Cristina Amaral

Cidade; Campo (2024)

Two tales of migration. In the first, after a tailings dam disaster floods her hometown, rural worker Joana (55) moves to São Paulo to find her sister Tania, who lives with her grandson Jaime. Joana enters the universe of insecurity, replying to an a ...

I did not come either (2024)

Letícia discovers she is pregnant but does not know who the father of her child is. There are four possibilities. Despite being insecure and afraid, she gets in touch with the potential parents. Everyone claims that the child can't be theirs because they ...

Dry Ground Burning (2023)

Just released from prison, Léa returns home to the Brasilia favela of Sol Nascente and joins up with her half-sister Chitara, the fearless leader of an all-female gang that steals and refines oil from underground pipes and sells gasoline to a clandestine ...

The Infernal Machine (2021)

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

Beautiful Carnivals (2020)

Dadinho, an old samba composer, is taken by his granddaughter to his brother's funeral, composer from a rival samba school. Along this path a history of rivalry, samba and betrayal emerges from the past. ...

Vai Passar... (2020)

Veronica (2020)

Veronica Oliveira - Faxina Boa is a unique cleaning professional in São Paulo. Through a drift in Vila Buarque, the neighborhood where she was born and returned to work, she tells us a little about her trajectory. ...

Mito e Música: A Mensagem de Fernando Pessoa (2019)

The documentary addresses the project, which took 30 years to complete, about the recording of 44 songs created for each poem in Mensagem, one of Fernando Pessoa's most emblematic books. ...

Abaixo a Gravidade (2019)

Bené spent many years looking for his spiritual evolution in a small country town. He has made great progress and is fully integrated into the community, but will be put to the test when he meets Letícia and is brought into the underworld of the big city ...

Sem Asas (2019)

Zu, a twelve-year-old boy on the way to buy flour for his mother, winds up in the clutches of armed paramilitary narcotics officers. ...

Sun Inside (2019)

Is the end of the school year, the heat comes, and with it regular power cuts in the suburbs of Rio de Janeiro. Karol, Junior, Ronaldo and Caio have a harsh summer ahead of them. In a country where living conditions are increasingly precarious, these four ...

Seen, Not Seen (2014)

A dialogue between the auteur's memories and the images he shot and kept during his long film career - sketches of live that were never shown, never seen, never edited. ...

São Silvestre (2013)

The São Silvestre Road Race is a famous long-distance running event held yearly in the city of São Paulo, Brazil, on December 31st. The movie recreates the experience of running the race in 2011. ...

The Man Who Couldn't Sleep (2012)

On a same night, five people from a small country town have the same nightmare. Upon the arrival of a pilgrim, the village is taken off its mediocre routine and the characters are thrown on the vortex of an uncommon situation. Each one's truth will come to ...

Bodas de Papel (2008)

Fake Blonde (2007)

Silmara, an industrial worker and a woman of exuberant beauty, supports her arsonist father and gets involved with two different pop stars, from whom she learns traumatic life lessons. ...

Person (2007)

Person is a documentary about the life and work of filmmaker Luiz Sérgio Person. The documentary brings the reconstruction of the history of the São Paulo filmmaker through the personal journey of his daughter, Marina. Through interviews with friends, fa ...

The Hills of Disorder (2006)

Carapiru is a member of one of Brazil's remaining indigenous peoples, living in harmony with nature and making wise use of the local flora and fauna. But Carapiru is suddenly forced to fend for himself and flees into the nearby rain forest, building a new ...

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 ...

Girls from ABC (2003)

Aurélia is a young black woman who works at a factory and lives in a working-class neighborhood in São Paulo, whose boyfriend Fábio gets involved with a racist neo-nazi group. ...

Tempo de Resistência (2003)

A Ira (2002)

Two sisters living their lifes. ...

O Encontro (2002)

Equilíbrio e Graça (2002)

A short film about the meeting of a Trappist monk and a Zen Buddhist master. ...

Sonhos Tropicais (2001)

A Polish Jew becomes a prostitute after failing to get a marriage in Brazil. Meanwhile, the public health doctor Oswaldo Cruz ends up involved in the Vaccine Revolt. ...

A História Real (2001)

In a hospital that struggles not to close its doors, two children discover their first love. ...

Two Streams (1999)

Young executive woman returns to small town of Dois Córregos and remembers the time, in the late 1960s, when she met her uncle there, a man who was running away from the military dictatorship ruling Brazil at the time. ...

A Hora Mágica (1998)

In the 1950s, while radio is slowly being surpassed by television as the leading broadcast medium, Tito Balcárcel, a voice actor, becomes romantically involved with Lúcia, a fan of his who drags him into a mysterious crime plot. ...

Vassourinha: The Voice and the Void (1998)

Experimental documentary about the life and work of obscure samba musician Vassourinha (1923-1942), born in São Paulo, who only recorded six 78rpm records, dying at 19. ...

Ordinária (1997)

The Comrade: The Life of Luiz Carlos Prestes (1997)

Chronicles the life of military lieutenant, later communist militant and Brazilian politician Luiz Carlos Prestes. ...

O Cego Que Gritava Luz (1997)

A storyteller in Brasilia entertains the visitors of a bar with his narratives. ...

Almoço Executivo (1996)

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

Eu Sei Que Você Sabe (1995)

Disagreements, incommunicability between people. What is said is not heard, what is heard is not understood. Everything is ambiguous. What appears to be is not, except poetry. ...

Glaura (1995)

A musical about a woman who hates music. ...

Vala Comum (1994)

Documentary about the discovery of a ditch in a cemetery located in São Paulo, in which were found the carcass of Brazilian political prisoners who fought against the military dictatorship. ...

Expression and Sensation (1994)

A free flight of memory, instinct, expressions and sensations. The unrevealed city is seen through the eyes of caged animals. ...

Buccaneer Soul (1993)

50 years of Brazilian history seen from the point of view of a friendship among two intellectuals. ...

Abá (1992)

Cristo Procurado (1990)

Ôrí (1989)

A look at the Brazilian black movement between 1977 and 1988, going by the relationship between Brazil and Africa. ...

Ana (1982)

An existential profile of primitivist painter Ana Moisés in her atelier in Embu, on the outskirts of São Paulo. ...

J.J.J., o Amigo do Super-Homem (1978)

Candango: Memoirs from a Festival (2020)

In 1965, a year after the military coup in Brazil, an oasis of freedom opened in the country's capital. The Brasília Film Festival: a landmark of cultural and political resistance. Its story is that of Brazilian cinema itself. ...

Na Ilha (2019)

Immersive documentary in the film editing process. Twenty Brazilian cinema editors expose the nuances of this art, its secrets and processes. ...

Virgin on the Hill (1977)

Ring whose previous owner was a prostitute with supernatural powers causes double personality in a young woman about to marry. After some time, her face gets disfigured, forcing her to wear a mask. ...

Passaporte Para o Inferno (1976)

Os Pilantras da Noite (1975)