Helena Ignez Movies

A street vendor who lives in the outskirts of São Paulo returns home at night and does not find her teenager son. After a nonstop search, she...

Two maids decide to rebel against the society that oppresses them and start murdering their own mistresses.

A man and a woman are laying on a chess-like patio. Both are trying to reach each other in the best way they can. However, for some odd reason they...

In 1979, while Brazil was going through the troubled moment of the Amnesty Law, Glauber Rocha directed the program Abertura for TV Tupi, in which he...

A study that unwraps a paradisiac scenery, reaching the subjects of Brazility and its force in the change of habits, breaking taboos and bringing out...

One day away of Marcelo's wedding, the tailor, the groom and his father will have to correct much more than the suit's measures.

Marcos returns home after a few years away.

At 84 years of age, Lúcia Rocha admitted herself to a hospital in São Paulo to undergo heart tests. Upon receiving the news about the...

A fantastic tale in the brutal reality of a slum. The life of a boy with the rare gift of flying. Based on a Will Eisner's story

The relationship of a woman with three men - her husband, her lover and a man who fell in love with her -, told in a single night, through flashbacks

In an old, dilapidated mansion in downtown São Paulo, an old Shakespearean actor exiled from the stage lives with his ghosts. In his bed,...

Experimental movie about Rio de Janeiro's Museum of Modern Art's Movie Archive (Cinemateca).

In this animated fairy-tale Filly, a lesbian fairy with nimble fingers, seduces women by day dressed as a boy. But at night something strange happens...

A projectionist at a porn cinema in downtown São Paulo, makes his first film in Super8, an essay about the failure of a lifetime. The scenes...

A self-portrait short film by veteran Brazilian filmmaker Sylvio Lanna.