Escola de Comunicações e Artes, Universidade de São Paulo

A brief occurrence at the hospital waiting room.

In the late seventies, a group of Brazilian documentary filmmakers traveled to the ABC region in the suburbs of São Paulo with the purpose of recording a wave of worker strikes taking place in response to the negligence of the increasingly powerful and abusive automotive industry. Documenting striking women metal workers, Olga Futemma and Renato Tapajós’ Trabalhadoras Metalúrgicas is a particularly vigorous work among the films produced during this moment in São Paulo worker history. Scenes filmed during the first Congress of Metallurgical Women of São Bernardo and Diadema in 1978 are intercut with images documenting the appalling working conditions against which the women featured in the congress were striking.

Documentary about São Paulo samba musician Germano Mathias.

Boy meets girl.

A free-spirited surfer who masters the hang-five — walking to the tip of the board and balancing on his toes — finds himself haunted by the characters from his girlfriend’s poems.

The short film depicts the life of a boy who is constantly sexually abused by his father. Leonardo Miggiorin brilliantly plays the role of this boy, who belongs to a poor and unstructured family.

On the way back from the swimming practice, Janaina is violently approached by the police. Safe back home, she differently faces her relationship with her father Julio, who’s a policeman.

A lonely lawyer is run over in front of the Consolação Cemetery, in São Paulo. Dead, he tries to get into the cemetery, but is impossible.

João Lucas works at a video store and always ends up revealing the ending of films to customers. After being approached by a girl who always rents the same movie, the two eccentric characters start to argue about the true meaning of the plot and attract each other through their passion for cinema.

Buying a book in 3 shots, buying a book in 9 shots. Or: a man finds the right book.

After many years estranged away, the last heiress of a Lebanese immigrant family returns to her childhood estate in order to sell it. But soon becomes ghostly obsessed with a set of voice recordings of her deceased relatives.

The story of Freitas, a repressed and conservative family man, who has a tragic surprise on his birthday.

Upon returning home in the morning, Beatriz starts her perverse game with Alberto. Fábio's arrival, however, will show that the rules were much more intricate than they appeared to be.

Solano is often plagued by nightmares in which, during the Middle Ages, he is pursued by the hunter Faro, who intends to kill him. On discovering, in an antiquarian, a tapestry that represents a hunt and that reminds him of his dream, he tries to buy it, but the owner refuses to sell it.

Reconstitution, through photos, films and texts, of the arrival in Brazil of the poet Cendrars, in 1924. Tributes received, visits throughout the country and the desire to make a "100 percent Brazilian film". Testimonials from figures who lived with the intensity of the core of modernist artists: Tarcila do Amaral, Oswald de Andrade, Mário de Andrade and Di Cavalcanti. Scenes from São Paulo, Rio de Janeiro, São Martinho Farm and the 1924 Revolution. Scenes from the movie LES HEURES CHAUDES DE MONTPARNASSE. Reference to Aleijadinho and Febrônio Indio do Brasil.