Odilon Esteves

The Queen's Orphans (2023)

Raised as Catholics by the Queen of Portugal, the orphans Leonor, Brites, and Mécia are sent to the Brazilian colony with the order to get married. The harsh adaptation to the precariousness of the New World is felt differently by each of them. ...

The Surgeon of the Rusty Knife (2022)

José Pedro de Freitas, better known as Zé Arigó, was a simple man who lived with his wife Arlete in Congonhas, Minas Gerais. During the 1950s, a time when Spiritism was not as well known and respected in the country, Arigó became a symbol of hope throu ...

Bento (2020)

A film on childhood in Brazilian countryside. The boy faces changes which leave no alternative than maturity. ...

Olhos de Carvão (2020)

Cada Dia Uma Vida Inteira (2015)

Young couple is just about to get married when the to-be groom ia called to pick up his fiancée at a motel. Afterwards they go through a crisis even before getting married. ...

O Senhor do Labirinto (2014)

Blue Desert (2013)

A man who is tormented by his intuitions and by dreams goes away to find answers to his discomfort. Revelations are made to him along his path, until he meets his soul mate and is prepared to the Blue Desert. ...

O Mineiro e o Queijo (2011)

The documentary tells how the artisanal cheese production technique arrived in Minas Gerais in the 18th century, brought by Portuguese adventurers in search of gold. Today, almost 30 thousand families live from the production of artisanal cheese throughout ...

The Time and Turn of Augusto Matraga (2011)

Based on Guimarães Rosa's (classic Brazilian author) short story, the movie tells the story of Augusto Matraga, a bankrupt and violent farmer who lives above the Law in Minas Gerais' hinterland. During a difficult time, he finds himself in the middle of a ...

Mercuric Oxycyanide (2008)

Amancio, young and bohemian man of the 30's, meets friends at a bar and tell them about his painful treatment to heal a syphilitic ulcer in the stomach. While his story takes air of fantasy and adventure, a rough and drunk man challenges him to prove that ...

Sertão: Veredas (2008)

Baptism of Blood (2007)

In São Paulo, in the late 1960s, the convent of the Dominican friars became a trench of resistance to the military dictatorship that governs Brazil. Moved by Christian ideals, frets Betto, Oswaldo, Fernando, Ivo and Tito came to support the guerrilla grou ...

Carnal Utopia (2006)

A young student (Mel Lisboa), a literature professor (Felipe Camargo) and a wounded warrior who is always with his face covered (Sergio Marone) are three militants, who are confined in an apartment in Belo Horizonte. There they confront their emotional and ...