Cristina Amaral Movies

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

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

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...

The documentary addresses the project, which took 30 years to complete, about the recording of 44 songs created for each poem in Mensagem, one of...

In 1965, a year after the military coup in Brazil, an oasis of freedom opened in the country's capital. The Brasília Film Festival: a landmark...

50 years of Brazilian history seen from the point of view of a friendship among two intellectuals.

Two tales of migration. In the first, after a tailings dam disaster floods her hometown, rural worker Joana (55) moves to São...

A Polish Jew becomes a prostitute after failing to get a marriage in Brazil. Meanwhile, the public health doctor Oswaldo Cruz ends up involved in the...

Carapiru is a member of one of Brazil's remaining indigenous peoples, living in harmony with nature and making wise use of the local flora and fauna....

The São Silvestre Road Race is a famous long-distance running event held yearly in the city of São Paulo, Brazil, on December 31st. The...

Ring whose previous owner was a prostitute with supernatural powers causes double personality in a young woman about to marry. After some time, her...

A look at the Brazilian black movement between 1977 and 1988, going by the relationship between Brazil and Africa.

A dialogue between the auteur's memories and the images he shot and kept during his long film career - sketches of live that were never shown, never...

Experimental documentary about the life and work of obscure samba musician Vassourinha (1923-1942), born in São Paulo, who only recorded six...

Letícia discovers she is pregnant but does not know who the father of her child is. There are four possibilities. Despite being insecure and...

Chronicles the life of military lieutenant, later communist militant and Brazilian politician Luiz Carlos Prestes.

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