Movies: João Marcos de Almeida

The name of Brazil’s biggest airport, Guarulhos, references the fact that it was built on indigenous territory. In a blend of realistic and stylised scenes, the film follows a member of the ground staff as she seeks her roots beneath the runway....

The crown jewels of the empire rise and fall in this subversive and highly symbolic satirical short....

A boy dreams of being a man like the ones he lusts for. Does the man he becomes live as he imagined?...

In the city of São Paulo, the routine of gravedigger apprentice Deodato changes when a new working girl arrives at the cemetery. Together, they must re-register the abandoned tombs, but strange events make the apprentice wonder about the consequences...

Essay on Eva Nil, the first star of Brazilian cinema....

Flávio loses his sexual appetite editing porn videos. José, his husband, is trying to create an equation that determines when humans will colonize Mars. Flávio is focused on a more internal journey, and José is trying to find ways to bring Flávio's l...

After relocating to Tokyo, a Brazilian writer begins a new novel, provoked by her experiences in Japan and by one of the last scenes she witnessed in Rio de Janeiro: a female swimmer tearing up the horizon with powerful strokes in the wide, open sea....

Strike on the red carpet....

The feature-length documentary Fakir portrays the success of fakirism in Brazil, Latin America and France. This circus art origin show is presented and analyzed through archives that reveals the success of these presentations with their pain resistan...

A woman finds herself preparing a piece of meat at the kitchen while disturbing scenes are playing on the TV...

The daily life of a family in which countless factors are disturbing: the father is unemployed, the members need to move house, the mother is abducted, and life continues as if nothing had happened....

Clarisse notices a small green leaf growing out of her right arm....

A short documentary by Marco Dutra....

It looks like you're virtual, I haven't seen skin in a while....

Marcos returns home after a few years away....

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Two women having fun in bed...

A young couple spends the night in a motel room in the Brazilian Capital. Amid drugs, drinks, money and whims, they mimic a marriage cerimony, triggering the violence between patriarchy and the Brazilian political elite....

Short film with Gilda Nomacce and Majeca Angelucci...

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