Pedro Sotero

Baby (2025)

After being released from a juvenile detention center, Wellington finds himself alone and adrift on the streets of São Paulo, without any contact from his parents and lacking the resources to rebuild his life. During a visit to a porn theater, he encounte ...

Seu Cavalcanti (2024)

The sequence of graduation of law graduates in Seu Cavalcanti helps to understand the Sergio Moro phenomenon in Brazil. ...

Property (2023)

To protect herself from a revolt by the workers on her family's farm, a reclusive designer locks herself in her armored car. The clock is ticking and the tension rises. Separated by an impenetrable layer of glass, two universes are about to collide. ...

Meu Nome é Gal (2023)

Film about the Bahian singer dives into the moment when shy Gracinha becomes Gal Costa, during the violent, innovative and mind-blowing years that helped shape Brazil's greatest singer. ...

Pictures of Ghosts (2023)

Downtown Recife's classic movie palaces from the 20th century are mostly gone. That city area is now an archaeological site of sorts that reveals aspects of life in society which have been lost. And that's just part of the story. ...

Wandering Heart (2021)

Santiago, gay single father, has reached a tipping point in his life. Reeling from a bitter breakup, he is facing the impending departure of his daughter Laila, with whom he shares a close yet emotionally charged relationship. As the fear of being alone th ...

Sweet River (2021)

Under pressure from a back pain and being constantly short of money, Tiago (played by Okado do Canal) experiences an encounter that will reshape everything he knew about his own father, instilling an imminent crisis in his way of being. Set amid the outski ...

All of This Is Gone (2020)

In the end, one is dead and the others are alone, although the truth is that they were already alone long before his death. Now all of this is gone and there is no point in looking back. ...

Azougue Nazareth (2019)

No measure of hellfire preaching can quell the boisterous and bawdy passions of Maracatu, an Afro-Brazilian burlesque carnival tradition with roots in slavery that takes place in the northeast state of Pernambuco. As the Falstaffian character Tiao, Valmir ...

Bacurau (2019)

Bacurau, a small town in the Brazilian sertão, mourns the loss of its matriarch, Carmelita, who lived to be 94. Days later, its inhabitants notice that their community has vanished from most maps. ...

Swinguerra (2019)

In the sports court of a school, dancers rehearse under the watchful eye of a choreographer. Tensions haunt personal desires as they are observed by a rival troupe. ...

Rise (2019)

Young, gifted and black! In an act of self-empowerment, a group of young Black people, mainly first and second generation immigrants from the Caribbean, have occupied the public space of the Toronto underground to perform their agitprop concept of edutainm ...

Rojo (2018)

A small town in an Argentinian province, 1975. The life of Claudio, a successful lawyer, gets complicated when he has a stupid quarrel with a stranger in a crowded restaurant. ...

Caçador (2018)

Parkland (2018)

A documentary about an intinerant amusement park that travels through the poor Brazilian Northeast and the hardships faced by the people around it. ...

Holy Tremor (2017)

Brazil. Historically Pernambuco state in the country's northeast was characterised agriculturally by the sugarcane industry. Today there is a new sector in the economy: various evangelical Christian groups are on the rise. The mantra of the evangelicals, w ...

Saudade (2017)

Gabriel and the Mountain (2017)

Before entering a prestigious American university, Gabriel Buchmann decides to travel the world for one year. After ten months on the road with his backpack full of dreams, immersed at the heart of various countries, he arrives in Kenya determined to disco ...

Bye Bye Deutschland! Eine Lebensmelodie (2017)

The film follows the life of a couple of singers from Münster who became known for covering the most prominent voices of distinct eras of Schlager music. While Markus got recognition through youtube tributes to Udo Jürgens (known for introducing French C ...

Travessia (2017)

Estás Vendo Coisas (2017)

In the social landscape of Brega, music videos are the catalyst of an appetite for success as encouraged by capitalism. 'You are seeing things' looks at this world where self-regulation and image management play a crucial role in the construction of voice, ...

Aquarius (2016)

Clara, a vibrant former music critic and widow with flowing tresses is the only remaining apartment owner in a beautiful older building targeted for demolition by ruthless luxury high-rise developers. Clara proves to be a force to be reckoned with as she t ...

Faz Que Vai (2015)

In four acts, dancers combine steps of frevo, a traditional Carnival dance of Pernambuco State (Brazil), with others typical of contemporary rhythms like funk, swingueira, electro, and vogue. ...

Coffee Stains (2014)

A photographer travels to São Paulo for his first solo exhibition and decides to stay in his now married, ex-girlfriend's house. ...

I Swear I'll Leave This Town (2014)

Joli returns home after spending a long period in rehab. Her father, Anthony, a famous city politician, is quite concerned about her conduct and reintegration into society. This is the time when father and daughter will fix the broken ties of the relations ...

O Poeta Americano (2014)

The boy runs after the ball. The worker builds concrete dreams between buildings and soccer balls in a lowland field in Recife. The poet receives a word ball, gives a literal stroke and makes an imaginary goal in this film about football, passion and poetr ...

Casa Grande (2014)

As a privileged teenager living in an affluent suburb of Rio de Janeiro, Jean has little to worry about beyond games, grades and girls. But as his overbearing father drags the family into debt, Jean is forced into a change of lifestyle which opens his eyes ...

Julio Sumiu (2014)

Rio de Janeiro, in the period in which the Police Pacification Units (PPUs) were beginning to be deployed in the city. Edna (Lilia Cabral) is the mother of Julio (Pedro Nercessian) and Silvio (Fiuk). One day she wakes up desperate to see that Julio just di ...

Au Revoir (2013)

Neighboring Sounds (2012)

An independent private security firm arrives at a middle-class neighborhood in Recife, Brazil. ...

Good Luck, Sweetheart (2012)

Dirceu, 30 years old, has origins that go back to the aristocracy of Northeast Brazilian backlands. Settled in a kind of subjective amnesia, Dirceu tries to bury his family's past. He is a demolition man in Recife, an urban landscape undergoing an uncontro ...

Canção para minha irmã (2012)

Mens Sana in Corpore Sano (2011)

Flavio Danillo is a personal trainer whose students attend him at the gym. At home, Flavio works his body into a state of decay. Suddenly, his body no longer responds his mind taking over control. ...

Praça Walt Disney (2011)

A quasi-musical approach on contemporary urban life that reflects Brazilian society and many others throughout the world, this documentary describes at the same time a place, a city and a country. ...

Tchau e Bênção (2010)

Cold Tropics (2009)

In tropical Recife, in northeastern Brazil, temperatures drop to impossible lows and the inhabitants have to adapt. This 'mockumentary' gradually turns critical, looking at the climate, urban development and social interaction from every angle. Does a ray ...

Amigos de Risco (2007)

After years on the run, Joca is back again in town. And, to commemorate, nothing better than a night on the tiles with his good friends Nelsão and Benito. However, the happy occasion turns to a nightmare when Joca is suddenly taken ill. With no money, no ...

Eletrodoméstica (2005)

A middle-class family living in a house filled with superfluous electronic appliances see the arrival of a new item, a 29" TV-set. ...

Green Vinyl (2004)

A mother gives her daughter a box full of old, coloured little vinyl records. The daughter may listen to them, but she should never, ever, play the green one. ...

Friday Night, Saturday Morning (2006)

A small-scale romantic love story, shot with a digital camera in black & white and in a documentary style. We follow the conversation between two lovers, each on a different side of the world; he is in Recife, she is in Kyiv. On one side is dark, on the ot ...