Karen Akerman Movies

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...

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

Alberto is a Portuguese environmental engineer who decided to change his life. He travels to a West African metropolis (an imaginary and futuristic...

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...

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.

Junior, as he’s known, since he’s essentially still a child, seems to be having a tough time getting on in life. He shares cheap lodgings...

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...

Immersive documentary in the film editing process. Twenty Brazilian cinema editors expose the nuances of this art, its secrets and processes.

In the wake of a dream, João Vieira Torres sets off to find the children that his grandmother Aurora, a midwife, helped deliver. Through...

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

In Alasca landscape never changes, only grows old.

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.

Cinematographic transcreation of a text censored in 1968.

Hated by the Greeks, detested by the Trojans, Helena lives a peaceful life in Guaratiba, a fishing neighborhood in Rio de Janeiro. Until love knocks...

Child solidarity is stronger than death.

When humans become animals and animals become humans.

On the violent border between Brazil and Paraguay, a war is being waged around the expansion of agribusiness. On one side sits lawyer Luana Ruiz, the...

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,...

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