Inácio Garapa, Um Matuto Sonhador 2 - O Retorno

Central Station

April 1998 •Portuguese

An emotional journey of a former school teacher, who writes letters for illiterate people, and a young boy, whose mother has just died, as they search for the father he never knew.

City of God

August 2002 •Portuguese

In the poverty-stricken favelas of Rio de Janeiro in the 1970s, two young men choose different paths. Rocket is a budding photographer who documents the increasing drug-related violence of his neighborhood, while José “Zé” Pequeno is an ambitious drug dealer diving into a dangerous life of crime.

Yellow Bar - A Night with Zorza

Invalid date •Portuguese

A group of friends hangs out at a bar, having fun and drinking beer.

Virtuosas

Invalid date •Portuguese

Official Selection - Rio International Film Festival

Elite Squad

October 2007 •Portuguese

In 1997, before the visit of the pope to Rio de Janeiro, Captain Nascimento from BOPE (Special Police Operations Battalion) is assigned to eliminate the risks of the drug dealers in a dangerous slum nearby where the pope intends to be lodged.

Isabel

Invalid date •Portuguese

A woman in her early 50s who wants to open her own wine bar after being the head sommellière for a Michelin-starred restaurant.

The Last Solution

June 2025 •Portuguese

Within the confines of a massive wall, a group of children plays as if there were no tomorrow

17.700

June 2024 •Portuguese

Gonzaga's music -17 e 700- inspired the story of Luiz, an angry and miser Man! When he goes out to have a drink with his friends, he doesn't imagine that an argument could end up bringing back the dead with thunder!

América, do Sul

April 2024 •Portuguese

Soror

October 2021 •Portuguese

In 1946, in Soror city, three different stories intersect amid macabre events. While detectives Thomas and Carlos work in the unsolved cases of the mysterious body found in a tree and Serena Caires disappearance, those three stories get together suggesting the motivations of those respective crimes.

Dereliction

December 2018 •Portuguese

Elias is an I.T. technician preparing for an overnight gig. He thinks he's totally alone in the building and is about to find out he's wrong.

MMA - A Fathers Fight

January 2025 •Portuguese

When Max, a former MMA world champion about to retire, discovers he has an 8-year-old autistic son, his life is turned upside down. Now, as he trains for one last opportunity to regain his world champion title, Max must deal with his new family and his father, from whom he has long been estranged.

Inácio Garapa, Um Matuto Sonhador

May 2010 •Portuguese

Mistério na Colônia

September 2003 •Portuguese

A doctor from Rio de Janeiro travels to spend his vacation in a small town in the South of Brazil, surrounded by legends about the disappearance of tourists. He stays in the house of a local family (father, son and grandmother), and, during lunch, the boy attempts to alert the doctor about a terrible secret.

Caio

February 2024 •Portuguese

The teenage aspiration for independence crashes like an aggressive wave of loneliness. Some drown. In a century where the normal has been transformed into hiding behind lenses, Caio does not learn how to express his feelings, which ends up costing him his life. Only then, the space to explore the boy's suffering appear. Marisol, Elena, and Artur cope with the loss of Caio in different ways. The Brazilian independent film, created by two teenagers, offers a profound reflection on the fragility of existence, the risks of isolation, the power of hope, and the importance of unbreakable bonds formed in moments of shared pain.

Porta dos Fundos: Contrato Vitalício

June 2016 •Portuguese

Two friends, filmmaker Miguel and actor Rodrigo, win the grand prize of the jury at the Cannes Film Festival. After drinking too much, Rodrigo signs a lifetime contract to star in Miguel's next film. Miguel mysteriously disappears and comes back ten years later proposing to make a delirious film retelling his adventure in the years he'd been gone. Rodrigo is already famous and fears risking his career, but he has no alternative but to comply.

The Guardian

May 2025 •Portuguese

After hearing about a Brazilian folklore party at the neighborhood school, Fernando, an 8-year-old child, decides to go dressed as Curupira, with a skirt and everything, and suggests it to his grandfather, Mr. Lino, 70 years old. The dynamics between grandfather and grandson begin to be affected as Lino perceives Fernando to be a different child. Through subtleties in the dialogues and the silence, social conventions and the responsibility of being the guardian-protector of something precious, the film evokes conceptions of the masculine within a queer childhood.

Quem Não Mexe

July 2023 •Portuguese

Sagrada Travesti do Evangelho

April 2024 •Portuguese

Elite Squad: The Enemy Within

October 2010 •Portuguese

After a bloody invasion of the BOPE in the High-Security Penitentiary Bangu 1 in Rio de Janeiro to control a rebellion of interns, the Lieutenant-Colonel Roberto Nascimento and the second in command Captain André Matias are accused by the Human Right Aids member Diogo Fraga of execution of prisoners. Matias is transferred to the corrupted Military Police and Nascimento is exonerated from the BOPE by the Governor.