Karen Akerman Movies

Josefina, a radical homemaker, committed a crime of passion that led her to self-exile at a coastal town. She tries to find peace in solitude,...

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

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...

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

In Alasca landscape never changes, only grows old.

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...

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...

When a child is forced to become the house's adult because her father is sick and her mother is dead, there's an inversion in the natural order of...

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...

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

Child solidarity is stronger than death.

Cinematographic transcreation of a text censored in 1968.