Bruno Carboni

Clay Men

Desire and guilt traverse the journey of Pássaro, the only son of the Tamai family, and Ângelo, the youngest son of the Miranda family and Marciano's brother. Living in a small town, Pássaro and Marciano were best friends as children, despite the constant tension that surrounded their neighbors. However, fights between their parents drove them apart and their friendship faded. Years later, Pássaro and Ângelo meet again at a party and become attracted to each other, experiencing a passion that defies prejudice and stigma. The relationship, however, provokes Marciano's anger and hostility and rekindles resentments of the enmity between the families.

Monster Story

In a rural village colonized by Germans, little Ana watches a play about the history of the Thiltapes. It is a dangerous animal that lives in the forest, and no one knows its real form. Two hundred years earlier, a botanist who writes about the region hears about this same animal. The stories intertwine, both in an obsessive search for the imaginary Thiltapes, while at the same time facing their own demons: the weakened botanist eager for a discovery that will justify his trip and Ana intrigued by her father, suspected of having committed a brutal crime against a neighbor’s cow.

Pastrana

While reliving memories and images, downhill skateboarder Melissa endeavors to create a tribute to her friend Pastrana. As she retrieves the past, with the assistance of her friends, Pastrana's inherent presence helps her fill the silence left behind and gain a deeper understanding of time.

Wishlist for Superagüi

Martelo is a 70-year-old fisherman who has not yet been able to retire. He is the lighthouse man, points his light towards the island of Superagüi and illuminates earthly desires: better working conditions, retiring with dignity, returning to the way things used to be.

The Accident

Joana is the victim of a hit-and-run after antagonizing an aggressive driver who cut her off in traffic. On the surface, she’s visibly shaken but manages to walk away unscathed. Intending to shrug it off alongside her partner Cecília, a viral video turns up online, forcing her to process the event. Reluctantly the pair enter the lives of culprit Elaine, her estranged husband Cléber and son Maicon, an introverted budding filmmaker.

The Accident

Joana is the victim of a hit-and-run after antagonizing an aggressive driver who cut her off in traffic. On the surface, she’s visibly shaken but manages to walk away unscathed. Intending to shrug it off alongside her partner Cecília, a viral video turns up online, forcing her to process the event. Reluctantly the pair enter the lives of culprit Elaine, her estranged husband Cléber and son Maicon, an introverted budding filmmaker.

The Accident

Joana is the victim of a hit-and-run after antagonizing an aggressive driver who cut her off in traffic. On the surface, she’s visibly shaken but manages to walk away unscathed. Intending to shrug it off alongside her partner Cecília, a viral video turns up online, forcing her to process the event. Reluctantly the pair enter the lives of culprit Elaine, her estranged husband Cléber and son Maicon, an introverted budding filmmaker.

Os Dragões

Five adolescents in a conservative community experience strange transformations in their bodies. Faced with rejection in the town and the fear of adult life, thye must decide if they accept their dragon aspect or conform to the tedium and local conventions. The Dragons is an immersion in the fantastic universe do writer Murilo Rubião.

Empty House

Raúl is an unemployed cattleman that lives in an isolated house on the fields. The landscape of pastures is being superimposed by huge soy plantations. Devastated by poverty, he joins a gang of other peasants that steals cattle during the darkness of the nights on the pastures.

After Being Ashes

Three women with completely different backgrounds have one thing in common: they loved and were connected to the same man. From the point of view of these women, through an intricate structure moving back and forth in time, Raul enters the story.

International Day

During the International day, a fifth-grade class starts a small revolution in the school rules.

Rifle

Dione is a mysterious young man living with a family in a rural and remote place in the southern Brazilian plains. The quietness of the region is disturbed when a rich landowner tries to buy the small property where Dione and the family live.

Damiana

Deep inside the jungle, a group of teenage girls are being kept under supervision. Despite abandonment and hostility, Damiana hopes she can get in touch with her father.

The Roof Above Us

Squatters living in an abandoned building receive a notice that they may be evicted some time soon. While Anna tries to deal with the news, she has to confront a mysterious man lying in her bed.

The Roof Above Us

Squatters living in an abandoned building receive a notice that they may be evicted some time soon. While Anna tries to deal with the news, she has to confront a mysterious man lying in her bed.

The Roof Above Us

Squatters living in an abandoned building receive a notice that they may be evicted some time soon. While Anna tries to deal with the news, she has to confront a mysterious man lying in her bed.

