brazilian movies: a beginner's guide

In a life full of surprises, Bia and Victor''s friendship is a safe place.

Leonardo is a blind teenager dealing with an overprotective mother while trying to live a more independent life. To the disappointment of his best friend, Giovana, he plans to go on an exchange program abroad. When Gabriel, a new student in town, arrives at their classroom, new feelings blossom in Leonardo making him question his plans.

After leaving her daughter Jessica in a small town in Pernambuco to be raised by relatives, Val spends the next 13 years working as a nanny to Fabinho in São Paulo. She has financial stability but has to live with the guilt of having not raised Jessica herself. As Fabinho’s university entrance exams approach, Jessica reappears in her life and seems to want to give her mother a second chance. However, Jessica has not been raised to be a servant and her very existence will turn Val’s routine on its head. With precision and humour, the subtle and powerful forces that keep rigid class structures in place and how the youth may just be the ones to shake it all up.

Clara mora de frente para o mar no Aquarius, último prédio de estilo antigo da Av. Boa Viagem, no Recife. Jornalista aposentada e escritora, viúva com três filhos adultos e dona de um aconchegante apartamento repleto de discos e livros, ela irá enfrentar as investidas de uma construtora que tem outros planos para aquele terreno: demolir o Aquarius e dar lugar a um novo empreendimento.

Rosa is in her late 30s, a child of the 1970s with divorced parents. She lives with her own family in São Paulo. Overwhelmed by an eruption of individual passions, lies and the expectations of three generations, she tries to discover who she really is.

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.

Dono de uma voz inconfundível e de performances memoráveis, Ney Matogrosso morava com os pais e irmãos na pequena cidade de Bela Vista (MS). Os embates com o pai, que insistia que o menino “virasse homem”, levaram Ney a se afastar da família, antes de enveredar para a vida artística. Anos depois de sair de casa, em São Paulo, estreou como vocalista dos Secos e Molhados, dando início às performances históricas que o definiram como um dos maiores artistas brasileiros da atualidade.

In the name of economic recovery, the Brazilian Government created a perennial system of compulsory vertical isolation for seniors over 80 to be confined in a colony. Teca is 77 and lives in the village of Muriti, in the Amazon, when she is surprised by the announcement of the age reduction, including her age group. Cornered, Teca makes an intriguing journey hidden from the officers amidst rivers, boats and the underworld to clandestinely try to fulfill her last dream, to take a plane ride.

Brasil, 1977. Em plena Ditadura Militar, Marcelo é um especialista em tecnologia que foge de um passado misterioso e volta ao Recife em busca de paz. Ele logo percebe que a cidade está longe de ser o refúgio que procura.

In 1971, military dictatorship in Brazil reaches its height. The Paiva family — Rubens, Eunice, and their five children — live in a beachside house in Rio, open to all their friends. One day, Rubens is taken for questioning and does not return.

An emotional journey of a former school teacher, who writes letters for illiterate people, and a young boy, whose mother has just died, as they search for the father he never knew.

Buscapé é um jovem morador da Cidade de Deus que cresce em meio à violência. Com medo de se tornar um bandido, enxerga na fotografia uma oportunidade de ter uma vida digna.