La Ursa (2024)

Mãos de Pedra

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Hope Ways

Amid the 2019 drought in Brazil’s Northeast, Madalena loses her mother in a tragic event that changes her life. Alone, she joins a rebellion at the Grajaú farm in Canudos, where a community rises against government neglect. A violent State response turns their hope into sorrow. Later, journalist Júlia returns to uncover the truth, hearing from people like Lúcia, a grieving mother. As Júlia investigates, hidden stories emerge: Madalena's forbidden love with rebel João and Pedro's thirst for revenge after losing his father to political violence. Their paths cross in a tale of justice, pain, and redemption. Inspired by Ariano Suassuna, famed for "A Dog’s Will", this short film is a prelude to "A Pena e a Lei", created by 9th-grade students from Escola SESI Cambona, in Maceió, Brazil. It was screened at the SESI Festival of Art and Culture in July 2023, touching audiences with its emotional and socially conscious narrative.

Nordeste Água e Óleo

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Caçadores do Sobrenatural: A Perna cabeluda

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O Carnaval é de Pelé

This short film follows Pelé, a retired nurse who looks back on his time as a Mateus in the century-old Bumba Meu Boi group, Boi Tira-Teima. As he builds a new boi for the festival, he revisits the defining moments of his journey as a performer, carnival artist, and son of Mestre Gerson, the group’s former patriarch. The film explores how the way we carry our memories of the past shapes who we become in the present.

Marcos Antônio - De Corpo e Alma 2

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Black Out - A História Apagada no Palco da Arte

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Abrição de Portas

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MARCIANO

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Samuel Mariano - Antes, Durante e Depois do Culto

New work by singer Samuel Mariano, recorded live at the PE 60 Convention Center - Cabo de Santo Agostinho - PE.

Drag Queens em Cena: A Expressão de Almas Artísticas

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Lisbela and the Prisoner

Lisbela is a young woman who loves going to the movies. Leléu is a con man, going from town to town selling all sort of things and performing as master of ceremonies for some cheesy numbers, such as the woman who gets transformed into a gorilla. He gets involved with Linaura, a sexy and beautiful woman who happens to be the wife of the most frightening hitman of the place. The hitman finds out his wife's affair and goes after Leléu, who has to leave in a hurry. In another town, he meets and falls instantly in love with Lisbela, who is engaged to Douglas, a hillbilly who tries hard to pass for a cosmopolitan Rio de Janeiro dweller.

The Killer

In lawless badlands, reclusive Cabeleira sets out to discover the fate of his gunman father and grows to be a feared assassin himself.

Phoenix Club

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Inácio Garapa, Um Matuto Sonhador

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For You

A coroner reunites with a great love from the past, realizing that the memories are more vivid than ever.

The Rogue's Trial

After 20 years missing, João Grilo returns to Taperoá to join his old friend Chicó and, after his story of resurrection spreads, he is disputed as an electoral candidate by the two most powerful politicians in the city.

Viva Cangaceiro

Brazil, the 1920s. The sadistic colonel Minas massacres the hometown of a famous cangaceiro (a kind of revolutionary bandit). The only survivor is a young farmer called Espedito; he is nursed back to health by a hermit who thinks he has been sent by God and therefore baptizes him the Redeemer. Espedito/The Redeemer forms his own gang of cangaceiros but doesn’t really understand what he’s doing until he befriends the proverbial European intellectual, a Dutch Oil prospector, who introduces him to important people. Espedito is hired by the Dutchman and a corrupt local governor, but then the Dutchman changes sides …

Inácio Garapa, Um Matuto Sonhador 2 - O Retorno

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Sertânia

When bandits take the town of Sertânia, Antão gets shot, arrested, and left to die. Bleeding out, Antão's delirious mind begins to recall the events that led up to the incident through a sequence of increasingly unreliable fever dreams.

Entre o Amor e a Razão

In a small city in northeastern Brazil, a poor family goes though many hardships and pains while seeking a better life.

Raízes do Sertão

The characters of "Marcas do Pastado" live new adventures following the story with surprises and fun and exciting facts. The film explores the culture of Sertão Piauí and shows the daily lives of people in a striking and funny story.

Christmas Goat

A Christmas story. The goat is the solution to the problems of a family in Recife, Brazil.

Ooga Ooga

In the year 3003, two scientists find a primitive being called Ooga Ooga in the middle of the woods. They decide to adopt him and try to insert him into today's society.

PASSAGENS

The film depicts Bruno's encounter with an old flame at the Recife airport. He then recalls the moments spent with Alice during a carnival, and his feelings start to resurface. But could that passion have been just a creation of his mind?

