Araci Esteves

Monster Story (2025)

In a rural village colonized by Germans, little Ana watches a play about the history of the Thiltapes. It is a dangerous animal that lives in the forest, and no one knows its real form. Two hundred years earlier, a botanist who writes about the region hear ...

Empty House (2021)

Raúl is an unemployed cattleman that lives in an isolated house on the fields. The landscape of pastures is being superimposed by huge soy plantations. Devastated by poverty, he joins a gang of other peasants that steals cattle during the darkness of the ...

Quase Um Tango... (2009)

Batavo is a simple man living in the interior of RS. The calm of his routine comforts him, but it is the greater cause of the boredom that slaughter his wife, who decides to abandon it and to run away with another man. ...

Valsa para Bruno Stein (2007)

Bruno Stein and his family live in a house in Serra Gaúcha and make bricks by hand. Their lives change with the arrival of a stranger who awakens a series of feelings in the patriarch, who is already approaching the end of his life. ...

Nossa Senhora de Caravaggio (2007)

Concerto Campestre (2005)

In the 19th century, rich farmer with a passion for music dreams of having an orchestra. He hires a conductor, to help him organize the musicians. But the man falls in love with his daughter. ...

Noite de São João (2003)

An arrogant young woman, the landowner's daughter, gets involved with the farm straw boss. ...

Netto Perde Sua Alma (2002)

The story of a man who invented a country. ...

Oriundi (2000)

In a love story set in Curitiba, Southern Brazil, a patriarch witnesses the crumbling of his life-long family business at the hands of his descendants. Suddenly Sofia appears. Is she from this world, and is she the key to this family's happiness and their ...

Anahy de las Misiones (1997)

Told by gauchos from Brazil, Argentina and Uruguai, the legend says that Anahy de las Missiones wandered around the Plata Basin during the time of Cisplatina War (1825-1828), stealing the dead. ...

O Mentiroso (1988)

The friendship between four men is at stake when one of them is invited to work in another city. But the other three decide to go along. ...

Aqueles Dois (1985)

Raul and Saul work at the same office. Raul, outgoing and good-natured, comes from a broken marriage. Saul is shy, with a critical and bitter disposition, is recovering from a failed suicide attempt. In spite of their differences, they become quite good fr ...

Winter (1983)

At 24, our hero is a trained journalist but has a ,uch simpler job. His flat full of discs, movies, and books, but he has trouble socializing. This situation can't last long. ...

One Is Few, Two Would Fill (1970)

Um é Pouco, Dois é Bom is a Brazilian film, with an urban theme, produced and filmed in Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul, in 1970. The film is divided into two parts (Com um Pouquinho de Sorte and Vida Nova Por Acaso) that have different character cores a ...