Frederico Machado

An existential western about the pain of a family and the silence of a country.

Maria spends a lonely afternoon at home, cooking and eating. With each new sensation, she revisits the memories of her French lover, who recounts the last moments of their relationship.

The film tells the trajectory of a peasant, spiritist, socialist and vegetarian leader during the first half of the 20th century.

Spirits in limbo dialogue about birth, life and death. On the beach, a woman suffers. From a metaphysical point of view, death is an unproven fact. Often, not being born is better than dying.

Narrates in existential drama tones the story of a man searching for his lost time, traveling across the roads of Brazil’s countryside, making his way back to his homeland.

A man from the countryside lives only with his three daughters. Away from everything and everyone, they face the drama and despair of their own lives.

The Orbits of Water (Water Version) is a fable about a family waiting for a return of a son and a brother. A revenge story with contours of tragedy and fantasy. This film version is a special cut for film festivals only.

A political film about horror and solitude.

Greg (Jorge Caetano) is a screenwriter hired to write a script about Maria Guaranis, a radical-style artist who has gone missing. As the author produces the script, he ends up identifying with Maria and getting lost in the creation process.

Punga is a hybrid project about the resistance of popular culture in the fictional region of Guajuru. Surrealist and expertimental work that shows what the foreigner and the overwhelming power of capitalism can do with a country that still has originality and dignity. Political and social work about a distant and untouched place.

The Surgeon of Lazarus tells the symbolic story of a fisherman from a fishing village who becomes corrupt due to power and money, leading his village to misery, death and destruction. A mythical work about resurrection, loneliness and death.

Last ride of an old beggar woman around the old São Luís city revealing the helplessness of both under the sign of an unjust time.

The Orbits of Water (Solid Version) is a fable about a family waiting for a return of a son and a brother. A revenge story with contours of tragedy and fantasy. This film version is a special cut for movie theatres only.

A slum boy's wake and his father's efforts to give him a last moment of dignity.

Let's kill all the power!

In an attempt to escape from a writer’s block, acclaimed novelist Max Madureira moves to a house near a small, isolated and awkward village. It doesn’t take long for the ideas to come out, but not quite the way he expected: as the writer feels like he’s been living among stories — and not people —, he comes across the mysterious emergence of typed pages in his desk, supposedly written by the previous resident of the house. That’s enough to make Max doubt about his creativity, his sanity and even his own existence.

A truck driver travels the roads as if going through his memories.

An albino boy named Sanã lives on the island of Lençóis, an untouched paradise in northeastern Maranhão state. Surrounded by dunes, he is mimicked in a very white landscape, under a scalding sun from which he cannot escape. In this microcosm ruled by wind and the tides, Sanã builds his own private world.

Punga is a hybrid film and series project about the resistance of popular culture in the fictional region of Guajuru. Surrealist and expertimental work that shows what the foreigner and the overwhelming power of capitalism can do with a country that still has originality and dignity. Political and social work about a distant and untouched place.

An elderly couple lives in an abandoned farm. Every night they receive a visit from a young man who comes join them. The past comes to light when the memories of the couple seems to arise from dreams and nightmares.