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Short stories revolving around a bar and a hotel in Recife, unveil a mosaic of exotic characters living in the Brazilian underground.

Zizo (Irandhir Santos) é um poeta inconformado e anarquista, que banca a publicação de seu tablóide. Em seu mundo próprio, onde o sexo é algo tão corriqueiro quanto fumar maconha, ele conhece Eneida (Nanda Costa). Zizo logo sente um forte desejo por Eneida, mas, apesar de seus constantes pedidos, ela se recusa a ter relações sexuais com ele. Isto transtorna a vida do poeta, que passa a sentir falta de algo que jamais teve.

Dona Flor marries Vadinho, who is very handsome and passionate, but does not offer him much. She supports the family by cooking for her neighbors, but the husband bets most of the money. Vadinho dies suddenly and Dona Flor begins to miss the wedding. She marries the doctor Teodoro Madureira, but he is the opposite of Vadinho. While Dona Flor is married to Theodore, the ghost of her late husband appears.

In 1964, after the end of a passion and the dismissal of her maid, G.H., a sculptor from Rio de Janeiro, decides to clean up her apartment. In the service room, G.H. comes across a huge cockroach and experiences her existential vía crucis.

João do Santo Cristo leaves his hometown and moves to Brasília in search of a better life. There, he encounters misery and crime, but also discovers love in the arms of Maria Lúcia.

Áurea is a sentimental older woman, who befriends teenager Áureo. They like each other, so she talks to him about herself, her spirituality, mysticism and existence itself. They become inseparable, so his jealous mother confronts her.

The quiet life of the small town Piedade's inhabitants is shaken up by the arrival of a big oil company, which barges in taking over houses and local businesses, throwing everyone out, to better reach and use the area's natural resources.

The names of the characters are pronouns. She is a teacher, with his father dead just three days ago. Faced with this situation, He intends to take care of her while He is alive. This is the beginning of an odd relationship.

January 1st, 2003. As Brazil celebrates President Lula's historic investiture, two middle-class provincial families from Rio Grande do Sul gather in an old, poorly maintained house, around a champagne-fired barbecue, family secrets and frustrations. Domingo could be a day like any other, a sweet and peaceful day. But the changes promised to the Brazilian people by the new president deeply worry Laura, the matriarch, who fears to see his authority and wealth disappear a little more.

The History of Eternity is a synesthetic essay about love, desires and dreams. The entire narrative takes place in the same village with approximately 40 inhabitants in a desert landscape, a geographical point in northeastern Brazil with specific references in relation to time and space. A secluded place where everything happens at a measured pace, inspiring extremely visceral moments within the cycle that repeats itself eternally on the stage of human tragedy.

A group of playboys organize the last party of the year in a slum before the change in weather.

Over a trio of summers, a caretaker for luxury condominiums relies on her resourcefulness and her eye for opportunity to take advantage of whatever comes her way as her employers are caught in major corruption scandals.

An actor and a screenwriter meet at a short film festival and struggle to keep up their affair as films, festivals and other partners hamper their burgeoning romance.

Speaking on the telephone with the Hungarian Consulate, the filmmaker asks: "Does someone whose grandfather is Hungarian have the right to obtain a Hungarian passport?" The question apparently sounds strange. "Yes - It's possible... But, why do you want a Hungarian passport?" The filmmaker asks for the list of necessary documents, but the officer woman still doesn't understand why she wants to become Hungarian. The idea took place on her mind: she is going to ask for the Hungarian nationality. She didn't say a word to anyone but she wouldn't give it up. The administrative process - the request for a passport - is the guiding line of the film. And the filmmaker faces essential questions: what is nationality? What's the use of a passport? What is our heritage? How do we construct our own history and identity?

"Lama" tells the story of Paula, a survivor of Mariana's Dam Disaster who helped hundreds of people to run away from their village, Bento Rodrigues. Paula and her son, João Pedro, become refugees in Mariana, where they try to start a new life after seeing their home destroyed by the mud. Paula, however, has to face the hostility from the locals, who resent the refugees and ask for the return of the mining company responsible for the environmental crime. Until fate puts her, once again, on the run.

Overprotective single parent Geraldo loses the ability to feel emotion after an iron bar runs through his skull in a work-related accident. Fearful that he will stop caring for his rebellious teenage daughter, he goes on a journey from São Paulo to Rio Grande do Sul in order to leave the girl in his ex-wife's care. On the way, however, Geraldo starts showing signs of violence due to his condition. The daughter tries to recapture her father's affection, but he becomes more and more guided solely by his sense of responsibility. And even this tenuous thread connecting father and daughter might break.

Bipolar Show is not an interview show. Michel Melamed's project at Canal Brasil is the first performance series in Brazilian television, mixing reality and fiction in conversations and improvisations between the host and his guests, using two different settings and all types of mood, going from high spirits and fellowship to provocation and sadness. An original number with the newest names in Brazilian music ends each episode. The show plays with the idea of polarization in a country that, according to the host, is historically bipolar, torn between the exacerbated patriotic notion that "God is Brazilian" and a huge inferiority complex.

26 different shows written and directed by Michel Melamed - each one a stand-alone chapter with its own host, story, format and no sequels - that no producer would ever greenlight. With themes like The Most Beautiful Fernanda Montenegros in the World (a tribute to one of the country's greatest actresses), Aqua Mondo (in which Letícia Sabatella, Luana Piovani and Jorge Mautner engage in a water-tasting session) and Red Soap (the first monothematic and monochromatic soap opera in Brazilian television), Campeões de Audiência is a creative and humorous critique to the standardization and lack of boldness in Brazilian television.

At a bar, a lonely man tells the story of the unbelievable romance he has just lived to three strangers. With actors Roberto Bontempo, Ana Cotrim, Ingrid Guimarães and Buza Ferraz. Writen and directed by Marcello Ludwig Maia. Produced by República Pureza Filmes.

Cazuza's mother Lucinha Araújo and his best friends - Cássia Eller, Ezequiel Neves, Ney Matogrosso, Frejat - tell some of the greatest and most touching stories about the late singer's life.

Lost in a beach house, Rodrigo searches in his memory for the romance he lived with a woman in the previous night, and tries to find her again. With actors Anna Cotrim, Marcelo Olinto and Patrícia Niedermier. Writen and directed by Marcello Ludwig Maia.