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Browse 27 movies from Filmes do Asilo Febril
In a town dominated by criminality, the destinies of a police chief and a nightclub performer intersect, leading both of them, and the city as a whole, to a tragic end.
Feb 2025
A group of people gather at a roadside hotel during a heavy storm. As hours pass, rumors spread in the lobby: a fugitive criminal was captured. Among local cops, it is difficult to know who is in the service of the law and who is looking for revenge. Santana, an ordinary man, responsible for the criminal's arrest, sees his life turn upside down as he tries to expiate his guilt for a lie in the past.
Oct 2023
The hero waits in line at a government office, takes a nap and is woken up by the devil.
Jul 2015
João is disenchanted with life and spends his days working at a video store. Without warning, a new client appears and makes him a proposal.
Jul 2016
Savella recalls an old story, an old knowledge, reads Buñuel and prepares his drink, Pinga Seca.
May 2017
José, born in São José dos Pinhais, Paraná, wants to learn more about his town's history. To do so, he schedules a conversation with historian Maria Angélica Marochi at the Municipal Library. While they talk, a strange figure walks through the rural landscapes of São José dos Pinhais, searching for a distant past.
May 2025
Savella travels to Italy. There, he discovers Rome, its landscapes and monuments. He remembers, among the ruins, where he came from and what motivated him to leave and return.
Feb 2019
The bad day of a film buff at the Cinematheque. A stranger projects herself on the screen and changes its course.
Apr 2020
Three crooks are hidden with a stolen bag, only one criminal can save them: The Thin Man.
May 2018
The Miringuava dam is being built to ensure public water supply around the municipality of São José dos Pinhais, Brazil. Changes are inevitable, and many residents of the surrounding area suffer from the conditions imposed by the Government's project.
Anezia dos Santos talks about her childhood in Votorantim Factory's Workers' Village.
Boy meets girl. They meet again. They wave goodbye.
May 2015
Marina catches some flowers and eats them.
Apr 2015
Film-study about cities based on the free association of ideas, with two interpreters who wander through the center of Curitiba.
Mar 2014
A community in the Brazilian countryside has its order disturbed by the arrival of outsiders: a group of teenagers who find out, the hard way, that the Devil exists.
Oct 2018
An old man builds houses to protect his home.
Aug 2021
A portrait of the churches surrounding the Diocese of São José dos Pinhais.
Apr 2026
A scene is created and rehearsed in Master Divonzir's dojo.
Mar 2015
During the COVID-19 pandemic lockdown, two strangers connect through emails, sharing their experiences of isolation. Between empty streets and open windows, the town plots an encounter.
Luiz Antonio Guinski's airplanes pervade the boundaries between image and word, composing a body of work that destabilizes matter to explore drawing, chance, symmetry - the body and the machine.
Mar 2022