Karen Akerman Movies

The Forensic Psychiatric Hospital is a medium-security level, closed structure, with a rehabilitation component. The service provided includes...

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

Child solidarity is stronger than death.

Beside the savage desire to realize the enormities which he brooded on, nothing was sacred.

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

A portrait of the city of São Paulo through the life of four of its inhabitants: an economist and analyst of the financial market, a...

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...

On the triple frontier between Brazil, Colombia and Peru, the twin towns of Letícia and Tabatinga form an urban island surrounded by the...

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...

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

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

In a lake surrounded by buildings, a man builds a boat.

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...

Rosa is not allowed into the party that is happening in the living room of her house. When her cat slips out of the bedroom, Rosa goes after it,...

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...

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.

Cinematographic transcreation of a text censored in 1968.

In exile, a Brazilian child develops strategies to rise.