Movies: Luiz Pretti

Odete is caught between the past and the future. She goes on a journey, but remains immobile. She faces the abyss and wonders if she will make it out alive....

André, a teenager, lives in an industrial town in Brazil near an old aluminum factory. One day, a factory worker, Cristiano, suffers an accident. Asked to go to Cristiano’s house to pick up clothes and documents, André stumbles on a notebook, and it’...

Pilo, Panda and Isaac are childhood friends. One of them decides to ask his girlfriend to marry him at sameday the other two learn she is cheating on him with her gym instructor...

A film about the city. A film about people. We are living at the beginning of the era of urban society. A new field still ignored and unknown. And the scenario for the future is not yet established....

In Fortaleza, Brazil, Eugenio, Joaquim and João use a clandestine radio to scream their hunger for freedom and revolution. They hack the traditional radio stations, overwhelming them with poetry, rebel music, quotes, sound archives and provocations, ...

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“Always keep Ythaca on your mind. To arrive there is your ultimate goal. But do not hurry the voyage at all. It is better to let it last for many years; and to anchor at the island when you are old, rich with all you have gained on the way, not...

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Ogun, the one who has influence over the world, the prince among the other Orixás. He who, despite having water, prefers to bathe in blood. The one who, despite having clothes, prefers to wear a swimsuit. The one who opened the way for the other Orix...

Yes, we will build a world. We're not dreaming. Despite the struggle, brick by brick, part by part, we will build it. We're not dreaming....

A compilation of some of the Super-8 materials shot by Jorge Bodanzky during the Brazilian military dictatorship, blending domestic footage, experiments with the cinematographic medium, and the traces, in an amateur format, of some of his thematic an...

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I am a breather....

A documentary following random people at a Saturday night in Fortaleza....

Valongo's quay - Empress quay - Rio de Janeiro port - Porto Maravilha (wonder port): layers of a city haunted by progress. One port on top of the other....

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Everywhere, at dusk, lights and advertising posters become the only living beings among the inert streets. Beings that never meet, strangers almost exactly the same....

Ana, a three-year-old girl, accompanies her family to Catalonia. It's a return to the homeland after half a century away. Gathered in the small town of Valls, six Panadés brothers remember their childhood in a troubled time in Spanish history, ravage...

No man is a failure when he has friends....

Dives into actress and performer Viviane de Cassia Ferreira's life and how the relationship between life and imagination conects to her creations....