Karen Akerman Movies

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...

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,...

Samuel, the last free-diving fisherman, has lived isolated in the island of La Aguja since he was abandoned by his wife and son 15 years ago. His...

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...

The rise of MC Sabrina, a young Brazilian funk singer, from her beginnings in Morro dos Prazeres to the electrifying favela parties that pulse...

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

When humans become animals and animals become humans.

After his father's death, Gabriel leaves for Armação Beach in search of his origins. What he ends up finding is a complex plot around...

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

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

Child solidarity is stronger than death.

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

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...

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.

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...