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Nov 14th – Nov 21th

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Nov 15th – Nov 21th

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Nov 16th – Nov 20th

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Nov 17th – Nov 20th

ADELAIDE
Nov 18th – Nov 20th
Films

“Bróder “

Macu, Jaiminho, and Pibe are childhood friends from Capão Redondo, a community on the outskirts of São Paulo. The friends reunite years later and discover that Macu still lives in the community [...]

“Easy Does it” (Muita Calma Nessa Hora)

Three young friends, Tita (Andréia Horta), Mari (Gianne Albertoni), and Aninha (Fernanda Souza) decide to change their environment and travel to a beach house for the weekend. On the road they meet Estrella, (Débora Lamm), a hippie trying to find her father [...]

“Blue Eyes ” (Olhos Azuis)

Before his compulsory retirement on his last day of work, Marshall, JFK airport’s chief Immigration officer, detains a group of Latin Americans and subjects them to a series of humiliating situations. Blinded by prejudice, Marshall causes the death [...]

“Our Home: The Astral City” (Nosso Lar)

“Our Home” (Nosso Lar) is one of 412 books psychographed by Chico Xavier, the famous Brazilian spiritist medium. The book, published in 1944 is the
autothanatography of Xavier’s frequent spiritual companion, the medical doctor André Luíz. The book recounts [...]

“So Hard To Forget” (Como Esquecer)

Julia is a 35 year old English Literature teacher struggling with depression as she tries to piece her life back together after the breakdown of her love affair with Antonia. Feeling completely abandoned after her break up, Julia is [...]

“Tamboro”

This documentary addresses key social and environmental issues facing Brazil such as deforestation of the Amazon, the struggle [...]

“5x Favela, Now By Ourselves” (5x Favela, Agora por Nós Mesmos)

The original “5x Favela” was shot in 1961 by five middle class film school students from Rio on what they saw in the favelas that were growing around them. Half a century [...]

“Reflections of a Blender” (Reflexões de um Liquidificador)

In São Paulo, a middle-aged housewife and taxidermist named Elvira reports to the police that her husband Onofre is missing. The chief of police [...]

“Caboca”

For the last decade filmmaker Maiara da Rocha Skarheim has embraced Australia as her home however, recently Maiara has had an urge to return to her birthplace of Brazil and explore the notion of what life would have been like, had she never left. Maiara returns to the land of her childhood in an attempt to [...]

“Head Over Heels” (De Pernas Pro Ar)

Alice (Ingrid Guimarães) is a successful executive in her mid 30s and is married to João (Bruno Garcia) with one child. She tries to balance her work and family until the day she meets her new neighbour Marcela [...]

“Trap.com” (Cilada.com)

Cilada.com sold 2 million tickets in its first 3 weeks. It’s one of Brazil’s fastest selling movies ever. Exposed by his girlfriend through a video on the Internet, Bruno [...]