Fernando Meirelles Movies

After his mother's sudden death, Socrates, a 15-year-old living on the margins of São Paulo's coast, must survive on his own while coming to...

The Water Law is a Brazilian documentary that explains the relationship between the new Forest Code and the Brazilian water crisis.

Observational documentary about people as refugees and asylum seekers in many geographical locations such as Germany, Brazil, Western Sahara,...

The story of Stress & Relax: a businessman who thinks only of money and a film director who lives for insisting that this invest in their projects....

The documentary “Comercial” brings a portrait of Brazilian advertising, from the perspective of the production of advertising films, told...

In The Meaning of Life we will take part on a journey throughout the world to question our existence through the inquiries of a young Brazilian, with...

Rubens is a carefree, charismatic swimming instructor who finds himself accused of displaying inappropriate affection toward one of his students by...

Seventy critics and filmmakers discuss cinema around the conflict between the artist and the observer, the creator and the critic. Between 1998 and...

The story of a Burkinabé immigrant who is reluctantly drawn into a neighbour’s troubles in his Montreal apartment building.

The Constant Gardener featurette.

Passages showcases Brazilian films in which the utilisation of artforms and media such as literature, painting, theatre, music, photography, radio...

Determined to escape their poverty-stricken lives, four talented young women living on the outskirts of Sao Paulo, Brazil, form an all-female rap...

Samuca is only 17 years old and discovers that his girlfriend Alicia is pregnant. The news comes to light at a not very favorable moment in Samuca's...

Enio is a middle-aged man who lives in solitude after a failed relationship. Pedro, 30, dates Teresa, who is moving to her home. He inherited a...

A deeply moving story about love, loss and literature, this documentary follows the days of José Saramago, the Nobel-laureate Portuguese...

Five maids in São Paulo are observed in this episodic, impressionistic film. The women interact with each other, ride busses, work, and have...

A film about weddings, professions, children, travel plans and a train that separates it all.

Documentary on the preparation of actors for "City of God".