Karen Akerman

Funk (2026)

The rise of MC Sabrina, a young Brazilian funk singer, from her beginnings in Morro dos Prazeres to the electrifying favela parties that pulse through the heart of Rio de Janeiro. ...

Drenched in Blood (2026)

After his father's death, Gabriel leaves for Armação Beach in search of his origins. What he ends up finding is a complex plot around the mysterious figure of his grandfather, a whale skeleton and a city that wants to bury the past at any cost. ...

I Only Rest in the Storm (2025)

Sergio travels to a metropolis in West Africa to work for an NGO as an environmental engineer on a road project between the desert and the forest. There, he becomes entangled in an intimate yet unbalanced relationship with two inhabitants of the city, Diar ...

Aurora (2025)

In the wake of a dream, João Vieira Torres sets off to find the children that his grandmother Aurora, a midwife, helped deliver. Through encounters with the living and the dead, he uncovers tragic destinies which reflect a structural history of violence a ...

Sulfur (2024)

Child solidarity is stronger than death. ...

Greice (2024)

Greice, a Brazilian girl studying in Lisbon, gets involved with a mysterious guy and ends up getting accused of a strange incident that occurs at the students' welcoming party, which forces her to return to her hometown to renew her residence permit. Hidde ...

The Fisherman's Daughter (2024)

Samuel, the last free-diving fisherman, has lived isolated in the island of La Aguja since he was abandoned by his wife and son 15 years ago. His life is disrupted when his son shows up now as Priscila, a transgender prostitute from the streets of Santa Ma ...

Aunt Virginia (2023)

Aunt Virginia is a 70-year-old woman who has no children and has never been married, and ends up being convinced by her sisters, Vanda and Valquíria, to move to another city in order to take care of her parents. Taking place in just one day, the film foll ...

Guarda Vieja 3458 timbre 3/6 (2023)

In exile, a Brazilian child develops strategies to rise. ...

Helena de Guaratiba (2023)

Hated by the Greeks, detested by the Trojans, Helena lives a peaceful life in Guaratiba, a fishing neighborhood in Rio de Janeiro. Until love knocks on her door, bringing back ghosts from her past. ...

The Soul of Things (2023)

Birth, life and death of a carnival sculpture. Linked to the mythology of the Orixás, a metaphor of creation based on the Babalotim doll, a boy idol who has lived through many carnivals. ...

Lilith (2022)

The mythological story of the first woman on Earth, who came before Eve. She is created by God to be Adam's wife. However, Lilith does not accept a position of inferiority in relation to man, she rebels and goes to the desert. Lilith reappears as Eve's dou ...

Secret Friend (2022)

In 2019, the leakage of messages exchanged by authorities in Brazil undermines the credibility of Operation Lava Jato. A group of journalists follows the unfolding of the case, in a sequence of crises that puts Brazilian democracy at risk. ...

Espero que Esta te Encontre e que Estejas Bem (2022)

A batch of 110 love letters exchanged by two lovers in the 1950s, discovered in Mato Grosso do Sul, is the starting point for this film. ...

The Wind Blows the Border (2022)

On the violent border between Brazil and Paraguay, a war is being waged around the expansion of agribusiness. On one side sits lawyer Luana Ruiz, the heiress to contested lands and one of the strongest supporters of president Jair Bolsonaro. Ruiz, like oth ...

Hilda's Short Summer (2021)

Hilda must be responsible of a decision that she took long time ago. Her life is altered by the news that her son is coming to visit her after several years away. She tries to replenish her weathered image by the passage of time. This will stir her reality ...

The Fever (2021)

Justino, a 45-year-old member of the indigenous Desana people, is a security guard at the Manaus harbor. As his daughter prepares to soon depart to Brasília, Justino comes down with a mysterious fever. ...

Depois da Primavera (2021)

Syrian brothers Adel and Hadi Bakkour take to the streets of Rio de Janeiro fighting for democracy in the country where they chose to live. History repeats itself: before they had to leave Aleppo to protest for freedom. Back he inherited his mother, Lawahe ...

Window Boy Would Also Like to Have a Submarine (2020)

Aboard a cruise ship out at sea, a young sailor discovers a door mysteriously leading to an apartment in Montevideo. Meanwhile, a group of Asian farmers find an abandoned shed in the valley, attributing it supernatural powers. ...

Mulher Oceano (2020)

After relocating to Tokyo, a Brazilian writer begins a new novel, provoked by her experiences in Japan and by one of the last scenes she witnessed in Rio de Janeiro: a female swimmer tearing up the horizon with powerful strokes in the wide, open sea. Those ...

Nona. If They Soak Me, I'll Burn Them (2019)

Josefina, a radical homemaker, committed a crime of passion that led her to self-exile at a coastal town. She tries to find peace in solitude, immersed in the house routine, while coexisting with a past of lovers and Molotov cocktails. Her body suffers the ...

