Fiapo Barth

Vai Dar Nada (2022)

Kelson is a young worker who uses his motorcycle to escape the police and win Neide's love. He buys a new motorcycle from swindler Fernando, without knowing that it belonged to a dangerous drug dealer, who got out of prison and now wants it back. ...

Rend Your Heart (2018)

40 years after fighting for what he thought was new and revolutionary, a former anonymous militant against the now fallen Brazilian dictatorship is accused of being conservative, antiquated and anachronistic by his own son. ...

True Beauty (2015)

A photographer gets involved with a family as he seeks for a new model in a small town. ...

The Staple of News (2014)

Written in 1625 by the British playwright Ben Jonson, the play "The Staple of News" provides a historic root for this discussion about the role of the press in modern day Brazil. Journalists of several generations discuss the dilemmas of the selection and ...

Sweet Mother (2012)

Picucha may seem old-fashioned, but she has modern ideas and a great sense of humor. As the matriarch of a big family, she is involved in the daily lives of her children, grandchildren and other relatives. Undeterred by the typical problems of old age, she ...

Basic Sanitation, the Movie (2007)

When they discover their town lacks funding for a sewage system, but does have a federal grant to make a movie, a group of villagers decide to make a sci-fi joint about a monster who lives in the building site of a septic tank. ...

Sal de Prata (2005)

After her boyfriend's death, a successful executive finds some unfinished scripts in the dead man's computer, and decides to make a film of them. Her relationship with the world of movie-making is going to change her life. ...

My Uncle Killed a Guy (2004)

Éder is arrested after confessing the murder of a man. Duca, his nephew, is sure that his uncle confessed the crime to protect his girlfriend, Soraya, ex-wife of the deceased, so he enlists two of his friends to help prove his theory. ...

The Man Who Copied (2003)

A young photocopier operator becomes infatuated with his neighbor and, unable to afford anything from her shop, turns to shady schemes to make money. ...

Two Summers (2002)

A coming of age dramatic comedy dealing with the effect that two "summers" have on the lives of several teenagers. The main story involves an innocent teenage boy and a conniving teenage girl who meet on a beach one summer in Southern Brazil. ...

Dona Cristina Perdeu a Memória (2002)

Antônio, an 8-year-old boy, discovers that his neighbor Cristina, 80, tells different stories about her life, the names of her relatives and the saints of the day. And Mrs. Cristina believes that Antônio can help her recover her lost memory. ...

The Sandwich (2000)

A couple's last moments: their meetings, separations and a sandwich. ...

3 Minutes (1999)

Three minutes. The time to leave a message. To pass the baton and run 1600 meters. To cook an egg. The time to make a decision that can change your life. ...

O Velho do Saco (1999)

Ricardo is 10 years old, lives in the interior of Rio Grande do Sul and has nightmares about Velho do Saco, sort of a Brazilian bogeyman, "who takes out the eyes of misbehaving children". It is not easy to distinguish truths and lies when the loss of innoc ...

Trampolim (1998)

Teenager preparing for diving competition identifies with suicides who jumped from an old viaduct in Porto Alegre. ...

O Pulso (1997)

In a morgue, the corpse of a young man that suddenly died on the streets probably due to a heart attack will be examined by the coroner Elizabeth (Letícia Spiller). She questions with her colleague the death of a person so young and handsome, but the brai ...

Ângelo Anda Sumido (1997)

Two friends try to get to a restaurant for dinner and get lost in the labyrinth of bars, walls and fences in a city. ...

Sexo & Beethoven - O Reencontro (1997)

Two straight (but not really) guys invite two naive (but not really) prostitutes for a night of sex. In the preliminary conversations, a little poetry, a lot of philosophy and heavy doses of vulgarity, all with Beethoven in the background. But when it come ...

Estrada (1995)

Deus Ex-Machina (1995)

Dolores, a beautiful, wealthy and paralyzed woman, hires detective Otávio to follow her husband Inácio and find out what his real relationship is with a young woman named Alice. A story of lies, false leads and obscure motivations, in which four characte ...

Ventre Livre (1994)

Is the country of the future where children get pregnant? Is the largest Catholic country in the world where more than thirty thousand women die as a result of abortion? Is the 10th largest economy on the planet where 27% of women are sterilized? VENTRE LI ...

Veja Bem (1994)

A Matadeira (1994)

Canudos was a small village in northeastern Brazil, founded by the messianic leader Antônio Conselheiro and massacred by a powerful army until the death of the last of its 30,000 inhabitants, on October 5, 1897. The film tells the story of the Canudos mas ...

This Is Not Your Life (1991)

Noeli lives in a suburb of Porto Alegre, is a housewife and has two children. She was born in a country town, went to the capital, worked in a bakery, got married. She's an ordinary person. But there are no ordinary people. ...

O Vampiro de Novo Hamburgo (1991)

Mockumentary on a German moviemaker and an old vampire film in Southern Brazil. ...

Isle of Flowers (1989)

A tomato is planted, harvested and sold at a supermarket, but it rots and ends up in the trash. But it doesn't end there: Isle of Flowers follows it up until its real end, among animals, trash, women and children. And then the difference between tomatoes, ...

Barbosa (1988)

Thirty-eight years after the 1950 World Cup, a man went back in time to prevent the goal that defeated Brazil, destroyed his childhood dreams and ended goalkeeper Barbosa's career. ...

O Mentiroso (1988)

The friendship between four men is at stake when one of them is invited to work in another city. But the other three decide to go along. ...

The Day Dorival Faced the Guard (1986)

Dorival, a man in jail, has only one wish: to take a bath. To achieve his objective, he defies the private, the corporal, the sargeant and, finally, the lieutenant in charge of the prison. ...

Obscenidades (1986)

A bourgeois housewife's life is shaken by a series of anonymous letters that she periodically receives, increasingly obscene. At first, she believes the sender to be a complete stranger, then she begins to suspect her husband's friends. But she doesn't dar ...

Filme Sobre um Bom Fim (2015)

Bom Fim, in Porto Alegre, was a stronghold of the youth movement that took place between the 1970s and 1980s. The trajectory of the place is revisited through interviews with musicians and artists who lived those golden years. ...