Simone Spoladore

Brazilian baroque. The young son that ran from his dominant family, descends into decadence and then returns to the nest. With melodramatic themes of tyrannical fathers, incest, fierce family conflicts and an overheated and intense visual style to match. (imdb)

In 1970, near the World Cup, Daniel Stern and his wife Beatriz leaves Belo Horizonte in a hurry and scared with their ten years old son Mauro in their Volkswagen. While traveling to São Paulo, the couple explains Mauro that they will travel on vacation and will leave Mauro with his grandfather Mótel... (imdb)

Singer and poet, Baal is invited by Meck to a dinner hosted in his honor. Sarcastically rejecting proposals that would lead to his social climbing, offends the guests, courting the wife of Meck. Opting for a life as an outsider, mocking life, Baal fills his days with love affairs with beautiful women and a man, falling in love with him to the point of almost kill for jealousy.

The story of Orisbela, a young and religious woman who comes from Portugal to Brazil to marry Francisco de Albuquerque, a rude sugar-cane plantation owner, in 1570. (imdb)

In 1942, in Rio de Janeiro, the twenty-five years old Alaíde is run over while crossing Carioca Street. She arrives in coma in the hospital, and while being submitted to an emergency surgery, she recalls her life since her family moved to a former brothel, mixing hallucination, reality and memory. (imdb)

Luísa is a romantic, dreamy and delicate young woman married to Jorge, an engineer, a man of good habits and good economic conditions. They didn't know each other well, but got married and Luísa was a good wife, "she was clean and happy as a bird". Everything get changed when she meets a childhood love, her cousin Basílio. What seemed to be a great adventure will became a nightmare and Luísa will discover the price of her infidelity. (imdb)

Elvis & Madona is a romantic comedy that deals with an unusual subject in a delicate and realistic way: a love story between young lesbian Elvis and a transgender hairdresser named Madonna.

Tells stories of unrequited love. "Love and Loss. Loss, mostly", says a character. In an empty city, scorched by the sun, the young and old confuse the fever of sunstroke with the delicate birth of passion. (imdb)

It is Christmas and Gabriel is 9 years old. With Roseli; he travels to Rio De Janeiro looking for his father. They only have an old address. The casual meetings with people, who are willing to help, will change everybody's lives, making them realize that it is not possible to live without love. (imdb)

Two people meeting and falling in love

A talent agent summons a young singer to Sao Paulo in order to present her to a renowned maestro. While they wait for the day of the audition, they stay in a hotel room where, over cigarettes and coffee, the agent reads her future by using cigarette packs as if they were tarot cards. It is during this wait that his true intentions are revealed. (imdb)

In a secluded Brazilian coastal village, where everything seems to stand still, Clarisse watches her life over the course of a day, unlike those around her who live that day just like any other. She tries to understand her obscure reality and the destiny of the people around her in a circling, disturbing sense of time (2011.festivaldorio.com.br)

1950's. A bank manager lives embarrasing people due to his fetish for biting the hands of women. Based on the eponymous short story by Carlos Drummond de Andrade.

A group of friends who resisted Brazilian dictatorship face, along with their sons, the conflicts between past and present as one of theirs is passing away.

Paulo (Ricardo Duque), a film editor, arrives at home and find his wife murdered. While the police investigates the crime, Paulo begin his own quest to find the criminal.

Lóri is a lonely and melancholic woman who divides her time between her tasks as an elementary school teacher and her romantic relationships, always quick and superficial. By chance, she meets the Argentine Ulysses, a professor of philosophy, self-centered and provocative. Even though he doesn't understand much about women, it is with him that Lóri will learn to love and face her loneliness. The film brings Clarice Lispector's novel "Uma Aprendizagem ou O Livro dos Prazeres" to our days. (IMDb

Young directors are filming "The Exhibitionist" in the middle of a farm in a paradise-like region. The film poetically investigates the Brazilian soul, with the Amazon as the center of the world, reflecting on existential issues, the right to sexual freedom and individuality.

Eurico Cruz wakes up in angry.

Two women, long-time friends, embark on a love story. They are writers who do not write to publish but for themselves. Their mutual conversation, their desires, the risks and phantoms of existence, the privilege of the wounded and of condemnation, traverse their speech, are a confession. (imdb)

MAGNÍFICA 70 portrays the underground cinema-making scene of São Paulo in the '70s with stunning visuals and an award-winning cast and crew. The third season wraps up the series with the protagonists coming back to their original paths, struggling to beat the decade's cultural censorship, remain faithful to the art and find success. (imdb)

Portrait of the decadent Portuguese aristocracy in the second half of the 19th century, through the tragic history of a traditional Lisbon family. (imdb)