Olho de Palha

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Juvenal and the Dragon

An adventurous young man will have his courage and benevolence tested while saving the population of a kingdom - which is inserted in the middle of a brazilian countryside - from an imminent threat - a dragon - to win the heart of the girl he falls in love with.

Entre Corpos

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Umbilina e Sua Grande Rival

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Azougue Nazareth

No measure of hellfire preaching can quell the boisterous and bawdy passions of Maracatu, an Afro-Brazilian burlesque carnival tradition with roots in slavery that takes place in the northeast state of Pernambuco. As the Falstaffian character Tiao, Valmir do Coco leads a nonprofessional cast of authentic Maracatu practitioners in a tale told through dance, music, and the supernatural, set in the sugarcane fields outside Recife.

For Ever is Too Long, Goodbye is Too Short...

Tomás and Valentim are two young men who have just entered their twenties, full of dreams, illusions, and disappointments. The two enter a relationship seeking to fill the emptiness within themselves, but soon realize that for a relationship to work, it takes much more than desire.

O Legado

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De formas diferentes

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Sarah Farias - Vivendo a Novidade

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O Auto da Boa Esperança

Lost in the middle of nowhere, a pregnant Woman and a hopeful Man walk in search of Getting There, an unknown place where Hope reigns and the days are good. The Death, always lurking, tries to change the paths of the wanderers and transform their dreams into hopelessness. A seed given by Hope can change the course of the retreatants and take them to the long-awaited place of prosperity.

Será que rola?

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All the Magazine's Men

After being tricked into burning his cash on the stock market, a man embarks on an odyssey through the business underworld with a single goal: revenge.

Marcas do Passado

On a visit to the interior of Piauí, Paula is kidnapped by a maniacal ex-boyfriend. In captivity, she meets Joaquim, a good man who made wrong choices in life. Feeling a mix of despair and faith, Paula decides to evangelize him while awaiting rescue.

The Invisible Beauty

Mountains seem to answer an increasing need in the West. More and more people are discovering a desire for them. Following two different people living in the Italian Dolomites, this documentary explores what it means to live with nature.

Who Is Arthur Chu?

Documentary feature about 11-time Jeopardy! champion and Internet iconoclast, Arthur Chu.

The Endless Summer

Bruce Brown's The Endless Summer is one of the first and most influential surf movies of all time. The film documents American surfers Mike Hynson and Robert August as they travel the world during California’s winter (which, back in 1965 was off-season for surfing) in search of the perfect wave and ultimately, an endless summer.

Land Without Bread

An exploration —manipulated and staged— of life in Las Hurdes, in the province of Cáceres, in Extremadura, Spain, as it was in 1932. Insalubrity, misery and lack of opportunities provoke the emigration of young people and the solitude of those who remain in the desolation of one of the poorest and least developed Spanish regions at that time.

Gimme Shelter

A detailed chronicle of the famous 1969 tour of the United States by the British rock band The Rolling Stones, which culminated with the disastrous and tragic concert held on December 6 at the Altamont Speedway Free Festival, an event of historical significance, as it marked the end of an era: the generation of peace and love suddenly became the generation of disillusionment.

Primary

Primary is a documentary film about the primary elections between John F. Kennedy and Hubert Humphrey in 1960. Primary is the first documentary to use light equipment in order to follow their subjects in a more intimate filmmaking style. This unconventional way of filming created a new look for documentary films where the camera’s lens was right in the middle of what ever drama was occurring. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in partnership with The Film Foundation in 1998.

Dont Look Back

In this wildly entertaining vision of one of the twentieth century’s greatest artists, Bob Dylan is surrounded by teen fans, gets into heated philosophical jousts with journalists, and kicks back with fellow musicians Joan Baez, Donovan, and Alan Price.

This Is Not Hollywood (The Unfinished Story of The Ibarretxe Brothers)

When her father and uncles die, Jone (Josemi's daughter) decides to make a documentary about the Ibarretxe Brothers. Pioneers in the Basque audiovisual sector, creative, cheeky and always up to something, they were devoted to cinema made in Euskadi long before it was a reality. Analysing their films and talking to people who accompanied them (Stephen Fry, Echanove, Ramon Barea, Santiago Segura, José Luis Rebordinos), Jone gradually comes to realise that their cinema is nothing more than a faithful reflection of their own selves.

Monster Inside: America's Most Extreme Haunted House

Russ McKamey is the creator of the world's "most extreme haunted house" - McKamey Manor. He is also a manipulative abuser, according to three people who realize the horror is never over once you decide to enter the Manor.