Karen Akerman Movies

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

Thirteen elderly people with cognitive illnesses attend the Psychogeriatric Day Clinic at the CHPL Hospital. The treatment is based on...

Aunt Virginia is a 70-year-old woman who has no children and has never been married, and ends up being convinced by her sisters, Vanda and...

On the violent border between Brazil and Paraguay, a war is being waged around the expansion of agribusiness. On one side sits lawyer Luana Ruiz, the...

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...

After his father's death, Gabriel leaves for Armação Beach in search of his origins. What he ends up finding is a complex plot around...

Inspired by popular cult, O COVEIRO is part light part darkness, a bedtime story and almost a nightmare. A child is born and his parents die of...

“There must be a different solution than the one from hell’. Full unadulterated terror (and music). 'The best class always ends with a...

Cinematographic transcreation of a text censored in 1968.

On a Saturday, unhappy with her marriage, Carol gets ready to leave, her husband usually goes to a soccer match and bring his friends back home for...

Love is a cold war. A couple discuss their relationship on a Berlin Park

Large boats navigate the Amazon River daily, transporting people, animals and goods. This film portrays one of these trips.

Syrian brothers Adel and Hadi Bakkour take to the streets of Rio de Janeiro fighting for democracy in the country where they chose to live. History...

Hilda must be responsible of a decision that she took long time ago. Her life is altered by the news that her son is coming to visit her after...

In Alasca landscape never changes, only grows old.

Aboard a cruise ship out at sea, a young sailor discovers a door mysteriously leading to an apartment in Montevideo. Meanwhile, a group of Asian...

When humans become animals and animals become humans.

A batch of 110 love letters exchanged by two lovers in the 1950s, discovered in Mato Grosso do Sul, is the starting point for this film.

Child solidarity is stronger than death.