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Netflix has announced that Criminal Code, the police drama that has won over audiences in Brazil and beyond, will return for a third season. The series stars Maeve Jinkings as Suellen, Rômulo Braga as Benício, and Alex Nader as Isaac.

The streaming service says that “fans can expect even more intense scenes and conflicts — after all, last season’s finale made it clear that new showdowns between cops and criminals (not to mention revenge!) are on the way.”

The second season of Criminal Code has already solidified the show’s status as a global hit. Since June 4, it has reached top positions in Netflix’s Top 10 in Brazil and abroad.

In addition to Brazil, where it has remained in the rankings for nearly a month, the show also ranked among the ten most-watched in countries such as Argentina, Paraguay, Uruguay, Portugal, and Nigeria.

“Every time we announce a new season,...

Netflix is kicking off the summer of 2025 with an incredible lineup of new shows! Not all of them are probably worth watching for everybody, but there's definitely something for everyone this month. I shared a list of a few good Netflix shows that viewers simply need to watch in June 2025.

The month is already off to a great start with the release of Ginny and Georgia season 3 on Thursday, June 5. Later this month, the biggest Netflix show of all time, Squid Game, comes to an end with the release of the third and final season on Thursday, June 27. Those are the two Netflix shows everyone will be watching, and because they're so popular, almost everyone knows when those shows are coming back.

Ginny and Georgia and Squid Game only make up a fraction of the good Netflix shows fans need to watch in June. There are so many other good shows coming in June.

Four months can be a long time in federal law enforcement, especially when the ghost you were chasing was never caught. Season 2 of Criminal Code opens not with a quiet simmer but with the engine already running hot. Isaac, the architect of the Ghost Gang’s audacious Season 1 prison break, is still a free man.

More to the point, he has spent his freedom productively. The narrative wastes no time re-establishing its core conflict, thrusting federal officers Suellen and Benício back into a reactive posture against a foe who refuses to play by the rules of a hunted fugitive. He isn’t hiding; he’s planning.

This immediate sense of escalation is the season’s opening statement. Stationed again along the porous Brazil-Paraguay border, a landscape that provides a fittingly chaotic backdrop, the series reaffirms its identity as a gritty, high-velocity procedural. It promises a story less about the hunt...

Netflix’s gripping Brazilian crime drama, Criminal Code (Original title: DNA do Crime), returns with its highly anticipated Season 2. Picking up immediately after the explosive events of Season 1, the series delves deeper into the high-stakes cat-and-mouse game between Brazil’s federal police and the elusive Phantom Gang. Premiering globally on June 4, 2025, Season 2 promises intensified action, complex character dynamics, and a deeper exploration of the criminal underworld. In this article, we’ll explore the season’s plot, cast, streaming details, and what viewers can expect from this thrilling continuation.

What Happened in Criminal Code Season 1?: A Recap

Season 1 introduced viewers to federal agents Suellen and Benício as they embarked on a mission to dismantle a sophisticated criminal network responsible for a series of high-profile heists. Utilizing cutting-edge forensic science and relentless investigative techniques, the duo uncovered a web of corruption and violence that extended beyond Brazil’s borders. The season...

Season 2 of the Brazilian action series Criminal Code, inspired by real crimes, is streaming now. The first season of the police drama reached the Top 10 in more than 71 countries, including the United States. Read on for your full report on everything you need to know about the second season.

After helping the Ambassador (Nico García Hume)escape from prison, Isaac (Alex Nader) and his Phantom Gang become the Federal Police’s main targets. Increasingly sophisticated robberies turn them into crime legends — and going after them will demand everything from the agents. During the challenging investigation, Suellen (Maeve Jinkings) will have to prove herself as a leader. Meanwhile, Benício (Rômulo Braga) experiences a crisis after losing yet another friend, and discovering that Sem Alma (Thomás Aquino) escaped from prison.

Yes, scroll up for the official Season 2 trailer, set to a remix of “Mi Gente.” Get ready: The conflicts...

Exclusive: Criminal Code is a breakout hit for Netflix. The Brazilian action drama, based on real events, has landed well at home and internationally. Season 2 drops soon and Deadline got some time with series director and showrunner Heitor Dhalia. We can also exclusively share the first pictures from the upcoming season.

Criminal Code scaled Netflix’s top 10 in 70 countries, including the U.S. and Canada. On home turf, it was the most-watched Brazilian series in the second half of 2023 when it launched, and also one of the most-watched shows through 2024.

Set in the crime world in and around the Triple Frontier, a three-border area where Argentina, Brazil, and Paraguay meet, the drama was inspired by a robbery that took place in 2017 and ensuing real-life events. The new season involves a prison break and follows a criminal group, the Phantom Gang, undertaking more daring heists while being pursued by the cops.

