Maria José Novais Oliveira

Maria José Novais Oliveira, a black woman, resident on the outskirts of Contagem, already in her 60s, has become a film actress, with an...

Another day in the life of an elderly couple in the suburbs.

As he does every single day, Elon goes to meet his wife at her workplace, but she is not there. He doesn’t find her at home as well, so he...

With its obvious simplicity, the film’s title happens to set the mood of the film, or at least its guiding principle: staying anchored in...

In order to take a new job as an employee in the public sanitation department, Juliana moves from the inner city of Itaúna to the metropolitan...

Angela collects diagnostics of diseases she has never had, but a new friendship might bring this peculiar collection to an end.

The inhabitants of the Brazilian city of Contagem yearn for a better life. At the core of it all is Selma, a woman dreaming about the heart of the...

The couple Laura and Israël have a five-year-old son, Lucas. They live together but seem to have lost interest in one another's thoughts and...

An elderly woman films what she doesn't want to forget.

In 2011, during a blackout in an outskirt neighborhood’s street, a family – surrounded by candles that light conversations and thoughts ...