Best Brazilian short movies

Deep Waters (0)

The memory of Olivia's father still haunts her months after his death. She returns to her psychologist in order to try closing her old wounds, but she finds things that were not able to be seen in the surface before.

Beco (2019)

Under Whose Roof (2019)

Brazil is going through a political crisis which even representatives of our institutions reproduce speeches that seek to criminalize social movements by framing them as terrorists. The short "Teto Pra Quem" seeks to question the brutality of common sense fueled by the conservative wave by opposing it to the reality of thousands of families and their struggles in the pursuit of one of their most basic human rights: living under a roof.

Film for Blind Poet (2012)

Glauco Mattoso, a blind sadomasochistic poet, agrees to participate in a documentary about his own life, but the conditions he imposes raise difficulties to the work of the young director.

Horror Palace Hotel (1978)

An unusual look at 1978 Brasilia Film Festival and the politics that make certain films fashionable or not.

Tuã Ingugu (Water Eyes) (2019)

In the Kalapalo cosmogony (an ethnic group that lives in the Xingú Indigenous Park), water is as old as humans and is the source of life. That is where all their sustenance comes from, their food, their drink, their joy. The idea of using water as a dumpster, of poisoning water is a dystopia. In this documentary Chief Faremá —from Caramujo village on the banks of the Kuluene River— tells us about the birth of water and warns us about the consequences of disrespecting it.

The Day I Remembered the Trip to Bicuda (2015)

I always left that memory buried deep in my mind. Until one day she came back as a movie.

Kyrie ou o Início do Caos (1998)

A woman is mesmerized by a mystical sound and from there chaos begins to spread.

Trying (2024)

Down on her luck after an exhaustive job search, Luna returns to the home of her childhood friend following another failed interview. They commiserate over wine, working to re-establish their relationship as young adults navigating São Paulo, Brazil.

How Tasty Was My Little Cafaçu (2015)

It feels so good to dream of you. It feels so real it fills me with pleasure. And I can't think about anything else.

COME IN (2020)

Pipes sing and cracks spy. Where to go if inside is as dangerous as outside?

Bizarre Friends of Ricardinho (2010)

A weird trainee. A stifling job. In the midst of corporate oppression, a worker passively fights back with stories from home.

Driller Killer (2011)

There's no escape when your destiny is set. A slasher film tribute.

David is Dead (2022)

Returning its activities in the middle of the pandemic, a theater company tries to record a play. But one of the actors hears the news that David, one of his colleagues, died. While the news fills the theater halls, the actors react to it differently and David's presence is reconstructed through mourning.

Hellchaise (2013)

Two friends open an email about an entity called Hellchaise with a ritual for it to appear, but they will regret this decision ...

Igreja (1960)

Experimental short film with focus on Bahia(Brazilian State) Christian iconography.

Maxixe - A Dança Perdida (1980)

Ana (1955)

A group of migrants from the drought areas of Northeastern of Brazil gets a truck "pau-de-arara" trying to move to São Paulo and have a better life. Along their travel, one of the women delivers a baby on the road. The driver, indeed, intends to carry them to the slave-work in the fields of a powerful "colonel", but the brave Ana faces the foreman of the farm and the driver, and the truck follows to the hired final destination.

Sweet Bitterness (1968)

Here is a cinema marginal short by the director of Meteorango Kid André Luiz Oliveira that tells the tragic story of a street seller of sweets.