Renato Novaes

Oysters Silence (2025)

The film tells the story of a woman who lives in a village of mining workers. ...

The Day I Met You (2024)

Zeca tries to get up early to catch the bus and arrive an hour and a half later at the neighboring town's school, where he works as a librarian. Waking up early is evermore difficult: something prevents him from maintaining his routine. One day, Zeca meets ...

O Armário Mágico (2024)

At night all cats are brown (2024)

The night of Belo Horizonte, Brazil, is a time capsule that relativizes the passage, blurs the senses, and recasts the definitions of future in the life of young Junior - who cannot wait to be emancipated from absolutely everything. ...

When Here (2024)

Travel through time without leaving your place. ...

Roubar um Plano (2024)

One day, Renato and Adriano decide not to work. They walk through the streets of Capão, while a film crew steals some shots. ...

Swallow your Tears (2023)

17-year-old Anderson steals a motobike in the outskirts of São Paulo. He wants to become a man, putting an end to years of exclusion and rejection, but he is faced with something he never learned to deal with: his own feelings. ...

Mars One (2022)

A middle-class Black family in Brazil copes with the election of a far-right extremist president. The mother believes that she's cursed after an unexpected encounter, while her husband puts all of his hopes into their son's soccer career. ...

Ataléia Street (2021)

In 2011, during a blackout in an outskirt neighborhood's street, a family – surrounded by candles that light conversations and thoughts – awaits the return of electricity. Now, ten years later, the light tries to impose its place towards the shadows ...

Rise From a Blow (2020)

Through boxing Jessica pursue to overcome old traumas. ...

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 ...

Purple Dictatorship (2020)

Yeda, the green-faced woman, sells homemade bread to support the house where she lives with her sick husband. Through the context of green-faced people, we know the reality of those who live on the fringes of a purple-faced society. ...

A Mulher que Sou (2019)

Marta wants to give herself a chance to live a new life, in a new city. ...

In the Heart of the World (2019)

The inhabitants of the Brazilian city of Contagem yearn for a better life. At the core of it all is Selma, a woman dreaming about the heart of the world: it could be anywhere, as long as it's a place where to feel happier. ...

Long Way Home (2019)

In order to take a new job as an employee in the public sanitation department, Juliana moves from the inner city of Itaúna to the metropolitan town of Contagem in Brazil. While waiting for her husband to join her, she adapts to her new life, meeting peopl ...

Super Silver Star (2018)

A couple obsessed by fireworks discovers the great Super Silver Star. ...

Araby (2018)

André, a teenager, lives in an industrial town in Brazil near an old aluminum factory. One day, a factory worker, Cristiano, suffers an accident. Asked to go to Cristiano's house to pick up clothes and documents, André stumbles on a notebook, and it's he ...

Nothing (2017)

Bia just turned eighteen. The end of the year is coming and also the ACTs. People at school and Bia's parents are pressuring her to decide which graduation she will apply for. Bia doesn't want to do anything. ...

Constelações (2016)

She Comes Back on Thursday (2016)

With its obvious simplicity, the film's title happens to set the mood of the film, or at least its guiding principle: staying anchored in everyday life. More precisely, the life of Maria José and Norberto, who have been married for 35 years and who live i ...

Our Mother was an Actress (2023)

Maria José Novais Oliveira, a black woman, resident on the outskirts of Contagem, already in her 60s, has become a film actress, with an award-winning career in Brazil and internationally. This documentary recalls the image of a unique woman who marked Br ...