Movies: Mariana Ximenes

Afrânio is a retired voice actor. Lonely and tormented by memories of his childhood. In her small apartment, looking for a way to re-integrate into society....

“If you had to choose between me and your mother, who would it be?” Capitu asks provocatively of her problematic lover. Elsewhere, they dance to inaudible music with their friends, each couple keeping to a rhythm of their own. At times, this depictio...

A day in the life of Brazilian president Juscelino Kubitschek, in a troubled period of his term, while he maintains a secret love affair....

A cinematographic essay, without dialogues, about the months Nietszche spent in Turin, Italy, with narration quoted by his original writings....

A road movie that follows a solitary man as he sets of on a journey to the south of Brazil. The strange characters and absurd situations he encounters along the way present an extraordinary portrait of human relations....

Not Even God Is As Fair As Your Jeans 2024...

In a movie theater, a man wakes up and looks at the screen. "What's that?", he asks his girlfriend. "A movie", she replies. Is it?...

A young couple, Pedro and Antônia, have their relationship weakening after meeting Luana. Romance, seduction, fear and anguish from the future are established in this story of liquid love....

"All Paulos in the World" is a cinematographic essay about Paulo José, one of the greatest artists in Brazil, in the year in which he turns 80 years-old....

In 1908, Titoe leaves her country, Japan, to try her luck in Brazil. Her intention is just to get rich and return in five years. But life has other plans for her....

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Antônio wants to give his girlfriend, the prostitute Ioiô, a star. He meets a salesman who claims he can get one for him, with certificate included! After many negotiations, Antônio finds out he has been taken in....

They live, they act, they love. Today they remember, they relive, they live through cinema and life....

After receiving a strange picture postcard, Marina knows there’s nothing else to it but to return to Rio de Janeiro, the beautiful city that here seems threatening and almost enchanting....

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In the 1950s, in Rio de Janeiro, Lota Macedo Soares married the American poet Elizabeth Bishop. A few years later, Carlos Lacerda, a friend of Lota's, became governor of Guanabara and invited her to create a park where a 7-kilometer landfill had been...

A short film based on Charles Baudelaire's poem "Le serpent qui danse" ("The Dancing Snake"), from his book Les Fleurs du mal....