
In Brazil in 1977, Marcelo, a technology specialist fleeing a mysterious past, returns to Recife in search of peace, but realizes the city is far from the refuge he seeks.

Summer 1996, north-east coast of Brazil. Tamara is enjoying her last weeks at the fishing village she lives in before departing to Brasilia for her studies. One day, she hears about a teenager nicknamed Heartless after a scar she has on her chest. Over the course of the summer, Tamara feels a growing attraction for this mysterious girl.

Léo goes on vacation at his cousin's, in a fishing village. There, he meets a girl who goes by the nickname Heartless.

Seventy critics and filmmakers discuss cinema around the conflict between the artist and the observer, the creator and the critic. Between 1998 and 2007, Kléber Mendonça Filho recorded testimonies about this relationship in Brazil, the United States and Europe, based on his experience as a critic.

A couple on a trip.

The sequence of graduation of law graduates in Seu Cavalcanti helps to understand the Sergio Moro phenomenon in Brazil.

An independent private security firm arrives at a middle-class neighborhood in Recife, Brazil.

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.

A middle-class family living in a house filled with superfluous electronic appliances see the arrival of a new item, a 29" TV-set.

A photographer travels to São Paulo for his first solo exhibition and decides to stay in his now married, ex-girlfriend’s house.

Clara, a vibrant former music critic and widow with flowing tresses is the only remaining apartment owner in a beautiful older building targeted for demolition by ruthless luxury high-rise developers. Clara proves to be a force to be reckoned with as she thwarts the builders plans to kick her out of the apartment.

A mother gives her daughter a box full of old, coloured little vinyl records. The daughter may listen to them, but she should never, ever, play the green one.

A coastal city in Brazil. Kai arrives from Taiwan for holidays with a broken heart. A broken air conditioner sends her into Fu Ang’s umbrella store. He could become a friend, but the rainy season doesn't arrive and his shop disappears. While looking for Fu Ang, Kai discovers the story of Xiaoxin and a group of Chinese workers in a posh skyscraper. Kai finds herself strangely mirrored in Xiaoxin’s tale.

Recife, undergoing so many changes, was the scene of a party of joy and tension, sports and politics. A happy experience, but full of the contradictions that make Brazil be Brazil and here wins the face and the space of Recife.
The life of Reno, an artist who lives and works in an old building in the Recife neighborhood that is rapidly transforming. His inspiration and tools have been found in the beautiful Capibaribe River which is filled with pollution and death.

Middle class man surrounded by fear and paranoia become prisoner of his own world.


Short documentary about Cine Art Palácio in Recife-PE, Brazil.

The urban legend of 'cotton girl'. The dead girl appeared in the bathrooms of schools to terrorize children.
Aline and Diogo, a married couple of doctors are going through a turbulent divorce process. Diogo learns that his brother has been murdered as a result of a generations-old feud between two rival families. The incident draws the couple closer together, and they set out on a trip to Diogo’s birthplace in the arid hinterlands of Pernambuco.