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A touching story of an Italian book seller of Jewish ancestry who lives in his own little fairy tale. His creative and happy life would come to an abrupt halt when his entire family is deported to a concentration camp during World War II. While locked up he tries to convince his son that the whole thing is just a game.
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Cristian Nazario abandoned his family to climb Mount Everest and now returns home with terminal cancer. His homecoming brings to light his troubled family relationship and Brazil’s social situation: he is the fourteenth Brazilian to have climbed Mount Everest, but the first black man among them.
This is the story of Alice Junior, a transgender girl full of life, who wants to give her first kiss, but first, she just wants to be who she really is.
Non-communication can emerge through different ways, whether by conflict, language, or culture. In Giuliano Robert's film it happens through the interference of speech: a hearing mother describes the beginning of a communication process with her deaf son. Based on the mother's experiences, Márcia, the documentary is conducted by her son, Giuliano, in search of a connection with a culture which, through lack of information and access, silences other modes of communication.
How to exist in a sexist and listening structure? Gabriela, Celma and Klicia, three deaf women with different realities, share their struggles and trajectories in the deaf feminist movement.
Stories about Brazilian people's faith and their devotion to popular saints.
There are those who sleep. There are those who don't. Tormented by insomnia, lack of air, incontinence, intestinal gases, rheumatic pains, nocturnal coughing fits, bronchitis, remorse, fright. Sleepless nights, easy victims for backyard demons, invisible from the street. Nobody sees it, but the backyard ghost is there, attentive. Nobody can free themselves of evil!
Solange wants her stuff back. She moved out of town five years ago and now returns to retrieve her belongings, which she left in boxes at friends' homes.
Eight years before Brazilian Sign Language was officially recognized, Flora, a 7-year-old Deaf girl, grows up without linguistic autonomy. Forced to speak Portuguese at home and school, she faces childhood without guidance, affection, voice, or laughter.
In an isolated countryside house founded by an elite, surrounded by slavery memories, a crossdresser retreat is set up. Far from the Brazilian dictatorship of the 70’s, men dress themselves with a glamour and delirious reality. This forged freedom crumbles when the real world infiltrates the house. Crossing the thin line between lies and truths. A fatality is just a matter of time…
A sensory journey that over the course of hours, passes through crises. The constant non-communicability, even so, conceals carnal desire by the two human beings.
Vicente, a 14-year-old boy, sets off through the suburbs of his city to find someone, and then to do his recently deceased father a last and unexpected favor.
Nuca, one of the world’s leading bee specialists, celebrates her birthday surrounded by family traditions. As the family matriarch, time is relentless in its toll on her memory loss. In an attempt to remember, she revisits family photographs, and as the past and present intertwine, secrets begin to surface. At this celebration, it won't just be the photos that are revealed.
Brazil. It's night. Mother and son discover they are not alone during quarantine.
A drama with touches of suspense, where a mother and daughter get lost in a cave.
After the unexpected death of his wife, Diego (75) realizes that his life is also getting close to the end.
In prison, visits are sacred. AntĂ´nio is anxious to see his wife, Vera. However, as he walks towards the visiting yard, his world begins to crumble when he sees Rodrigo, his son, coming out of one of the cells.
