A pawn shop proprietor buys used goods from desperate locals – as much to play perverse power games as for his own livelihood, but when the...

In un quartiere di Recife il problema principale degli abitanti è quello della sicurezza, che pare ossessionare ogni persona e ogni nucleo...

In Northeastern Brazil, twelve-year-old Maria is sold to have a better life as a housemaid. However, Maria is resold and sent to a brothel in the...

When they discover their town lacks funding for a sewage system, but does have a federal grant to make a movie, a group of villagers decide to make a...

Afro-Brazilian poet and politician, the legendary Carlos Marighella. Driven to fight against the erosion of civil and human rights following the...

For forty years, the public functionary and family man Lineu and his beloved wife Nenê celebrate their first date going to the same ball where...

La storia dell’intellettuale ebreo polacco Herman Broder che, scampato ai nazisti, vive a New York con la moglie Yadwiga, la contadina che...

Paulinho Gogó narrates his stories on a park bench for different listeners, while waiting for the arrival of his beloved Nega Juju.

Veronica, a young woman, lives in Recife, one of the most violent cities in Brazil. Her life is filled with fleeting love affairs and passing...

Una giornata "di lavoro" per alcune prostitute che ricevono in una casa attrezzata per lo scopo. Si può conservare un'anima solo separando...