Andrade Jr.

A Louca História de Andrade Jr.

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Nunca Foi Fácil

An old hired killer is hiding in the interior of Bolivia, in the desert region of the Salar de Uyuni. You just committed your last murder. After months in isolation, he travels to the interior of Paraguay where he receives a good reward and heads to Asunción with the aim of meeting his daughter.

A short film about love and sexuality in the old age, and the struggle to overcome social conventions.

Como Largar de Palhaçada

After missing out on his co-workers winning lottery pool, the lonely Jairo embarks on an extraordinary Christmas adventure as a helper to none other than Santa Claus himself.

From sweeper and does everything in theaters in the 1950s, Gê became a nationally renowned artist and one of the most prolific actors in Brasilia. With more than 60 years of career, he has acted in more than 50 films and over a hundred plays, in addition to numerous participations in commercials and soap operas. For some, he is just one among many other excellent national actors, but for those who know him up close, he is a true intangible heritage of Brasília.

Waldo Sem Vanda

Ratão

Am unemployed man receives a package from a dying stranger to be delievered to a certain Maira at 6th Street but he never learns the number.

A Terra em que Pisar

After the death of his foster parents, a young businessman goes into a journey in search of his biological mother. During the search he faces the social and religious prejudice that surrounds the LGBTTQ Brazilian community.

The story takes place in Brasília, year 2017, under the Robotic World Government. Randau do Congo Naya intends do get to the Moon for his marriage, but faces political and bureaucratic problems.

In a forgotten corner of the vast Brazilian bureaucracy, a psychotic boss uses a time machine to enslave his lazy employees and increase productivity.

11-year-old Lucas finds a philosophy book by Nietzsche in the city dump, discarded by its previous owner. This improbable meeting will be the beginning of a violent revolution in his mind, within his family and within society. In the end, Lucas will be no longer a boy -- He will be dynamite.

Um Assalto de Fé

Vicente, a tax collector, is sent to a distant region to defy the dominion of Melo, a powerful landowner. When Melo's henchmen burn down the collector's office building, the government retaliates by deploying soldiers, overseen by Carvalho, a hard-headed judge. Carvalho orders the soldiers to invade Melo's land, which prompts the start of a full-blown war.

After an extended period directing original screenplays, dos Santos returned to the creative engagement with literature that was the wellspring of his early masterpieces, offering a combinatory adaptation of five stories by the renowned Brazilian novelist João Guimarães Rosa. Openly embracing a mode of magical realism, dos Santos' celebrated film tells the story of a farming family defined by the absence of its father who abruptly abandoned his wife and children, sailing away down the river, including his son who continues to communicate with his father, speaking daily to him from the river bank. While offering an evocative vision of rural Brazil as a timeless land of mystery and solemnity, The Third Bank of the River is also bitingly satiric in the remarkable depiction of religious belief when the family moves to the city and its youngest member, a mesmerizing little girl, is revealed to be a kind of saint, capable of miraculous acts. -Harvard Film Archive

Paulo Estrela (Fábio Nassar) is a film critic who is at the airport waiting for Celeste (Dira Paes). Meanwhile, she tells receptionist Salete (Ana Paula Arósio) how she met Celeste Espírito Santo. She is a beginner filmmaker, who found Estrela in film courses and was highly awarded for her work as a short filmmaker. Now, she plans to make her debut as a feature film director and counts on the critic's help to raise funds for production.

In 1987, in Goiânia, two paper collectors find a radioactive capsule and sell it to the owner of a junkyard. Once the capsule is opened, more than 250 people end up contaminated by the substance called Cesium 137, being the biggest radiological accident in the history of Brazil.

Movie director gets crazy while shooting a film, and goes to a mental institution. There, he leads a revolt, kidnapping a group of Human Rights activists and demanding a camera as ransom.

Jeitosinha

Following the clues of a map, a boy and some adventurers go into the forest in search of treasure from the pioneers, and end up going back two centuries in time, in search of the legendary Minas dos Martírios.

Nando, a 12 year old boy, narrates the adventures of his father Antonio, during the 60s in Brazil, who leaves the inland of the state of Minas to go to Brasília, a recently inaugurated city, but still with construction works in progress.

The murder of a wealthy couple shocks public opinion, with the eldest son accused of killing his parents. Condemned beforehand by the press, he needs to prove his innocence.

Rir Para Não Chorar

Strong and feminine, "Why don't you cry?" addresses the delicate topic of suicide. Jessica is very closed, Barbara is a time bomb. The two meet when, at the stage of the faculty of psychology, Jessica meets Barbara. The coexistence leads Jessica to question her empty and meaningless life.

The story of Francisco, a very simple and poor man whose dream was to see his children become country music stars, and who made all the efforts to make it happen.

In 1965, a year after the military coup in Brazil, an oasis of freedom opened in the country's capital. The Brasília Film Festival: a landmark of cultural and political resistance. Its story is that of Brazilian cinema itself.