Carlos Francisco

Asa Branca: A Voz da Arena (2025)

The feature film "Asa Branca: A Voz da Arena" tells the story of a boy, born into a poor family, who saw the world of rodeos as an opportunity to change his life. On a clandestine trip to the USA, he discovered that he could revolutionize this show in Braz ...

Bury Your Dead (2025)

Edgar Wilson, a roadkill collector in rural Brazil, dreams of escaping his small-town existence with Nete, the love of his life. When Nete decides to join her family in an apocalyptic cult, Edgar finds himself at a crossroads. With the world on the brink o ...

The Son of a Thousand Men (2025)

In a small village, a lonely fisherman yearning for a son is drawn to an ethereal light that links him to others and their long-buried secrets. ...

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. ...

Suçuarana (2024)

Suçuarana is the name of a mythical place, a lush landscape that appears in the weathered photo of her mother that Dora carries with her always. Dora has been on the road for a long time, hitching rides through Brazil's mining region in search of her fami ...

A Strange Path (2024)

As a virus spreads throughout Brazil, a young filmmaker goes back to his village and tries to rekindle his relationship with his father. But as they become closer, stranger events start to happen, making their connection more difficult. ...

Stone Age (2024)

The wanderings of the Terceiro Mundo, a homeless man who plunges into a dreamlike drift through the streets of the capital of São Paulo. ...

At night all cats are brown (2024)

The night of Belo Horizonte, Brazil, is a time capsule that relativizes the passage, blurs the senses, and recasts the definitions of future in the life of young Junior - who cannot wait to be emancipated from absolutely everything. ...

Um Filme de Cinema (2023)

Canção ao Longe (2023)

The young Jimena searches for her identity. The film follows the life of the young woman with her mother and grandmother, white middle-class women, and the exchange of letters with her father, a foreign and black man, whom the young woman resembles. Seekin ...

Mars One (2022)

A middle-class Black family in Brazil copes with the election of a far-right extremist president. The mother believes that she's cursed after an unexpected encounter, while her husband puts all of his hopes into their son's soccer career. ...

Valley of the Righteous (2021)

In the 19th century Minas Gerais hinterland, an outsider discovers a mysterious bar. ...

Sweet River (2021)

Under pressure from a back pain and being constantly short of money, Tiago (played by Okado do Canal) experiences an encounter that will reshape everything he knew about his own father, instilling an imminent crisis in his way of being. Set amid the outski ...

The Infernal Machine (2021)

A tale about the apocalypse of the working class. ...

Antes Que o Céu nos Consuma (2019)

Guaicurus Street (2019)

A red-light district in Belo Horizonte, Brazil. The camera is admitted into a "running house". Love for sale looks like a routine, dreary assembly line exercise here, sometimes almost like a comedy. ...

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. ...

In the Heart of the World (2019)

The inhabitants of the Brazilian city of Contagem yearn for a better life. At the core of it all is Selma, a woman dreaming about the heart of the world: it could be anywhere, as long as it's a place where to feel happier. ...

Nothing (2017)

Bia just turned eighteen. The end of the year is coming and also the ACTs. People at school and Bia's parents are pressuring her to decide which graduation she will apply for. Bia doesn't want to do anything. ...

Subybaya (2017)

Within me lives a silence. At night, he goes with his claws, hunting for something to scream. ...

Young and Miserable or a Man Screaming Is Not a Dancing Bear (2016)

To start again, one has to destroy. ...

Rapsódia Para o Homem Negro (2015)

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 ...

Romeo and Juliet Get Married (2005)

The tomboyish, outgoing Julieta is the daughter of a member of the Palmeiras soccer club board. She is constantly frustrated by what she sees as institutional bias against women in soccer. One day while watching her beloved Palmeiras, she is struck by a ha ...