Aury Porto

Agreste (2024)

In the heart of the Brazilian backlands, Agreste tells the story of Etevaldo, a nomadic and reserved rural worker who carries a dark secret. When he meets Maria, a free-spirited young woman promised in marriage to an influential man from the neighborhood, ...

Nobody Leaves Alive (2024)

"Nobody Leaves Alive" by André Ristum is shot in beautiful but also distancing black and white. Looking at the Venice line-up, this seems to be a trend this year among the maestros of cinema. The film is inspired by true events that took place in the last ...

Heartless (2024)

Summer 1996, north-east coast of Brazil. Tamara is enjoying her last weeks at the fishing village she lives in before departing to Brasilia for her studies. One day, she hears about a teenager nicknamed Heartless after a scar she has on her chest. Over the ...

Cordially Yours (2022)

Ten stories or one. Ten moments in the timeline: 1972, 1999, 1550, 2083, 1891, 2012, 1618 – and the same reality: violence giving the final face to relations in brazil. a slave revolt on a coffee plantation, the torture of an indian, the kidnapping of an ...

Desire Machine: 60 Years of Teatro Oficina (2021)

In six decades, Teatro Oficina has done more than revolutionize theatrical language in the country: the aesthetic influence of José Celso Martinez Corrêa's company extends from Tropicalism to the renewal of Brazilian audiovisual languages ​​from the ...

Acqua Movie (2019)

A documentarist is convinced by her son to travel to Brazil's Northeast so she can throw his dad ashes at São Francisco river. ...

Para'í (2018)

A Guarani girl begins to question her place in the world. ...

Hopefuls (2015)

Junior, as he's known, since he's essentially still a child, seems to be having a tough time getting on in life. He shares cheap lodgings with another fellow and earns money doing strenuous night shifts at a warehouse. It's no surprise that he lives for fo ...

Homens com Cheiro de Flor (2011)

Os Sertões - A Terra (2002)

From 2000 to 2007, Teat(r)o Oficina Uzyna Uzona worked on the staging of Euclides da Cunha's epic book, Os Sertões, which describes the 19th Century War of Canudos in the Brazilian "sertão"(backlands). The result was the pentalogy of plays: A Terra (2002 ...

Ed Mort (1997)

A detective is hired by a mysterious woman to find her missing husband, a master of disguises, and important industry executive. ...