Cristina Amaral Movies

Chronicles the life of military lieutenant, later communist militant and Brazilian politician Luiz Carlos Prestes.

A Polish Jew becomes a prostitute after failing to get a marriage in Brazil. Meanwhile, the public health doctor Oswaldo Cruz ends up involved in the...

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...

Documentary about the discovery of a ditch in a cemetery located in São Paulo, in which were found the carcass of Brazilian political...

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

Disagreements, incommunicability between people. What is said is not heard, what is heard is not understood. Everything is ambiguous. What appears to...

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

Recording of the meeting between Sebastião Marinho and a rapper (Smokey D.) from the perspective of looking. Using his device to see...

A tale about the apocalypse of the working class.

Is the end of the school year, the heat comes, and with it regular power cuts in the suburbs of Rio de Janeiro. Karol, Junior, Ronaldo and Caio have...

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

A storyteller in Brasilia entertains the visitors of a bar with his narratives.

Carapiru is a member of one of Brazil's remaining indigenous peoples, living in harmony with nature and making wise use of the local flora and fauna....

Experimental documentary about the life and work of obscure samba musician Vassourinha (1923-1942), born in São Paulo, who only recorded six...

Letícia discovers she is pregnant but does not know who the father of her child is. There are four possibilities. Despite being insecure and...

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...