Known for Acting
Justine, is a famous TV commercial actress raised by adoptive parents. She is invited to meet her biological family at a party that celebrates her blood parents' successful business: a butcher shop. Thus, the plot unfolds with a series of bizarre and sinister events surrounding these new familiars and the secret of their success.
Ana, Lucas and Gabi are lonely young people who live in São Paulo's city center and find themselves out of place in the real world.
Through a historical-affective reconstruction of the Boca do Lixo region, in São Paulo, the documentary aims to investigate what was the cultural, social and geographic impact that the cinema made there had for the city and for the country during the from the 1960s to the 1980s.
Ivan Cardoso is the inventor of the terrir, a subgenre that mixes comedy, Brazilian chanchadas and classic American horror. This film promotes a rescue of his work by mixing archival material, animations and fictional reconstructions.
Marked by losses and mismatches, José's eccentric family seek to be happy while locked in Paraíso Perdido, a nightclub that has stopped in time, where they sing popular romantic music.
The ghosts of Boca do Lixo. Ido Oliveira still walks through Triumpho St.
Zilda has had to put up with too much crap and she ain't taking it anymore.
Cassandra Rios was a writer who caused controversy in the 1970s. In the middle of the Military Dictatorship, she addressed homosexuality in her works, being persecuted under allegations of pornography. With testimonials from friends, family, readers, and colleagues, a tribute to a pioneering artist who showed the woman as a sexual being and still opened space for the discussion of a topic considered taboo.
A documentary on Boca do Lixo, a dowtown São Paulo square that became a tentpole for film distribution on the early 20th century, becoming, from the 1960s on, a production district for popular eroctic films and for avant-garde directors.
