Cristina Amaral Movies

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 portrait of Brazilian actress Vera Valdez, tracing her years as a model for Dior and, most notably, Coco Chanel; her flirtation with the French New...

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

Aurélia is a young black woman who works at a factory and lives in a working-class neighborhood in São Paulo, whose boyfriend...

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

A musical about a woman who hates music.

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.

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

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

A tale about the apocalypse of the working class.

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

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