Matheus Nachtergaele

After disappearing for 20 years, João Grilo returns to the small town of Taperoá to gather with his old friend, Chicó. This time, he is welcomed as a celebrity in the village..

Two hapless cops find themselves in over their heads as they cross paths with dangerous criminals while searching for Celestina, a beloved goat mascot.

A young man who can speak with cars sparks a revolution to save his community. However, his quest puts him in a surreal fight for survival.

In an ingenious adaptation of the existentialist novel Zama, Argentine auteur Lucrecia Martel inserts her own incisive commentary on colonialism and masculinity. Frenzied first-person narration transforms to become a cinematic fugue state in this singular and stupefying period drama.

After learning he was stolen as a baby, a Brazilian teen is sent back to his wealthy birth family, where his gender identity challenges their norms.

A righteous man becomes entangled in crime when he accepts a job as a hitman. Every time he makes a kill, his double-life crumbles.

The streets of the world's most notorious slum, Rio de Janeiro's City of God, are a place where combat photographers fear to tread, police rarely go and residents are lucky if they live to the age of 20. In the midst of the oppressive crime and violence, a frail and scared young boy will grow up to discover that he can view the harsh realities of his surroundings with an artistic eye.

In a land where fear is weaponized and contagious, a boy and his father find a cure for the disease in an invention created to study birds.

An exiled American son and father find themselves plotting to escape the desolation of their lives in the lurid underworld of Brazil's sex industry.