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Portuguese
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Part one of Miguel Gomes' monumental and dazzlingly original three-part update of the Middle Eastern folk tale, *One Thousand and One Nights*. In which Scheherazade tells of the restlessness that befell the country: It hath reached me, O auspicious King, that in a sad country among all countries, where people dream of mermaids and whales, and unemployment is spreading. In certain places, forests burn into the night despite the falling rain; men and...
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Portuguese
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Winner, best foreign feature, the 2005 Sundance Film Festival The Hero (O Heroi) is the story of Angola, a nation torn apart by forty years of uninterrupted war, and now trying imperfectly but courageously to piece itself back together. It is also the story of a city, Luanda, like so many in the Third World, trying to absorb the millions of people displaced by civil strife and global economic change. After a thirteen year national liberation struggle...
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Portuguese
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In one of the richest and most conservative states of Brazil, public education suffers a setback when high school students react to an official decree that determines the closure of 94 schools. Using social media as their main tool, students organize the occupation of 241 schools. Through interviews and cameras operated by them, the film offers an unprecedented glimpse into the birth and growth of a peaceful movement that ultimately succeeded in maintaining...
4) The Domain
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Portuguese
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This epic family saga follows a charismatic and stridently apolitical landowner over the course of several tumultuous decades. With the passing of his father, Joao (Albano Jeronimo) inherits a sprawling estate in southern Portugal, one of the largest in all of Europe on the south bank of the River Tagus. After Joao marries the elegant daughter of a powerful military general, he becomes pressured to publicly support the country’s authoritarian leadership...
5) Unicórnio
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Portuguese
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A 13 year old girl lives with her mother on an isolated cottage in the country while they wait for the return of the girl's father. The relationship between mother and daughter changes with the arrival of another man. Based on two short stories by Brazilian poet Hilda Hilst, Unicorn mixes fantasy and fairytale, delivering stunning visuals through saturated landscapes in a beautiful anamorphic format.
6) Marighella
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Portuguese
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A new Brazilian action drama set in 1969 based on the life of Afro-Brazilian politician and guerrilla fighter Carlos MARGIHELLA. Facing a violent military dictatorship and with little support from a timid opposition, writer-turned-politician Carlos Marighella organizes a resistance movement. Alongside revolutionaries 30 years younger than him and willing to fight, the revolutionary leader opts for action. The film is adapted from the biography Marighella...
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Portuguese
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This fictional account of the closing months of the war against the Portuguese and the consolidation of the independent West African nation of Guinea-Bissau both reflects and critiques the revolutionary process. Mortu Nega, as its title implies, is a unique kind of elegy - not so much to the victims of the liberation struggle as to its survivors. Like the Zimbabwean film Flame (1996) and Gomes' own more disillusioned second feature Udju Azul di Yonta...
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Portuguese
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This crowd pleaser produced by *City of God* director Fernando Meirelles and headlined by Brazilian screen superstar Wagner Moura takes us on a road trip through the São Paulo nightscape, from shiny new suburbs to shantytown slums, with Theo, a successful doctor in search of his run-away son. Official Selection at the **Sundance Film Festival**. Winner of the Audience Prize for Best Fictional Film at the **Rio de Janeiro Film Festival**. *“Crowd-pleasing…terrific...
9) Hard Paint
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Portuguese
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Set in Brazil’s southern city of Porto Alegre, the film focuses on a socially repressed young man who only comes out of his shell during chatroom performances, when he strips and smears neon paints on his lithe body. Winner of the Teddy Award at the **Berlin International Film Festival**, Q-Hugo at the **Chicago International Film Festival**, Official Selection of Frameline: **San Francisco International LGBT Film Festival** and **Outfest Film Festival**....
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Portuguese
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The utopian city of Brasilia is in transition more than half a century later. What is it like to live in someone else’s idea? A meditation on living in one of the most planned cities on earth. Brasília is unlike any other: a concrete utopia designed by architect Oscar Niemeyer and urbanist Lúcio Costa that spawned out of the desert. Featuring a haunting, intimate score and images that take us deep into the city, this documentary brings a human...
