Ricardo Pretti

For Lota (2024)

In the 1950s, in Rio de Janeiro, Lota Macedo Soares married the American poet Elizabeth Bishop. A few years later, Carlos Lacerda, a friend of Lota's, became governor of Guanabara and invited her to create a park where a 7-kilometer landfill had been built ...

The Fisherman's Daughter (2024)

Samuel, the last free-diving fisherman, has lived isolated in the island of La Aguja since he was abandoned by his wife and son 15 years ago. His life is disrupted when his son shows up now as Priscila, a transgender prostitute from the streets of Santa Ma ...

Limites do Diáfano (2024)

A compilation of some of the Super-8 materials shot by Jorge Bodanzky during the Brazilian military dictatorship, blending domestic footage, experiments with the cinematographic medium, and the traces, in an amateur format, of some of his thematic and styl ...

Seu Cavalcanti (2024)

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

Formosa Beach (2024)

Muanza, a woman born in the Kingdom of Kongo in the early nineteenth century and trafficked to Brazil, awakens to find herself in the present, roaming the streets of Rio's rapidly changing port region, known as 'Pequena Africa', or Little Africa. ...

Rapacidade (2023)

Última Cidade (2022)

João, mounted on his horse Cruzeiro, and in the company of a wanderer named Tahiel, enters a large city in northeastern Brazil to face the one who took his lands and ended up with his family. ...

Las Confisiones de un Hombre Lobo (2021)

A beautiful film-interview by Ivan Cardoso, made during the shooting of A Werewolf in Amazonia in 2005, with the astonishing Paul Naschy! ...

Fireflies (2021)

The night side of a modernist icon. The fauna and flora of Roberto Burle Marx's gardens inhabited by visitors to Parque do Flamengo while the city of Rio de Janeiro falls asleep. ...

Private Photos (2020)

A sweet couple invite a third person over for the night, who brings a lustful energy to spice things up. ...

The Tower (2019)

André is a broken man, who lives isolated in a forest. The forces of nature embrace his body as he drowns in his effervescent inner world. Between the insomnia and the dreams, André is haunted by his past. He wishes to deconstruct himself, heal his sorro ...

Sofá (2019)

Joana D'Arc, a former public school teacher in Rio de Janeiro, tries to recover her home, lost to the City Hall. The trajectory is shared by the pirate fisherman Pharaó, from Guanabara Bay. ...

The Cannibal Club (2019)

Otavio and Gilda are a very wealthy couple of the Brazilian elite who have the habit of eating their employees. Otavio owns a private security company and is a notable member of The Cannibal Club. When Gilda accidentally discovers a secret from Borges, a p ...

Djon Africa (2018)

Miguel —alias Tibars, alias "Djon África," born and raised in Portugal— is a kindhearted Rastafarian who loves women and lives a carefree life. Until one day a stranger tells him he's the spitting image of his father, "a player and a crook." His fathe ...

Os Que se Vão (2018)

A man caught in the verge of freedom. He penetrates a city where the boundaries between reality and dream disappear. He crosses the landscape without belonging to it anymore. A farewell before departing. ...

The Last Breath (2016)

The living call for revenge. The dead minerals and vegetables demand revenge. It is the hour of general protest. It's time for the destroying flights. It's time for the barricades, the shootings. Famines, desires, cravings, lost dreams, miseries of all cou ...

The Strange Case of Ezequiel (2016)

After the sudden death of his wife, Ezequiel lives sad and resigned in solitude. Until the day that an extra-terrestrial being appears in his life and changes the color of his destiny. ...

The Mayor (2015)

The mayor of the city of Rio de Janeiro wants to go down in history. For this purpose, he decides to separate Rio from Brazil and create a new country. ...

A Morte Diária (2015)

The end of that land. The end of that time. ...

Dark Zone (2015)

A lonely man wanders lost by a post-apocalyptic city. ...

