The Way He Looks details the trials and tribulations of growing up for three teenagers as they struggle to navigate the awkwardness of adolescence. Leonardo and Giovanna have been best friends since they were very young. Now, in the midst of their teen years, they are both confronted with the challenges of budding sexuality, the struggle for independence, and defining themselves as adults. When they befriend the new kid in school, Gabriel, their seemingly static world is turned upside down as they question their relationships with one another. If being a teenager isn’t hard enough, their situation is further complicated by Leonardo’s blindness
I’m Still Here Ainda Estou Aqui
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Rio de Janeiro, early 1970s. The Paivas family lives under the tightening grip of Brazil’s military dictatorship. Rubens is a former politician, and his wife Eunice (Fernanda Montenegro) is devoted to their five children. They live an enchanted life by the beach surrounded by friends and family, and their humor and affection appear to be their only forms of resistance to the increasing oppression that surrounds them — until the day a violent and arbitrary act changes their lives forever.
In his first fiction film since 2012’s On the Road, the acclaimed director of Central Station and The Motorcycle Diaries delivers another powerful political and human drama about his home country, lead by a stunning performance from Central Station star Fernanda Montenegro as the matriarch who must reinvent herself to carve out a new destiny for her family. A gripping tale of Brazil’s dark history, I’m Still Here marks a forceful and masterfully crafted return for the Brazilian auteur.
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- Maria Carlota Bruno, Rodrigo Teixeira, Martine De Clermont-Tonnerre
- Murilo Hauser, Heitor Lorega
- Alfonso Goncalves, ACE
- Adrian Teijido, ABC
- Fernanda Torres, Selton Mello, Fernanda Montenegro
- Warren Ellis
- Guilherme Terra, Thierry de Clermont-Tonnerre, Lourenço Sant’anna, Renata Brandão, Juliana Capelini, David Taghioff, Masha Magonova
- VideoFilmes, RT Features, Mact Productions
- https://www.sonyclassics.com/film/imstillhere
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Apocalypse in the Tropics
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Where does a democracy end and a theocracy begin? Oscar-nominated filmmaker Petra Costa (The Edge of Democracy) investigates the increasingly powerful grip that evangelicals hold over politics in Brazil, home to one of the largest and swiftest religious shifts in human history. As Costa tells us in her haunting and insightful voiceover, evangelicals have risen from some 5% to 30% of the Brazilian population in just 40 years.
With extraordinary access to the country’s top leaders, including President Lulu da Silva, former President Jair Bolsonaro, and Bolsonaro’s right-hand man, popular Pentecostal televangelist Silas Malafaia, Costa offers a lucid, poetic, and chilling look at the ways in which fear, poverty, and apocalyptic theology can be exploited to consolidate power. It’s a brilliant and gripping case study about the precarity of contemporary democracies with clear resonances in the U.S. today.
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- Alessandra Orofino, Petra Costa
- Petra Costa, Alessandra Orofino, Nels Bangerter, David Barker, Tina Baz
- João Atala, Pedro Urano, Murilo Salazar
- Jenny Raskin, Jim Swartz, Susan Swartz, Geralyn White Dreyfous, Katrina vanden Heuvel, Jeffrey Lurie, Marie Therese Guirgis, Felipe Estefan, Rafael Georges Zein, Brad Pitt, Dede Gardner, Jeremy Kleiner, Meadow Fund, Katy Drake Bettner, Kate Hurwitz, InMaat Foundation, Frida Polli, James Costa, Trevor Burgess
- Busca Vida Filmes
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Baby
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“Baby” is 18-year-old Wellington’s new persona since he began an exhilarating new life in sex work. After being released from a juvenile detention center to learn that his family has left him behind, he drifts through the streets of São Paulo until catching the eye of Ronaldo. The older man takes Baby under his wing and into his home, teaching him how to be an escort and welcoming him into his queer found family.
The relationship that emerges between Baby and Ronaldo is malleable and complex. Part lovers, part father/son, part boss/employee, it oscillates between caring and volatile. Baby, intoxicated by the freedom and empowerment he finds in sex work, forges out on his own, only to discover the true value of his newfound community. Tender and honest, Baby explores the complexities of queer joy with openness and hope.
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- Beto Tibiriçá, Ivan Melo, Marcelo Caetano
- Marcelo Caetano, Gabriel Domingues
- Fabian Remy
- Joana Luz, Pedro Sotero
- João Pedro Mariano, Ricardo Teodoro, Ana Flavia Cavalcanti, Bruna Linzmeyer, Luiz Bertazzo, Marcelo Varzea, Patrick Coelho, Kyra Reis, Baco Pereira, Sylvia Prado, Ariane Aparecida, Victor Hugo Martins
- Bruno Prado, Caê Rolfsen
- Cup Filmes/Desbun Filmes/Plateau, Produções, Still Moving, Circe Films & Kaap, Holland
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The Way He Looks
Central Station
An emotive journey of a former school teacher, who writes letters for illiterate people, and a young boy, whose mother has just died, as they search for the father he never knew.
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