BR Trans is a documentary that gives voice to the most marginalized and murdered population in Brazil today: transsexuals. Through the juxtaposition of a play starring Silvero Pereira, real stories and fiction are mixed in search of feelings such as affection and empathy.
Bacurau, a small town in the Brazilian sertão, mourns the loss of its matriarch, Carmelita, who lived to be 94. Days later, its inhabitants notice that their community has vanished from most maps.
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An impoverished teen seeking to escape the clutches of a human trafficker must weigh living up to his moral code against his struggle to survive.
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Nina is an elderly woman who lives alone and feels distressed by the increasing violence in her neighborhood. Amidst conflicts with her neighbors, she decides to film the movement of drug traffickers from her window, hoping to assist the police. After months of recording suspicious activities, her initiative attracts the attention of a journalist, who approaches Nina and offers to support her in her mission.
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To bring down a global human trafficking ring, an Interpol agent recruits the help of a brutal criminal with inside knowledge of the yakuza.
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Augusta, Georgia, United States, June 3, 2017. After running some errands, Reality Winner returns home, where she is approached by two men.
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In future Rio de Janeiro, a young leader of the resistance must enter a deadly parkour-inspired competition in order to save his sister's life.
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A teenager transitions from female to male, and his family must come to terms with that fact.
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A blind man has an operation to regain his sight at the urging of his girlfriend and must deal with the changes to his life.
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In the 1970s, a young transgender woman called “Kitten” leaves her small Irish town for London in search of love, acceptance, and her long-lost mother.
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This intimate drama follows Rebecca, a woman who has kept her sexuality a secret from her friends but chooses to reveal it to a stranger. While Rebecca's revelations may not yield the results she expects, a perfect ending is still in reach.
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In future Rio de Janeiro, a young leader of the resistance must enter a deadly parkour-inspired competition in order to save his sister's life.
Bacurau, a small town in the Brazilian sertão, mourns the loss of its matriarch, Carmelita, who lived to be 94. Days later, its inhabitants notice that their community has vanished from most maps.
Bárbara, 60, fed up with society's expectations of aging women, swears off romance to please her son. But when she falls for 35-year-old Davi, she must choose between the role imposed on her or embracing a passionate new love.
Anitta returns once again for the definitive look of "EQUILIBRIVM", her seventh studio album. On a healing journey through music and religion, we see the singer return to her roots once again.
In one night, Lucas, Luiza and Bia remember the pains and delights of being who they are.
"Cabra-Macho" discusses the stereotype of the Brazilian Northeast as being a highly sexist region, picturing the everyday of transgenders in this environment.
Morena joins her transsexual friends for another night of routine and struggle for survival. But when she comes across a new client, she returns to her past in a violent and harrowing way.
COPA 181 is the first feature film by Brazilian director Dannon Lacerda. It is a 100% independent production that deals with the relationship of a couple that is affected by the events in a gay sauna. Awarded in several festivals in Brazil and in other countries, the director had the premiere of his film at the Rio de Janeiro International Film Festival in October 2017.
A delivery man dreams of having a motorcycle. He was told that everything would be like a musical film.
In a Rio Grande do Sul marked by challenges and prejudice, Maria, a transgender woman, finds herself on a difficult journey: motherhood. Alongside her husband, Dário, she takes on the responsibility of raising their son, Zezim. As she fights to build a dignified life and keep her family together, she faces the weight of racism and discrimination, confronting both social and personal barriers. Her story reveals the transformative power of love, courage, and the struggle for a place in the world.
In 1980, best friends Juliano and Joaquin join the gold rush at Serra Pelada, Bald Mountain, a mountain town near the mighty Amazon river. As the town grows in numbers, it also sees an explosion in violent crime and pollution. Soon the friends' dreams of hitting the jack pot are shattered. Winner of the 2014 Cinema Brazil Grand Prize.
Set to classical Québecois music and filmed in a colourful, cinematic style, Doux temps explores the sharp contrast between, on one hand, the somewhat routine daily lives of four characters and, on the other, the lyrical sweep of words and music that evoke the amorous passions of the ‘sweet days’ of youth.
An infamous serial killer who assaulted and killed several women in the '90s, gets on a collision course with a young journalist eager for the truth and a career-changing article.
Aimée is a millionaire influencer who has all her family's assets blocked, except for a farm in the countryside of Ceará that she inherited from her grandfather. She leaves for the hinterland in an attempt to sell the property, but ashamed of the new reality, she invents that she will take a "sabbatical period" for a year. Thus, she will have to deal with her new life and sustain the lie on social media.
Roberta is an employee of the Civil Police of Rio de Janeiro who infiltrates an energy realignment clinic to investigate the mysterious death of actress Antuérpia Fox. During the course of the investigation, Roberta will have to deal with the dramas of actress Natasha Ferrero, who is being "cancelled" on the internet, and with the reunion of her great love from the past, the federal police officer Rodrigo, who is investigating a suspicion of international trafficking involving the same clinic. For this mission, she will have the support of Isabela, her therapist, with whom, little by little, she forms a great duo.
While dealing on the arousing curiousity of your new neighbohrs. Amelia receives an unusual letter from a foreign country, an invitation to face the profusion of time's mishap.
Antonio Carlos Gomes Belchior Fontenelle Fernandes, or simply Belchior, in a self-portrait that plunges into the wild heart of the poet, singer and composer from Ceará, Brazil who, with his work and his cutting ideas, marked and still marks the lives of so many people.
An imaginary time and place where we can go beyond the present directly to a post-tech future.
The documentary celebrates the poetic legacy of Lupicínio Rodrigues, investigating the musical contribution and historical context of this composer born in Rio Grande do Sul and author of hits that surpass generations.
The film is a monologue performed by the actress and trans singer Valéria Barcellos, who dramatizes a short story by Júlia Dantas. The documentary is inspired by text from the book Zero discriminação: short stories about life stories and the HIV epidemics, organized by professors Daniel Canavese and Maurício Polidoro (IFRS), published in 2021.
