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Cinema Novo is a movie-essay that investigates poetically the most important movement of Latin America cinema, through the thoughts of its main auteurs: Nelson Pereira dos Santos, Glauber Rocha, Leon Hirszman, Joaquim Pedro de Andrade, Ruy Guerra, Walter Lima Jr., Paulo César Saraceni, among others.

Is a doc that delves into the work of Carlos Diegues, one of the greatest Brazilian filmmakers of all times, who portrayed the history and the soul of Brazil since 1961.

This class's graduation party is full of events: dating that ends, dating that begins, new passion discovered, secret revealed. The Last Party doesn't feel like the end of a cycle, but the first night of the beginning of their lives.

The universe of the famous Brazilian composer Hermeto Pascoal translated into a visual sound poem. Sounds of nature, instruments made from trash, teacups, horses' hooves, the hubbub of the market: everything is music to him.

The movie is set in Morro do Vidigal, one of Rio de Janeiro's most famous favelas. Rita needs to give her son Léo a party that means a lot to her. Rita discovers that all the money for the event, which she had been saving for months, has been stolen by Dudu, her husband, who has run up a dangerous debt with the locals and needs to pay it off urgently to preserve his life. After this disappointment, Rita, who earns her living working on the beach, has to race against time and the plot unfolds through Rita's search for ways to make Léo's party possible and save the life of her son's father. To do this, she will rely on her network of friends.

Conceição and Presto, an interracial couple, ask Presto's brother for his signature as a guarantor of the financial request supposed to assure them an apartment in Leblon, the whitest neighborhood in Rio de Janeiro. The process proves to be much harder than they had imagined.

Alice, a young music lover, and her best friend Socrates go on a road trip, accompanied by Tinho, a former rocker, to play at the world's largest cover band festival.

A couple faces problems because he can no longer have sex with her. Always feeling pressured due to his lack of desire, he feels increasingly diminished in the relationship.

An Argentine atheist must circumvent rules to fulfill her devoutly religious mother's dying wish.

German symphony conductor Matthias gets timely help before his career-defining performance in Rio.

A refugee escaping war learns how to navigate life, culture and love on the beaches of Rio.

A young Israeli woman has an eye-opening experience while searching for her stolen camera in Rio.

An Angolan writer searches for inspiration in her fight to tear down the walls of prejudice in Rio.

Francisco contemplates his future in Rio as he uses his Carioca methods to resolve his own problem.