Zózimo Bulbul

Palmares is a 17th-century quilombo, a settlement of escaped slaves in northeast Brazil. In 1650, plantation slaves revolt and head for the mountains where they find others led by the aged seer, Acotirene. She anoints one who becomes Ganga Zumba, a legendary king... (imdb)

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.

The dictator of a small Caribbean island receives the New York Times daily, sent by a nephew. Through the newspaper, he gets in touch with the world. Guerrilla groups try to neutralize this information system.

A small town is stirred by anonymous notes delivered during the night, telling the secrets of its inhabitants. (imdb)

Various people around the world (most of them scientists interested in unexplained phenomenons or people studying the occult) start having hallucinations and wake up with a specific mark on the palm of their hands.

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)

The life of a runaway slave who founded the Quilombo dos Palmares, an outlaw community of Brazilian slaves. (imdb)

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

Compasso de Espera focuses on a black poet and advertising agent named Jorge. He publishes books of poetry -- Compasso de Espera is the title of one of his collections -- with the help of his sponsor, a white millionaire. Jorge feels sorry for her, but also resents his financial dependence on her.

Cowboy Riobaldo is attracted to same sex Diadorim, not knowing that "he" is a girl dressed in man's clothes. After Diadorim's father is killed, she swears revenge, being joined by Riobaldo in this mission (imdb)

In 1913, in the state of Santa Catarina, Brazil, the Government gives some lands to a foreign railway company, giving rise to revolt by the former owners of the land. The episode became known as Guerra dos Pelados. (imdb)

The project '5 x slum, now by ourselves' gathered over 80 young people from Rio's favelas (slums), selected through workshops, script and filmmaking techniques to create a feature film consisting of five stories that reflect different facets of the daily lives of residents of these communities - with the promise of escape stereotypical representations. (imdb)

The universe of women struggling with power and money, who are in male hands. Humiliated and offended, the three women fall into prostitution outfits, with different results. (heco.com.br)

A music teacher gets locked outside of a friend's apartment, completely naked.

The beautiful Vanessa dreams of constantly being raped by Peter, her chauffeur and butler. When the hallucinations increase, the girl decides to seek help from a psychologist. The therapist, however, increases her obsessive feelings of the butler.

Biography of one of the legendary names in the Samba genre of Brazilian music. Although he could hardly dance or play an instrument, he became one of the main composers of Portela, an important Samba "school" in Rio de Janeiro. (imdb)

Nigerian man comes to Brazil to find a relative that has has the same amulet of his family

Two Brazilian girls who had been studying in London arrive in Rio de Janeiro, where they meet a cousin. Together, they try many sexual adventures with the local men. But, because their friend's parents' rigid moral standards, they run away and go to São Paulo. (imdb)

Rio de Janeiro crooks rove about, performing petty tricks to survive, and get involved with a woman who steals cars. (imdb)

Clown tells the story of João Grilo, a rich couple's lively employee who cheats everybody in town: arranges a funeral for a dog, bribes the priest and the bishop into celebrating a mass in latin for the animal, and performs many other bizarre things. After he dies, he's submitted to a trial in Heaven, being judged by a black Christ, having the Devil as prosecutor and the Virgin Mary as his defense. (imdb)

Baby is found by nuns, who raise her inside the convent. When she grows up, she moves to a fishing village and gives up religious life when she falls in love with a black fisherman, who practices a Afro-Brazilian religion called Umbanda.

Metaphor about slavery and the search for freedom through the internal transformation of being, in a game of images of concretist inspiration.