एडवांस सर्च

To protect herself from a revolt by the workers on her family's farm, a reclusive woman locks herself in her own armored car. Separated by a layer of glass, two universes are about to collide.

Lívia, a 70-year-old retiree, sees her routine of dedication to her granddaughter disrupted when her friend Luci returns to Brazil. Luci's overwhelming personality awakens desires in Lívia that have been suppressed for years.

Brazilian Dream is fruit of reflection on Brazil today. We Brazilians are used to seeing the country as peripheral, subaltern, poor and third-world. But in recent years Brazil has experienced rampant transformation that has reconfigured its archaic social structure. Yet this difficult and paradoxical modernization runs up against problems that seem to be historically determined. In the film we ask: what images can capture this new country? And we chance a few answers, starting with the delirious fable-spinning of a nation drunk on its own progress. These are images and sounds that echo and, at the same time, collide with the grand founding narratives of the national mindset. Through these images we enter into conflict with the messianic vocation of a Brazil eternally pre-destined to be the country of the future. Bodies, machines and landscapes move and shudder. Until the final eclipse.

After years on the run, Joca is back again in town. And, to commemorate, nothing better than a night on the tiles with his good friends Nelsão and Benito. However, the happy occasion turns to a nightmare when Joca is suddenly taken ill. With no money, no transportation or communication, his friends now have to carry him through the deserted town to the closest hospital. A race against the clock is about to begin, with umpteen surprises and enough to shake the firmest of bonds of friendship.

Every morning, Rosário listens to the local police news and pray for the victims and the perpetrators of the reported crimes, until the day she becomes a character in one of these stories.

Tayra and I grew up on a beach in the north east of Brazil. We were inseparable. The sea breeze brings me back happy memories.

Decades after having acquired the right to work in emergency frontlines, thirteen women narrate their stories and experiences in the Pajeú region of Pernambuco, in the 1980s. If the willingness to listen demarcates the spaces for speech, within the encounter between director and characters the film's strength extends beyond the limits of traditional forms, rigorously and empathetically challenging the imaginaries about the semiarid, drought, hunger, and the identities of countryside women.