Maurício Baggio

The Baptism

Hatred, intolerance, polarization. In the past few years, Brazil transformed into a battlefield, where dialogue became impossible. The Baptism depicts this phenomenon and its consequences through the relationship between two brothers which lives are completely different from each other.

Small Uprisings

At a waiting room in a nanny agency, a group of women share experiences, reflect on their lives and decide to make a pact.

Ursa

A pit bull attack in a suburban neighborhood and its tragic aftermath.

Vazante

On an empty beach, 5 kids talk and talk, over the beach lenght. They are young but not dumb. Mean but not beamed. And cute but not stupid.

Nóis por Nóis

The Ball rolls freely and while the RAP echoes from the speakers, four friends roam the dance floor with very different goals. What they don't know is that their fates will be sealed forever after this night.

Empty Days

"Empty Days" tells the story of a day in the life of Jean and Fabiana, a couple of young boyfriends who try to reinvent their lives in a small town in the Brazilian interior. They are in their senior year of high school and live the old dilemma: either we leave this city or we stay here and continue the history of our parents. At the end of this day Jean commits suicide and Fabiana disappears. Two years later, Daniel and Alanis, another couple of young boyfriends, try to understand how everything happened.

João e Maria

The widower João declares his loneliness on a radio program and meets Maria, a recently separated woman who yearns for a new life together.

Tarântula

In a distant mansion lives a religious and apparently incomplete family: a mother and her two daughters. Until the day which a new disturbing member comes to put things in their place.

Santa Teresa

Isolation colonies kept thousands of leprosy patients inmates. In Brazil, hundreds of them still remain in these institutions where they were compulsorily taken from a policy based on secular prejudice and hygienist methods.

Tereza

Chico ventures himself into changing his life, regardless of the risks. In order to reach this objective he must rely not only on his courage but, above all, on Tereza.

Tereza

Chico ventures himself into changing his life, regardless of the risks. In order to reach this objective he must rely not only on his courage but, above all, on Tereza.

News of the Queen

Short documentary about a Brazilian radio queen.

News of the Queen

Short documentary about a Brazilian radio queen.

The Heart That Told Too Much

Evanildo is being held at the mental asylum for a very peculiar crime. He claims to hear better than anyone else, yet he appears to be calm and controlled. As he tells how he committed murder, we understand a little bit more about his soul.

Nervo Craniano Zero

A successful writer experiments with a new creativity-inducing brain chip by implanting it in the mind of a naive country girl, Cristi. The results are better than expected, but Cristi can no longer sleep, eat, smell... or die. What seemed to be a breakthrough in science becomes a horrific nightmare.

Nevermore - Três Pesadelos e Um Delírio de Edgar Allan Poe

A collection of three short stories and one poem by Edgar Allan Poe adapted for the screen. Berenice, Morella, The Raven and Ligea like never before seen on film. The movies explore the sensuality, the opium driven dreams and the horror which are the essence of Poe's works. A visually stunning work by the same makers of horror-indie-hit 'Morgue Story'.

Beard Boy

Due to a rare disease, a child grows a beard. He likes being himself but resents people staring at him.

A Revolta

The only successful armed agrarian uprising in the history of Brazil, after which more than 56,000 plots of land were titled, the Revolta dos Posseiros ended a severe dispute that lasted several years. The documentary A Revolta addresses this topic by bringing together multiple points of view and versions about this very significant and still little-known event.