"A Long Journey" tells the story of three siblings who reach adolescence in the late 1960's. The documentary's storyline follows the youngest brother's travels around the world. Worried that he would enter the struggle for freedom against the Brazilian dictatorship, his family sent Heitor to London. There however, he dives head on into the "Swinging London" and, just like the European and American youth of the time period, he experiments with drugs and the mystic allure of India. In the nine years he has traveled around the world, from 1969 to 1978, he has regularly written to his family. The documentary features interviews with Heitor today, his letters and off-screen comments of Heitor's sister, Lúcia Murat, the director of the movie.

Rio de Janeiro, near future. Marlow is a police officer assigned to a mission to find Captain Kurtz, a famous policeman who went missing in mysterious circumstances. Marlow has to do his mission in a boat, undertaking a dangerous journey through the outskirts of Rio de Janeiro.

In the concrete jungles of lawless futuristic Brazil, enemies spout slam poetry in duels as their movements remind us of parkour. The adrenaline rush breaks into three timelines: the past introduces teenager Riobaldo and handsome Diadorim, the present depicts a bloody clash and reveals sexual identities, and the future exposes Riobaldo’s deal with the devil.

A boy is left alone in a Jewish neighborhood in the year of 1970, where both world cup and dictatorship happen in Brazil.

Brazilian telenovela

巴西导演Luiz Fernando Carvalho的故事片处女作，171分钟的长片。情节和主题意味深重：通过一个离家出走的年轻男孩子，讲述了巴西乡间，一个虔诚的基督教家庭的悲剧。这家庭，太充满爱意，太圣洁，太有序、太美好了，连镜头都沉于安稳之中，流动于井然安详的条理，静穆在神圣的威严之下。而那欲望、那热情，太炽烈，太狂放、太撕心裂肺，它暴露在过分的特写之中、摇曳在离乱的剪辑之外。永恒不变的是悲剧的主题：无望的情欲、无知的物欲，终于摧毁了一切的安然与恬美；游离在疯狂凌乱之外的，只有时间与泥土。