The trailer (above) has launched for Marianna Brennand’s “Manas,” which has its world premiere in Venice Days, a sidebar to the Venice Film Festival. Bendita Film Sales is handling world sales on the film, which is backed by award-winning filmmakers Walter Salles and the Dardenne Brothers.

The film is set on the island of Marajó in the Amazon rainforest. Marcielle lives near the riverbank with her father, mother and three siblings. Prompted by her mother’s words, she idolizes her older sister who supposedly escaped her reality by “finding a good man” on the barges that ply the region.

As Tielle matures, her idealized visions shatter, leaving her trapped between two abusive environments. Increasingly worried about her younger sister and the bleak future they face, she decides to confront the oppressive system that controls her family and the women in their community.

Bendita’s Luis Renart said: “‘Manas’ is a haunting experience.

Plunging headlong into the murk of exploitative missionary work and environmentally destructive capitalism, Transamazonia is a film with undeniable import and sociopolitical urgency, which its muddled narrative can’t completely dampen. Pia Marais’s fourth feature centers around American faith healer Lawrence (Jeremy Xido), who preaches the Gospel to an impoverished Brazilian village in the heart of the Amazon, aided by his daughter, Rebecca (Helena Zengel), the sole survivor of a plane crash that killed her mother. Their role in the community is troubled when a conflict arises between a local Indigenous tribe and a violent gang in the employ of the logging industry laying waste to their homeland.

Following a striking, wordless sequence in which an infant Rebecca is discovered in a rainforest clearing and carried to the relative safety of a hospital room, where her new status as a global media sensation disrupts a reunion with Lawrence, a...

Pia Marais’ Transamazonia seeks to connect us to its characters and the environment containing them, but we leave the film far more imprinted by the latter. The fourth feature by the South African-born and -raised filmmaker, she aims to create an emotionally involving story, with rooting interests for sympathetic individual and collective groups––here, the indigenous Assurini people of Trocará, Brazil. But it’s really more effective as a mood piece, the thematic clash between empiricism and superstition emanating like gun smoke from the depths of its jungle setting.

Marais is esteemed on the festival circuit but has been less well-served for theatrical distribution; her 2007 feature The Unpolished, which won the top prize at Rotterdam, is one of the more underrated debuts of its decade. A tough and tender memoir of growing up with very bohemian parents, its highly personal look at a challenging, stimulating upbringing is echoed by Transamazonia’s own plot,...

There’s a distant, otherworldly aura to Rebecca Byrne, the teenage protagonist of “Transamazonia,” that is quite befitting of someone who literally dropped from the sky. As a small girl, a plane she was on crashed in the remote depths of the Amazon basin, leaving her the only survivor of the tragedy. Hailed by the media as a miracle child, she has since remained where she fell, carving out a reputation in the rainforest as a Christian faith healer. It’s a testament to Helena Zengel’s arresting, secretive lead performance that we’re never sure if miracles are Rebecca’s blessing or her branding. This central enigma informs the other, manifold ambiguities of Pia Marais’s intriguing environmental fable — in which religious mission work and industrial deforestation both pose threats to Indigenous identity.

Premiering in Locarno’s main competition, with a New York Film Festival slot to come, this...

A Brazilian family struggling with their ailing grandfather are offered an unusual way out in Carolina Markowicz’s darkly comic and suspenseful feature debut

Brazilian director Carolina Markowicz won awards left, right and centre for her touching 2018 short film The Orphan (O Órfão), about a queer teenage boy suddenly placed in an unfamiliar family. Her feature debut, Charcoal, once again centres around an outsider forcibly placed in the heart of family, but this time the algebra of sympathy is much more complex – and the threat of violence adds an unquantifiable extra variable.

In rural Brazil, Irene (Maeve Jinkings) holds her struggling nuclear family together as best she can. Her husband Jairo (Rômulo Braga) earns money seasonally burning charcoal, but when he’s out of work he spends what little he has on booze. The couple’s nine-year-old son Jean is a sweet kid who shares a bedroom with his bedridden...

The Berlin Film Festival has revealed the 28 titles selected for its Forum strand and the 26 projects at the Forum Expanded platform.

In the Forum strand, documentaries stand alongside personal essay films, while the films and installations that make up the Forum Expanded program revolve around political and personal legacies.

The festival takes place Feb. 16-26.

Forum Titles

“Allensworth”

by James Benning

U.S.

“Anqa”

by Helin Çelik

Austria/Spain

“About Thirty”

by Martin Shanly | with Martin Shanly, Camila Dougall, Paul Dougall, Esmeralds Escalante, Maria Soldi

Argentina

“Being in a Place – A Portrait of Margaret Tait”

by Luke Fowler | with Margaret Tait

U.K.

