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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...
2) Loveling
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Portuguese
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On the outskirts of Rio de Janeiro, Irene has only a few days to overcome her anxiety and regain her inner confidence before sending her eldest son out into the world. Nominated for the Grand Jury Prize World Cinema - Dramatic at the **Sundance Film Festival**. *"Loveling paints the picture of an unruly, idiosyncratic collective with tender devotion." - Tomris Laffly, **RogerEbert.com***
3) Aquarius
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Portuguese
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Clara, a vibrant former music critic, avid swimmer, grandmother, cancer survivor, willing lover and widow with flowing tresses, is the only remaining apartment owner in a beautiful older building targeted for demolition by ruthless luxury high-rise developers. As the builders’ tactics to remove Clara become increasingly hostile, Clara proves to be a force to be reckoned with. Nominated for the Palm d'Or and the Queer Palm at the **Cannes Film Festival**....
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Portuguese
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Cuca's cozy rural life in Brazil is shattered when his father leaves for the city. Determined to reunite his family, he embarks on a journey into civilization, where despite the harsh life and industrialized landscape, he finds that peoples' hearts continue to beat together in song.
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Portuguese
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An amazing Brazilian animation that truly exemplifies the power of imagery and music as a combination that has more than enough to portray a powerful and deep message. It shows an adventurous quest that illustrates the issues of the modern world through the eyes of a child.
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Portuguese
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The story centers on Val, a hard-working live-in housekeeper in modern-day São Paulo. Val is perfectly content to take care of every one of her wealthy employers' needs, from cooking and cleaning to being a surrogate mother to their teenage son, who she has raised since he was a toddler. But when Val's estranged daughter Jessica shows up, the unspoken but intrinsic class barriers that exist within the home are thrown into disarray.
8) Terra franca
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Portuguese
Description
In an ancient riverfront village outside of present-day Lisbon, a fisherman inhabits both the solitude of the river and the shared routines of family life that rhythmically bring him ashore, as his daughter prepares for her wedding. An observational portrait of the place, individual, community, belonging, and labor.
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Portuguese
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Theo is living the good life in an upscale Brazilian neighborhood. He's a hardworking doctor, husband, and father. However, Theo has chosen his career over his family and his wife announces that she wants a divorce. Yet nothing prepares him for the day when he comes home to discover that his fifteen-year-old son, Pedro, has disappeared. Theo takes to the road in search of his son. In a journey that leads him throughout Brazil, Theo discovers what...
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Portuguese
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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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Portuguese
Description
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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Portuguese
Description
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. This film is a blend of visuals, sound and music that follows the strange relationship between a father, a daughter and a nephew in a traveling pop band.
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