Rubens Mello

When a doctor decides to carry out an AIDS prevention program inside Latin America’s largest prison: the Casa de Detenção de São Paulo - Carandiru, he meets the future victims of one of the darkest days in Brazilian History when the State of São Paulo’s Military Police, with the excuse for law enforcement, shot to death 111 people. Based on real facts and on the book written by Dráuzio Varella.

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Released from the Mental Health Wing of São Paulo State Penitentiary after forty years, the sadistic undertaker Zé do Caixão is back on the streets, haunted by ghostly visions and spirits of past victims but still set upon the goal that sent him to prison in the first place: finding a woman who can give him the perfect child.

Fitas Proibidas is a horror anthology that immerses the viewer in a series of macabre and supernatural stories, all revealed by Yraíra, an enigmatic entity that inhabits an old video store. Each tape unearths narratives of demons, ghosts, possessions and vampires, creating a panorama of horror and mystery. As Yraíra unravels these tapes, it not only gives goosebumps, but also offers dark moral lessons, reflecting on the fears and shadows that reside within us all.

A 12 year old boy dreams of becoming a goalkeeper for the national Brazilian soccer team, but first he has to overcome his own fears to convince his team boys club and his father who is against competition.

A countdown begins as dark sands of an hourglass fall. Two men in separate, dimly lit rooms are haunted by disturbing visions. A mysterious creature will soon join them.

Justine, is a famous TV commercial actress raised by adoptive parents. She is invited to meet her biological family at a party that celebrates her blood parents' successful business: a butcher shop. Thus, the plot unfolds with a series of bizarre and sinister events surrounding these new familiars and the secret of their success.

Documentary about the production of independent horror films in Brazil, made by third-year students of the Senac audiovisual course in 2008.

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A boy goes to his girlfriend's home and is handcuffed on bed before discovering some strange food habits from her family.

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Felipe is a boy with a double life, whose relationship with an older woman does not have the approval of his mother, a bitter woman. With the arrival of a band of gypsies, a secret will come to light bringing an irreversible outcome.

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Based on true research about an environmental problem recurring in cemeteries, emerged NECROCHORUME. A short film that carries the name of the liquid from the decomposition of bodies, which began to mix up to water for human consumption.

The young woman loses her folklorist parents in an accident in Brasília. Against her husband's wishes, she decides to maintain the "Casa dos Cordéis," a cultural legacy and family heritage. As time passes, Lucila finds herself embroiled in a macabre and supernatural plot, where life and death intertwine.

The crimes on Rua do Arvoredo is a true episode, which occurred between 1863 and 1864, in the city of Porto Alegre, capital of the Brazilian state of Rio Grande do Sul. The unusual practice of crimes was done in the following way: the accused attracted victims to kill them and disposed of body parts by producing human meat sausages to be sold in a butcher shop in the city.

Once again, 23 Brazilian filmmakers come together for the second Tropical SOV anthology, now exploring sci-fi in humorous stories involving aliens and their space invasions, mad scientists, time travel, dystopias, and a myriad of end-of-the-world scenarios.