Renato Novaes

Zeca tries to get up early to catch the bus and arrive an hour and a half later at the neighboring town’s school, where he works as a librarian....

A middle-class Black family in Brazil copes with the election of a far-right extremist president. The mother believes that she's cursed after an...

Down on his luck and recently divorced, Paulo has begun driving a cab around Rio, hoping he’ll make enough to send his ex money to support their...

17-year-old Anderson steals a motobike in the outskirts of São Paulo. He wants to become a man, putting an end to years of exclusion and rejection,...

The night of Belo Horizonte, Brazil, is a time capsule that relativizes the passage, blurs the senses, and recasts the definitions of future in the...

The film tells the story of a Jewish family in Brazil, set against the backdrop of the Great World War of the 20th century, who try to escape Nazi...

Bia just turned eighteen. The end of the year is coming and also the ACTs. People at school and Bia’s parents are pressuring her to decide which...

In order to take a new job as an employee in the public sanitation department, Juliana moves from the inner city of Itaúna to the metropolitan town...

The inhabitants of the Brazilian city of Contagem yearn for a better life. At the core of it all is Selma, a woman dreaming about the heart of the...

With its obvious simplicity, the film’s title happens to set the mood of the film, or at least its guiding principle: staying anchored in everyday...

Marta wants to give herself a chance to live a new life, in a new city.

Yeda, the green-faced woman, sells homemade bread to support the house where she lives with her sick husband. Through the context of green-faced...

Through boxing Jessica pursue to overcome old traumas.

In 2011, during a blackout in an outskirt neighborhood’s street, a family – surrounded by candles that light conversations and thoughts – ...

A couple obsessed by fireworks discovers the great Super Silver Star.

One day, Renato and Adriano decide not to work. They walk through the streets of Capão, while a film crew steals some shots.

Travel through time without leaving your place.

The film tells the story of a woman who lives in a village of mining workers.

André, a teenager, lives in an industrial town in Brazil near an old aluminum factory. One day, a factory worker, Cristiano, suffers an accident....

Vicentina struggles to cope with the death of her son Wesley after a tragic bus accident, in which he was the driver. As the investigation unfolds,...