Fernando Teixeira

Paterno (2025)

Sérgio is determined to take over his family's construction company to pursue a long-buried dream. But when he uncovers a hidden chapter from his father's past, his ambitions are shaken, forcing him to confront the man he has truly become. ...

Captain Wits (2025)

The grandfather of a former child star decides to become a superhero. The angst grandson will need to become a superhero's sidekick in order to help his grandfather to face aging with the same bravery that embodies the hero Captain Astúcia. ...

Juvenal and the Dragon (2024)

An adventurous young man will have his courage and benevolence tested while saving the population of a kingdom - which is inserted in the middle of a brazilian countryside - from an imminent threat - a dragon - to win the heart of the girl he falls in love ...

Conserva (2023)

Old Pereira remembers a gift he got from the sea during the Summer of Lata in 1988, in northeastern Brazil. ...

The Cage and the Dream (2022)

Vicente is a retired widower teacher who lives between lucid dreams and everyday life in the Alecrim neighborhood. ...

Vale do Vento Eterno (2021)

Toada para José Siqueira (2021)

A feature documentary on the life and work of Brazilian conductor, teacher, musicologist and composer José Siqueira. Founder of some of the most important Brazilian orchestras, including the Brazilian Symphonic Orchestra, Siqueira was part of the 3rd. nat ...

Curral (2021)

Curral is a political drama set in the rural Brazilian city of Gravatá. During the mayoral elections, the population is divided between the Blue and Red parties, two political oligarchies fighting each other for power. A recent severe drought means water ...

Bento (2020)

A film on childhood in Brazilian countryside. The boy faces changes which leave no alternative than maturity. ...

King Kong en Asunción (2020)

An old hired killer is hiding in the interior of Bolivia, in the desert region of the Salar de Uyuni. You just committed your last murder. After months in isolation, he travels to the interior of Paraguay where he receives a good reward and heads to Asunci ...

Shine Your Eyes (2020)

A Nigerian musician travels to Brazil to search for his estranged brother, who is living a life very different than the one his family thought. ...

We Still Have the Deep Black Night (2019)

Karen sings and plays the trumpet in a vigorous rock band in Brasilia, but no one there is interested in it. At 27, she has lost hope in the city her grandfather helped to build. She follows in the footsteps of her ex-partner in the band, Artur, and tries ...

Incursão (2019)

A Ética das Hienas (2019)

A fraud in a labor cause is discovered, but nothing like a good deal in Brazil. With Justice, with the market, with everything. ...

The Yellow Night (2019)

A group of friends travels to a beach house on an island on the brazilian seaside to celebrate the end of high school, a place virtually no one else inhabits and which is almost always dark. However, their drollery and parties are cut short by the feeling ...

Faixa de Gaza (2019)

In a housing complex on the outskirts, Mago heads a band of young people enticing and committing crimes amid a war of factions reported by the radio waves. Nazaré and Naldin are faced with the violence of this conflict, as both are in the wrong place: the ...

Desvio (2019)

Pedro is given leave from jail to visit his family in Patos. During his visit, he confronts old ghosts and plans a new direction for his life, while discovering in Pamela, his teenage cousin, the same flame that burned in his heart. ...

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 ...

Blessed is the Fruit (2018)

After committing a crime, the woman leaves her home and family in search of an unknown destination. It is not known who she is, nor the reason for the crime. The mystery about this woman is one of the key points of the narrative. Throughout history she wil ...

Aroeira (2016)

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 ...

Deserto (2016)

A small group of artists travels the Brazilian backlands presenting a show. Upon arriving in a small village, they find an abandoned city with houses, a church, and a fountain spouting clean water, like a miracle of a biblical desert. Tired of and battered ...

The Signalman (2015)

A railroad signalman is haunted by a series of otherworldly events in this adaptation of a Charles Dickens short story. Are they truly ghostly manifestations, or the signalman's psychological response to his isolation and repetitive work? ...

Moído (2015)

The Dead's Wish (2013)

"Old age isn't a battle, old age is a massacre. ...

Werewolf From Paraíba (2013)

Graciano tells an injured boy that he has a leg wound caused by the encounter with a werewolf when he was younger. ...

Xingu (2012)

Three brothers embark on a journey that begins with a kinship with Brazil's indigenous tribes, to their creation of South America's largest national park. ...

O Hóspede (2011)

In a hostel in the interior of Brazil, a strange guest and a mysterious incident leave the landlord restless and obsessed with finding out who that man is and what he is doing there. ...

Blue Eyes (2010)

Before his compulsory retirement, on his last day of work, Marshall, JFK airport's chief Immigration officer, detains a group of Latin Americans and expose them to a series of humiliating situations. Blinded by prejudice, Marshall ends up by causing the de ...

O Sonho de Inacim (2009)

Bezerra de Menezes: O Diário de um Espírito (2008)

The film follows the life of the doctor Menezes (Carlos Vereza), known as the doctor of the poor. ...

Bog of Beasts (2006)

A man falls in love with a teenage girl, who is exploited by her own grandfather, who sometimes takes her to a gas station to show her naked to whomever pays him some money. ...

A Árvore de Marcação (1994)