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Series
Film Movement volume 2, film 4
Language
Portuguese
Description
Based on a true story. A man and his family on a journey 2000 miles across the hinterlands of Brazil on bicycle in search for a good life.
Series
Film Movement series. Volume II volume film 6
Language
Portuguese
Description
Maiquel lost a bet and had to dye his hair blonde. This triggers a head-on collision with destiny in which Maiquel goes from nobody to hero to outlaw-- all in 24 hours.
Series
Film Movement volume year 8, film 5
Language
Portuguese
Description
Only when I dance: Two teenagers from Rio de Janeiro pursue the dream of becoming professional ballet dancers.
Lil' A: 12-year-old Lil' A found dance to be the perfect antidote for the severe tics he suffered because of a nervous disorder. Now the tics have subsided and he has decided to become the best dancer and choregrapher in the whole world.
Series
Film Movement volume year 10, film 6
Language
Portuguese
Description
Found memories: "Like every morning, Madalena makes bread for Antonio's old coffee shop. Like every day, she crosses the railways where no trains have passed for years; she cleans up the gate of the locked cemetery, and listens to the priest's sermon before sharing lunch with the other old villagers. Clinging to the image of her dead husband and living in her memories, Madalena is awakened by the arrival of Rita, a young photographer who is arriving...
Series
Language
Portuguese
Description
In this audacious debut feature, Joao Paulo Miranda Maria conjures a surreal image of the racial and social rifts in modern day Brazil. Cristovam, an Indigenous Black man from the rural North, moves to an industrialized Southern town populated by the descendants of Austrian ex-pats to work in a milk factory. Immediately confronted with their virulent racism, he becomes more and more estranged from the white world. Upon discovering an abandoned house...