Luciana Tomasi

Resistance (2019)

Brazil, 1961. In the underground of the Piratini Palace, the governor of Rio Grande do Sul, Leonel Brizola, awaits a bombing by the Brazilian armed forces. The country is on the verge of a civil war, following the resignation of president Jânio Quadros an ...

Yonlu (2018)

A fiction film based on the real story of a 16 year-old boy who, aided by the internet, won over the world with his talent for music and art. Fluent in five languages, Yonlu had a network of virtual friends on all continents. However, no one suspected he w ...

International Day (2018)

During the International day, a fifth-grade class starts a small revolution in the school rules. ...

Bio (2017)

The film tells the story of a man who was born in 1959 and died in 2070, told by people who knew him and somehow contributed to his trajectory. ...

Absoluto - Internacional Bicampeão da América (2010)

Absoluto - Internacional Bicampeão da América is a feature-length documentary that tells the electrifying trajectory of the Celeiro de Ases at the Libertadores 2010, telling the exploits of America's true liberators: General Bolívar and his red army. Of ...

Before the World Ends (2010)

The countryside of Rio Grande do Sul, and high-school student, Daniel, spends a normal adolescence life with his family, studying, riding his bicycle, playing games on the Internet and expecting one day to move to the big city of Porto Alegre. Daniel has a ...

Grêm10x0 - 100 Anos de Grenal (2009)

1983 - O Ano Azul (2009)

December 11, 1983: this date sticks in the memory of the Grêmio supporters. With a spectacular performance by Renato Portaluppi, and a team that had as much strength as talent, Grêmio defeated the mighty Hamburger SV, the Champion's League winner, and wa ...

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. ...

O Resto é Silêncio (2005)

A reporter goes out to investigate a suicide. ...

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 ...

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. ...

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. ...

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. ...

Grêmio - Heart and Soul (1997)

A documentary that tells the history of Grêmio Football Porto-Alegrense from its foundation in 1903 to the triumph of the 1997 Copa do Brasil. In addition to providing the historical panorama of the achievements of the club, the documentary explores the r ...

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 ...

O Futuro da Terra (1997)

In the 30 de Maio settlement, in Charqueadas, Rio Grande do Sul, 40 families settled in 1990 show that it is possible to resist, produce and live collectively from the land. Just one example of how generous the Brazilian land can be when men and women work ...

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)

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 ...

Amigo Lupi (1993)

The most famous popular composer in Rio Grande do Sul, Lupicínio Rodrigues (1914-1974) has his life remembered through his songs and testimonies from friends. ...

Naval Battle (1992)

The disaster of the fall of a bridge, followed by the greatest of all disasters: human stupidity. ...

O Corpo de Flávia (1990)

A fifteen-year-old girl is beaten by her father and seeks shelter at a friend's house. Between tears and sobs, she watches her friend's father. He feels sorry for a child, but she is a woman. Tonight, they will have to discover the difference between passi ...

Aulas Muito Particulares (1988)

An 18-year-old boy is forced to attend a course to receive his father's inheritance. In the first lesson, a kiss. In the second, a woman's body. In the third, the primer on the sexual act. Other lessons will come, and the boy will still have to face the fi ...

Passengers (1987)

A typical criminal. A typical taxi driver. A typical route through the night of Porto Alegre, from the bus station to a deserted street. But at the time of the crime, the driver doesn't react as he should. Meanwhile, on TV, Brazilian Minister of Justice ma ...

Aulas Muito Particulares (1988)

An 18-year-old boy is forced to attend a course to receive his father's inheritance. In the first lesson, a kiss. In the second, a woman's body. In the third, the primer on the sexual act. Other lessons will come, and the boy will still have to face the fi ...

Winter (1983)

At 24, our hero is a trained journalist but has a ,uch simpler job. His flat full of discs, movies, and books, but he has trouble socializing. This situation can't last long. ...