O Paraíso Proibido

A free flight of memory, instinct, expressions and sensations. The unrevealed city is seen through the eyes of caged animals.

Aurélia, a young black woman who works at a factory and lives in a working-class neighborhood in São Paulo, is seeing Fábio Tavares, who gets involved with a racist neo-nazi group.

Young executive woman returns to small town of Dois Córregos and remembers the time, in the late 1960s, when she met her uncle there, a man who was running away from the military dictatorship ruling Brazil at the time.

Collection of documentary shorts by various acclaimed directors

The lives of three teachers in the outskirts of São Paulo, their love lives, their interaction with the poor surroundings, their family problems.

Luiz Antônio, a sociologist, had his political rights suppressed, during the Brazilian military dictatorship. Also, his wife Ruth had been tortured and killed. So he decides to hide in his niece Natércia and her husband Felipe's country house for a while. But she invites the intellectual Marcela and broker Ricardo for a weekend together. Luiz's world is upset and the existential problems of all get entangled, with unexpected results.

Two factory workers from the outskirts of São Paulo make a trip to a bathhouse close to the city.

A short film made for City Life (1990)

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