André, a teenager, lives in an industrial town in Brazil near an old aluminum factory. One day, a factory worker, Cristiano, suffers an accident. Asked to go to Cristiano’s house to pick up clothes and documents, André stumbles on a notebook, and it’s here that Araby begins — or, rather,...
A young architect embarks on an ambitious real state development project in Brasília, convinced that he could actually help transform people’s lives and build a new form of society. But his utopia begins to fall apart when his dreams get in the way of corporate corruption and personal interests.
Four city workers in their daily important relationships. A worker in the field of the Landless Rural Workers Movement. Poetry plucked like weed from the soil of our time.
In an old, dilapidated mansion in downtown São Paulo, an old Shakespearean actor exiled from the stage lives with his ghosts. In his bed, surrounded by red curtains taken from an abandoned theater, he dreams of the plague and fire spreading throughout the country. A strange community forms around...
When the father sacrifices the sick dog of the family, the relationship with the eldest daughter becomes unsustainable. Fearing that he may do the same with the youngest daughter, who is also sick, the sisters come together to try to escape the threat of their father.
Fragments of an endless night, Robert and Teresa meet and get to know each other, and get separate by the force of oppression and the threat of death and disappearance that continually creeps in.
Basketball gave teenager Tamiris the chance to study at a private school. There, she began to divide herself between training and theater classes. For the first time in contact with making art, Tamiris discovers other ways to release the energies of her teenage body, until she is abused during a...
Dispossessed in an essay about the daily bread. In a country like Brasil, of such abyssal social inequality as there is here, it's urgent for me in cinema to talk about the class to which I belong, the class-who-lives-on-labor. And, alongside that, about the labor relations, the survival, the...
It's an end-of-year barbecue at the firm, Bar do Velho Cuba, and what was supposed to be a party is work for the employees. By working, is it possible to get rich? A day of "party" on the outskirts of the Capital.
