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Browse 34 movies from CTR - Departamento de Cinema, Rádio e TV
A couple argues. She doesn't know what he hides.
Sep 2022
A couple argues about their careers.
May 2022
Dec 2025
In an antique shop in downtown São Paulo, a love story from the past is revealed amid the daily life of the place.
May 2024
Jonas is desperately trying to get to a job interview, but the world seems to fight against him — or rather, it seems oblivious to him.
Nov 2023
A couple discusses their first night and relationship.
Beyond the lights and magic of the ring, this documentary follows the lives of the main stars of comedy: clowns.
Nov 2025
Mar 1996
During a therapy session, Lucio, a disturbed man, discusses a presence that has come to stalk him. Since then, Lucius began to deal with his constant desire to commit violent acts in a different way.
Apr 2023
May 2, 2024. Amidst big names from São Paulo's drag scene, a young filmmaker dives into the experience of becoming a drag queen for one night.
Jul 2025
It's dawn. When Melina enters Café Insomnia, she doesn't imagine she's about to meet someone from her past again. Fate seems to bring them together again for a single night that will change the course of one of them forever.
Oct 2023
What if you could kill someone with the press of a button?
Jan 2023
Two people fight for survival in a captivity in which the only contact with the outside world is a small gap in the room where they are locked. A short film made for the "Noite de Kino 2023" project of the São Paulo International Short Film Festival - Curta Kinoforum.
Aug 2023
A woman arrives from a trip, only to find her house a bit different from what she remembers.
Two friends meet each other after a long time - but not in the way they expected.
In Xinjiang, in northwest China, an underground river brings life to the desert for the Uyghur people. An ancient construction whose waters flow from the depths of the earth to the lush grape fields, the Karez is known to those who benefit from it as the Mother River.
Jul 2024
A man goes through his options when dealing with an unknown person. Based on "Grande Edgar", by Luís Fernando Veríssimo.
When Clarissa, a young proofreader, discovers that her father is fated to disappear, she suggests they finish an old, unfinished story.
Zhu Songling is a retired paleontologist who worked at the Chongqing Natural History Museum for 40 years. He tells us his story while the dinosaur fossils he repaired are exhibited to the public every day.
Jan 2018