Karen Akerman Movies

After relocating to Tokyo, a Brazilian writer begins a new novel, provoked by her experiences in Japan and by one of the last scenes she witnessed in...

Thirteen elderly people with cognitive illnesses attend the Psychogeriatric Day Clinic at the CHPL Hospital. The treatment is based on...

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

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

In a lake surrounded by buildings, a man builds a boat.

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.

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...

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...

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

In Alasca landscape never changes, only grows old.

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,...

Syrian brothers Adel and Hadi Bakkour take to the streets of Rio de Janeiro fighting for democracy in the country where they chose to live. History...

In exile, a Brazilian child develops strategies to rise.

Cinematographic transcreation of a text censored in 1968.

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

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...

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

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...