Before going down in history as Maria Bonita, the most important woman in the Cangaço, Maria de Déa was a fearless young woman who dared to have a voice at a time when violence prevailed and women were subjected to the will of men. Partner of famous cangaceiro leader Lampião, Maria was caught by surprise by a pregnancy and subjected to the harshest law of the Cangaço. Forced to hand over her daughter to be raised by Homeone else, she begins to live between her life outside the law and the impossible desire to raise her daughter. The last years of the Cangaço are narrated from the visceral perspective of the woman from the Cangaço who became a mother, and of the mother who became a legend. The project is based on Adriana Negreiros' book "Maria Bonita: Sex, Violence and Women in Cangaço."
Before going down in history as Maria Bonita, the most important woman in the Cangaço, Maria de Déa was a fearless young woman who dared to have a voice at a time when violence prevailed and women were subjected to the will of men. Partner of famous cangaceiro leader Lampião, Maria was caught by surprise by a pregnancy and subjected to the harshest law of the Cangaço. Forced to hand over her daughter to be raised by Homeone else, she begins to live between her life outside the law and the impossible desire to raise her daughter. The last years of the Cangaço are narrated from the visceral perspective of the woman from the Cangaço who became a mother, and of the mother who became a legend. The project is based on Adriana Negreiros' book "Maria Bonita: Sex, Violence and Women in Cangaço."
2025-04-04
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The outlaw legend
Based on William Shakespeare's "Macbeth". Elias is a successful executive who works in the second largest private bank in Brazil. One day, Elias meets a mysterious woman who claims to be able to predict his future and says he will become vice president that day and the next day, he will become president of the Bank. The wheel of fortune is bound activated and a series of murders is committed by Elias and his wife Clara, leaving a trail of blood on his way to power and making them executioners and victims of their own destinies.
Delves deep into the anxiety, thrill and uncertainty of six aspiring animation artists as they are plunged into the twelve-week trial-by-fire that is the NFB's Hothouse for animation filmmakers.
A man tries to sell provocative footage of his wife. When she finds out, he tries blackmailing her. She enlists the help of a friend to tackle the situation at hand.
From 1915-1939, Frances Marion was one of the most powerful talents in the movie industry. In one of the most liberating eras for women in film, she wrote more than 200 movies and was the world's highest paid screenwriter - man or woman. Kathy Bates gives voice to Marion's words from her letters, diaries, and memoirs. Includes commentary by silent film historian Kevin Brownlow, critic Leonard Maltin, and Marion's celebrated biographer Cari Beauchamp. Current women filmmakers reflect on the legacy left to them by Marion and the pioneering women of early Hollywood.
A few kilometres from Ajaccio, the burnt earth gives in to the weight of colour. The ground opens up and frees pictorial energies that take over the sky. I see the horizon disappear, but I keep it in my sights. The train continues on its way...
He just lost his job. She just got dumped. These two strangers meet at a bus stop right when they needed each other the most. In an impromptu attempt to cheer each other up they go on an tour of his home town however before the tour is over reality bumps into them.
Hilary Harris’ nervy tour of Robert Moses’ New York hearkens back to the classic city symphonies of the 1920s but cut to fit the “go go go” energy of the new era. “The most exciting thing in film is movement,” Harris once wrote, and in Highway he shows why, shooting from a moving car for the road itself of its ramps, signs and overall pretzel logic. The film can be enjoyed purely as a riot of graphic forms, but at a deeper level Harris is revising the traditional panorama to capture the automotive experience of urban space. He peppers the expressway view with all manner of camera effects, but it’s finally his simple fascination with the changing shape of the road at speed that makes the screen come alive. Bronze medalist at the Brussels International Experimental Film Festival in 1958, Highway today appears a snappy detour between “On the Road” (published the year before) and the early films of the French New Wave (just around the bend). —Max Goldberg, fandor.com
German ship captain Gottfried Hinrichs reluctantly retires to his Bavarian home, hoping to find comfort when his daughter Barbara moves back home, convenient now she has become a commercial pilot. So he dishes out the usual objections when she tells to have found her mate, while ma Lisbeth tries to shush. When the lovers turn up for Christmas Eve, a culture shock follows, for her dream prince is Palestinian unemployed would be-pilot Kamal Abu Khalil, and neither 'liberal' parent extends effective tolerance to Islamic in-potential laws. Ultimately Gottfried is worn down, but then the incompatible religious marriage norms seem to break up the couple itself. It gets even worse when his parents found out and fly in, while she feels neglected as Kemal starts an electronic muezzin Internet firm with a friend.
Breaking the Surface is about the tough times Greg Louganis had on his way to becoming one of the world's top Olympic divers.
The lives of five young medical interns in in the emergency ward of a hospital in Rio de Janeiro.
Moving Stories strings together scenes of passenger aircraft in flight. In this short study of the dramatic and narrative power of image and sound, Nicolas Provost manipulates cinema language and reaches, though minimal means, a strong, emotionally loaded result.
A Brakhage-ish wannabe study mixing a shot similar to the ones in La mirada de Goya with some other shots from an X-Files episode the director watched in 2024.
“XXX Years Ov Blasphemy” is teased as a gran experience, complete with intricate set design, top notch cinematography and a plethora of horror and occult aesthetics that Behemoth have become well known for. Burning crosses and fireworks adorn many of the dilapidated sets, which fit in perfectly with the Halloween season. “30 years of blasphemy and bring on 30 more! What better night than All Saint’s Eve to celebrate this most unholy anniversary than with us, as we present the most ambitious project of our career to date, ‘XXX Years Ov Blasphemy,'” Behemoth frontman Nergal said in a statement to Blabbermouth. “Legions, when I say this is the ultimate cinematic Behemoth experience, I cannot express how much I mean that. Another huge risk for us, but as always, we go feet first and push our limits. The result will be a sight to behold. We’ll see you in The Forest…and more!”
When a bank is robbed, a not-so-bright teller is wrongly suspected of being part of the holdup team. Comedy.
In the afterlife material possessions cease to exist. For those who can’t let go, there’s one stop before that final resting place and it’s called Firth. Message Read tells the story of a father who desperately misses his son and must decide between moving on to finality or spending another eternity stuck in Firth.
Presented by that King of Sleaze Harry Novak comes this film about a woman who leaves her film career in Rome(no longer wanted) and comes to stay with her sister who married a millionaire. While there she devises a plan for her brother-in-law's brother and servant to have sex with her sister after being drugged with a an aphrodisiac in the hopes that her brother-in-law will divorce her sister and marry her. Whew! Some plot.