As Curvas da Estrada

Sep 28, 2024

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Expressions of Female Aging in the Alto Sertão of Alagoas.

Overview

This hybrid documentary, crafted for the Psychosocial Processes II course at UNIRIOS, intricately weaves together contemporary perceptions of female aging in the Alto Sertão of Alagoas. Through the eyes and lived experiences of its central character, the film delves into the nuanced expressions of womanhood as it intertwines with the passage of time, offering an intimate exploration of identity and resilience in a richly textured cultural landscape.

Genres

Documentary

Drama

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Cast

Self

Suely Maria

Self (archive footage)

Mané Brandão

While her mother is expecting their second child, young Thi befriends Ngoc, a club waitress who has just moved in as a tenant in their family home. As their friendship grows, she discovers that Ngoc is secretly a sex worker. Meanwhile, an art book of Tamara de Lempicka’s female nudes, stolen from a bookshop, silently bears witness.

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Africa Star

Mar 18, 2024

Africa Star follows three generations of Cypriot women - mother, daughter, and granddaughter - whose lives were tragically altered by one man's submission to temptation. Plagued by guilt over his act in 1945 and his failure to make amends in 1967, the now-ailing octogenarian makes one last attempt in 2008.

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Madwoman of God

Jan 1, 2008

This feature-length film tells the story of the passion between Marie de l’Incarnation, a mid-seventeenth-century nun and God, her "divine spouse." Fusing documentary and acting by Marie Tifo, whom we follow as she rehearses for this demanding role, the film paints an astonishing portrait of this mystic who abandoned her son and left France to build a convent in Canada, where she became the first female writer in New France.

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Solange

Jan 27, 2023

Solange wants her stuff back. She moved out of town five years ago and now returns to retrieve her belongings, which she left in boxes at friends' homes.

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Two of Us

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English-language remake of the original French film Deux. Story of two women who have have hidden their deep and passionate love for each for decades, but when the barriers keeping them apart are gone, can they really be free together?

5.5

Day of the Idiots

Oct 31, 1981

A woman experiences psychic disintegration and ends up in a psychiatric hospital.

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Norn

Sep 3, 2018

A young girl is approaching the end of a cycle, when she gets a visit from a goddess named Norn. Unaware of Norn's intentions, the girl is very excited to create a deep and intimate friendship with her. Until Norn tells her the truth.

10.0

Comparsa

Jun 21, 2025

From the shadows of a Guatemalan neighbourhood scared into silence, two sisters lead a luminous rebellion—unleashing joy, art, and radical truth in a fight for survival.

7.0

Knot

Oct 16, 2025

Glória manages to get a divorce and moves away, taking her daughters and the desire to start over. As she tries to turn the new house into a home and her body into a place of belonging, she faces, on the factory floor, a delicate competition for a supervisor position between colleagues and her best friend. Courage takes shape as anguish seeps into the flesh.

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Orchid Moon

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Lost in a whirlpool of loss and regret, Harry Bradshaw attempts to find innocence.

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Somewhere Within Me

Jun 7, 2025

A tender exploration of friendship, identity, and transformation, this film follows Brahel and Andoeni, who met as children and grew up together in Guadalajara. Though their romantic relationship eventually ended, their deep friendship endured. Years later, after Brahel’s gender transition, the two reconnect and rediscover their bond. Through a rich tapestry of archival footage, music, intimate moments, and unspoken emotions, the narrative unfolds as a heartfelt journey of reconnection, vulnerability, and lasting affection.

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Le Syndrome des cœurs brisés – Takotsubo

Nov 30, 2023

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Una de nosotras

Oct 24, 2019

For more than forty years, Belela Herrera has dedicated her life to saving that of others. The politically persecuted, those displaced by civil wars, and the world's refugees are her concern and vocation. Her story is also that of a woman who defined herself and twisted the destiny reserved for girls of her social class: marrying to a man from high society, having a large family and a comfortable and elegant existence . And it is also the story of a female legacy that is part and consequence of the invisible resistance of thousands of women.

6.3

Elaha

Nov 23, 2023

Elaha, 22, believes she must restore her supposed innocence before she weds. A surgeon could reconstruct her hymen but she cannot afford such an operation. She asks herself: why does she have to be a virgin anyway, and for whom?

4.0

a little woman

Jun 2, 2023

A bloodstain on a sheet triggers a great transformation in Tina, an eleven-year-old girl. As she spreads out the laundry with her mother, she will have to silently face all those unknown feelings she thought would never come.

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Exergo

May 4, 2024

Departing from peripheral details of some paintings of the Bilbao Fine Arts Museum, a female narrator unravels several stories related to the economic, social and psychological conditions of past and current artists.

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