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Everyone is Persona non grata in director-actor Roschdy Zem’s latest feature, which he adapted from Brazilian filmmaker Beto Brant’s Sao Paulo-set thriller O Invasor. (The original movie premiered at Sundance in 2002 under the English-language title The Trespasser.)

Featuring a trio of highly unpleasant crooks who wind up going head to head to head, with Zem himself playing the foulest — and, actually, the most likable — of the bunch, this dark and stylistic exercise is a bit too brutal to be fully enjoyable. But it’s also well-performed, gripping and nasty enough to garner up interest outside of France, where ...

Everyone is Persona non grata in director-actor Roschdy Zem’s latest feature, which he adapted from Brazilian filmmaker Beto Brant’s Sao Paulo-set thriller O Invasor. (The original movie premiered at Sundance in 2002 under the English-language title The Trespasser.)

Featuring a trio of highly unpleasant crooks who wind up going head to head to head, with Zem himself playing the foulest — and, actually, the most likable — of the bunch, this dark and stylistic exercise is a bit too brutal to be fully enjoyable. But it’s also well-performed, gripping and nasty enough to garner up interest outside of France, where ...

In the run-up to next month’s Cannes Festival, Cologne-based Media Luna New Films has acquired international rights to “We Had It Coming,” starring Natalie Krill and Brazil’s “The Friendly Man,” one of the standouts at Ventana Sur’s strong Copia Final showcase of near-finished Latin American movies.

MK2 Mile End will distribute “We Had It Coming” in Canada; O2 Play, the theatrical, TV and DVD distribution company of Fernando Mereilles’ O2 Filmes production house, will release “The Friendly Man,” now in advanced post-production, in Brazil.

Media Luna will introduce both titles to buyers at next month’s Cannes Film Market.

“We Had It Coming,” the English-language debut of Montreal based Paul Barbeau, and “The Friendly Man,” with Brazilian rock star Paulo Miklos as its male lead, tackle issues which are liable of becoming trending topics at this year’s Cannes Film Market: Women fighting back; men questioning their...

New Yorkers, get ready once again... another annual Premiere Brazil! installment at MoMA begins Today, July 12, and runs through the 24th. It's always a film enthusiast's treat, and recommended. I wish I could see more of the films each year, but there's never enough time in the day to do so. This is the series' 10th edition by the way. And to celebrate, new works from filmmakers previously featured, are on the scheduled, like Eduardo Coutinho (Songs); Beto Brant (I’d Receive the Worst News from Your Beautiful Lips); and Selton Mello (The Clown). Also featured will be talented newcomers like Kiko Goifman...

New Yorkers, get ready once again... another annual Premiere Brazil! installment at MoMA begins on July 12, and runs through the 24th. It's always a film enthusiast's treat, and recommended. I wish I could see more of the films each year, but there's never enough time in the day to do so. This is the series' 10th edition by the way. And to celebrate, new works from filmmakers previously featured, like Eduardo Coutinho (Songs); Beto Brant (I’d Receive the Worst News from Your Beautiful Lips); and Selton Mello (The Clown). Also featured will be talented newcomers include Kiko Goifman and Claudia Priscilla, who...

The Soul Detective from Think Tank on Vimeo.

A detective enters a train car were he finds different manifestations of a force that haunts the place. Using his telepathic powers he tries to enter the mind of a recently deceased man before all his memories vanish.

V2 Cinema presents the short feature The Soul Detective, starring American filmmaker David Lynch, on www.v2cinema.com. Written and directed by Davi de Oliveira Pinheiro director of Beyond The Grave (who's also producing with Letícia de Cássia), the film follows a psychic investigation inside the mind of a recently deceased man, before all his memories vanish.

Shot in two days in the city of Porto Alegre, The Soul Detective completes the Think Tank series. Split between five shorts, directed by five different Brazilian filmmakers, it presents almost an hour of interviews and visual essays. Lynch, Beto Brant, Philip Glass, Fernando Arrabal, José Padilha...