Cristina Amaral Movies

Five friends meet for lunch. Nothing could be more mundane, but for some reason, no one stayed for dessert.

On a same night, five people from a small country town have the same nightmare. Upon the arrival of a pilgrim, the village is taken off its mediocre...

A look at the Brazilian black movement between 1977 and 1988, going by the relationship between Brazil and Africa.

At 80 years old, Chiara, an immigrant woman, single mother, and independent soul, sees her world collapse with the sale of the restaurant she built...

A dialogue between the auteur's memories and the images he shot and kept during his long film career - sketches of live that were never shown, never...

Dadinho, an old samba composer, is taken by his granddaughter to his brother’s funeral, composer from a rival samba school. Along this path a...

A reflection on books and culture through testimonies and images from the Rio de Janeiro's National Library. In this work commissioned by the...

Two tales of migration. In the first, after a tailings dam disaster floods her hometown, rural worker Joana (55) moves to São...

Two sisters living their lifes.

Just released from prison, Léa returns home to the Brasilia favela of Sol Nascente and joins up with her half-sister Chitara, the fearless...

"Confluências" presents ways of celebrating and other ways of life in the Saco-Curtume quilombo, in the rural area of São João do...

A short film about the meeting of a Trappist monk and a Zen Buddhist master.

Immersive documentary in the film editing process. Twenty Brazilian cinema editors expose the nuances of this art, its secrets and processes.

An existential profile of primitivist painter Ana Moisés in her atelier in Embu, on the outskirts of São Paulo.

Silmara, an industrial worker and a woman of exuberant beauty, supports her arsonist father and gets involved with two different pop stars, from whom...

The São Silvestre Road Race is a famous long-distance running event held yearly in the city of São Paulo, Brazil, on December 31st. The...