Márcio Vito

Cartas para Deus (2026)

Pilar's Diary in the Amazon (2026)

Young explorer Pilar travels to the Amazon through her magic net. After meeting Maiara, a riverside dweller whose community was destroyed, Pilar and her friends seek to reunite her friend's family and prevent deforestation. ...

O Rei da Feira (2025)

Malu (2024)

Malu — a mercurial, unemployed actress living with her conservative mother in a precarious house in a Rio de Janeiro slum — tries to deal with her strained relationship with her own adult daughter while surviving on memories of her glorious artistic pa ...

A Festa de Léo (2024)

The film is set in Morro do Vidigal, one of the most famous favelas in Rio de Janeiro. Rita needs to give her son Léo a party that means a lot to her. But on the day of the party, she discovers that all the money for the event, which she had been saving f ...

Minha Irmã e Eu (2023)

Sisters Mirian and Mirelly were born in the interior of Goiás, but live in different cities. When their mother disappears, the two put aside their differences and come together to look for her, on a journey that could change their lives. ...

Nosso Sonho (2023)

The life story of Claudinho e Buchecha, greatest icons and most successful duo of the Brazilian funk melody in all time, showing how the rhythm and poetry of the periphery conquered Brazil. ...

Rule 34 (2023)

Simone is a young law student who studies criminal law and advocates for women's rights. On her free time, she's a cam girl that makes live sexual performances on the Internet. One night, she watches a video that awakens her interest in BDSM-related activi ...

Nas Ondas da Fé (2023)

Hickson lived off the books, running from one place to another to make a living. His only great achievement in life had been to win over his wife Jéssika, an evangelical hairdresser and his girlfriend since childhood. The two lead a life without great pro ...

Trinca-Ferro (2022)

Benjamin and Pia have lived in isolation since the girl's mother died. While she experiences the issues of transitioning into pre-adolescence, he finds raising birds as his emotional outlet. Everything changes when Pia asks for a cat as a birthday present. ...

The Best Place in the World (2021)

A film that uses the very premise of acting, of the game between real and real fiction, to imagine a world in which art becomes impossible and the artist useless. ...

A Yellow Animal (2020)

Obsessed with questions about his past, a bankrupt, white Brazilian filmmaker undertakes an epic journey from Brazil to Mozambique and Portugal. This melancholic fable mixes animation, live-action, voice-overs, genres, and continents to explore Brazil's co ...

Burning Night (2020)

Down on his luck and recently divorced, Paulo has begun driving a cab around Rio, hoping he'll make enough to send his ex money to support their ten-year-old son. He mostly works nights, so in addition to his encounters with a colourful variety of customer ...

Invisible Life (2019)

Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 1950. In the conservative home of the Gusmão family, Eurídice and Guida are two inseparable sisters who support each other. While Guida can share with her younger sister the details of her romantic adventures, Eurídice finds in h ...

Simonal (2019)

A phenomenon of popularity in the 1960s, Wilson Simonal saw his meteoric career fall apart when he was accused of collaborating with the Brazilian military dictatorship. ...

Unremember (2019)

Teenager Joana feeds her soul with literature and rock. In 1979, when amnesty is granted in Brazil, she's forced to move with her family from Paris back to the country she barely remembers. Back in the city she was born in, and where her father was forcedl ...

Pendular (2017)

The trajectory of a romantic couple of contemporary artists reveals how the limits, contradictions and obsessions of a romantic relationship are reflected in each of their artistic endeavors. ...

Homem Livre (2017)

After spending years in prison for a crime that shocked the country, a former rock star finds refuge in a humble evangelical church. All he wants is to be forgotten, but his past comes back to haunt him. ...

Campo Grande (2015)

A wealthy middle-aged woman unexpectedly finds herself caring for two impoverished young siblings, in this subtle, touching and sincere study of class disparity from Brazilian filmmaker Sandra Kogut. ...

I Would Like to Be Enraptured, Muzzled, and on my back Tattooed (2015)

Silvana is a tired woman. The world no longer belongs to her, the invisible bothers her, the daily life oppresses her. What she wants sometimes is to abandon everything and go back home. ...

Os Caras de Pau em O Misterioso Roubo do Anel (2014)

The Tatu Tatuado de Topázio ring, by socialite Gracinha de Medeiros, is on display at a museum. She then hires the clumsy security guards Pedrão and Jorginho to watch over the jewel, a family heirloom. The ring is stolen and the pair accused of theft. To ...

Paulo Coelho's Best Story (2014)

Paulo Coelho is the world's most translated living author, his books having sold over 165 million copies. But he was not always the inspirational global phenomenon he is today. Like the heroes in his spiritual classics THE ALCHEMIST and THE PILGRIMAGE, he ...

Machado do Brasil (2014)

Machado de Assis, the most famous Brazilian writer, is transported, without further explanation, to current times. Received with skepticism by the Brazilian Academy of Letters, where he will be questioned by immortal colleagues who suspect they are dealing ...

Incêndios (2014)

Brazilian adaptation of Wajdi Mouawad's "Incendies," based on parts of the life of the Lebanese communist militant Soha Bechara. ...

Giovanni Improtta (2013)

Giovanni Improtta is a criminal who wants to climb the social ladder and become a law-abiding citizen. To achieve it, he commits some more crimes He is betrayed, and ends up under the spotlight of the media and the radar of the police, falsely charged for ...

5x Favela, Now by Ourselves (2010)

The project '5 x slum, now by ourselves' gathered over 80 young people from Rio's favelas (slums), selected through workshops, script and filmmaking techniques to create a feature film consisting of five stories that reflect different facets of the daily l ...

The Joy (2010)

Joy is a fable about courage and youth. It tells the story of Luiza, 16 year old girl, who can not stand to hear about the end of the world… On a Christmas night, his cousin John is mysteriously shot in a street in the Lowlands and disappears into the ni ...

Eye of the Storm (2009)

The story of a burglary and its tragic aftereffects. ...

My Name Ain't Johnny (2008)

The true story of João Guilherme Estrella ("Johnny"), a young middle-class bon vivant who became a big-time cocaine dealer in Rio de Janeiro in the early 1990s. ...

Brasília 18% (2006)

A star medical examiner is called to Brasília, the administrative capital of Brazil, to confirm the identity of a beautiful, young congressional aide's dead body. But his scientific rigor soon leads him to details of a multi-layered political scandal. ...

The Other Side of the Street (2004)

Regina, a lonely 65 year old who works on the neighborhood watch for the police in Copacabana, believes to have witnessed a murder in the building across the street, and ends up getting involved with the suspect in a potentially dangerous chain of events t ...

The Oyster and the Wind (1997)

A young girl named Marcela lives with her dad, Jose, a lighthouse keeper, and old Daniel on an island. The only contact the girl has with the world outside her home is by a boat with four sailors that pays a visit to the island in order to take them suppli ...