“The Bride”

by Myriam U. Birara | with Sandra Umulisa, Aline Amike, Daniel Gaga, Fabiola Mukasekuru, Beatrice Mukandayishimiye

Rwanda

“Cidade Rabat”

by Susana Nobre | with Raquel Castro, Paula Bárcia, Paula Só, Sara de Castro, Laura Afonso

Portugal/France

“De Facto”

by Selma Doborac | with Christoph Bach, Cornelius Obonya...

Brazil’s Sergio Machado, renowned for lauded dramas “The Violin Teacher” and “Lower City,” debuts his latest film “River of Desire” (“Orio do Desejo”) at Estonia’s 26th Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival, where it competes in the official selection.

Produced by Tc Filmes and powerhouse production company Gullane, producer of such acclaimed Brazilian classics as “Carandiru,” “The Second Mother” and “The Year My Parents Went on Vacation,” “River of Desire” is inspired by the novel “The Brothers” by Brazilian literary prizewinner, Wilton Hatoum. Globo Filmes and Mar Grande are associate producers. Edward Noeltner’s Cinema Management Group handles international sales.

Not unlike his debut feature “Lower City,” winner of the Cannes Un Certain Regard Youth Award, Machado explores how jealousy and rivalry destroys close bonds. In the case of “River of Desire,” the protagonists are three brothers, instead of two close friends, who tussle over the same woman. It...

Paris-based Urban Sales has swooped on international sales rights to Brazilian writer-director Carolina Markowicz’s awaited debut feature film “Charcoal” (“Carvão”), which is set for its world premiere at at Toronto’s prestigious Platform showcase before heading to San Sebastian for a Europe bow as part of its just-revealed Horizontes Latinos lineup.

Urban Sales has also shared with Variety a first look still from the film.

Distribution in Brazil is handled by Pandora Filmes, founded by André Sturm, which launched the country’s first classic film streaming platform Belas Artes in 2019, bringing big-name, cult, and regional classics to audiences nationwide.

Markowicz has written and directed six short films that have been selected by 400 festivals including Locarno, SXSW, Toronto and AFI. Her short film,“The Orphan,” a gritty tale about a young queer boy who tries to navigate his most recent adoption after being placed with a well-off conservative family, premiered...

“Gold ruins everything. First the land, then the man.” That’s the gist of Marcelo Gomes’ ambitious historical epic, set in 18th-century Brazil when the South American colony’s people and resources were being exploited under Portuguese oppression. A fictional tale partly based on the life of leading Brazilian separatist Tiradentes (real name Joaquim José da Silva Xavier), Gomes’ film aims to keep the spirit rather than adhere to true events of his nascent independence movement. It’s more a reflection on how inequality and oppression so endemic in colonial times continue into today’s Brazil.

Joaquim (Julio Machado, a rugged Hugh Jackman look-a-like) is a soldier serving the Portuguese crown, catching smugglers in a part of Brazil whose formerly rich supply of gold is running dry. His poor upbringing is still better than the slaves and “indians” who work under him, with whom he gets on better than many of his Portuguese peers.

The Berlin International Film Festival announced 13 additions to its 2017 line-up, including the international premiere of Danny Boyle’s hotly anticipated “Trainspotting” follow-up, “Trainspotting: T2,” and the world premiere of James Mangold’s “Logan,” the third in the growing “Wolverine” franchise, starring Hugh Jackman. Both films will play out of competition.

Read More: ‘Logan’ Trailer: Hugh Jackman’s Final Wolverine Movie Mixes The Superhero Genre With The Western

Hong Sangsoo’s “On the Beach Alone at Night” will make its world premiere at the festival, the latest from the idiosyncratic Korean director whose last film, “Right Now, Wrong Then,” garnered attention at festivals in 2016.

Other promising titles include the world premiere of “The Tin Drum” director Volker Schlöndorff’s “Return To Montauk,” starring Stellan Skarsgård, and “Viceroy’s House,” a period drama from the woman behind “Bend it Like Beckham,” Gurinder Chadha. The Austrian actor Josef Hader also will make...

X-Men spinoff and Trainspotting sequel to play Out of Competition.

A further 13 films have been invited to screen in the Competition and Berlinale Special section at the 67th edition of the Berlin International Film Festival.

The festival has added commercial clout to its Out Of Competition lineup in the shape of Danny Boyle’s T2 Trainspotting and X-Men spinoff Logan.

There are also competition berths for new films by Hong Sangsoo, Thomas Arslan, Volker Schlöndorff, Sabu, Álex de la Iglesia and Josef Hader.

Bend It Like Beckham director Gurinder Chadha’s latest, Viceroy’s House, will have its world premiere out of competition at the festival. Starring Hugh Bonneville alongside Gillian Anderson, the period drama set in 1947 India depicts Lord Mountbatten, the man charged with handing India back to its people.

