O Homem

Alberto Cavalcanti reviews his own prolific career as a filmmaker.

Inspired by the masterpiece of concrete music "Symphony for one man" Pierre Henry (1950), the film tells the story of a common man leaving the interior of Brazil to try life in São Paulo. The city, in its perpetual process of construction and deconstruction view from the microcosm of a construction site, its workers and a profusion of machines in full swing. The metaphysical revolt of this character is the revolt against his condition and against everything that humiliates him.

A group of friends meet in a cafeteria to discuss homework, there they come across a strange figure, a man with a horse head. The group gets puzzled and tries to find out more about the horseman when strange things begin to happen

On April 9, 1968, the Republican Nuno Simões (1894-1976) was honored by the Municipality of Famalicão, being assigned the insignia of the Great Officer of the Order of Benemerence. Two teams from Cultura Filmes, a Commercial Society of Cinematographic Productions in Lisbon, under the direction of Ricardo Malheiro, a cinematographic coverage of this event for the "Jornais Associados" of Brazil. They completed their work, various environments of the village and the municipality of Famalicão, and also some details of the "folates fair" - Tells us the newspaper "Estrela da Manhã" a few days after the event.

Caio searches desperately for his missing wife, Maria, leading him to the mysterious Dream Inn. In his quest for answers, he unearths dark secrets and faces his deepest fears. Amidst the shadows, he uncovers a chilling link to the enigmatic "Faceless Man", a serial killer whose identity remains hidden.

As head of the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons, Brazilian diplomat José Bustani became an obstacle in America’s march to war with Iraq. Ousted from his position, he now revisits the chilling events that marked a turning point in global power structures.

A short-film that analyses the perspective of the suburban middle class with melancholic eyes.

A host of personalities reminisce about the life and work of songwriter, lawyer, and congressman Humberto Teixeira — aka "Baião Doctor" — the author of such classic Brazilian popular songs as "Asa Branca". A musical film about the baião, a movement in Brazilian music in the 1940s and 1950s that was later snowed under by samba and bossa nova.

A group of people float around the discussion of what really means to play a character.

The Man Who Became Cabinet tells the story of an employee who, so obsessed with the routine and mechanical tasks of his work environment, eventually becomes one of the cabinets in the office.

The Man with the Crooked Eyes is a unfinished 1918 Portuguese silent film made for Lusitânia Film and directed by José Leitão de Barros, starring Filipe Melo. This was restored and edited together in 2007 using all existing raw footage.

A countryman kills his father and heads for the big city. On his way, he meets the most bizarre and allegorical types: a robber, a drag queen who thinks he's Carmen Miranda, a black king, a fallen black angel, a priest, two whores, a pregnant cowboy, among others.

Night Man is an American action/adventure/sci-fi series that aired in syndication from September 15, 1997 to May 17, 1999. The series is loosely based on a comic book published by Malibu Comics and was created by Steve Englehart and developed for television by Glen A. Larson. It stars Matt McColm as the title character, a superhero whose real name was Johnny Domino, a saxophonist. Englehart would write three episodes of the series. Night Man is also one of the few series to cross over with characters from Larson's previous series: in the episode "Manimal", Johnny allies with Professor Jonathan Chase, the star of the short-lived 1980s' series Manimal.

Mirene and André are a heterosexual couple struggling with infertility issues. Carl and Vicente are a homosexual couple undergoing an experimental procedure in order to have a biological child.