A word or phrase whose meaning does not change whether spelt backwards or forwards. A young man loses everything he has in one day. He is fired from his job, kicked out of his hotel, betrayed by his colleagues and turned down by an old flame. We see this ordinary tale told backwards in time

Palindrome

In the middle of his crazy day, a man tries to remember if he closed a window at home.

The Open Window

The documentary portrays the city of Sao Miguel do Gostoso, a small fishing village, located in the northeast in Brazil. The town have particularities related the history, social and cultural changes due to presence of foreigners. The film shows the challenges of the explosion of tourism and real estate boom in one of the most sought resort in Brazil.

São Miguel do Gostoso

Using a mixture of film clips and interviews with Ozualdo Candeias himself the film tells the director's 40 year trajectory.

Ozualdo Candeias and the Cinema

There is no place in the world where the prison population grows as fast as in Brazil, a country that have the fourth largest population of inmates in globe. Sentence on Trial dives deep into the hellish everyday life of the Brazilian prisons to expose how moroseness, prejudice and the culture of fear amplify violence and the social abyss of the country.