Soundtrack: Egberto Gismonti

Direction Fernando E. Solanas

Cast Walter Quiroz · Dominique Sanda · Atilio Veronelli · Franklin Caicedo

Synopsis A young man living in a cold southern village in South America, decides to start a trip looking for his father. By doing this he discovers unexpected facts about his latin American essence.

Direction William Friedkin

Cast Al Pacino · Paul Sorvino · Karen Allen · Richard Cox

Synopsis Sexual thriller with Al Pacino as a young cop who must go undercover as a gay 'cruiser' in New York City. There's a homicidal homophobe on the streets, brutally killing gay men, and it's up to Pacino to stop him....

Direction Andrucha Waddington

Cast Regina Casé · Lima Duarte · Stênio Garcia · Luiz Carlos Vasconcelos

Synopsis Darlene, earthy and unmarried, returns to the cane fields of Bahia with her young son. There, over time, she balances the pride, desire, jealousy, and tolerance of three men. Osias, an older man, proud of a house he's built, proposes...

Direction Roberto Farias

Cast Reginaldo Faria · Carlos Zara · Antonio Fagundes · Natália do Vale

Synopsis The story concerns a man who is picked up by the police because they mistake him for a terrorist. As he is brutalized in a dungeon-like setting, the people in the streets are celebrating Brazil winning the 1970 World Soccer...

Direction Braz Chediak

Cast Norma Bengell · Antônio Bonfim · Nena de Oliveira · Antônio do Cabo

Direction Ruy Guerra

Cast Taumaturgo Ferreira · Fernanda Torres · Cláudio Mamberti · Umberto Magnani

Synopsis The main character is a priest who, in the 1950s, was a missionary in the Alto Xingu, who later left the priesthood and became an indigenist who fought against the military regime implanted in 1964.

Direction Tizuka Yamasaki

Cast Tamlyn Tomita · Jorge Perugorría · Aya Ono · Louise Cardoso

Synopsis In 1908, Titoe leaves her country, Japan, to try her luck in Brazil. Her intention is just to get rich and return in five years. But life has other plans for her.

Direction Ruy Guerra

Cast Jorge Perugorría · Bianca Byington · Leonor Arocha · José Antonio Rodríguez

Synopsis Ruy Guerra's Estorvo (Turbulence), based on a novel by singer/song-writer Chico Buarque, chronicles the existential nightmare of an anonymous first-person character who roams through the streets of a modern city. The setting is Brazil today, the protagonist ("I", Jorge Perugorría)...

Direction Jytte Rex

Cast Ole Lemmeke · Cher Guertze · Bodil Jørgensen · Inger Christensen

Direction Monti Aguirre · Glenn Switkes

Synopsis For 500 years the indigenous people of the Amazon have defended their homeland against the invasion that has brought the mass extinction of over 700 tribes and destruction of the rainforests in which they live. Amazonia gives voice to these...

Direction Michael Haneke

Cast Elfriede Irrall · Suzanne Geyer · Hilmar Thate · Monica Bleibtreu

Synopsis Haneke depicts the emotional story of an adulterous relationship between a journalist and a teacher. The film poignantly explores the difficult dynamics between people who love one another but still can’t keep from hurting one another. Variation has been described...

Direction Ruy Guerra

Cast Ney Latorraca · Claudia Ohana · Tônia Carrero · Dina Sfat

Synopsis Orestes, a rich factory owner, falls for the beautiful Fulvia. They communicate using pigeons, to avoid being discovered by her husband.