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Publisher
Grasshopper Film
Language
Portuguese
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A film of deeply concentrated beauty, acclaimed filmmaker Pedro Costa’s VITALINA VARELA stars nonprofessional actor VITALINA VARELA in an extraordinary performance based on her own life. Vitalina plays a Cape Verdean woman who has travelled to Lisbon to reunite with her husband, after two decades of separation, only to arrive mere days after his funeral. Alone in a strange forbidding land, she perseveres and begins to establish a new life. Winner...
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Portuguese
Description
Portuguese (Portugal) English bilingual children's book. Perfect for kids studying English or Portuguese as their second language.
Many children dream of becoming superheroes. In this children's book, Ron and his best friend Maya go through a fun journey to become heroes. They learn important superhero rules which help them complete their first mission. They work together and help Maya's brother, learning new things about themselves. Do you want...
Author
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Portuguese
Description
English Portuguese Brazilian Bilingual children's book. Perfect for kids learning English or Portuguese Brazilian as their second language. Winter is a fun and beautiful season to play in the snow, but Jimmy the little bunny was not prepared for the cold weather. Once he learns how to keep himself warm, he can finally enjoy spending time outside with his family.
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Portuguese
Description
On the outskirts of the city, a car is riddled with bullet holes, some the size of a fist. You’d think it was a gangland shooting, but these bullets were fired by the police, and the passengers were unarmed teenagers. In Rio de Janeiro, more than 16, 000 civilians have been killed in police operations over the past twenty years, all in the name of self-defense. This powerful and disturbing film follows the mothers of these victims as they fight...
5) Vazante
Publisher
Music Box Films
Language
Portuguese
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Description
Upon returning from a trading expedition, Antonio discovers that his wife has died in labor. Confined to a decadent but desolate property in the company of his aging mother-in-law and numerous slaves, he marries his wife's young niece, Beatriz. Separated from her family and left alone on the rugged farmhouse in the Brazilian mountains, Beatriz finds solace in the displaced and oppressed inhabitants around her.
8) Bacurau
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 131 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Portuguese
Description
A few years from now, Bacurau, a small village in the Brazilian sertão, mourns the loss of its matriarch, Carmelita, who lived to be 94. Days later, its inhabitants notice that their village has literally vanished from online maps and a UFO-shaped drone is seen flying overhead. There are forces that want to expel them from their homes, and soon, in a genre-bending twist, a band of armed mercenaries led by Udo Kier arrive in town picking off the inhabitants...
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (120 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Portuguese
Description
Sara is a genderfluid blue-collar worker who lives as her male birth identity by day while caring for her religious grandmother in Sobradinho, a small town in northeast Brazil. Daniel, who teaches in a police academy in southern metropolis Curitiba, has been placed on unpaid leave after a violent incident that's all over the news. The only thing holding him together is his online romance with Sara, whom he has never met in person. When she suddenly...
16) Maiden's tower
Language
Portuguese
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Description
There are desires that not even torture or imprisonment can restrain, freedom and justice. Former president Dilma Rousseff and her former cellmates tell the remarkable story of their time together in Tiradentes Prison in the 70’s. The MAIDEN'S TOWER was the name used to refer to the female cells of the prison. The film recreates the cells and space where they were incarcerated. Forty-five years after the Brazilian dictatorship of the 80s, the women...
17) Utopia
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Language
Portuguese
Description
Neste clássico que tem atraído a atenção de estudiosos e intrigado leitores desde a sua publicação no século XVI, Thomas More idealiza uma ilha onde não existe a propriedade privada nem o dinheiro, e onde o Estado se preocupa com a felicidade do povo e a organização da produção. Para o filósofo, seria a sociedade ideal. Uma das mais importantes obras de filosofia política de todos os tempos, a "Utopia" discorre sobre a contradição...
18) Strife
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Series
Language
Portuguese
Description
"Life isn't beautiful. Sometimes, it's as ugly as our worst nightmares. This is one of those times."
Pepper has hit rock bottom. With barely enough money to pay for food, desperate times call for desperate measures. She's convinced that she has been through enough to weather any emotional storm. But she never could have prepared herself for meeting Dmitri Strife.
This is book three of a dark romance series.
19) Landscape Film
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (72 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
Portuguese
Description
A journey through the art and life of the Brazilian landscape architect and painter best known for the iconic black-and-white mosaic promenades that line Rio de Janeiro’s Copacabana Beach. LANDSCAPE FILM shows the full contribution of the landscape artist to the national flora. Born in São Paulo, the son of a German Jew and Catholic from Pernambuco, Burle Marx was a forerunner of ecology and defense of the environment. The landscaper valued native...
Author
Language
Portuguese
Description
No primeiro fim-de-semana foi para uma conhecida cidade pelo seu frio, localizada em Kashmir, Dras. Algumas pessoas chamam-na de Drass. Até recebeu turistas com um letreiro pintado a dizer "Bem-vindos à Drass – o segundo lugar habitado, mais frio do mundo". Era conhecido como a porta de entrada para Ladakh. Era um país de caminhada e com boas bases pelas boas caminhadas para Amarnath, Suru Valley e Saliskot. Também provou ser um bom treino para...
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