Leo Henkin

Motherboard (2024)

Nadi is an android with citizenship, who earns the right to adopt two children. However, a sensationalist politician, brings up several controversies about the case, in order to gain popularity for his candidacy for Senate president. ...

Loop (2019)

After his girlfriend's murder, Daniel, a physics student becomes obsessed with the idea of going back in time to stop the tragedy. He lets himself be consumed by his own obsession until after years of isolation, he finds the solution. Daniel then gives up ...

Through Ernesto's Eyes (2019)

Ernesto, a seventy-eight-year-old Uruguayan photographer living in Brazil, faces the limitations of old age. One day, Bia storms into his life. And Ernesto realizes that aging can be about rejuvenating with the company of a girl. ...

Telentrega (2017)

Elias is going through a troubled time: his son Rafael urgently needs a heart transplant. Disturbed by this harrowing wait, Elias begins to live on the edge between right and wrong, while envisioning an idea that could save his son's life. ...

Em 97 Era Assim (2016)

A 15 year-old boy and his friends want to lose their virginity. ...

Las Ineses (2016)

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 ...

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. ...

Rummikub (2007)

To whom does the poison belongs? to the young lovers? or to their parents, whom in old hands "behold rusted hatred"? ...

Oscar Boz (2004)

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. ...

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. ...

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. ...

Um Homem Sério (1996)

Hilário Pestana, the most famous, funniest and, ironically, saddest Brazilian actor, has died. He has passed through many stages of Brazilian cinema: the chanchadas, the Vera Cruz classics, the pornochanchadas, and even experimental movies. He was beloved ...

Estrada (1995)

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 ...

O Zeppelin Passou por Aqui (1993)

Porto Alegre anxiously awaits the passage of the German airship towards Montevideo. Júlio, an accountant, finds a way not to take his wife Mariana, a seamstress, who stays at home, sad. But while Júlio and his lover Leda see very little of Zeppelin, Mari ...

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. ...

Festa de Casamento (1990)

A wedding in the interior of Rio Grande, 1930. Among the guests, a lover of the bride, accompanied by his pregnant wife. Amid the joy of the party, the lovers decide to run away. So, the groom gathers a group of friends and sets out to seek revenge. ...

Um Barzinho, Um Violão: Novelas Anos 70 (2008)