Karen Akerman Movies

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

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...

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 a child is forced to become the house's adult because her father is sick and her mother is dead, there's an inversion in the natural order of...

In 1908, Titoe leaves her country, Japan, to try her luck in Brazil. Her intention is just to get rich and return in five years. But life has other...

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...

When humans become animals and animals become humans.

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

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.

Child solidarity is stronger than death.

Cinematographic transcreation of a text censored in 1968.

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

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

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

In exile, a Brazilian child develops strategies to rise.

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.