Paulo Marat

Portrait of a Certain Orient (2024)

At the end of the 1940s, Lebanon is sliding towards a devastating conflict. Catholic siblings Emilie and Emir decide to leave for Brazil. Aboard the ship to their new home, Emilie falls in love with Omar, a Muslim merchant. For an enraged and jealous Emir, ...

Raimundo Quintela: O Caçador de Vira-Porco (2018)

Raimundo Quintela is the last pig hunter in Pará. He was trained throughout his adolescence for this job. Nairton is a taxi driver who has a single client who is Raimundo, together the two travel through the interior of the Amazon solving cases that no on ...

A Ilha (2013)

Bald Mountain (2013)

In 1980, best friends Juliano and Joaquin join the gold rush at Serra Pelada, Bald Mountain, a mountain town near the mighty Amazon river. As the town grows in numbers, it also sees an explosion in violent crime and pollution. Soon the friends' dreams of h ...

Ribeirinhos do Asfalto (2011)

Young Deisy (Ana Letícia) dreams of moving to bustling Belém, but instead she lives on Combu Island, across the river, cut off from the city she often admires from afar. Her mother (Dira Paes), aware of her daughter's longing, wants to help her achieve i ...

Açaí Com Jabá (2002)

In a bar in Belém, northern Brazil, a dispute between a local man and a tourist, about who drinks more açaí with jabá. ...