Karen Akerman Movies

Inspired on the true events of the Portuguese king Don Pedro (14th Century) which unburied his mistress to make her queen after dead. This film tells...

Child solidarity is stronger than death.

A young man’s father, close to death, reveals to his son the true story of his own father’s end. The mean old gaucho was murdered by some...

Syrian brothers Adel and Hadi Bakkour take to the streets of Rio de Janeiro fighting for democracy in the country where they chose to live. History...

Large boats navigate the Amazon River daily, transporting people, animals and goods. This film portrays one of these trips.

In 2019, the leakage of messages exchanged by authorities in Brazil undermines the credibility of Operation Lava Jato. A group of journalists follows...

In Alasca landscape never changes, only grows old.

Hilda must be responsible of a decision that she took long time ago. Her life is altered by the news that her son is coming to visit her after...

Cinematographic transcreation of a text censored in 1968.

Thirteen elderly people with cognitive illnesses attend the Psychogeriatric Day Clinic at the CHPL Hospital. The treatment is based on...

In exile, a Brazilian child develops strategies to rise.

Beside the savage desire to realize the enormities which he brooded on, nothing was sacred.

A batch of 110 love letters exchanged by two lovers in the 1950s, discovered in Mato Grosso do Sul, is the starting point for this film.

The mythological story of the first woman on Earth, who came before Eve. She is created by God to be Adam’s wife. However, Lilith does not...

If I didn’t blossom, if I remained unbloomed, it’s because my roots were poisoned. I know it's false, an induced error, but... this is me.

When humans become animals and animals become humans.

On the violent border between Brazil and Paraguay, a war is being waged around the expansion of agribusiness. On one side sits lawyer Luana Ruiz, the...

French girl lost in Rio de Janeiro has a peculiar meeting with the nacional cinema maphia. Who can save her?