Drops de Anis

City of God – 10 Years Later investigates what happened to the actors who took part in the award-winning film directed by Fernando Meirelles and Katia Lund. This documentary shows what City of God’s worldwide success meant to their lives. Were the actors prepared for the film’s success? Did the social background of some of them prove stronger than the opportunity that came their way?

"Portraits and excerpts from Brazilian films from all times. Actors, directors and images that affirm cinema."

On March 1, 1982, the city of Niterói enters history and hosts one of the most important cultural movements: a so-called Rock 80 Generation. Radio Fluminense FM, known as “A Maldita”, goes on the air, mixing irreverence, daring and creativity with its programming aimed at music that lacks commercial space. The boldness of believing in the new made “Maldita” become one of the main alternative communication vehicles, launching Brazilian rock groups and independent music and creating a legion of fans.

In 1970, Brazil was in the throes of a military dictatorship that lasted 20 years. Persecutions, arrests, killings, kidnappings. The film Seventy rejoins 18 characters of this story, forty years later. The film mixes the excitement of revisiting the past with a vision, sometimes even good humored of everything they lived. Many years afterwards they relive their experience of pain, violence and survival, of rebuilding their own story and continuing to believe in the possibility of improving the world.

Based on testimonials from key characters, such as Dona Onete, Manoel Cordeiro, Pio Lobato, among others, in “Terruá Pará”, director Jorane Castro leads us into a deep dive into the diversity of Amazonian music, providing moments of enchantment and emotion.

The daily life of the workers in the areas affected by the Grande Carajás Program, in Pará and Maranhão States (northern Brazil).

Two stories chronicle the days of the bohemian, libertine youth of 1960s Rio de Janeiro.

São Paulo, 1983: Women’s soccer has just been legalized in Brazil. A group of rebellious young women form the Gayvotas Football Club and begin training for their first match. But as the team quickly becomes a media sensation, its members are forced to confront the prejudices of the conservative military dictatorship that they live under.

The end and the beginning of the relationship between Jade and Caio, the first human couple in history to be brought together by an artificial intelligence.

In a circus, the big act is that of the knife thrower, assisted by his wife. The couple takes risks in real life, in a show of great skill and coldness, which respects a blood treaty.

An aspiring actress is hired to dub a recently deceased movie star in an upcoming erotic thriller. As the recording sessions go on, the voice actress finds herself slowly being influenced by the dead star’s presence.

In the favela, two drug dealers decide to meet to settle scores.

Writer and poet Clarice Lispector investigates and develops the old question of what came first, the egg or the chicken.

Moments before turning 90 years of age, Alberto remembers his life, lived in Copacabana, a neighborhood in Rio de Janeiro. The film is a comedy about old age nowadays, with Copacabana as a background.

The research project aimed to elaborate a typology of cities in the Amazon taking into account differentiating variables such as historical origin, riverside cities, frontier cities and by type of economic activity, among other clippings.

An innocent working girl finds a hole in her wall through which she can see the action in her neighboring apartment, where a prostitute meets her bizarre clients.

An electrical storm was created in silence.

A tribute to Pier Paolo Pasolini's centenary. The film tells of his visit to Rio de Janeiro in 1970, returning from Argentina in the company of singer Maria Callas, when he met the young soldier Joaquim.

After fulfilling a congressman's fetish for being zipped into a suitcase, two male scorts plot to rob his house and run through the streets of Rio.

Joana D'Arc, a former public school teacher in Rio de Janeiro, tries to recover her home, lost to the City Hall. The trajectory is shared by the pirate fisherman Pharaó, from Guanabara Bay.

Dé, Adrianim and Martins are three black teenagers from Chatuba, Rio de Janeiro. When Dé receives the news that Almerinda, his grandmother, is in the terminal phase of Alzheimer's disease, he decides to enjoy the last days of her life together with his two best friends.

Francisco is unhappy about his body.

Cecília, a successful young model, returns to Recife, her hometown, to spend Christmas with her mother. One night, a neighbour she hadn’t seen for a long time, João, shows her a bottle with a mysterious and intoxicating green substance. Cecília begins to fall in love with João, but also discovers he is involved in a secret cult around the figure of Salomé, the luxurious biblical princess.

In the year 2040, the city of Recife, Brazil, is deserted and in ruins, abandoned by the wealthy who migrated to space colonies. One young man, bored in his new address, decides to return. In Recife, he redecorates his old house and spends his time reading, walking and getting involved with various men. Gradually, however, he perceives strange signs and discovers the existence of a secret cult.

When I first moved in with friends, it became a habit to have people over all the time.

Three old ladies, Margot, Greta and Isla, sing in burials for money. One day, a corpse disappears, and they become the primary suspects.

Young Deisy (Ana Letícia) dreams of moving to bustling Belém, but instead she lives on Combu Island, across the river, cut off from the city she often admires from afar. Her mother (Dira Paes), aware of her daughter’s longing, wants to help her achieve it — though her husband (Adriano Barroso) is firmly against the idea. Together, mother and daughter hatch a plan to make the dream a reality.

In the South Zone of Rio de Janeiro, far from the favelas, Bento and Carol, part of Rio's upper class youth, involve themselves in drug traffic and robbery. White privilege can only protect them to a certain extent.