André Abujamra

The Best Mother in the World (2025)

To escape her abusive husband, garbage collector Gal packs her two young children, Rihanna and Benin, onto the top of her cart and heads across São Paulo to her cousin's house. As she struggles to avoid the dangers of the streets along the way, she convin ...

The Business Women’s Club (2024)

Jongo, a renowned photographer, and Candinho, a young and inexperienced journalist, arrive at a decaying country club of São Paulo's high society, run by women involved with the law. ...

Sunday Night (2024)

The life of Margot, one of Brazil's greatest actresses, married to Antônio, an award-winning writer and with advanced Alzheimer's, changes completely when she discovers that she also has Alzheimer's. She will need to race against time if she wants to fini ...

The Smoke Master (2023)

The journey of Gabriel and Daniel, two brothers cursed by the Chinese mafia with its feared Three Generations Revenge, who have already reaped the life of their grandfather and their father. To survive, one of the brothers must learn the Smoke Style secret ...

The Club of Angels (2022)

Over the years, the monthly meetings of the Stew Club – a fraternity that has gathered seven long-time friends for decades – has gone from rituals of power to melancholic failure assemblies. The end would be its only worthy fate. Until a mysterious coo ...

No Outro Encontro Você (2022)

8 Presidentes 1 Juramento: A História de um Tempo Presente (2021)

The movie is a collage and comentary of varied third party footage on news relating to each and every one of the eight Presidents of Brazil who took office since the end of the military government, from José Sarney to Jair Bolsonaro. ...

Bob Spit: We Do Not Like People (2021)

Bob Spit, a comic book character, lives in a post-apocalyptic desert inside the mind of his creator, the legendary Brazilian cartoonist Angeli. When Angeli decides to kill off Bob, the old punk leaves this wasteland and faces his creator. ...

Emidoinã (2021)

Our Uncle Pedro (2021)

After moving from São Paulo to an isolated house in the countryside, Pedro starts witnessing extraterrestrial events in between visits from his sister and nephews. ...

Menino Azul (2021)

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Um Café com Meu Avô Durval (2021)

Barretão (2019)

A story about how football, cinema, photojournalism and intimidation with power can come together in a protagonist figure in Brazilian history: Luiz Carlos Barreto, better known as "Barretão". Narrated in first person, the documentary explores Barreto's v ...

Abraço (2019)

In 2008, Sergipe teachers engaged in legal struggle with the state government to prevent the loss of rights already won. 30,000 teachers from all over the state leave their schools and go on a long journey to fight in the capital Aracaju. The challenge is ...

Omindá (2018)

My Punkle (2018)

Rafael embarks on a shabby blue Landau and crosses the city of São Paulo gathering truths and lies about the set of his uncle Tico, the already legendary proto-punk-satirical Knee of Porco. ...

Wherever You Are (2018)

Open City Radio broadcasts the "Wherever You Are" program on a weekly basis, where people try to communicate with missing relatives and friends. Behind the scenes of the program several life stories cross and become. ...

Praça Paris (2017)

Camila is a Portuguese therapist who works at Rio de Janeiro State University, where she attends Glória, the university's elevator operator. Throughout the sessions, Camila faces a very violent reality, since Glória was raped by her own father as a child ...

Trinta (2013)

Biopic about the late Joãozinho Trinta, a self-taught classical dancer who turned Rio's Carnival into an international phenomenon in the 1970s and '80s by directing parades for samba schools and putting focus on costumes and decor. ...

Until Sbornia Do Us Part (2013)

Sbornia is an island with a rich but eccentric culture, separated from the rest of the world by a high wall. When the wall comes down, cultural change plays hilarious havoc on the lives of two traditional Sbornian musicians. ...

Invisible World (2013)

An anthology film following different stories around the theme of invisibility in the modern world. ...

While My Guitar Gently Weeps (2013)

Produced for TV Cultura within the project Telefilmes IV: Music and City, this made-for-TV film follows the story of Erica, a 14-year-old teenager growing up in Brazil, who has to learn how to deal with her British mother who is going off the rails. Living ...

Futuro do Pretérito: Tropicalismo Now! (2012)

A look of the 21st century for one of the most important cultural movements in Brazilian history. The production brings a mix of interviews, concerts, artistic interventions and actors in small sketches. An intersection of the social and artistic contexts ...

Corpo Presente (2011)

Three desperate stories about working life in São Paulo. ...

Amanhã Nunca Mais (2011)

Walter is an absent father and husband who works in a hospital without time for his family. His redemption happens when his wife sends him to the birthday cake for her daughter, but she does not know is that during the return trip home, the impossible will ...

Black Box (2009)

After running away from home in his youth, Túlio has grown adrift from his family. 40 years later he has to come home one last time to bury his parents and his brother and claim what now is his. ...

From Beginning to End (2009)

Two brothers develop a very close relationship as they are growing up in an idyllic and happy family. When they are young adults their relationship becomes very intimate, romantic, and sexual. ...

A Raça Síntese de Joãosinho Trinta (2009)

The Story of Me (2009)

Based on the life of Roberto Carlos Ramos, a Brazilian teacher and storyteller brought up in a state educational institution for poor children. ...

