Movies: Adelina Pontual

When a doctor decides to carry out an AIDS prevention program inside Latin America’s largest prison: the Casa de Detenção de São Paulo - Carandiru, he meets the future victims of one of the darkest days in Brazilian History when the State of São Paul...

After leaving her daughter Jessica in a small town in Pernambuco to be raised by relatives, Val spends the next 13 years working as a nanny to Fabinho in São Paulo. She has financial stability but has to live with the guilt of having not raised Jessi...

Passages showcases Brazilian films in which the utilisation of artforms and media such as literature, painting, theatre, music, photography, radio and television, functions as a 'passage' to political and social reality....

Inspired by songs by Arrigo Barnabé, the film tells the story of a young man who was the victim of a scientific experiment on a TV network. From then on, he begins to commit a series of crimes whose objective is to take revenge on those who induced h...

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A day in the life of a woman, who upon turning 53, decides to rethink her life, confront herself and the image she has created of herself over the years....

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A short film about Cuban women, post-revolution....

On the outskirts of the city of Nossa Senhora da Glória, in the hinterland of the state of Sergipe, Northeast Brazil, we will find an unexpected open-air sculpture park. This unusual “art gallery” is the result of the work of Cícero Alves dos Santos,...

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