Renato Novaes

Zeca tries to get up early to catch the bus and arrive an hour and a half later at the neighboring town’s school, where he works as a...

The Martins family are optimistic dreamers, quietly leading their lives in the margins of a major Brazilian city following the disappointing...

Down on his luck and recently divorced, Paulo has begun driving a cab around Rio, hoping he’ll make enough to send his ex money to support...

17-year-old Anderson steals a motobike in the outskirts of São Paulo. He wants to become a man, putting an end to years of exclusion and...

The night of Belo Horizonte, Brazil, is a time capsule that relativizes the passage, blurs the senses, and recasts the definitions of future in the...

Bia just turned eighteen. The end of the year is coming and also the ACTs. People at school and Bia’s parents are pressuring her to decide...

In order to take a new job as an employee in the public sanitation department, Juliana moves from the inner city of Itaúna to the metropolitan...

The inhabitants of the Brazilian city of Contagem yearn for a better life. At the core of it all is Selma, a woman dreaming about the heart of the...

With its obvious simplicity, the film’s title happens to set the mood of the film, or at least its guiding principle: staying anchored in...

Marta wants to give herself a chance to live a new life, in a new city.

Yeda, the green-faced woman, sells homemade bread to support the house where she lives with her sick husband. Through the context of green-faced...

Through boxing Jessica pursue to overcome old traumas.

In 2011, during a blackout in an outskirt neighborhood’s street, a family – surrounded by candles that light conversations and thoughts ...

A couple obsessed by fireworks discovers the great Super Silver Star.

Maria José Novais Oliveira, a black woman, resident on the outskirts of Contagem, already in her 60s, has become a film actress, with an...