Araci Esteves

Esperança

Set in the 1930s, the plot addresses industrialization and the labor movement in São Paulo, through the love triangle between the Italians Toni and Maria and the Jewish woman Camilli.

Eterna Magia

O Mentiroso

The friendship between four men is at stake when one of them is invited to work in another city. But the other three decide to go along.

Empty House

Raúl is an unemployed cattleman that lives in an isolated house on the fields. The landscape of pastures is being superimposed by huge soy plantations. Devastated by poverty, he joins a gang of other peasants that steals cattle during the darkness of the nights on the pastures.

Aqueles Dois

Raul and Saul work at the same office. Raul, outgoing and good-natured, comes from a broken marriage. Saul is shy, with a critical and bitter disposition, is recovering from a failed suicide attempt. In spite of their differences, they become quite good friends. But their colleagues begin to wonder whether there's something beyond friendship between them.

Winter

At 24, our hero is a trained journalist but has a much simpler job. His flat full of discs, movies, and books, but he has trouble socializing. This situation can't last long.

Oriundi

In a love story set in Curitiba, Southern Brazil, a patriarch witnesses the crumbling of his life-long family business at the hands of his descendants. Suddenly Sofia appears. Is she from this world, and is she the key to this family's happiness and their hope for survival?

Netto Perde Sua Alma

The story of a man who invented a country.

Concerto Campestre

In the 19th century, rich farmer with a passion for music dreams of having an orchestra. He hires a conductor, to help him organize the musicians. But the man falls in love with his daughter.

Nossa Senhora de Caravaggio

Amora

In the city of Amora, four female couples of varying ages and backgrounds experience stories of love, desire, discovery, and courage.

Monster Story

In a rural village colonized by Germans, little Ana watches a play about the history of the Thiltapes. It is a dangerous animal that lives in the forest, and no one knows its real form. Two hundred years earlier, a botanist who writes about the region hears about this same animal. The stories intertwine, both in an obsessive search for the imaginary Thiltapes, while at the same time facing their own demons: the weakened botanist eager for a discovery that will justify his trip and Ana intrigued by her father, suspected of having committed a brutal crime against a neighbor’s cow.

Valsa para Bruno Stein

Bruno Stein and his family live in a house in Serra Gaúcha and make bricks by hand. Their lives change with the arrival of a stranger who awakens a series of feelings in the patriarch, who is already approaching the end of his life.

Noite de São João

An arrogant young woman, the landowner's daughter, gets involved with the farm straw boss.

B de Brasil