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A Cape Verdean woman who has traveled to Lisbon to reunite with her husband, after two decades of separation, only to arrive mere days after his funeral. Alone in a strange forbidding land, she perseveres and begins to establish a new life. Winner of the Golden Leopard for Best Film and Best Actress at the Locarno Film Festival, as well as an official selection of the Sundance Film Festival.
3) Nuvem
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Cloud, a young man with a strong penchant for stroll and daydream and little given to work, prefers the company of dogs and clowns. Seeing the indifference of his entourage, he lets his need for independence guide him and sets out to find the mysterious sunfish. Official Selection at the **Cannes Film Festival**.
4) Hard Paint
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Set in Brazil’s southern city of Porto Alegre, the film focuses on a socially repressed young man who only comes out of his shell during chatroom performances, when he strips and smears neon paints on his lithe body. Winner of the Teddy Award at the **Berlin International Film Festival**, Q-Hugo at the **Chicago International Film Festival**, Official Selection of Frameline: **San Francisco International LGBT Film Festival** and **Outfest Film Festival**....
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Reality and fantasy collide in the story of a family-owned circus spanning five generations of decadence, love and loss. Starring Vincent Cassel, based on a poem by Jorge de Lima. Official Selection at the **Cannes Film Festival**. “*One of the Cinema Novo’s founding fathers and perhaps its most interesting exponent.*” – ***Film Comment***
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An elegant, parsimonious, and formally impeccable story of Juvenal, a lonely train driver from Belo Horizonte, Brazil, and Margô, a train traffic controller. Both Juvenal and Margô live in a state of deep solitude, each in their unique ways. Loosely based on Edgar Allan Poe's story of the same name, THE MAN OF THE CROWD is a reflection about different forms of loneliness and friendship set in the Brazilian urban universe. Official Selection: **Berlin...
7) Vazante
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Upon returning from a trading expedition, Antonio discovers that his wife has died in labor. Confined to a decadent but desolate property in the company of his aging mother-in-law and numerous slaves, he marries his wife's young niece, Beatriz. Separated from her family and left alone on the rugged farmhouse in the Brazilian mountains, Beatriz finds solace in the displaced and oppressed inhabitants around her.
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Over a trio of summers, a caretaker for luxury condominiums (Regina Casé) relies on her resourcefulness and her eye for opportunity to take advantage of whatever comes her way, in Sandra Kogut’s (Campo Grande) humorous and inventive episodic feature. Showcasing the rare talents of Brazilian acting legend Regina Casé — star of The Second Mother and TIFF ’00 selection Me You Them — the latest feature from director Sandra Kogut (Campo Grande,...
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This a monumental and dazzlingly original three-part film by Miguel Gomes (*Tabu*) uses the structure of *One Thousand and One Nights* in order to tell the story of contemporary Portugal. Gomes' Scheherazade tells fantastic tales both fictional and documentary, from talking roosters to the everyday trials of the unemployed. Gomes weaves a colorful, surreal, and politically potent palimpsest of a film that captures how the great recession has affected...
10) Father's Chair
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This crowd pleaser produced by *City of God* director Fernando Meirelles and headlined by Brazilian screen superstar Wagner Moura takes us on a road trip through the São Paulo nightscape, from shiny new suburbs to shantytown slums, with Theo, a successful doctor in search of his run-away son. Official Selection at the **Sundance Film Festival**. Winner of the Audience Prize for Best Fictional Film at the **Rio de Janeiro Film Festival**. *“Crowd-pleasing…terrific...
11) Horse money
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A visionary masterwork, HORSE MONEY is a mesmerizing odyssey into the real, imagined and nightmarish memories of the elderly Ventura, a Cape Verdean immigrant living in Lisbon. Winner of four awards at the **Locarno International Film Festival**. Official Selection at the **Toronto International Film Festival** and **New York Film Festival**. "*The director has plenty of influences, Stanley Kubrick and Old Hollywood classicists such as John Ford among...
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In the heart of Portugal, amid the mountains, the month of August is abuzz with people and activity. Emigrants return home, set off fireworks, fight fires, sing karaoke, hurl themselves from bridges, hunt wild boar, drink beer, and make babies. OUR BELOVED MONTH OF AUGUST is an intoxicating blend of visuals, sound and music that follows the strange relationship between a father, a daughter and a nephew in a traveling pop band. Official Selection at...
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Part three of Miguel Gomes' monumental and dazzlingly original three-part update of the Middle Eastern folk tale, *One Thousand and One Nights*. In which Scheherazade doubts that she will still be able to tell stories to please the King, given that what she has to tell weighs three thousand tons. She therefore escapes from the palace and travels the kingdom in search of pleasure and enchantment. Her father, the Grand-Vizier, arranges to meet her at...
14) The Restless One
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Part one of Miguel Gomes' monumental and dazzlingly original three-part update of the Middle Eastern folk tale, *One Thousand and One Nights*. In which Scheherazade tells of the restlessness that befell the country: It hath reached me, O auspicious King, that in a sad country among all countries, where people dream of mermaids and whales, and unemployment is spreading. In certain places, forests burn into the night despite the falling rain; men and...
15) The Desolate One
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Part two of Miguel Gomes' monumental and dazzlingly original three-part update of the Middle Eastern folk tale, *One Thousand and One Nights*. In which Scheherazade tells of how desolation invaded men: It hath reached me, O auspicious King, that a distressed judge will cry instead of giving out her sentence on a night when all three moons are aligned. A runaway murderer will wander through the land for over forty days and will tele transport himself...
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The Monteiro and Campelo families live in the shadow of a crime committed generations ago. However, when a chance encounter puts Ramon and Romulo face to face, hatred turns into an unlikely and passionate love affair that could hurt their parents, siblings, friends, and even themselves.
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The Monteiro and Campelo families live in the shadow of a crime committed generations ago. However, when a chance encounter puts Ramon and Romulo face to face, hatred turns into an unlikely and passionate love affair that could hurt their parents, siblings, friends, and even themselves.
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