All Brazil articles – Page 18

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    Temporary Hell

    2009-05-01T10:57:00Z

    The re-encounter of two friends who spent their childhood together in a small town at Minas Gerais but took different paths in life. A few days before Christmas Eve they meet and start questioning who made the best choices.

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    Sea Change

    2009-05-01T10:54:00Z

    An art expert delves into the biography of a controversial painter who disappeared 50 years ago and suddenly starts feeling his presence.

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    Scarlet Moon

    2009-05-01T10:53:00Z

    The lives of two sisters change forever when one of them is raped and becomes pregnant somewhere in the Brazilian backlands, where people believe the pregnancy is a miracle.

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    Quincas

    2009-05-01T10:51:00Z

    A 50 years old man suddenly decides to throw all the old rules and principles out the window and leaves his home and family to move to a slum in Salvador.

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    Paraísos Artificiais

    2009-05-01T10:50:00Z

    The story of two middle-class brothers who become involved in the international trafficking of synthetic drugs

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    One night in 67

    2009-05-01T10:48:00Z

    A documentary about the final of the third TV Record Brazilian Popular Music Festival that was held on the night of 21 October 1967, when some of the most important names in Brazilian music were at the peak of their careers.

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    On File

    2009-05-01T10:44:00Z

    A 40-year-old middle class woman is kidnapped by a young convict when she is leaving hospital after surgery.

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    O Bem Amado

    2009-05-01T10:43:00Z

    Comedy about a Brazilian politician who builds a cemetery in a town where nobody ever dies.

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    Nunca Antes na História deste País

    2009-05-01T10:39:00Z

    Brazilian politicians fight for power and, once they have it, they use the state’s money and contracts with private companies to enforce corrupt practices.

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    My Country

    2009-05-01T10:35:00Z

    Two brothers are forced to reunite when their father dies and they find out that they have a sister, a mentally disturbed girl, who has lived in a private mental institute all her life.

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    Moscow

    2009-05-01T10:32:00Z

    A documentary about a theatre group from Belo Horizonte that is working on a play that will never open: an adaptation of Anton Tchekcov’s The Three Sisters.

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    I Grew Up in Mangueira

    2009-05-01T10:29:00Z

    Sound is the leading element of the story telling in this documentary that goes beyond carnival and samba.

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    Favela High-Tech

    2009-05-01T10:27:00Z

    A young and beautiful Brazilian girl of Japanese descendent arrives in Japan with dreams of becoming a model but ends up in a nightclub working as a high-class prostitute.

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    Dirty Love

    2009-05-01T10:23:00Z

    A 49 years old female musician who fights a serious kidney condition faints on the stage during a tour in Recife, where she meets the man who can save her.

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    Acorda Brasil

    2009-05-01T10:19:00Z

    A violinist begins teaching at a public school on the outskirts of town and decides to put together an orchestra with his students – despite their impoverished backgrounds.

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    A Piece of Land in Berlin

    2009-05-01T10:18:00Z

    A journey of two Brazilians who need to find relatives from around the world who have a piece of land in Berlin in common.

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    Let The Old Dying Ones Give Way To The New Dying Ones

    2009-04-29T15:17:00Z

    In a village where people don’t die lives a woman who is willing to die. But she will only be allowed to die when she finds someone to replace her.

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    Today

    2009-04-29T14:41:00Z

    A ghost of a husband returns to haunt his widow when she buys an apartment with the money she received as indemnity for his disappearance during the military dictatorship

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    The Last Novel Of Balzac

    2009-04-29T14:38:00Z

    Documentary about the research undertaken by psychologist Osmar Ramos on a book that supposedly was dictated by the spirit oh French writer Honoré de Balzac.

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    My Sweet Orange Tree

    2009-04-29T14:31:00Z

    A six-year-old boy establishes a confident relationship with an orange tree, after being submitted to a violent episode