Also having its world premiered out of competition will be Álex de la Iglesia’s The Bar, a comedy-thriller about a group of strangers who get...

After an initial line-up that included Aki Kaurismäki‘s The Other Side of Hope, Oren Moverman‘s Richard Gere-led The Dinner, Sally Potter‘s The Party, and Agnieszka Holland‘s Spoor, the Berlin International Film Festival have added more anticipated premieres. Highlights include one of two (maybe three) new Hong Sang-soo films this year, On the Beach at Night Alone, along with Volker Schlöndorff‘s Return to Montauk with Stellan Skarsgård and Nina Hoss, as well as the high-profile world premiere of James Mangold‘s Logan and the international premiere of Danny Boyle‘s T2: Trainspotting.

With Paul Verhoeven serving as jury president for the 67th edition of the festival, check out the new additions below.

Competition

Bamui haebyun-eoseo honja (On the Beach at Night Alone)

South Korea

By Hong Sangsoo (Nobody’s Daughter Haewon, Right Now, Wrong Then)

With Kim Minhee, Seo Younghwa, Jung Jaeyoung, Moon Sungkeun,...

Festival top brass announced on Monday the 12 Narrative and eight Documentary Feature Film Competition films in 22nd edition, set to run in Park City from January 22-28, 2016.

The 20-strong line-up includes 12 world premieres, three North American premieres and one Us premiere.

All competition films are feature directorial debuts with budgets of less than $1m and without Us distribution.

Jury awards are presented to feature films in both categories and all films are eligible for audience awards as well as the Spirit Of Slamdance Award, judged by the filmmakers themselves.

“The standard of Diy filmmaking around the world is the highest we’ve seen, and the diversity of storytelling is the most we’ve experienced,” sad Slamdance co-founder and president Peter Baxter.

“With a record breaking number of submissions to select from, the narrative and documentary feature line-up has never been so competitive or as exciting to programme.”

All synopses provided by the festival.

Narrative Features...

Festival top brass announced on Monday the 12 Narrative and eight Documentary Feature Film Competition films in 22nd edition, set to run in Park City from January 22-28, 2016.

The 20-strong line-up includes 12 world premieres, three North American premieres and one Us premiere.

All competition films are feature directorial debuts with budgets of less than $1m and without Us distribution.

Jury awards are presented to feature films in both categories and all films are eligible for audience awards as well as the Spirit Of Slamdance Award, judged by the filmmakers themselves.

“The standard of Diy filmmaking around the world is the highest we’ve seen, and the diversity of storytelling is the most we’ve experienced,” sad Slamdance co-founder and president Peter Baxter.

“With a record breaking number of submissions to select from, the narrative and documentary feature line-up has never been so competitive or as exciting to programme.”

Al synopses provided by the festival.

Narrative Features...

Cinema Slate will handle the New York theatrical release of Caetano Gotardo’s feature debut "The Moving Creatures." The film was written and directed by Caetano Gotardo and features songs by Gotardo and Marco Dutra ("Hard Labor"). It stars Cida Moreira (as Maria Júlia), Andrea Marquee (as Silvia), Fernanda Vianna (as Ana) and Rômulo Braga (as Eduardo).

This is the second film in the ongoing Brazilian Film Series: Year One (following "I Touched All Your Stuff," to be released on August 28), "The Moving Creatures" was an official selection at the Miami International Film Festival and won a Best Actress (Cida Moreira) and Best Film (Fiction) award at Berlin’s Latin American Film Festival (Lakino).

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Here is the official synopsis:

In Caetano Gotardo’s lyrical omnibus film "The Moving Creatures" (O Que se Move), three very different mothers are confronted, through three very different trials-by-ordeal, with the limits of what a mother “just knows”. With little fanfare (and not a whiff of the blatant “interconnectedness” often de rigeur among multi-story films), the daily rhythms and textures of three families unfold before us. And at the end of each story, all three mothers emerge from their private crucibles with an understanding — though one that can only be expressed in a way that erupts into the film’s very reality.

In the film’s first story, a mother (Maria Júlia, played by famed Brazilian actress, singer and performer Cida Moreira), learns about her son’s most intimate secret maybe a minute too late. On the second tale, an enigmatically afflicted sound engineer (Eduardo, played by Rômulo Braga) skulks through his day of nausea and confusion, while his wife Silvia (Andréa Marquee) muses on the scope of infant wisdom with a friend, as the two gaze at the former’s child. What happens next throws both parents into a state of trauma. The last story follows João (Henrique Schafer) and Ana (Fernanda Vianna), on their preparations to re-encounter their long-lost son.

The film will open on Sept 11 at Cinema Village in NYC and that it will also be available on Fandor.com on the same day. Take a look at the exclusive trailer below.