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Browse 50 movies from Escola de Comunicações e Artes, Universidade de São Paulo
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.
Feb 2002
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.
Nov 1976
"Do what you want because everything will be legal".
Sep 1992
A brief occurrence at the hospital waiting room.
Jan 2003
Juliano is a young artist who lives a happy life with his boyfriend, Nuno, a 65-year-old man, until his relationship is shaken by the discovery that his partner has a degenerative disease.
Aug 2023
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Documentary about São Paulo samba musician Germano Mathias.
Jan 1999
Sep 2020
Jeanne has lost her own trail, forgotten the howl of our pack. Through the registry or maybe the quest for a path hidden by the metropolis, our character will discover possible traces, habitats and a huge construction that never stops.
Jan 2011
Dec 2017
Jul 2024
'The Private from Odessa' is a portrait of Boris Schnaiderman, Brazil's most important translator and essayist on Russian literature and culture. Using different cinematic approaches, the film depicts Boris as he reflects on his personal experiences —his childhood in the 1920's Odessa, his experience as a Brazilian soldier during World War Two— and on his still evolving work as a translator and essayist.
Mar 2014
Jul 1975
An uncompromised from a young group of people.
Sep 1994
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.
Jan 2004
In China’s Northeast, there is the Fuzhou Folk Music, a country music played with suona, big suona, double pipe, Zheng and percussion instruments. Song Xiping, a suona professor, is one of the main inheritors of this music.
Nov 2023
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.
Aug 2012
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.
Mar 2025
Images of the Minas Gerais backlands (human types, geographical aspects, domestic chores) with texts by Guimarães Rosa, extracted from Grande Sertão: Veredas.
Jan 1968
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.
Nov 2021