Paulo Barboza

On a night like so many others, indistinguishable from the previous or the next, Carlos sees himself thrown out of his bedroom. Beyond his own door, a rat has taken over his belongings, without a courtesy call or warning. This is the second work by João Niza Ribeiro screened at Curtas.

Open details →

A 50 year-old woman who analyses her past. She pictures herself when she was 20 years old and she re-creates the story of her life through a game of innumerous possibilities. What if she wouldn't have gone to that ball? What if... instead of meeting the man of her life, with whom she married and had kids, she would have called a girlfriend and they went to the theater? What would be her destiny? What would have happened? In the plot the present talks to the past. A young woman projects her future in a fascinating game between memories and desires.

Open details →

The whole story develops from the doctor Martha, who has worked for 40 years, always at the same clinic in Rio de Janeiro. She knows Cris and realizes that she has found a successor. Then begins the friendship of the two, who try to practice their profession with the utmost ethics, despite the owner of the clinic, who is always trying to say, save.

Open details →

Twin sisters with contrasting personalities, Ruth and Raquel, rival in the fictional Pontal D'Areia, on the coast of Rio de Janeiro.

Open details →

Gafanhoto is a smuggler who tries to take a hit by stealing a valuable stone. He awakens the fury of the old boss of the gang, and ends up involving in the plot a former colleague, Poeta and his girlfriend Cris, a beautiful woman who brings in the eyes the mark of the tragedy.

Open details →

Open details →

Open details →

In a humorous way, the film narrates the adventures - or misadventures - of a typical girl from the south of Rio de Janeiro who decides to go to the beach, but her car won't start. Having decided, she goes on the bus and gets into a thousand messes.

Open details →