Zoom (2015)

Director: Pedro Morelli

Starring: Jason Priestley, Gael Garcia Bernal, Alison Pill, Tyler Labine, Mariana Ximenes

The film consists of three seemingly separate but ultimately interlinked storylines about a comic book artist (Alison Pill), a novelist (Mariana Ximen... Read more

Waste Land (2010)

Director: Lucy Walker

This uplifting documentary follows the lives of "catadores," or pickers who live in poverty and scavenge through the world's largest garbage dump, out... Read more

Two Sons of Francisco (2005)

Director: Breno Silvera

Starring: Dira Paes, Angelo Antonio, Marcio Kieling

The incredible true story of Brazil's leading country music duo. Starting out a very long way from stardom, their father was not the first to pressure... Read more

Trash (2014)

Director: Stephen Daldry

Starring: Wagner Moura, Selton Mello, Rooney Mara, Martin Sheen

Richard Curtis writes and Stephen Daldry directs this Rio-set adventure drama. The film follows 14-year-old Raphael (Rickson Tevez), who, after findin... Read more

Tony Manero (2008)

Director: Pablo Larrain

Starring: Alfredo Castro, Paola Lattus, Hector Morales, Amparo Noguera, Elsa Poblete

As Augusto Pinochet holds Chile in the grip of dictatorship, Raul, a 50-year-old man obsessed with John Travolta's character from 'Saturday Night Feve... Read more

The Salt of the Earth (2014)

Director: Wim Wenders, Juliano Ribeiro Salgado

Starring: Sebastiao Salgado

The epic still photographs of Brazilian artist and environmentalist Sebastião Salgado fill the giant screen in this spectacular new documentary about... Read more

The Miracle of Candeal (2004)

Director: Fernando Trueba

This music-soaked documentary is set in Candeal, a favela or shanty town in Salvador de Bahia in Brazil, where Cuban pianist Bebo Valdes goes in searc... Read more

The House of Sand (2005)

Director: Andrucha Waddington

Starring: Fernanda Montenegro, Fernanda Torres

In 1910 Aurea and her mother arrive in the Brazilian town of Maranhao where her husband believes he'll find prosperity in the barren desert. As the fa... Read more

Tabu (2012)

Director: Miguel Gomes

Starring: Teresa Madruga, Laura Soveral, Ana Moreira, Carloto Cotta, Isabel Cardoso, Henri...

Acclaimed director Miguel Gomes delivers a sumptuous, eccentric two-part tale centered on Aurora, shown first as an impulsive, cantankerous elderly wo... Read more

Send a Bullet ( Manda Bala ) (2007)

Director: Jason Kohn

Brazil is rife with crime and corruption at all levels of society; Jason Kohn's award-winning documentary examines several of the more imaginative way... Read more