Luiz Pretti Movies

The journeys of a filmmaker-traveler through Brazilian social and cultural landscapes swept up in the hurricane of authoritarian modernization...

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

André, a teenager, lives in an industrial town in Brazil near an old aluminum factory. One day, a factory worker, Cristiano, suffers an...

Otavio and Gilda are a very wealthy couple of the Brazilian elite who have the habit of eating their employees. Otavio owns a private security...

Vale do Jaguaribe, Ceará. Following the route of the Aracati wind, the film moves from the beach to the countryside. During this path, it...

Jorge Bodanzky is, to a large extent, a filmmaker who travels. Constant movement is a hallmark of his creative process, encompassing both personal...

João is a 32-years-old musician that opts for the isolation of a farmhouse in the Brazilian countryside after Flora, his pregnant wife, breaks...

After receiving a strange picture postcard, Marina knows there’s nothing else to it but to return to Rio de Janeiro, the beautiful city that...

A man caught in the verge of freedom. He penetrates a city where the boundaries between reality and dream disappear. He crosses the landscape without...

A young couple, Pedro and Antônia, have their relationship weakening after meeting Luana. Romance, seduction, fear and anguish from the future...

Mesmerized by the image of an active volcano on the other side of the world, a woman sets out to meet her fury. On the way, without being able to...

Solon inhabits a dry, barren space. She begins her mission to nourish the Earth. The landscape and the character herself are changed. The world is...

No man is a failure when he has friends.

Odete is caught between the past and the future. She goes on a journey, but remains immobile. She faces the abyss and wonders if she will make it out...

Pilo, Panda and Isaac are childhood friends. One of them decides to ask his girlfriend to marry him at sameday the other two learn she is cheating on...

Jorge Bodanzky’s cinematic career is deeply shaped by his engagement with journalism and documentary reporting. "Tenta Louvar o Mundo Mutilado"...

An intimate essay on the search for identity and the need to "kill" the filmmaker within in order to renew one's vision and body of work.

Valongo's quay - Empress quay - Rio de Janeiro port - Porto Maravilha (wonder port): layers of a city haunted by progress. One port on top of the...

In Fortaleza, Brazil, Eugenio, Joaquim and João use a clandestine radio to scream their hunger for freedom and revolution. They hack the...