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Showing 50 Films from Brazil
A Linha
A Linha is an interactive narrative experience about love and the fear of change. Set upon a scale-model of 1940s São Paulo, yo...
Almost Every Day
Polly navigates work, love, and the streets of Rio de Janeiro.
American Arcadia
Welcome to Arcadia! A 70s retro-futuristic metropolis where all of its citizens enjoy a life of luxury and comfort… unaware tha...
A Strange Path
A young filmmaker returns to his hometown and attempts to reconnect with his father as the pandemic rapidly accelerates across ...
Barren Lives
A newly-struck copy of a classic early film by Pereira dos Santos, whose Brasilia 18% is premiering at the Festival. Adapted fr...
Brasilia 18%
A star medical examiner is called to Brasilia, the administrative capital of Brazil, to confirm the identity of a beautiful, yo...
Califórnia
Nostalgic, sweet, and at moments poignantly funny, Califórnia is a coming-of-age tale about a highschool student, Estela, growi...
Carandiru
The acclaimed director of Pixote and Kiss of the Spider Woman dramatizes the 1992 prisoner revolt and massacre at Sao Paulo's i...
Children Do Not Play War
Children Do Not Play War is a cinematic VR tale of the war in Uganda told through the eyes of a young girl.
Closing Night: YANUNI
Both a love story and a call to action, YANUNI follows the fearless Indigenous chief Juma Xipaia, who has survived six assassin...
Contactado
Tribeca alums Mariana Rondón and Marité Ugás return with a captivating drama about an aging self-proclaimed prophet who revisit...
Days in Sintra
Deftly interspersing home movies with contemporary images, director Paula Gaitán creates a compelling voyage of discovery in he...
Elite Squad
Fresh from its Golden Bear win at Berlin, and one of Brazil's most controversial films, Elite Squad is a searing look at the co...
Elvis & Madona
The lives of a beautiful biker babe and a tall blonde drag performer intertwine in this vibrant Rio-set romantic comedy. Elvis ...
Endangered
With riveting access and kinetic visual flair, Endangered is a sobering look at the erosion of democracy & freedom of the p...
En route to Baghdad
Sergio Vieira de Mello spent his life helping refugees in Rwanda, East Timor and Cambodia. On August 19, 2003, the United Natio...
Favela Rising
The dilemma of those who live in Rio's slums and struggle to overcome unbelievable poverty and gang violence seems even more pa...
Garapa
Director José Padilha (Bus 174) follows up his Golden Bear-winning Elite Squad with this austere, unflinching examination of th...
Good Boy
Surviving the slums of Rio is a challenge for a boy and his mom in Good Boy (Bom Garoto).
Gravity VR
Gravity VR takes place in a surreal world where everything that exists is forever falling. Houses, clothes, cars. Everything fa...
House of Sand
Inspired by Woman of the Dunes, this epic tale of love and loss follows the fate of three generations of headstrong women who a...
How A River Is Born
Ayla wakes up in a mountainous landscape, surrounded only by vegetation and a river. As she discovers where she is, she also di...
Kaiser: The Greatest Footballer Never To Play Football
Soccer stars were at the center of the scene in the glamorous nightlife meccas of 1980s Brazil. But in their midst, one of the ...
Kites
In a magical realist world where you can have a conversation with your guardian angel, Duvo, a 25-year-old gangster, searches f...