Seashore

A lonely beach on the southernmost coast of Brazil is the scene for two friends, on the brink of adulthood, to explore their understanding of themselves and one another. Martin has been sent by his father to retrieve what appears to be an inheritance-related document from the family of his recently deceased and estranged grandfather. Tomaz accompanies him, seemingly hoping to regain some of their former closeness. The two boys shelter themselves in a glass house, in front of a cold and stormy sea.

Half Man, Half Ghost

The whole life of man is but a point in time. HALF MAN, HALF GHOST is the latest exploration by Davi Pretto after his first feature-film CASTANHA. Pretto shows us an old man’s slow disappearing process, in a far and remote area in the south of Brazil. A man that represents an old style of men that inhabited this region, but no longer exists. Somewhere between an ethnographic documentary and a fantasy, a journey into darkness and oblivion.

Body

A boy finds a body in the woods. Every stare turns to the body.

Castanha

Joao is a 50 year old actor who lives with his 72 year old mother, Celina. He spends his time between his work at night as a crossdresser in small gay bars and his parts in small plays, movies and TV shows. Tormented and haunted by ghosts from his past, day after day Joao starts to merge the reality in which he lived with the fiction he is interpreting.

The Bunch

A few days before a Hip Hop festival, a group of young people do their best to overcome the challenges imposed by daily life in a poor neighborhood, in order to guarantee a 'peaceful day' for the Rubem Berta community.

The Bunch

A few days before a Hip Hop festival, a group of young people do their best to overcome the challenges imposed by daily life in a poor neighborhood, in order to guarantee a 'peaceful day' for the Rubem Berta community.

Camel on the Tarmac

Camel on the Tarmac is made of two movements: the walking and the feeling. Walking under the sky of platinum winter; and on the asphalt. Feeling under the silence of the journey; relive the emotional memories. Peter walks and feel; walks and crosses the border between sister countries, Brazil and Uruguay. Follows in search of man who, like him, live recluse addition in their own digressions: his father.

Como se Vive Como se Torce

The commotion and details of a day for different people to watch a Brazilian team game, observing the peculiarities and the invisible thread that unites them.

Na Hora Dos Morcegos...

Three young people get together for Carnival, united only by the memories from their recent past as they try to figure out their future.

Magma

Feature length documentary about the Brazilian painter Iberê Camargo, one of the greatest expressionist artists from his country, commissioned by the Iberê Camargo Foundation for the occasion of the celebration of his centenary. Narrated by Iberê himself, the film was made with the artist's home videos, archival footage and contains the first ever shooting of a script the artist wrote and never produced, revealing the landscape of memory and the artist's pictorial and literary work.

Tomou Café e Esperou

Carlos goes to the kitchen and makes some coffee. The time that sets apart yesterday from now.

Bagagem

During the early hours of the morning, a young man drives a car through the city streets and tries to get rid of a huge weight in his life.

Garry

A young filmmaker faces off against the greatest chess player of all time, Garry Kasparov. During the match, Garry makes powerful comments about the power of strategy, learning to make decisions and defeat.

Garry

A young filmmaker faces off against the greatest chess player of all time, Garry Kasparov. During the match, Garry makes powerful comments about the power of strategy, learning to make decisions and defeat.

Garry

A young filmmaker faces off against the greatest chess player of all time, Garry Kasparov. During the match, Garry makes powerful comments about the power of strategy, learning to make decisions and defeat.

Maria da Penha: Um Caso de Litígio Internacional

On May 29, 1983, Maria da Penha suffered a double attempted murder in her own home by her husband and father of her three daughters. More than 15 years after the crime, there was no definitive solution to the case and the attacker remained at large. In 1998, CLADEM, CEJIL and Maria da Penha began a fight for domestic violence to be treated as a violation of human rights. The documentary recovers this story.

Drawer

A man in search of space.

Drawer

A man in search of space.

Red Fish

A mysterious turn of events leads a woman into unknown territory.

Waiting Room

A young man wearing a gas mask wanders in an grey and empty city.

Waiting Room

A young man wearing a gas mask wanders in an grey and empty city.

Morro do Céu

"Morro do Céu" is a small community of Italian descendants, located on the top of a mountain in southern Brazil. There, the young Bruno Storti and his friends fill the summer days between train tunnels, a grape harvest and a discovery of the first love.

Future Future

After using a strange AI device in a decadent course for unemployed people, a 40-year-old amnesic man gets obsessed with recurring absurd dreams, believing they are his life memories. Fourth feature film by the Brazilian director Davi Pretto.

O Luto Impossível

The pandemic and social isolation made me dream of my father again. His visit made me return to his old HD and find surprises in the midst of family photos and videos.