Karen Akerman Movies

On a Saturday, unhappy with her marriage, Carol gets ready to leave, her husband usually goes to a soccer match and bring his friends back home for...

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 1908, Titoe leaves her home country of Japan to try her luck in Brazil. Her intention is just to get rich and return in five years, but life has...

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,...

Aboard a cruise ship out at sea, a young sailor discovers a door mysteriously leading to an apartment in Montevideo. Meanwhile, a group of Asian...

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

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.

In exile, a Brazilian child develops strategies to rise.

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

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...

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

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 in a Berlin Park.

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.

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

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...

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.