Yara de Novaes

Malu (2024)

Malu — a mercurial, unemployed actress living with her conservative mother in a precarious house in a Rio de Janeiro slum — tries to deal with her strained relationship with her own adult daughter while surviving on memories of her glorious artistic pa ...

Zé (2023)

Brazil 1970. Zé walks away from his upper-middle-class life and joins the resistance against the military regime. Together with his partner Bete, he abandons public life to fight the system, while also raising two kids. Based on the life of José Carlos N ...

And They Say I Am the Crazy One (2020)

Young, intense and authentic, Dani just wants a normal life. However, since she was a child, she has been misaligned with her world. ...

The Twelve Labours (2006)

The story of a young black man, Héracles, who after being released from a juvenile institution, tries to apply for his first honest job as a motorcycle delivery boy. To get the job, he has to perform 12 hard tasks in São Paulo. ...

Samba Chanson (2002)

Zé Rocha is a director trying to shoot his first film. He dreams of making a professional movie, and starts shooting in 35mm. But as his budget begins to fade, he changes to Black-and-White, then gradually down to 16mm, Super-8 and, in the end, to his des ...

O Veredicto (2021)

Audiovisual letter. ...

Tio Vânia (aos que vierem depois de nós) (2017)

Threshold (2008)

Threshold narrates a story of love and mystery which takes place in an old house inhabited by the young Maria, whose fame as a saint extends well beyond the mountains of the interior of Brazil. The arrival of two new characters has a disturbing affect on M ...

Rain on Long-Lost Roofs (2006)

The reunion of a couple and their recollections of a broken love. ...

Françoise (2001)

A woman named Françoise meets a man who's waiting for his bus in a bus station. ...