Joel Barcellos

A man leaves the apartment of his girlfriend to get a newspaper completely naked and the door closes behind him. One of the neighbours sees a naked man and screams, and the man runs away downstairs. Then, the movie shows various situations involving the man running down the streets of Rio de Janeiro, attempting to return home to get some clothes. (imdb)

When brazilian art master Di Cavalcanti died, Glauber Rocha went to his funeral... with a camera. The short movie shows Cavalcanti`s corpse in the coffin, the funeral, and his family yelling at Rocha to get out of there with that camera, while in the background we hear Jorge Ben singing "Umbabarauma, homem gol", a famous samba-funk song about a famous brazilian soccer player. (IMDB Comments)

Couple whose marriage is at stake delve into the past, with the help of a diary and some home movies. In these movies, Helena, the woman's suicidal friend, has an important role. (imdb)

In São Paulo, a beautiful woman is found dead, with a peach in her mouth, a bite in her butt and without blood in the body. Dr. Artur, the chief of police, assigns detective Leôncio to investigate the murder together with the fetishist photographer Oscar. (imdb)

Three segments based on stories in the Brazilian book of the same name.

Laughed at when he announced the discovery of the elixer of life, a scientist Professor Expedito Vitus devotes himself to the reconstitution of a map which has been divided into eight parts. The owners of these parts are being mysteriously murdered. Thanks to this map, he ends up making the most important archaeological discovery of the century: the tomb of Runamb, the Mummy, in the sands of Egypt...(imdb)

Marquinhos is in his early 20s and lives in Copacabana with his petits bourgeois parents and older brother. He doesn't have a job, he doesn't go to school, he just lives on the spur of the moment, watches TV, plays soccer on the beach by day and goes out with his mates by night. He meets Irene, a 40 year-old woman and they have a love affair that is going to change his life - for a while.

Edson is having an affair with actress Maria do Rosário, who dreams of being a movie director. So he tries to get some easy money for her film, but is arrested and meets a police torturer instead.

In an extremely poor region in the Northeast of Brazil, a group of soldiers try to stop the population from sacking a food deposit. (imdb)

During a flight, passengers confront their aspirations, frustrations, fears, wishes and fears, mixing up reality and fiction. (imdb)

Based freely on the Brazilian novel Macunaíma. Two Macunaímas leave their constellation in the sky and arrive in Brazil in the 80's in search of their creator, Mário de Andrade.

Life and death of the Jesuit who fought for the peaceful relationship between colonists and Indians (imdb)

The wife of a wealthy captain of industry carries on an affair with a younger man who works for a magazine in this combination romantic and political drama. A trip to her husband's factory opens her eyes to the fact that he provides for many people. She soon realizes that the young writer is taking the easy way out by always talking but never acting on his perpetual state of discontent about society. (allmovie.com/work/o-desafio-173087)

In the village of Leva-e-traz the discovery of oil leads to the creation of a city pre-fabricated, progressive. Appears a strange in the town that turns into a goat and snake, trying some residents. Basically, it is a good guy, make miracles and cure patients. The village is progressing thanks to him, and politicians launch Satan as a candidate for president. But it breaks the spell and misery returns.

In Northeast Brazil, after carrying out some comissioned killing, hitman returns home to find his wife involved with a man who is a hitman hunter. A conflict ensues. (imdb)

Five segments about the hardships faced by people living in slums on hills in Rio de Janeiro. (imdb)

The theme deplores the conditions of the slum quarters of Rio (and ghettos everywhere) and finds a young girl from the provinces who comes to Rio de Janiero in search of her fiance and finds he is a feared and hunted criminal. The scenes between the idealistic-but-trapped young lovers is depicted in soft images of tenderness and sensitivity that leads to a climax of shocking violence in the Rio slums. (imdb)

Public relations man is invited to guide American millionaire during his stay in Rio de Janeiro. In this course, he gets involved in the most bizarre situations, from orgiastic mega-parties and sexy ménages-a-trois to confrontations with the police, meetings with drug dealers and movie stars, facing corruption and even murder.

Jorginho, his white friend Rico, Lici and Paulinho are homeless best friends living in a slum in a hill in Copacabana. They spend their hopeless life playing with kite; trying to survive getting food from the street market or the fishermen; learning how to pickpocket; working on the streets polishing shoes.

German documentary for TV about the "Cinema Novo" movement (Brazilian New Wave). Director Joaquim Pedro de Andrade focuses on six Cinema Novo filmmakers working in Rio in 1967: Leon Hirszman preparing the script for "Garota de Ipanema"; Glauber Rocha shooting "Terra em Transe"; Arnaldo Jabor editing "A Opinião Pública"; Nelson Pereira shooting "El Justicero"; the rushes and voice-looping sessions of "Todas as Mulheres do Mundo"; and the opening of "A Grande Cidade". (imdb)

The biography of controversial Brazilian artist Luz del Fuego (her artistic name), highlighting her eccentric lifestyle and public manifestations. As in the film, she is best remembered for being ahead of her time, and for her public outcry (also the movie's tagline): Todo Mundo Nu! (Everyone get naked!). She was also an ardent activist of nudism, in an era where nudism was not exactly embraced. (imdb)

With rich and poor united by the same trickery, the film tells a story of conflicts and contrasts at the confluence of the Rio's neighborhood of Leblon and Ipanema. There, face to face, live opposing social categories, with the thread of the memory of a beggar and the curiosity of a student.

Zulmira is an old mistress. One day, she wakes up obsessed with the idea of dying. All she needs is a good coffin. (imdb)

She is a fortune teller, he is a killer on the run. He gives her a ride and an tragic love affair begins. (imdb)

João, a playboy, spends his last day as a single in a resort hotel, where he seduces a teenager and gets involved with the casino singer. (imdb)

Parada 88 is a city with a European feel where there are many forests, huts and lots of fog. No one ever left or tried to leave the place. The first to take chances in order to get to the big city, has mysteriously torn lungs and instead, mechanical appliances are placed.

Jairo, intellectual and distracted, and Su, the super fan, are the central duo of this musical comedy. He holds an unintelligible speech and works for an important social media agency, which receives the difficult task of discovering "the secret formula" used by the idol Gilberto Gil to win the audience. She, in love with the star, does not miss a single show.

Based on the novel 'Matéria de Memória' of Carlos Heitor Cony, it tells the story of a widowed man who maintains ambiguous relations with his mother-in-law, who lives in the same house. Then he decides to lock himself in the room, reviving memory through old letters and photographs.

Seven women on motorcycles, through Via Dutra, go to the Baixada Fluminense, a microcosm of Brazil. Diving into the memory and questioning the behavior imposed on women, they seek to rescue the strength of the feminine. The new woman, born in the Brazilian land, incorporates the Amazons and Santa Guerreira. At his side, the new man, more loose and creative. Closing the cycle, the initial road is resumed.

This film seeks to rescue the role of filmmaker Neville D'Almeida by using many rare images, numerous interviews, vast archival and audiovisual material.

Cassiano and Tião are brothers living apart from one another in the Amazon. Cassiano holds a tract of land in Rondônia he received from the Brazilian Institute of Land Reform (INCRA). Tião is a squatter in southern Pará. The film tells the story of the two brothers in different situations and dives into the reality of the occupation of the Amazon promoted by the military government.