A Brazil Screenthe new free public streaming platform, reaches the public this Saturday (30) with more than 550 national audiovisual works available. According to the Minister of Culture, Margareth Menezes, the objective of the project is to bring the population closer to Brazilian audiovisual production.
In total, there are 267 short films, 139 feature films, 85 television films, 64 serial works, combining productions from 1910 to 2025, including 19 titles that represented Brazil in .
Check out a list of seven productions that are on Tela Brasil:
Central Brazil
revolves around Dora (Fernanda Montenegro), a retired teacher who works as a letter writer for illiterate people at Estação Central do Brasil, in Rio de Janeiro. However, she often loses patience with her clients and does not send the letters she writes, putting them in a drawer or tearing them up.
In this role, he meets Josué (Vinicius de Oliveira), whose mother hired Dora’s services to look for the boy’s father. Upon leaving the station, the woman is run over and dies, leaving the child alone. Dora then decides to help Josué find his father, going with him on an adventure to the interior of the Northeast.
Xica da Silva
In the second half of the 18th century, João Fernandes, a representative of the Portuguese court, falls in love with Xica da Silva (Zezé Motta), a black slave, and transforms her into the Diamond Queen, fulfilling all her whims and desires.
City of God
Directed by Fernando Meirelles, the plot shows the growth of violence in the Rio community under the eyes of photographer and narrator Buscapé. While the boy escapes his future in crime through art, his childhood friend, Zé Pequeno, becomes one of the local drug bosses.
Carandiru
Based on the work of Drauzio Varella and directed by Héctor Babenco, it tells the story of a public health doctor who offers to carry out HIV prevention work in the largest prison in Latin America, Carandiru, between 1980 and 1990. He tells the stories of the prisoners, the guards and the daily violence that marks the space.
Flores Island
Directed and written by Jorge Furtado, the short shows how the economy is capable of generating unequal relationships between human beings. A narrator tells, throughout the production, the story of a tomato, from its cultivation field owned by Mr. Suzuki until the end of its disposal, when it is given to poor people as food.
The Boy and the World
A boy sees his father leave due to lack of work. Suffering from the lack of his patriarch, he leaves his small village and discovers the new world where his father lives, a place with machine-animals and strange beings, and a society also marked by poverty, exploitation and lack of perspectives.
Almost Two Brothers
Old friends meet in Ilha Grande prison, in the 1970s. Miguel (Caco Ciocler), who became a senator, and Jorge (Flávio Bauraqui), a powerful drug trafficker from Rio de Janeiro, see their paths cross again in a space where political prisoners and ordinary prisoners shared the same space.
*With information from Flávio Pinto.
