Videoteca

location_onRecife, PernambucopublicBR

Sleep with Your Eyes Open 2024 star_border 4.8
A coastal city in Brazil. Kai arrives from Taiwan for holidays with a broken heart. A broken air conditioner sends her into Fu Ang’s umbrella store. He could become a friend, but the rainy season doesn't arrive and his shop disappears. While looking for Fu Ang, Kai discovers the story of Xiaoxin and a group of Chinese workers in a posh skyscraper. Kai finds herself strangely mirrored in Xiaoxin’s tale.

Heartless 2024 star_border 6.6
Summer 1996, north-east coast of Brazil. Tamara is enjoying her last weeks at the fishing village she lives in before departing to Brasilia for her studies. One day, she hears about a teenager nicknamed Heartless after a scar she has on her chest. Over the course of the summer, Tamara feels a growing attraction for this mysterious girl.

Seu Cavalcanti 2024
The sequence of graduation of law graduates in Seu Cavalcanti helps to understand the Sergio Moro phenomenon in Brazil.

Pictures of Ghosts 2023 star_border 8
Downtown Recife’s classic movie palaces from the 20th century are mostly gone. That city area is now an archaeological site of sorts that reveals aspects of life in society which have been lost. And that’s just part of the story.

Bacurau no Mapa 2019 star_border 8.3
Behind the scenes of Bacurau (2019)'s shooting and pre-production. With exclusive images, directors Kléber Mendonça Filho and Juliano Dornelles show how they made the film an audience and critical success.

Bacurau 2019 star_border 7.7
Bacurau, a small town in the Brazilian sertão, mourns the loss of its matriarch, Carmelita, who lived to be 94. Days later, its inhabitants notice that their community has vanished from most maps.

Aquarius 2016 star_border 7.5
Clara, a vibrant former music critic and widow with flowing tresses is the only remaining apartment owner in a beautiful older building targeted for demolition by ruthless luxury high-rise developers. Clara proves to be a force to be reckoned with as she thwarts the builders plans to kick her out of the apartment.

O Ateliê da Rua do Brum 2016
The life of Reno, an artist who lives and works in an old building in the Recife neighborhood that is rapidly transforming. His inspiration and tools have been found in the beautiful Capibaribe River which is filled with pollution and death.

Coffee Stains 2014 star_border 5.2
A photographer travels to São Paulo for his first solo exhibition and decides to stay in his now married, ex-girlfriend’s house.

The World Cup in Recife 2014 star_border 7
Recife, undergoing so many changes, was the scene of a party of joy and tension, sports and politics. A happy experience, but full of the contradictions that make Brazil be Brazil and here wins the face and the space of Recife.

Heartless 2014 star_border 6.3
Léo goes on vacation at his cousin's, in a fishing village. There, he meets a girl who goes by the nickname Heartless.

Quarteto Simbólico 2013
In 1910, Le Corbusier wrote in Germany his famous essay on the eyes that do not see the new forms of modern architecture. One hundred years later, in Recife, the immense modernist work of Portuguese architect Delfim Amorim remains unrecognized. What for Le Corbusier was a necessity and a projection, is now a debate about heritage, preservation, inheritance.

Neighboring Sounds 2012 star_border 7.1
An independent private security firm arrives at a middle-class neighborhood in Recife, Brazil.

Cold Tropics 2009 star_border 7.6
In tropical Recife, in northeastern Brazil, temperatures drop to impossible lows and the inhabitants have to adapt. This 'mockumentary' gradually turns critical, looking at the climate, urban development and social interaction from every angle. Does a ray of sun pierce the clouds, after all?

Luz Industrial Mágica 2008

Crítico 2008 star_border 7.9
Seventy critics and filmmakers discuss cinema around the conflict between the artist and the observer, the creator and the critic. Between 1998 and 2007, Kléber Mendonça Filho recorded testimonies about this relationship in Brazil, the United States and Europe, based on his experience as a critic.

Ocidente 2008
A couple on a trip.

Friday Night, Saturday Morning 2007 star_border 5.4
Friday Night Saturday Morning is a small-scale romantic love story, shot with a digital camera in black & white and in a documentary style. We follow the conversation between two lovers, each on a different side of the world; he is in Recife, she is in Kiev. On one side is dark, on the other light, but both experience the same emotions and hence feel nearness and contact.

Eletrodoméstica 2005 star_border 6.4
A middle-class family living in a house filled with superfluous electronic appliances see the arrival of a new item, a 29" TV-set.

Green Vinyl 2004 star_border 6.6
A mother gives her daughter a box full of old, coloured little vinyl records. The daughter may listen to them, but she should never, ever, play the green one.

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