Where the River Takes You

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.

In 1951, New York poet Elizabeth Bishop travels to Rio de Janeiro to visit Mary, a college friend. The shy Elizabeth is overwhelmed by Brazilian sensuality. She is the antithesis to Mary’s dashing partner, architect Lota de Macedo Soares. Mary is jealous, but unconventional Lota is determined to have both women at all costs. This eternal triangle plays out against the backdrop of the military coup of 1964. Bishop’s moving poems are at the core of a film which lushly illustrates a crucial phase in the life of this influential Pulitzer prize-winning poet.

An ambitious law student who hates music needs to make a perfect plan to get hired at the office she interns at – until she meets a charming singer who shakes her life. While she's living her first love, she needs to face her own past and decide what's more important: do what she loves or learn to love what she does.

Greice, a Brazilian girl studying in Lisbon, gets involved with a mysterious guy and ends up getting accused of a strange incident that occurs at the students' welcoming party, which forces her to return to her hometown to renew her residence permit. Hidden in a hotel, while preventing her mother from discovering she’s back in the country and with the help of some friends, Greice tries to find a place of comfort in the world.

After becoming involved with his student, a university professor is torn between desire and professional ethics. Determined to safeguard their secret relationship, he puts his personal and professional stability on the line.

Martial artist Mike Terry lives by a strict code of no competitions, for he feels that such contests weaken fighters. After saving a famous action star from a brutal attack, Mike takes a job in the film industry. He soon finds his personal beliefs and integrity on the line as circumstances force him to participate in a prize fight.

After a nervous breakdown, Walter trades the city for the countryside. But his hopes for a calm life are shattered once he meets his loud new neighbors.

The 28-year history of the Olodum Theater Band, Latin America's longest-running black theater company. Created in Salvador in 1990, in partnership with the Olodum Cultural Group, the company was responsible for launching names such as Lázaro Ramos and Érico Brás. Gathering archive images and interviews with Bando members, collaborators and other guests, the group's trajectory is built.

Daniel is a newly graduated lawyer who faces family conflicts due to disagreements with his father's business dealings; his father is a federal congressman. Alongside a friend, the young man becomes involved in a case that dates back to past lives, discovering he is connected to a complex spiritual web.

During Carnival in São Paulo, a young man and young woman who knew each other as children meet again after many years and the social barriers that have kept them apart. Bad decisions lead the boy to hide with the girl inside a whale float.

After leading a failed operation, a policewoman under a death threat leaves São Paulo in search of safety and to reconnect with her daughter, who works as a doctor for a non-governmental organization and was kidnapped in the interior of Pará by illegal gold miners.

Fifty-something Rosa, lying in an MRI scanner, is prompted to summon a happy memory. She plunges into a meandering, subconscious road trip with her indomitable mother, both queer, where wild imagination becomes a tender, unruly form of therapy.

During the Carnival in the historical site of Pelourinho, Salvador da Bahia, we follow the lives of the tenants of a falling-to-pieces tenement house who try to get by using creativity, irony, humor, and music.

After her mother’s death, a trans woman returns home to care for her sick father, who once rejected her. Amid conflicts and silences, their forced coexistence exposes old wounds and tests the limits of affection.

One of the most important events in Brazilian history, the Búzios Revolt of 1798 was led by dozens of black men who rose up to overthrow the colonial government, proclaim independence and establish a democratic Republic, free from slavery. The boldness of these men called on the people to make the Revolution and the conspiracy spread to the city of Bahia. The seizure of power is near. But the movement is denounced, the government sets up a Devassa against hundreds of people and four of them are hanged and quartered.

João, in the presence of a compelling waiter, re-signifies a problematic love from the past.

Júlio was raised only by his mother. Now, at the age of twenty, he discovers that it will be his turn to be a father, and that's why he decides to go after the father he's never seen.

A police officer tries to find out who is to blame for a crime committed against a candidate for mayor of a small town. He hears versions of a hired killer, the victim's fiancée, and the candidate himself.

Based on historical facts, the film portrays the largest slave rebellion in Brazilian history, the Malê Revolt. The uprising mobilized the black population in the streets of Salvador against slavery in 1835. After the failure of the revolt, the protesters were harshly punished and repression against black people in Brazil increased.

Todo o Sentimento follows Henrique, a filmmaker marked by past traumas. In Recôncavo Baiano, his path crosses with Gustavo's, a young man who brings renewal and lightness into his life. This unexpected encounter transforms pain into affection, exploring emotional healing through black and peripheral relationships.

A group of residents of a village called Cadinha react differently to a shootout while listening to news on a community radio.