Karen Akerman Movies

French girl lost in Rio de Janeiro has a peculiar meeting with the nacional cinema maphia. Who can save her?

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

Aboard a cruise ship out at sea, a young sailor discovers a door mysteriously leading to an apartment in Montevideo. Meanwhile, a group of Asian...

Large boats navigate the Amazon River daily, transporting people, animals and goods. This film portrays one of these trips.

In exile, a Brazilian child develops strategies to rise.

On the violent border between Brazil and Paraguay, a war is being waged around the expansion of agribusiness. On one side sits lawyer Luana Ruiz, the...

Beside the savage desire to realize the enormities which he brooded on, nothing was sacred.

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...

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...

On the triple frontier between Brazil, Colombia and Peru, the twin towns of Letícia and Tabatinga form an urban island surrounded by the...

In Alasca landscape never changes, only grows old.

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...

If I didn’t blossom, if I remained unbloomed, it’s because my roots were poisoned. I know it's false, an induced error, but... this is me.

Hilda must be responsible of a decision that she took long time ago. Her life is altered by the news that her son is coming to visit her after...

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...

Thirteen elderly people with cognitive illnesses attend the Psychogeriatric Day Clinic at the CHPL Hospital. The treatment is based on...

Cinematographic transcreation of a text censored in 1968.

Rosa is not allowed into the party that is happening in the living room of her house. When her cat slips out of the bedroom, Rosa goes after it,...