pádua

Já que Ninguém me Tira Para Dançar

Ana Maria Magalhães

Louise Cardoso, Lídia Brondi

Conducted from interviews with personalities who lived with Leila Diniz (1945-1972), the documentary is a record of an era and, above all, it rescues the participation in Brazilian culture of the actress who opened the way for the sexual revolution during the dark years of the dictatorship.

It's Not All True

Rogério Sganzerla

Arrigo Barnabé, Grande Otelo

Orson Welles goes to Brazil to shoot his documentary It's All True.

A Farra do Circo

Pedro Bronz, Roberto Berliner

Regina Casé, Caetano Veloso

This documentary highlights the evolution of Brazil's Circo Voador venue from homespun artists' performance space to national cultural institution.

Eternamente Pagu

Norma Bengell

Carla Camurati, Antônio Fagundes

Eternamente Pagu is a biographical film about Patrícia Galvão, best known as Pagu, a Brazilian political, literary and artistic activist. An important figure of the Brazilian Modernism, Pagu was also a militant for the Brazilian Communist Party after she married writer Oswald de Andrade. She broke up with Andrade and, as a journalist was arrested by the Dictatorship of Getúlio Vargas. After she left prison, she abandoned Communism in favor of Trotskyist Socialism, married Geraldo Ferraz, and started a career as theatre director.

Me Beija

Werner Schünemann

Marcos Breda, Nina de Pádua

Noite

Gilberto Loureiro

Cristina Aché, Otávio Augusto

Night falls when, in an elegant neighborhood of Porto Alegre, a socialite is brutally murdered. The entire police department act immediately to identify and arrest the killer. A man in his 30s wanders down a large avenue. He wears fine clothes, he walks elegantly. His broken watch reads 18:47. The man searches his pockets for documents he cannot find. Neither he can recognize himself in the objects he carries: a wallet full of bills, a theater entrance ticket, a bloodstained handkerchief. Crossing pedestrians for whom that night will be like any other, he seeks to recover his memory and identity.

Menino do Rio

Antônio Calmon

André de Biase, Cláudia Magno

Romantic adventures of a group of Rio de Janeiro teenagers and surfers.

Observatório

Pompeu Aguiar

Nina de Pádua, Eduardo Machado

Post-modernity spaces brings out more violence from wars and love relationships. A young couple and the post-apocalyptic atmosphere of the Cold War.

Engraçadinha

Haroldo Marinho Barbosa

Lucélia Santos, Luiz Fernando Guimarães

After the funeral of her father Arnaldo, who committed suicide, Engraçadinha confesses to the priest the motives. On the engagement party of her cousin Sílvio with Letícia, Engraçadinha seduces him in the library, and later she ends her engagement with Zózimo and lies to Letícia, telling that she is pregnant. Letícia decides to tell Arnaldo what happened, and he says that the child can not be born. He exposes dirty secrets to Engraçadinha, and a tragedy is announced.

O Segredo da Múmia

Ivan Cardoso

Wilson Grey, Anselmo Vasconcelos

Laughed at when he announced the discovery of the elixer of life, Brazilian scientist Expedito Vitus ends up making the most important archaeological discovery of the century: the tomb of Runamb, the Mummy, in the sands of Egypt. Back in Brazil, he brings the Mummy back to life.

Verão

Wilson Barros

Nina de Pádua, Nilson Villas-Boas

In a beach house, snapshots of a couple's relationship are interspersed with flashbacks to a political past that still threatens their lives.