Rafaela Camelo makes her feature debut with “The Nature of Invisible Things”, finding in the parallels between two girls and two mothers a way to speak about what can’t be seen. Starring Laura Brandão, Serena and Camila Márdila, the film shows that traditions can sustain change.
THE NATURE OF INVISIBLE THINGS | 2025 Read More »
Eliza Capai follows girls from Guaribas, in Brazil’s Piauí state, in “The Fabulous Time Machine”, a documentary about childhood, play and memory.
THE FABULOUS TIME MACHINE | 2026 Read More »
Director, screenwriter and storyboard artist Marília Mafé discusses Tibungo, her first animated feature: childhood fears, visual references and the challenge of making adult horror animation in Brazil.
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Tuca Siqueira discusses the decade-long process behind BuenosAires, and the balance between reality and fabulation in small-town Pernambuco, Brazil.
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Caco Ciocler uses the “truck patriot” meme to explore Brazilian political polarization in “Eu Não Te Ouço,” starring Márcio Vito.
EU NÃO TE OUÇO | 2026 Read More »
Bruno Bini expands his short “Three Kinds of Fear” into a feature that interweaves five storylines about violence, grief, and fear on the outskirts of Cuiabá.
FIVE KINDS OF FEAR | 2026 Read More »
Leon Hirszman adapts Gianfrancesco Guarnieri’s play into a family drama about solidarity and class struggle against the backdrop of the ABC Paulista strikes.
THEY DON’T WEAR BLACK TIE | 1981 Read More »
In this interview, Zezé Motta shares her experience playing Francisca da Silva de Oliveira in “Xica da Silva” (1976), revealing how she built one of Brazilian cinema’s most iconic characters through physicality, moral contradictions, and the balance between satire and human truth.
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Aly Muritiba skillfully adapts Daniel Galera’s novel in “Drenched in Blood.” A dense atmosphere built around theatrical long takes serves as the backdrop for a disturbing examination of masculinity, with Gabriel Leone and Thainá Duarte
DRENCHED IN BLOOD | 2026 Read More »
Released in 1965, Luiz Sérgio Person’s film remains one of the most precise portraits ever made of São Paulo — and of the kind of ambition the city produces.
SÃO PAULO, INCORPORATED | 1965 Read More »