O Divino, de Repente (2009)

Divino freestyles about his life, love and family in a very unique way. ...

Alphaville - Do Lado de Dentro do Muro (2009)

Alphaville is a slice of the lifestyle inside the wall. The portrait of a Brazil surrounded, where danger, unwanted interactions, all kinds of movement, heterogeneity and unpredictability of the streets are supposedly kept away. ...

JLG\PG (2009)

A movie about the contempt of the man who recorded the contempt. ...

Embodiment of Evil (2008)

Released from the Mental Health Wing of São Paulo State Penitentiary after forty years, the sadistic undertaker Zé do Caixão is back on the streets, haunted by ghostly visions and spirits of past victims but still set upon the goal that sent him to pris ...

Lost and Found (2007)

A retired cop becomes the prime suspect in the murder of a prostitute. ...

Querô (2007)

Querô is an orphan teenager, living alone near the docks in Santos, Brazil. His mother, a prostitute, died when he was a baby, and he was raised in the bordello where she worked. Believing he rules his own destiny, he refuses to compromise with anyone els ...

Yellow (2006)

Amaryllis Campos is a young, classically trained Puerto Rican ballerina, who dreams of leaving her impoverished home in Puerto Rico to pursue fame and fortune as a dancer. Amaryllis heads for New York City, where she is forced to work in a seedy strip club ...

The Twelve Labours (2006)

The story of a young black man, Héracles, who after being released from a juvenile institution, tries to apply for his first honest job as a motorcycle delivery boy. To get the job, he has to perform 12 hard tasks in São Paulo. ...

Cafundó (2005)

Cafundó is a 35 mm color film which blends fact with fiction in the life of João de Camargo, a former black slave (1858-1942, Sorocaba, Brazil) who, in his old age, works miracles and devotes himself to assisting others in order to attain his freedom. Jo ...

Innocent Voices (2005)

A young boy, attempting to have a normal childhood in 1980s El Salvador, is caught up in a dramatic fight for his life when he desperately tries to avoid the war that is raging all around him. ...

The Middle of the World (2003)

Romão, illiterate and unemployed, feels destiny drawing him on an odyssey to Rio de Janeiro in pursuit of a job and a decent life. A family of seven journeys 2,000 miles across the hinterlands of Brazil on bicycles. Along the way, the story explores the i ...

Carandiru (2003)

When a doctor decides to carry out an AIDS prevention program inside Latin America's largest prison: the Casa de Detenção de São Paulo - Carandiru, he meets the future victims of one of the darkest days in Brazilian History when the State of São Paulo' ...

Cartas da Mãe (2003)

The Three Marias (2002)

A mother, with her three daughters, exacts revenge on her former fiancé for killing her husband and sons. ...

Durval Discos (2002)

Eccentric Durval is a bit like the record shop he operates with his mother: rundown and pathetic. When their home becomes too much for his mother to care for, Durval hires a maid who no sooner disappears, leaving a young girl and a note behind. ...

Brainstorm (2001)

Neto is a middle class teenager living a normal life. After his father finds a marijuana cigarette on his pocket, he is sent to a mental institution, where he gets to know a completely absurd and inhumane reality in which people are devoured by a corrupt a ...

Maids (2001)

Five maids in São Paulo are observed in this episodic, impressionistic film. The women interact with each other, ride busses, work, and have longings: Rai for a husband, Créo for her lost daughter, Roxane for a career in modeling. Quitéria is naive, a g ...

Neither Ties, Nor Honor (2001)

Argues the differences between men and women in the town of Cunha, Brazil. When the film was ready, it was shown for its main personages, whose reactions were included in its final version. ...

A Fit of Rage (1999)

The torrid love affair between a 40-year-old man who lives isolated from the world, in his small farm nearby São Paulo and a politically engaged 30-year-old journalist. One morning, after a night of wild lovemaking, he notices a hole made by sauba ants in ...

Friendly Fire (1998)

Brazil in the early 70s. Miguel, Eloi, Osvaldo and Paolo take part in armed attacks against the military dictatorship. They pay a heavy price with torture and arrest. Today the four friends still see each other. Only Miguel is politically active. On a phot ...

Belly Up (1997)

Two hit men, a veteran and a beginner, chatter in a bar on Brazil-Paraguai border, while waiting for their victim to appear. ...

Almoço Executivo (1996)

Five friends meet for lunch. Nothing could be more mundane, but for some reason, no one stayed for dessert. ...

São Paulo South Border (1995)

Rap, drugs and violence. One day in the suburbs of São Paulo. ...

Carlota Joaquina, Princess of Brazil (1995)

The Spanish Infanta Carlota Joaquina is promised to D. João VI at the age of 10. Forced to leave for Portugal, Carlota suffers a great disappointment when she meets her promised prince. With the death of D. José, Carlota Joaquina and D. João VI inherit ...

Babies Origins According to Kiki Cavalcanti (1995)

Savage Capitalism (1994)

Elisa is a journalist who becomes romantically involved with Hugo, a director of the company Jota Mineração, when she receives an order to write a story about the company. However, the relationship between the two begins to destabilize when the company t ...