The End of an Age (2014)

They live, they act, they love. Today they remember, they relive, they live through cinema and life. ...

August Winds (2014)

Shirley has left the big city to live in a small seaside town and look after her elderly grandmother. She drives a tractor on a local coconut plantation, loves rock music and wants to be a tattoo artist. She feels trapped in the tiny coastal village. She i ...

Clenched Fists (2014)

In Fortaleza, Brazil, Eugenio, Joaquim and João use a clandestine radio to scream their hunger for freedom and revolution. They hack the traditional radio stations, overwhelming them with poetry, rebel music, quotes, sound archives and provocations, attac ...

The Harbor (2014)

Valongo's quay - Empress quay - Rio de Janeiro port - Porto Maravilha (wonder port): layers of a city haunted by progress. One port on top of the other. ...

Aliança (2014)

Pilo, Panda and Isaac are childhood friends. ...

Filme Selvagem (2014)

Tribuna de Honra (2014)

Jockey Club. Rio de Janeiro, August 7th. Hats circulate through the halls of the Brazilian Grand Prix. ...

Rio Belongs to Us (2013)

After receiving a strange picture postcard, Marina knows there's nothing else to it but to return to Rio de Janeiro, the beautiful city that here seems threatening and almost enchanting. ...

This Love That Consumes (2012)

Gatto and Barbot are lifelong companions for more then 40 years and have just moved to a big decayed and abandoned building downtown Rio de Janeiro, where they start to live and promote their dance company rehearsals. The difficulties of everyday life are ...

Dogs are said to see things (2012)

An omen, a shred of time only. Suddenly the huge-bellied man jumps into the pool holding a glass of whiskey. ...

Retrato de uma Paisagem (2012)

A film about the city. A film about people. We are living at the beginning of the era of urban society. A new field still ignored and unknown. And the scenario for the future is not yet established. ...

At the Wrong Place (2011)

Four friends are reunited in a night that is moved by a game of lies and truth with unexpected consequences. This movie is based on the theatrical play "Eutro" directed by Rodrigo Fischer. ...

Testemunha 4 (2011)

A character, an actress and the passing of hours in a Holocaust interrogation. The film moves through the echoes of reality: representation, testimony, memory, fiction and investigates the limits between actress and character. ...

The Monsters (2011)

No man is a failure when he has friends. ...

Road to Ythaca (2010)

"Always keep Ythaca on your mind. To arrive there is your ultimate goal. But do not hurry the voyage at all. It is better to let it last for many years; and to anchor at the island when you are old, rich with all you have gained on the way, not expec ...

The American Friend (2009)

Paris - an American who recently arrived in Brazil - and the Brazilian Thais begin a simple friendship sharing feelings and sensations, even if they do not understand a single word each othar says. ...

Longa Vida Ao Cinema Cearense (2008)

Sábado À Noite (2007)

A documentary following random people at a Saturday night in Fortaleza. ...

Às Vezes É Mais Importante Lavar A Pia Do Que A Louça Ou Simplesmente Sabiaguaba (2006)

I am a breather. ...

Estética da Solidão (2001)

Na Ilha (2019)

Immersive documentary in the film editing process. Twenty Brazilian cinema editors expose the nuances of this art, its secrets and processes. ...

The End of an Age (2014)

They live, they act, they love. Today they remember, they relive, they live through cinema and life. ...

Clenched Fists (2014)

In Fortaleza, Brazil, Eugenio, Joaquim and João use a clandestine radio to scream their hunger for freedom and revolution. They hack the traditional radio stations, overwhelming them with poetry, rebel music, quotes, sound archives and provocations, attac ...

The Monsters (2011)

No man is a failure when he has friends. ...

Road to Ythaca (2010)

"Always keep Ythaca on your mind. To arrive there is your ultimate goal. But do not hurry the voyage at all. It is better to let it last for many years; and to anchor at the island when you are old, rich with all you have gained on the way, not expec ...