Parabólica Brasil

The cultural differences between the several generations of the rural maracatu: an afro-indigenous ritual which originated in the sugar mills of the state of Pernambuco.

In an old mansion, an old lady and her young goddaughter prepare to receive a mysterious visitor who will fulfill an old wish.

A man falls in love with a teenage girl, who is exploited by her own grandfather, who sometimes takes her to a gas station to show her naked to whomever pays him some money.

Zizo, a radical and anarchist poet living in a marginal quarter of Recife in the north eastern state of Pernambuco, distributes his social angst-filled thoughts through a publication named Febre do Rato, and spews poetry to anyone who’d listen. Our character always revolves within the universe that he has created around himself. A very particular world, in which satisfying the unfortunate is a mixture of a kind of benefit with high dose of malice.

Epaminondas is a low-income middle-class civil servant in the early 1970s. He is an ordinary man, a family man, whose day-to-day life is surrounded by bureaucratic commitments and can no longer stand the banal routine he is subjected to.