Fernando Bonassi

Based on a true story, Carandiru is an adaptation of the book Carandiru Station by Drauzio Varella. Through the eyes of a doctor who worked in So Paulo's infamous Casa de Detneco, over twelve years, it tells stories of crime, revenge, love and friendship, culminating in the fateful massacre of 1992. (Sony Pictures Classics)

Two hit men, a veteran and a beginner, chatter in a bar on Brazil-Paraguai border, while waiting for their victim to appear. (imdb)

The life and times of Cazuza, Brazilian singer/poet/enfant terrible, from his start with rock group "Barão Vermelho", to his death from Aids, in 1990, showing his career, love affairs, and involvement with drugs. (imdb)

Aurélia, a young black woman who works at a factory and lives in a working-class neighborhood in São Paulo, is seeing Fábio Tavares, who gets involved with a racist neo-nazi group. (imdb)

A revolutionary, fighting against dictatorship in Brazil, is wounded in a gun-fight with the police, and is isolated in another man's apartment, where he meets a young woman who will change his life. (imdb)

Hong Kong director Yu Lik-wai's phantasmagorical tale of Chinese underground traders, Brazilian erotic dancers, and international politico-gangsters is set in the sleazy, steamy commercial and entertainment demimonde of Sao Paolo, Brazil. (viff)

Dalva, an hairdresser, decides to give up with your relationship with Vítor. She wins an award and an airplane ticket to Miami. But Vítor appears one day before she leaves.

The true story of a working class boy who moves to the nation's financial capital at a young age and becomes one the most influential politician in Brazil's history. (imdb)

A boy and his imagination.

Twelve people are confined together in an abandoned maximum security prison in the middle of the Amazon forest, and end up having to fight for their lives against unknown creatures, supernatural odds and their worst enemy: themselves. (imdb)

Tungsten will bring four characters to the center of a narrative built like a precision mechanism: a police officer that acts moved by his instincts; his wife, whose decision to get a divorce from him seems irrevocable; a small drug dealer, whose main interest is to survive another day; and an ex-army Sargent, who misses his life in the barrack. (imdb)

Eight contestants enter a TV Reality in which trapped in a secluded Maximum Security Prison where a massacre occurred in the nineties they must endure various hard tests in order to win an important sum of money. Each of the participants has its own reasons to be there. After a couple of hours where everything seems fine one participant dies, and all of a sudden the prison loose contact with the channel Production which leaves them uncommunicated in a desert of salt.