Ivo Müller

Aracy de Carvalho is a young clerk at the Brazilian Consulate. For two years, she has been secretly issuing passports to Jews without the dreaded "J" stamp, which not only won't allow them to travel, but will doom them to the horrors of concentration camps. When newly appointed diplomat, João Guimarães Rosa, arrives in Hamburg, the two fall madly in love. Aracy would later be honored by the Yad Vashem with the Righteous Among the Nations Award. João would be known as the greatest Brazilian writer of the twentieth century.

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For two decades, Cine Marrocos, a movie theatre in the heart of São Paulo, was one of the most popular and opulent of the city. After it was closed, in 1972, it was occupied by a homeless workers' movement. The documentary tells the story of the people who lived there, alternating scenes from an acting class with those of the movies exhibited there in the past.

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The story of an ancient mask that possesses the human form to commit visceral sacrifices of vengeance for the incarnation of its God.

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Between comings and goings in time, over 8 decades, the story of a poor country girl who fulfills the dream of becoming a great star, always in search of her truth.

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Hebe Camargo is one of the most emblematic entertainments in Brazil. At her 60s, she went on to control her own career and, despite the criticism, the dreadful husband and the powerful and sexist bosses, she revealed herself to the public as an extraordinary woman, capable of overcoming any personal or professional crisis.

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A group of dead teenagers spending their after-lives in Limbo decides to wreak vengeance upon their killer by summoning him to the world of the dead.

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A child star in the '80s, Samantha clings to the fringes of celebrity with hilarious harebrained schemes to launch herself back into the spotlight.

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The story of Jonathas, an orphan who had been adopted and then "returned" due to his effeminate mannerisms.

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In the wake of a carnival parade the river washes a corpse onto the shore. A crime has been committed, a mystery blossoms to life, and the legend of mythical cursed diamond is tantalizingly revived.

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Maicon Douglas is in love with Silmara. One day her mother wakes up in bad health and Maicon needs to urgently take her to the hospital. Maicon calls his friends, everyone boards a Opala Azul Negão to try their luck in a city of contrasts.

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Paulo is an experienced doctor who works at a Primary Healthcare Unit on the outskirts of São Paulo. Using unorthodox methods, he focuses on preventative medicine. His routine changes with the arrival of Laura, a recently graduated and ambitious young woman.

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Using a mix of Hollywood aesthetics with documentary strategies, the film follows a young indigenous girl from the Xingu National Park to São Paulo, where she falls in love with a robot that also happens to be a stand-up comedian. This strange story mixes the anthropology of humor, indigenous communities, and artificial intelligence.

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Three teenagers go visit a friend at his old farmhouse for the weekend. What they didn't expect was to be stuck in the middle of a centenary war between good and evil.

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Diego is a film director who, when he is told that he has a malignant disease which could be fatal, marries his girlfriend of many years, says goodbye to his friends and begins a routine of long days of treatment in hospital. While learning to live with the pain and also conversing with death, he meets a Hindu boy who is a fellow patient and who becomes his friend. But one day the boy disappears. Diego is discharged, but his life has changed forever. His marriage fails and, living alone, he begins to wonder whether he may in fact be dying and no one has told him. He tries to find out what happened to his Hindu friend, and eventually meets another woman.

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The year is 1984. Estela is going through the turbulent phase of adolescence. Sex, lovers, friendships; everything seems very complicated. Her uncle Carlos is her hero, and visiting him in California is her biggest dream. But everything collapses when he returns thin, weak and ill. Between crises and discoveries, Estela will face a reality that will forever change her way of seeing the world.​

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To defend his principles and his love, a man faces the divine laws of the village where he lives, but also has to fight his inner demons. And what seems to be a new life of happiness, becomes a labyrinth of jealousy, bigotry, passion and death.

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1994. Felipe, Burunga and Deco are three young friends who want to enjoy the carnival. To do this, they take an old 1970s van, used to sell hot dogs, and leave Sao Paulo for Bahia.

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Even with the imminence of the end of the world, Jamila left home with one goal: to fix her fan.

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Karin, Magali and Luna are three call girls, who decide to apply some marketing knowledge on the world's oldest profession.

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In a middle-class school the story of the relationship between two young students, Ana and Alex, develops. A passion relationship, addiction and friendship that escapes the standards and at the same time is the translation of how young people today relate, among them, with other generations, with the institutions and social rules.

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Lisbon, Portugal, 2010. Pilar, a pious woman devoted to social causes, maintains a peculiar relationship with her neighbor Aurora, a temperamental old woman obsessed with gambling who lives tormented by a mysterious past.

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To commemorate the anniversary of the city where he lives, a theater director must stage a play on a great actress from the past that will bring to mind German colonization in the nineteenth century. Resolved he will win the part as main character, the actor who is to play the part of colonizer subverts the director?s script, and introduces scenes on ethnocide and Nazism into the text. These subjects are even today to be avoided in that prosperous valley in the south of Brazil. His attitude obliges the director to stage a play different from the one that had been written for the occasion.

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