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The story of two country folk, Josué and Rosa, and how they meet to become one of the most famous cangaceiro couples of all time.
Anita Malfatti goes through a deep desolation after the critic "Paranoia ou Mystification" by Monteiro Lobato to his famous 1917 exhibition, which highlights the beginning of the modernist movement in Brazil. Anita struggles to overcome the biggest disappointment of her life, her best friend Mário de Andrade tries to help her overcome what happened, with time Mário resorts to Oswald de Andrade and the two try to convince Anita to participate in the Modern Art Week of 1922.
Ane spends her afternoons playing around the forest with her cousins until she encounters Anhangá, an indigenous spirit that surrounds her community. But when she goes deeper into the forest, Ane is faced with a real haunting.
A film like a monument: Luz nos Trópicos is a tribute to the rich greens of the Amazon and the forests of New England in winter, celebrating the indigenous peoples of continental America and flowing as a film as freely as a winding river.
In search of a new life, Anderson has left his Tikuna community in the Amazon forest for the bustling metropolis of Manaus. There he lives on the outskirts of the city with his sister and her sick child in a barren single room, and supports them through working various jobs. The environment is far from welcoming, but Anderson is driven by a burgeoning awareness of his two-spirited sexuality, which he feels can only be realized in the anonymity of the city. Anderson finds himself in limbo, questioning and rejecting certain tribal rituals, even as he fiercely defends his community and seeks to find peace with his identity.
Jonathas lives with his parents and his brother, Juliano, in a cottage in a rural area of the Amazon. The family harvests and sells local products at a roadside fruit stand, a place of contact with new friends and novelties from the rest of the world. They meet Milly, a visitor from Ukraine, and the native Kedassere. The group decides to spend the weekend at a campground in the jungle. Against his father's wishes, Jonathas will embark on this adventure. Seduced by Milly and the forest, he undertakes his most transforming journey.
An indigenous young group take part in a ritual with alcohol and another substances that push them to suicide, asthe only way to get out from a social reality without perspectives.
