Júlio Calasso Jr.

Filme Demencia

Carlos Reichenbach

Ênio Gonçalves, Emílio Di Biasi

Transposition of the myth of Faust to modern Brazil. The heir to a bankrupt cigarette factory, amidst a personal crisis, leaves everything behind and heads for a supposed paradise he has seen in a tourist agency, where he believes he could find self-knowledge. In his search, he is inspired by a Mephisto-like character.

Saturday

Ugo Giorgetti

Maria Padilha, Otávio Augusto

On a Saturday morning, an advertising crew arrives at a decadent old building downtown São Paulo to shoot a TV commercial. And then everything goes wrong, beginning with a broken elevator

Meu Tio e o Joelho de Porco

Rafael Terpins

Rafael Terpins, Tico Terpins

Rafael embarks on a shabby blue Landau and crosses the city of São Paulo gathering truths and lies about the set of his uncle Tico, the already legendary proto-punk-satirical Knee of Porco.

O Bandido da Luz Vermelha

Rogério Sganzerla

Paulo Villaça, Helena Ignez

Born and raised in the misery of Brazilian slums, Jorge becomes a luxury house burglar in São Paulo and gets nicknamed "The Red Light Bandit" by the sensationalist press. In addition to wearing a red flashlight, he talks to his hostages in an irreverent tone and makes bold breakthroughs to later spend the money extravagantly. His world is the decadent neighbourhood of Boca do Lixo.

Desordem em Progresso

Carlos Reichenbach

Paulo Marrafão, Laurente Caraguá

A short film made for City Life (1990)

Fronteira das Almas

Hermano Penna

Suzana Gonçalves, Joel Barcellos

The story of two brothers who are trying to farm in the Brazilian Amazon.

Longo Caminho da Morte

Júlio Calasso Jr.

Othon Bastos, Dionísio Azevedo

The life and death of Colonel Orestes, a decadent coffee farmer, spanning three generations between despair, hallucinations, and the help of three different wives. The city, the synthesis of modernization, definitively buries the oligarch making buildings on the ground that had previously made the character's prestige.

Eh, Pagu, Eh!

Ivo Branco

Edith Siqueira, Elias Andreato

Aquela Rua Tão Triumpho

Gabriel Carneiro

Walter Portella, Júlio Calasso Jr.

The ghosts of Boca do Lixo. Ido Oliveira still walks through Triumpho St.

A Grande Noitada

Denoy de Oliveira

Sílvia Pompeo, Othon Bastos

Olhos de Vampa

Walter Rogério

Marco Ricca, Washington Luis Gonzales

A beautiful woman is found dead, with a peach in her mouth, a bite in her butt and without blood in the body. When other women are found dead in the same modus-operandi, the police gives the nickname of "Vampa" to serial killer. Detective Leôncio is assigned to investigate the murder together with fetishist photographer Oscar. Without any lead, they decide to follow a sexy and popular night-club dancer on the streets of São Paulo, trying to identify possible suspects.

A Vermelha Luz do Bandido

Pedro Jorge

Seu Jorge, Jean-Claude Bernardet

Experimental documentary short that debates over Rogério Sganzerla's Brazilian cult classic "The Red Light Bandit".

Real Desejo

Augusto Sevá

Chiquinho Brandão, Júlio Calasso Jr.

Em Nome da Segurança Nacional

Renato Tapajós

Adilson Barros, Antônio Fagundes

Avacalha e se Esculhamba

Tiago Sant'Anna, Laís Lifschitz

Júlio Bressane, Helena Ignez

Nayara, A Mulher Gorila

Marta Nassar

Maura Baiocchi , Júlio Calasso Jr.

A sensationalist report is a parallel between a popular and a character in his process of transformation. "Thanks to Coffin Joe, Nayara is now on the left, over your heart, this body does not belong to you."