Cristina Amaral Movies

"Confluências" presents ways of celebrating and other ways of life in the Saco-Curtume quilombo, in the rural area of São João do...

A tale about the apocalypse of the working class.

A short film about the meeting of a Trappist monk and a Zen Buddhist master.

A story of grief, of pain: an abortion. Time becomes entangled as past, present, and future intertwine, allowing what has already happened and what...

Dadinho, an old samba composer, is taken by his granddaughter to his brother’s funeral, composer from a rival samba school. Along this path a...

A storyteller in Brasilia entertains the visitors of a bar with his narratives.

Disagreements, incommunicability between people. What is said is not heard, what is heard is not understood. Everything is ambiguous. What appears to...

A musical about a woman who hates music.

Just released from prison, Léa returns home to the Brasilia favela of Sol Nascente and joins up with her half-sister Chitara, the fearless...

Zu, a twelve-year-old boy on the way to buy flour for his mother, winds up in the clutches of armed paramilitary narcotics officers.

In a hospital that struggles not to close its doors, two children discover their first love.

Silmara, an industrial worker and a woman of exuberant beauty, supports her arsonist father and gets involved with two different pop stars, from whom...