Cristina Amaral Movies

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

A portrait of Brazilian actress Vera Valdez, tracing her years as a model for Dior and, most notably, Coco Chanel; her flirtation with the French New...

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

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

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...

This short film was made as a study for the feature film "São Silvestre".

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

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

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...

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

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...

Two sisters living their lifes.

Person is a documentary about the life and work of filmmaker Luiz Sérgio Person. The documentary brings the reconstruction of the history of...

Aurélia is a young black woman who works at a factory and lives in a working-class neighborhood in São Paulo, whose boyfriend...

A story of grief, of pain: an abortion. Time becomes entangled as past, present, and future intertwine, allowing what has already happened and what...