Movies: Luiz Fernando Carvalho

The story of André, the rebel runaway son from a dominant Lebanese-Brazilian family who returns to the nest after a few years....

G.H., a well-to-do Rio sculptress, enters her maid’s room, sees a cockroach crawling out of the wardrobe, and, panicking, slams the door on it. But the sight of the dying insect provokes a mystical crisis....

Maria is a gifted girl, who faces a hard life in the fields. She is happy when her father decides to remarry, thinking that he will rejoice again. However, to the girl's despair, her stepmother is bad and starts to mistreat her. Maria still has to fa...

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Inspired by an novel by Graciliano Ramos, Alexandre e Outros Heróis is a beautiful way to celebrate his 60th year of death. The story of a man, his life and his death in the Brazil's backwoods....

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The documentary is a dive into this universe that Ariano Suassuna built with his Art (work) and his Life. His novels and characters. Your utopias. Your Quaderna, as the driving force behind this mix. Theater performances. Poems. Show classes. Popular...

Documentary on the research for the production of the film Lavoura Arcaica (2001), based on the novel of the same name by Raduan Nassar. Two filmmakers take a trip with an uncertain destination through the mountains of Lebanon, Syria and southern Spa...