While out for a walk in the countryside, Marina and Juvenal stop to take some pictures in front of an old woman’s house. Annoyed, the old woman turns out to be a witch and casts a curse on the young couple in the form of a wound that feeds on raw flesh.
The short film reports the process of rescuing and finishing A Praga, by José Mojica Marins, o Zé do Caixão. Produced in 1980, the film was never completed and was lost.
Using a mixture of film clips and interviews with Ozualdo Candeias himself the film tells the director's 40 year trajectory.
On the first year of a far right government in Brazil, Joder decides to investigate his health after moving to Brasilia for work.
Would have one of the masters of Brazilian cinema always made the same film? From an encounter with documentarian Eduardo Coutinho recorded in 2012 and a vast amount of archive footage, this film offers a general look at Coutinho's work and testifies how the filmmaker’s thinking still stand the test of time to this day and age.
There is no place in the world where the prison population grows as fast as in Brazil, a country that have the fourth largest population of inmates in globe. Sentence on Trial dives deep into the hellish everyday life of the Brazilian prisons to expose how moroseness, prejudice and the culture of fear amplify violence and the social abyss of the country.
