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Short stories revolving around a bar and a hotel in Recife, unveil a mosaic of exotic characters living in the Brazilian underground.

Zizo (Irandhir Santos) é um poeta inconformado e anarquista, que banca a publicação de seu tablóide. Em seu mundo próprio, onde o sexo é algo tão corriqueiro quanto fumar maconha, ele conhece Eneida (Nanda Costa). Zizo logo sente um forte desejo por Eneida, mas, apesar de seus constantes pedidos, ela se recusa a ter relações sexuais com ele. Isto transtorna a vida do poeta, que passa a sentir falta de algo que jamais teve.

João do Santo Cristo leaves his hometown and moves to Brasília in search of a better life. There, he encounters misery and crime, but also discovers love in the arms of Maria Lúcia.

Áurea is a sentimental older woman, who befriends teenager Áureo. They like each other, so she talks to him about herself, her spirituality, mysticism and existence itself. They become inseparable, so his jealous mother confronts her.

Dona Flor marries Vadinho, who is very handsome and passionate, but does not offer him much. She supports the family by cooking for her neighbors, but the husband bets most of the money. Vadinho dies suddenly and Dona Flor begins to miss the wedding. She marries the doctor Teodoro Madureira, but he is the opposite of Vadinho. While Dona Flor is married to Theodore, the ghost of her late husband appears.

En 1964, après la fin d'une passion et le renvoi de sa femme de ménage, G.H., une sculptrice de Rio de Janeiro, décide de faire le ménage dans son appartement.

The quiet life of the small town Piedade's inhabitants is shaken up by the arrival of a big oil company, which barges in taking over houses and local businesses, throwing everyone out, to better reach and use the area's natural resources.

Alors que le Brésil célèbre l'investiture du président Lula, deux familles de la classe moyenne du Rio Grande do Sul se retrouvent dans une vieille maison mal entretenue, autour d'un barbecue, de secrets de famille et de frustrations.

Au cours de trois étés, la concierge d'une copropriété de luxe utilise son ingéniosité pour profiter de tout les opportunités qui se présentent à elle alors que ses employeurs sont plongés dans un scandale lié à la corruption.

The names of the characters are pronouns. She is a teacher, with his father dead just three days ago. Faced with this situation, He intends to take care of her while He is alive. This is the beginning of an odd relationship.

A group of playboys organize the last party of the year in a slum before the change in weather.

An actor and a screenwriter meet at a short film festival and struggle to keep up their affair as films, festivals and other partners hamper their burgeoning romance.

Lost in a beach house, Rodrigo searches in his memory for the romance he lived with a woman in the previous night, and tries to find her again. With actors Anna Cotrim, Marcelo Olinto and Patrícia Niedermier. Writen and directed by Marcello Ludwig Maia.

The History of Eternity is a synesthetic essay about love, desires and dreams. The entire narrative takes place in the same village with approximately 40 inhabitants in a desert landscape, a geographical point in northeastern Brazil with specific references in relation to time and space. A secluded place where everything happens at a measured pace, inspiring extremely visceral moments within the cycle that repeats itself eternally on the stage of human tragedy.

Speaking on the telephone with the Hungarian Consulate, the filmmaker asks: "Does someone whose grandfather is Hungarian have the right to obtain a Hungarian passport?" The question apparently sounds strange. "Yes - It's possible... But, why do you want a Hungarian passport?" The filmmaker asks for the list of necessary documents, but the officer woman still doesn't understand why she wants to become Hungarian. The idea took place on her mind: she is going to ask for the Hungarian nationality. She didn't say a word to anyone but she wouldn't give it up. The administrative process - the request for a passport - is the guiding line of the film. And the filmmaker faces essential questions: what is nationality? What's the use of a passport? What is our heritage? How do we construct our own history and identity?

Two Brazilian immigrants in New York become determined to seek revenge after a family member's murder goes unpunished.

"Lama" tells the story of Paula, a survivor of Mariana's Dam Disaster who helped hundreds of people to run away from their village, Bento Rodrigues. Paula and her son, João Pedro, become refugees in Mariana, where they try to start a new life after seeing their home destroyed by the mud. Paula, however, has to face the hostility from the locals, who resent the refugees and ask for the return of the mining company responsible for the environmental crime. Until fate puts her, once again, on the run.

Documentary on naïve Brazilian artist Moacir. Facing many problems, such as impaired hearing and speaking, abnormal bone formation and poverty, black artist Moacir lives in the National Park of Chapada dos Veadeiros, aloof and oblivious of outside world, and was discovered by director Walter Carvalho in the 1980s. He spends his days drawing marvellous works with his crayons, depicting human and fantastic beings, fauna, flora, his own inner visions, mystical themes and sex, with a trace of impressive primitivism and beauty. The film registers his daily life, and another Brazilian artist, Siron Franco, paying him a visit.

Bipolar Show is not an interview show. Michel Melamed's project at Canal Brasil is the first performance series in Brazilian television, mixing reality and fiction in conversations and improvisations between the host and his guests, using two different settings and all types of mood, going from high spirits and fellowship to provocation and sadness. An original number with the newest names in Brazilian music ends each episode. The show plays with the idea of polarization in a country that, according to the host, is historically bipolar, torn between the exacerbated patriotic notion that "God is Brazilian" and a huge inferiority complex.

Overprotective single parent Geraldo loses the ability to feel emotion after an iron bar runs through his skull in a work-related accident. Fearful that he will stop caring for his rebellious teenage daughter, he goes on a journey from São Paulo to Rio Grande do Sul in order to leave the girl in his ex-wife's care. On the way, however, Geraldo starts showing signs of violence due to his condition. The daughter tries to recapture her father's affection, but he becomes more and more guided solely by his sense of responsibility. And even this tenuous thread connecting father and daughter might break.

Cazuza's mother Lucinha Araújo and his best friends - Cássia Eller, Ezequiel Neves, Ney Matogrosso, Frejat - tell some of the greatest and most touching stories about the late singer's life.

This documentary film accompanies five New Yorkers of different ages and from different social backgrounds, as they try their own different ways to get back on their feet after the global financial crisis.