Karen Akerman

Immersive documentary in the film editing process. Twenty Brazilian cinema editors expose the nuances of this art, its secrets and processes.

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

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

“There must be a different solution than the one from hell’. Full unadulterated terror (and music). 'The best class always ends with a lesson'. Almost baroque in its ambition and detail, Akerman and Seabra Lopes’ mesmerising short film delves deeply into the hard-wired dread of music lessons. Sewn around Schubert’s steely Opus 1, which is itself based on the no less terrifying legend of Goethe's Erlkönig, their film is a revelation.” International Film Festival Rotterdam.

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 boy idol who has lived through many carnivals.

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

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

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

Child solidarity is stronger than death.

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 on her door, bringing back ghosts from her past.

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.

The Forensic Psychiatric Hospital is a medium-security level, closed structure, with a rehabilitation component. The service provided includes psychiatric, psychological, medical, therapeutic and social care. The 32 men who inhabit the unit were considered exempt from punishment by the court. They feel time going by. Slowly. The film settles in this individual time.

Cinematographic transcreation of a text censored in 1968.

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

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

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

In exile, a Brazilian child develops strategies to rise.

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, ending up at a party with very peculiar guests.