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After a man dies under mysterious circumstances, his girlfriend and his gay lover deal with his death in different ways.
Leandro is a young man frustrated by his job. His master’s thesis is on the military dictatorship in Brazil. That takes him into a search for recently deceased artist Jairo Mendes’ controversial film The Beheading Game, which was censored by Brazilian censors in 1973.
Valter's life turns upside-down when a gang of smalltime criminals move in next door. Valter's wife Iara wants something to be done about their new neighbors whos nigthtly activities does not allow them to sleep. Valter just wants to be left alone.
A lonely woman enters a bus and gets closely observed by all the passengers in a strange and intriguing manner. She doesn't understand anything about those stares and doesn't know how to react to them. What could possibly be wrong with her?
Filmed over a five-year period, Chronically Unfeasible dissects Brazilian problems, using six people who meet in a restaurant in São Paulo as models to illustrate political, sociological and economic disparities between Brazil's upper and lower classes.
Free adaptation of Machado de Assis's short story "Pai Contra Mãe", having some of Nireu Cavalcanti's 18th Century chronicles as inspiration, the film traces parallels between life in during the slavery period and in modern Brazil.
The extermination of the last indigenous from the reserve of Mangueirinha, at the southeastern of Paraná, with the connivance from those who should protect them. With a biting irony, those questions develop with a structure of a multiple choice test.
Theater director asks his actors for a research on human cruelty and misery in Brazil, while trying to raise funds for his next production, a play based on a story by Machado de Assis, "A Causa Secreta" (The Secret Cause). The troupe oblige and go around town witnessing long lines in National Health Services, inhuman conditions in public hospitals and poor people being constantly humiliated. They find people are becoming indifferent to human suffering.
A young man is feeling sick inside his house, which is also home to several rabbits. Based on short stories from Julio Cortazar's Bestiario.