The Father's Shadow (2018)

When a child is forced to become the house's adult because her father is sick and her mother is dead, there's an inversion in the natural order of things. Childhood becomes a saga. And the frustrated parenthood turns into a conviction. ...

The Dead Queen (2018)

Inspired on the true events of the Portuguese king Don Pedro (14th Century) which unburied his mistress to make her queen after dead. This film tells the story of Pedro, a man admitted to a psychiatric hospital for traveling by car with the corpse of his b ...

In a Foreign Country (2018)

Cinematographic transcreation of a text censored in 1968. ...

Confident (2016)

If I didn't blossom, if I remained unbloomed, it's because my roots were poisoned. I know it's false, an induced error, but... this is me. ...

Future June (2015)

A portrait of the city of São Paulo through the life of four of its inhabitants: an economist and analyst of the financial market, a metallurgist who works at Volkswagen, a motorcycle courier and a railway worker. Each character calls attention to one asp ...

Maybe Desert Perhaps Universe (2015)

The Forensic Psychiatric Hospital is a medium-security level, closed structure, with a rehabilitation component. The service provided includes psychiatric, psychological, medical, therapeutic and social care. The 32 men who inhabit the unit were considered ...

Hopefuls (2015)

Junior, as he's known, since he's essentially still a child, seems to be having a tough time getting on in life. He shares cheap lodgings with another fellow and earns money doing strenuous night shifts at a warehouse. It's no surprise that he lives for fo ...

October Is Over (2015)

Beside the savage desire to realize the enormities which he brooded on, nothing was sacred. ...

O Senhor do Labirinto (2014)

A Wolf at the Door (2013)

Love turns to hate and panic breeds suspicion as two parents deal with the kidnapping of their child. ...

Parque Soviético (2013)

Love is a cold war. A couple discuss their relationship in a Berlin Park. ...

Tales of the Tide (2013)

Urban legends, memories of a family and where they live. A story about wolves, snakes and pigs in a favela complex. ...

The Gravedigger (2012)

Inspired by popular cult, O COVEIRO is part light part darkness, a bedtime story and almost a nightmare. A child is born and his parents die of fright just to see him. André Gil Mata revisits the traditional Portuguese tale, in a fantastic movie where hea ...

Feijoada Completa (2012)

On a Saturday, unhappy with her marriage, Carol gets ready to leave, her husband usually goes to a soccer match and bring his friends back home for lunch. The dish of the day is feijoada. This film is an adaptation of the short story "Feijoada Completa" b ...

Fire (2011)

"There must be a different solution than the one from hell'. Full unadulterated terror (and music). 'The best class always ends with a lesson'. Almost baroque in its ambition and detail, Akerman and Seabra Lopes' mesmerising short film delves deeply into t ...

Who lives in my mind (2010)

Thirteen elderly people with cognitive illnesses attend the Psychogeriatric Day Clinic at the CHPL Hospital. The treatment is based on psychotherapeutic practices, wich allow for intervention on the Person, improving the preserved abilities, implementing a ...

Lands (2009)

On the triple frontier between Brazil, Colombia and Peru, the twin towns of Letícia and Tabatinga form an urban island surrounded by the Amazon rain-forest. Following the ordinary events and the constant come and go of people along the border, Terras port ...

Simonal: No One Knows How Tough It Was (2009)

In a time of timeless and revolutionary talents, Wilson Simonal shined as nobody before and innovated as only a few could. All of a sudden, everything vanished. This film maps the spectacular trajectory of the ex-Army corporal that ruled as a monarch, and ...

Arca D'Água (2009)

In a lake surrounded by buildings, a man builds a boat. ...

Alaska (2009)

In Alasca landscape never changes, only grows old. ...

A party that fell from the sky (2008)

Rosa is not allowed into the party that is happening in the living room of her house. When her cat slips out of the bedroom, Rosa goes after it, ending up at a party with very peculiar guests. ...

Margin (2007)

Large boats navigate the Amazon River daily, transporting people, animals and goods. This film portrays one of these trips. ...

Breathless (2006)

French girl lost in Rio de Janeiro has a peculiar meeting with the nacional cinema maphia. Who can save her? ...

Gaijin 2: Love Me as I Am (2005)

In 1908, Titoe leaves her home country of Japan to try her luck in Brazil. Her intention is just to get rich and return in five years, but life has other plans for her. ...

Na Ilha (2019)

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

October Is Over (2015)

Beside the savage desire to realize the enormities which he brooded on, nothing was sacred. ...

Breathless (2006)

French girl lost in Rio de Janeiro has a peculiar meeting with the nacional cinema maphia. Who can save her? ...