Karen Akerman Movies

In 1908, Titoe leaves her country, Japan, to try her luck in Brazil. Her intention is just to get rich and return in five years. But life has other...

Rosa is not allowed into the party that is happening in the living room of her house. When her cat slips out of the bedroom, Rosa goes after it,...

A young man’s father, close to death, reveals to his son the true story of his own father’s end. The mean old gaucho was murdered by some...

The Forensic Psychiatric Hospital is a medium-security level, closed structure, with a rehabilitation component. The service provided includes...

Large boats navigate the Amazon River daily, transporting people, animals and goods. This film portrays one of these trips.

On the triple frontier between Brazil, Colombia and Peru, the twin towns of Letícia and Tabatinga form an urban island surrounded by the...

Hilda must be responsible of a decision that she took long time ago. Her life is altered by the news that her son is coming to visit her after...

Birth, life and death of a carnival sculpture. Linked to the mythology of the Orixás, a metaphor of creation based on the Babalotim doll, a...

In 2019, the leakage of messages exchanged by authorities in Brazil undermines the credibility of Operation Lava Jato. A group of journalists follows...

Love is a cold war. A couple discuss their relationship on a Berlin Park

A batch of 110 love letters exchanged by two lovers in the 1950s, discovered in Mato Grosso do Sul, is the starting point for this film.

Inspired by popular cult, O COVEIRO is part light part darkness, a bedtime story and almost a nightmare. A child is born and his parents die of...

Cinematographic transcreation of a text censored in 1968.

A portrait of the city of São Paulo through the life of four of its inhabitants: an economist and analyst of the financial market, a...

If I didn’t blossom, if I remained unbloomed, it’s because my roots were poisoned. I know it's false, an induced error, but... this is me.

French girl lost in Rio de Janeiro has a peculiar meeting with the nacional cinema maphia. Who can save her?

Beside the savage desire to realize the enormities which he brooded on, nothing was sacred.

“There must be a different solution than the one from hell’. Full unadulterated terror (and music). 'The best class always ends with a...

In Alasca landscape never changes, only grows old.