Movies: Berta Zemel

The tomboyish, outgoing Julieta is the daughter of a member of the Palmeiras soccer club board. She is constantly frustrated by what she sees as institutional bias against women in soccer. One day while watching her beloved Palmeiras, she is struck b...

After the inauguration of a crematorium in the city, a widowed matriarch imposes her last wish on her children who, despite trying hard to fulfill their mother's request, face several obstacles and paradigms linked to family rituals....

Memories of Maura tells the story of a familiar relationship seen by the point of view of Alice, an eight years old girl, that had to move with her parents to her grandma's house Maura, that suffers with a degenerative disease. In this context Alice ...

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The story of Orisbela, a young and religious woman who comes from Portugal to Brazil to marry Francisco de Albuquerque, a rude sugar-cane plantation owner, in 1570....

The body of a dead transgender woman is being prepared by others trans people for the burial. Later it is delivered to the original family, that decides to bury her as a man. A trans person cortege moves toward the wake to reclaim the deceased’s buil...

Alice, married for the last 20 years to a taxi driver, works in a beauty parlour, has three children, the eldest of whom is doing his military service, and a mother who works as a maid in her house. None of the three siblings pay much attention to th...