João Menna Barreto

The series follows the story of the disappearance of a boy in Paraná state (Brazil) and the investigation of the case.

A digital influencer takes her obsession with her own image to its ultimate consequences, becoming a serial killer beyond suspicion.

Tati and Renet were already trading pics, videos and music by their cellphones and on the last school trip they started making eye contact. However, what could be the beginning of a love story becomes the end.

After his wife's death, Fernando becomes a quiet and introspective man who raises his son, Daniel by himself. Every night, while the boy is sleeping, Fernando "revives" his wife by touching her clothes and organizing her personal belongings. Paulo does not get along well with his mother-in-law, who judges him unprepared to raise the boy without help. Lonely, Paulo has to resist the advances of his recently divorced sister-in-law.

The Ball rolls freely and while the RAP echoes from the speakers, four friends roam the dance floor with very different goals. What they don't know is that their fates will be sealed forever after this night.

Western book writer, Eugenio is going through a difficult phase. He is famous for the novels starring the Jesus Kid, but his sales have been going from bad to worse for some time. The light at the end of the tunnel seems to be a film director's invitation: he wants Eugenio to write a film script. However, to write this script, Eugênio must spend three months isolated in a luxury hotel, without being able to go out or have contact with the world he knows. Based on this premise, Mutarelli builds a scathing critique of the publishing market and the film market — where he has been circulating for years. Bringing to Eugênio much of his own personality, the author shows how the commercial part of culture can be perverse to those who work in it.

This is an exiting night in the life of Nelson and Lucas. They are preparing to march to the government hall. Nelson is a elite squad police officer. Lucas, his brother, prepares posters and Molotov cocktail to ignite the crowds.

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For seven years Aly Muritiba worked in a prison in Brazil. There, he was part of the Alpha team. After studying film and making some shorts, Aly returns to his old job to be reunited with his former colleagues and make a film about the Alpha Team. The Team consists of 28 people, men and women of different origins and backgrounds, that work as caretakers and custodians for over a thousand criminals in a Brazilian prison. Walkiu becomes the leader of the team and hopes to do a good job. But as time goes by he realizes that his hands are tied.

In the prison yard, the prisoners play football, dance “capoeira” and talk about freedom.

In 2011, I visited Mrs. Deni Prata Jardim, the last representative of the Casa das Minas (House of Minas) in Northern Brazil. Among other things, Deni told me the story of the foundation of the house, during the slavery period. Among the slaves, there was a priestess from Dahomey, where she used to be a queen, and worshiped African voodoos. Lacking authorization to practice their worship, the slaves hid in a shed, which has become over the years the House of Minas.

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The widower João declares his loneliness on a radio program and meets Maria, a recently separated woman who yearns for a new life together.

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In a small town in southern Brazil, Lidia spends his days watching others working around you and at night dreaming of times past in the cultivation of tobacco, when I could still walk. Along with the rescue of its history, we know the lives of four other tobacco growers. Guided by tradition, mysticism or pure pragmatism, they live on the fine line between the fight and the love of the land.

Curitiba, 2011.

In a documentary recorded on his computer screen, the Brazilian Antonio Urban revisits, through Google Earth, the steps of his Polish ancestors in Amsterdam, Holland, en route to Brazil.

Camila broke up with her boyfriend recently. She's been going out and spending time with her girlfriends and her dog.