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29 Jan – 8 Feb 2026

Overview of articles

  • A margem

    Truck-driver turned director Candeias fled the commercial filmmaking scene to be able to tell this neo-realistic story of São Paulo’s underprivileged
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  • Sudoeste

    Nunes’ debut takes the viewer to a magical village on Brazil’s coast in breathtaking black-and-white cinemascope. Clarice dies and is reborn, rides th
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  • Dois

    Naturally shot fiction about growing up. A boy and girl have a fun day in the park, revising their maths with friends. Then she gets…
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  • Bete & Deise

    The meeting of two remarkable women in Rio de Janeiro who have – each in their own way – given meaning to the idea of…
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  • Senta no meu, que eu entro na tua

    A witty hardcore diptych about a talking vagina and a man with a strange penile outgrowth on his head, Fraga’s surreal farce is full of…
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  • Uma rua chamada triumpho (1970-1971)

    Second part of two intimate essays on the communities inhabiting the Santa Efigênia neighbourhood in São Paulo, which helped to begin to create a myth
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  • The Baron

    A Dracula-esque nobleman reigns with terror over his fiefdom’s commoners. Horror meets musical comedy. Disquieting political allegory.
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  • The Joy

    Luiza (16) has had enough of stories about the end of the world. On Christmas Eve, her cousin is shot; a few weeks later she…
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  • Doña Sonia Borrowed a Gun from Her Neighbor Alcides

    Watching Doña Sonia do the washing-up, little do we suspect what she is capable of. She effortlessly executes her mission.
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  • A History of Mutual Respect

    A micro-budget film, buzzing with interstellar ambition, flamboyance and guts announces that the Abrantes/Schmidt partnership has fully arrived.
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