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Portuguese
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Set against the music of Belle and Sebastian, Daniel Ribeiro's coming of age tale, THE WAY HE LOOKS is a sweet and tender story about friendship and the complications of young love.Leo is a blind teenager who's fed up with his overprotective mother and the bullies at school. Looking to assert his independence, he decides to study abroad to the dismay of his best friend, Giovana. When Gabriel, the new kid in town, teams with Leo on a school project,...
12) Loveling
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Portuguese
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On the outskirts of Rio de Janeiro, Irene has only a few days to overcome her anxiety and regain her inner confidence before sending her eldest son out into the world. Nominated for the Grand Jury Prize World Cinema - Dramatic at the **Sundance Film Festival**. *"Loveling paints the picture of an unruly, idiosyncratic collective with tender devotion." - Tomris Laffly, **RogerEbert.com***
13) Martirio
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Portuguese
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Filmed over the course of 40 years, indigenous expert and filmmaker Vincent Carelli seeks out the origins of Guarani Kaiowá genocide: the peaceful and obstinate insurgency of the dispossessed Guarani Kaiowá against the powerful The archival historical images, new footage, hearings in Brazilian Congress, and even with those opposed to the Guarani Kaiowá’s rights, reveal the crudeness with which they coexist every day. This epic documentary has...
14) Temporada
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Portuguese
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Juliana moves from her hometown to a bigger city to work for the disease eradication program of the public health system. On the job, she meets new people, makes friends and has new experiences that start little by little to change her life. At the same time, she feels she is losing touch with her husband, who she left in the backlands.
15) Hard Labor
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Portuguese
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A middle-class couple slowly succumbs to the allures of entrepreneurship and the horrors of a schizophrenic job market. As Helena starts a new business venture, her white-collar husband Otávio is let go from his job. Determined to stay afloat, Otávio goes on a series of ego-crushing job interviews and is forced to adapt to the needs of a new economy. Helena, now the family’s breadwinner, discovers that the building housing her store has a sinister...
16) The Heartthrob
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Portuguese
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Julio, who thinks of himself as a heartthrob intends to get the leading man role in the soap opera his estranged half brother, Beto is writing. They haven’t spoken to each other in years, so it’s no surprise that comic lunacy and romantic complications ensue.
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Portuguese
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The residents of Rio de Janeiro's largest slum seek justice for a local man they believe has been murdered by the police. In the face of brutal oppression, together they start a protest movement that will change the course of Brazilian history. This project is heavily accoladed, winning best film at the Sydney Film Festival, a Director’s Guild Award and two Australian Academy Awards. Originally released in 2016, the film has fresh interest right...
18) Arabian Nights
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Portuguese
Description
This a monumental and dazzlingly original three-part film by Miguel Gomes (*Tabu*) uses the structure of *One Thousand and One Nights* in order to tell the story of contemporary Portugal. Gomes' Scheherazade tells fantastic tales both fictional and documentary, from talking roosters to the everyday trials of the unemployed. Gomes weaves a colorful, surreal, and politically potent palimpsest of a film that captures how the great recession has affected...
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Portuguese
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Four characters struggle with the disillusionment of the revolutionary generation in post-independence Guinea-Bissau. In Udju Azul di Yonta, the most compelling character is Vicente, a disenchanted hero of the independence struggle who has only grudgingly adapted himself to post-revolutionary society. He is a figure with whom many disappointed Western '60s activists will identify. As "Comrade Boss" of a fish warehouse, he continues to work for the...
20) The Desolate One
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Portuguese
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Part two of Miguel Gomes' monumental and dazzlingly original three-part update of the Middle Eastern folk tale, *One Thousand and One Nights*. In which Scheherazade tells of how desolation invaded men: It hath reached me, O auspicious King, that a distressed judge will cry instead of giving out her sentence on a night when all three moons are aligned. A runaway murderer will wander through the land for over forty days and will tele transport himself...
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