Azougue Nazareth

Between faith and his secrets, João, a ‘respectable man,’ lives a double life. But the encounter with ‘UrsinhoMalvado’ changes everything.

Pelé, a retired nurse, revisits his memories as a performer in the Boi Tira-Teima group from Caruaru, Pernambuco. Between longing for the past and the impossibility of celebrating Carnival in the present, he imagines what it would be like to return to Carnival one last time.

Shortly after breaking up, Marcelo and Camila end up locked inside their apartment. The time they spend together after the breakup awakens a series of memories in each of them.

A Christmas story. The goat is the solution to the problems of a family in Recife, Brazil.

In lawless badlands, reclusive Cabeleira sets out to discover the fate of his gunman father and grows to be a feared assassin himself.

Aline Morales is one of the main broadcasters of Maracatu in Toronto. From a meeting with members of Recife's Maracatu Estrela Brilhante Nação, she and her traveling companions reflect deeply on the different aspects of this genre, beyond music.