Expresso (1994)

A road movie inside a film set starring four fake blondes on the run. ...

Rota ABC (1991)

Rota ABC is a documentary essay about the desires and perspectives of youth living in the industrial suburb of São Paulo, directed by Francisco Cesar Filho and produced by Anhangabaú Produções, with a soundtrack by the punk rock band Garotos Podres. ...

Zona Eleitoral (1990)

Humorous short about the 1989 Brazilian presidential election. ...

The Business Women’s Club (2024)

Jongo, a renowned photographer, and Candinho, a young and inexperienced journalist, arrive at a decaying country club of São Paulo's high society, run by women involved with the law. ...

The Monster Boy (2024)

Have you ever imagined having a brother who is a real little monster? In "The Monster Boy", Clarice shares exactly this unique experience. Through her stories, we discover a world where the pranks and peculiarities of Nico, her younger brother, turn each d ...

Empirion: Uma Aventura com Einstein (2024)

Félix, a genius teenager, decides to look for the renowned scientist Einstein, brought back by the company Empirion. He is the person needed to finalize his invention and stamp the definitive passport to the world of science. ...

Castelo Rá-Tim-Bum: Reencontro (2023)

Almost 30 years since "Castelo Rá-Tim-Bum" premiered, the cast and crew of the famous children's program from the 90s reunite to talk about the backstage and the aftermath of one of the greatest achievements in Brazilian television history. ...

The Club of Angels (2022)

Over the years, the monthly meetings of the Stew Club – a fraternity that has gathered seven long-time friends for decades – has gone from rituals of power to melancholic failure assemblies. The end would be its only worthy fate. Until a mysterious coo ...

Bob Spit: We Do Not Like People (2021)

Bob Spit, a comic book character, lives in a post-apocalyptic desert inside the mind of his creator, the legendary Brazilian cartoonist Angeli. When Angeli decides to kill off Bob, the old punk leaves this wasteland and faces his creator. ...

Poropopó (2021)

7 Prisoners (2021)

An impoverished teen seeking to escape the clutches of a human trafficker must weigh living up to his moral code against his struggle to survive. ...

Emidoinã (2021)

Omindá (2018)

Until Sbornia Do Us Part (2013)

Sbornia is an island with a rich but eccentric culture, separated from the rest of the world by a high wall. When the wall comes down, cultural change plays hilarious havoc on the lives of two traditional Sbornian musicians. ...

While My Guitar Gently Weeps (2013)

Produced for TV Cultura within the project Telefilmes IV: Music and City, this made-for-TV film follows the story of Erica, a 14-year-old teenager growing up in Brazil, who has to learn how to deal with her British mother who is going off the rails. Living ...

That´s What Music is For (2013)

Documentary about "Os Mulheres Negras" , the world´s third smallest big band, discussing music, aesthetics and creation in Brazil from the 80´s till nowadays. ...

Brichos 2: A Floresta é Nossa (2012)

Futuro do Pretérito: Tropicalismo Now! (2012)

A look of the 21st century for one of the most important cultural movements in Brazilian history. The production brings a mix of interviews, concerts, artistic interventions and actors in small sketches. An intersection of the social and artistic contexts ...

Smoke Gets in Your Eyes (2009)

In São Paulo, Brazil, the lonely 40-something guitar teacher Baby lives a tedious life in a low middle-class apartment. She is addicted to her only companions: cigarettes. Baby has a constant conflict with her two sisters, over a couch she inherited from ...

Black Box (2009)

After running away from home in his youth, Túlio has grown adrift from his family. 40 years later he has to come home one last time to bury his parents and his brother and claim what now is his. ...

Confiscated Goods (2005)

Betrayed wife of a powerful and corrupt Senator, turns him in, and his fraud schemes and lies are exposed. After one of his lovers commits suicide, he has his illegitimate son kidnapped and taken to a decadent seaside resort in the country's extreme southe ...

Musicagen (2005)

Manual for Love Stories (2004)

Laura and Alan fall in love, but have to deal with the strange death of Alan's wife and with a rival, Lilith, who wants to break their relationship. At the same time, a narrator gives lessons on how to make a love story movie, exposing all clichés on that ...

Durval Discos (2002)

Eccentric Durval is a bit like the record shop he operates with his mother: rundown and pathetic. When their home becomes too much for his mother to care for, Durval hires a maid who no sooner disappears, leaving a young girl and a note behind. ...

Boleiros: Era uma Vez o Futebol... (1998)

Tribute to the world of soccer in Brazil. Group of ex-soccer players gather in a bar in São Paulo to remember old stories of their prime. ...

Almoço Executivo (1996)

Five friends meet for lunch. Nothing could be more mundane, but for some reason, no one stayed for dessert. ...

Saturday (1995)

On a Saturday morning, an advertising crew arrives at a decadent old building downtown São Paulo to shoot a TV commercial. ...

Babies Origins According to Kiki Cavalcanti (1995)

Expresso (1994)

A road movie inside a film set starring four fake blondes on the run. ...