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The loving relationship between a sculptor and a dancer.

Nico leaves a promising acting career in Argentina after a romantic break-up with his married producer. He lands in New York City, lured into believing that his talent will help him succeed "on his own". But that's not what he discovers.

Brazilian teens navigate complex social issues in their daily lives. The film blends real and fictional elements to explore violence, racism, and drug-related challenges faced by students aged 14-19 during their school experiences.

Vera, imprisoned at a military fortress during the dictatorship, 1969, gets to know a soldier, Armando, who, in the face of torture, decides to take messages from Vera to his family and establishes an affective relationship with D. Maria, Vera's mother. Despite the horrors of the time, the film works on this possibility of a dialog between two lonely and lost human beings, a high-middle-class lady and a young southerner of rural origin. Today, Vera, aged 70, is a professor at the university, and debate with her students about politics, forgiveness and Hannah Arendt.

Each citizen of Jotuomba plays an integral role in village life. Madalena is responsible for baking bread; each morning she stacks her rolls as Antonio prepares the coffee. The two share a morning ritual of arguments and insults, followed by an amicable cup of coffee on the bench outside Antonio's shop. At midday the church bells ring, summoning the villagers to mass. In the early evening, they all share a meal together. And so life proceeds in Jotuomba, the days languidly drifting into one another. The only variations seem to be in the weather. One day Rita arrives looking for a place to stay. She came upon the village while traveling through the valley, following the unused railroad tracks. She is a photographer, intent on capturing the village's special allure. Initially reticent, the townsfolk gradually open up to her, sharing their stories and allowing themselves to be photographed. Rita is comfortable with technologies old and new, and Madalena teaches her to knead dough by the light of an oil lamp. Only the village priest continues to find Rita's presence worrisome, especially when she begins asking about the locked cemetery.

The strange friendship between two men of opposite social classes. Miguel is a senator. His childhood friend Jorge is a major drug-dealer. In the 1970s, they meet in prison: Miguel was there for political reasons, and Jorge, as a common criminal.

A Nigerian musician travels to Brazil to find his long lost brother.

Glória is a woman from Rio de Janeiro who tries to move on with her life despite the traumas caused by an abusive father and a drug dealer brother. She starts therapy with Camila, a young Portuguese psychoanalyst.

Fantasies and clichés about Brazil and Brazilians as reinforced by international films, even those actually shot in Brazil. This documentary features interviews with non-Brazilian directors, writers and stars who have been involved in some of those films.

Free adaptation of the tragedy of Romeo and Juliet translated to the harsh life in Favela da Maré, one of largest and most violent slums in Rio de Janeiro.

A group of friends who resisted Brazilian dictatorship face, along with their sons, the conflicts between past and present as one of theirs is passing away.

The true story of the director Lucia Murat's younger brother , Heitor, who is sent to London by his well to do family to avoid the possibility of joining his director/writer sister Ms. Murat in prison for "crimes" against the then fascist Brazilian government in the late 60's. Studying in London, Heitor meets an American girlfriend and an array of fascinating ex pat pals who dabble in pot smoking , music and self indulgent jobless days enjoying and experiencing early 70's London in NottingHill Gate area of London before it became tony. Heitor, the apple of the family's eye and youngest child, is a prolific letter writer but quits school and soon moves from pot to hashish to acid. He leaves London and begins traveling to Afghanistan , India, (wherever the Best and Most drugs were) pen and paper in hand, and becomes more and more addicted to cultures where he can deal and consume drugs experiencing a lonely lifestyle of being high, walking and writing. His letters to his family are the subject of the movie. Heitor, an unusual yet brilliant man, multilingual and extraordinarily handsome with the heart of a poet, starts to lose his grasp of reality and ends up in jail and eventually, a mental institution. His long journey to madness is all evidenced by his letters ,written like an itinerary of downward, disturbing spiral, are saved by various family members, especially by Ms. Murat.

A journalist is placed upon the management of a large broadcasting company to the capital of Brazil at the time of local elections. She must now face ideological and ethical questions, brought back by a left-wing former boyfriend and her own colleagues. At the same time, a free-lancer spy is sent by an obscure figure in politics to manipulate the elections and its media coverage.

Stela, a young Brazilian actress, decides to do a work on the letters exchanged between Latin American visual artists in the 70s and 80s. She travels to Cuba, Mexico, Argentina and Chile in search of her works and testimonies about the reality they lived during the dictatorships that most of these countries faced at the time. Amid the investigation, Stela discovers the existence of Ana, a young Brazilian woman who was part of this world, but disappeared. In 1968, Ana went from the south of Brazil, from a small country town, to the effervescent Buenos Aires, which was experiencing a moment of change in visual arts and behavior. Obsessed with the character, Stela decides to find her and find out what happened to her. The film is loosely inspired by the play There is more future than past.

In 1999 Lucia Murat wrote, produced and directed the feature film "Brave New Land" where the Kadiwéu people - native Brazilian Indians who live in the West of Brazil - were characters. "The Nation That Didn't Wait For God" is a documentary shot in 2013/2014 about this same tribe, by the same director, co-directed by Rodrigo Hinrichsen, the assistant director of "Brave New Land". Throughout these 15 years, electricity has arrived to the reservation and with it so did television, soap operas, etc. Five protestant churches were settled in their village, and all of them have Kadiwéu pastors. But in keeping with their warrior tradition, they have gone back to fighting for their land that the white cattle breeder men have invaded. This documentary shows us the different paths that the Kadiwéu tribe has taken.

A documentary set in Nin Nicaragua during 1978 and 1979 during the fall of Somoza.

A journey between five towns whose former prosperity has waned; a surprise journey into a family history.