Karen Akerman Movies

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...

After his father's death, Gabriel leaves for Armação Beach in search of his origins. What he ends up finding is a complex plot around...

In 1908, Titoe leaves her home country of Japan to try her luck in Brazil. Her intention is just to get rich and return in five years, but life has...

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...

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...

Inspired on the true events of the Portuguese king Don Pedro (14th Century) which unburied his mistress to make her queen after dead. This film tells...

Love is a cold war. A couple discuss their relationship in a Berlin Park.

Urban legends, memories of a family and where they live. A story about wolves, snakes and pigs in a favela complex.

A batch of 110 love letters exchanged by two lovers in the 1950s, discovered in Mato Grosso do Sul, is the starting point for this film.

Josefina, a radical homemaker, committed a crime of passion that led her to self-exile at a coastal town. She tries to find peace in solitude,...

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...

Aunt Virginia is a 70-year-old woman who has no children and has never been married, and ends up being convinced by her sisters, Vanda and...

After relocating to Tokyo, a Brazilian writer begins a new novel, provoked by her experiences in Japan and by one of the last scenes she witnessed in...

Hated by the Greeks, detested by the Trojans, Helena lives a peaceful life in Guaratiba, a fishing neighborhood in Rio de Janeiro. Until love knocks...

In a time of timeless and revolutionary talents, Wilson Simonal shined as nobody before and innovated as only a few could. All of a sudden,...

Child solidarity is stronger than death.

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.

Samuel, the last free-diving fisherman, has lived isolated in the island of La Aguja since he was abandoned by his wife and son 15 years ago. His...

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