Buda Lira

The Sound of God (2025)

An existential western about the pain of a family and the silence of a country. ...

The Secret Agent (2025)

Brazil, 1977. Marcelo, a technology expert in his early 40s, is on the run. Hoping to reunite with his son, he travels to Recife during Carnival but soon realizes that the city is not the safe haven he was expecting. ...

A Lenda dos Cavaleiros da Água (2024)

The Backlands Shall Sea (2024)

When an ocean-fascinated cowboy from the Brazilian backlands discovers that the farm where he has worked all his life will be sold, he abandons everything to, finally, get to know the sea. Guided by an old postcard sent by a long-lost love, he embarks on a ...

Heavier Is the Sky (2023)

After taking in an abandoned child, Teresa meets Antônio and the two begin a journey on the roads. The common past, for them, is the memories of a city submerged at the bottom of a dam. Life is a dream, but the future is uncertainty. ...

The Pastor and the Revolutionary (2023)

O Pastor e o Guerrilheiro is a Brazilian feature film inspired by a true story, which takes place in the 1960s and 1970s and at the turn of the millennium - in the last days of 1999. ...

Paloma (2022)

On a hot summer day, Paloma decides to fulfill her most cherished dream: a traditional wedding in a church with her boyfriend Zé. She is a devoted mother, a hard-working farmhand in a papaya plantation and has been saving to afford the celebration. The pr ...

The Salamander (2021)

Paralysed by fear of the future, a middle aged French bureaucrat escapes to Brazil where a destructive affair with a boy forces her to learn to live in the present. ...

Menino Azul (2021)

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Riff-Raff (2020)

After receiving a washing machine delivery man at home and experiencing an uncomfortable situation, Carmen begins to understand the limits between her body, as well as those of other women and the city from a new angle. ...

Bacurau (2019)

Bacurau, a small town in the Brazilian sertão, mourns the loss of its matriarch, Carmelita, who lived to be 94. Days later, its inhabitants notice that their community has vanished from most maps. ...

The Devil's Knot (2018)

During the slavery period in Brazil, a sugar cane farm was the stage for the darkest kinds of horrors. Years later, the place's cruel past is still stained in its walls, even if unnoticed, until a series of strange events starts happening and death returns ...

Sol Alegria (2018)

While the country is under the yoke of a military junta and corrupt priests preach the apocalypse, a lawless, eccentric family – a kind of Bonnie & Clyde with kids – trek through the Brazilian interior. Their first aim is to deliver a consignment of we ...

Rasga Mortalha (2018)

A man hears the sounds of an owl that, according to the local legend, signals the arrival of death. He will try to capture the bird to bring joy back to the city. ...

Dead Leaves (2017)

An elderly couple lives in an abandoned farm. Every night they receive a visit from a young man who comes join them. The past comes to light when the memories of the couple seems to arise from dreams and nightmares. ...

The Seamstress (2017)

In the thirties, two sisters separated by fate face prejudice and sexism, one by the high society in a big city and the other by a group of renegades in the countryside. Despite the distance, they know that they can only count on each other and both of the ...

Aquarius (2016)

Clara, a vibrant former music critic and widow with flowing tresses is the only remaining apartment owner in a beautiful older building targeted for demolition by ruthless luxury high-rise developers. Clara proves to be a force to be reckoned with as she t ...

The Great Kilapy (2012)

Zézé Gamboa's sardonic historical drama follows a good-hearted, apolitical con man who, on the eve of Angolan independence in the mid-1970s, pulls off a massive swindle at the expense of the Portuguese colonial administration — and soon after finds him ...

O Cão Sedento (2005)

Based on a comic book by fanzine artist, comic book writer and graphic artist Shiko, "O Cão Sedento" marks Bruno de Sales' directorial debut. The film is set in 1970, when a series of car thefts, involving the burning of the victims, shakes João Pessoa, ...