Heloísa Passos Movies

Focus Forward: Short Films, Big Ideas is an award-winning series of 30 three-minute stories about innovators—people who are reshaping the world...

An uplifting feature documentary highlighting the transformative power of art and the beauty of the human spirit. Top-selling contemporary artist Vik...

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...

Hidden from public view, a war is raging inside the diamond industry. When filmmaker Jason Kohn infiltrates this highly secretive world, he uncovers...

Nine filmmakers each profile a young girl from a different part of the world to weave a global tapestry of youth in the 21st century.

Evelin, 13, is pregnant from a 22-year-old who recently left the drug trade. Luana, 15 years old, declares that she planned her pregnancy, as she...

Julia is a 35-year-old English Literature teacher struggling with depression as she tries to get her life back together again after her long, intense...

A poetic and personal cinematic meditation on displacement and loss, SKIN OF GLASS follows filmmaker Denise Zmekhol’s journey after discovering...

José Renato, a 35-year-old geologist, is sent out on a solitary expedition to the hinterlands of northeastern Brazil. The purpose of the trip...

The dramatic documentary recounts eight stories of love affairs in which those involved experienced some kind of physical or psychological violence....

Teenager Joana feeds her soul with literature and rock. In 1979, when amnesty is granted in Brazil, she's forced to move with her family from Paris...

Eneida, 83 years old, makes a journey into her past, in search of her firstborn daughter, whom she has not seen for over two decades.

Nalu lives with Ruben, her father, in a small country town near the Brazilian border with Uruguay. When Ruben realizes that his daughter is becoming...

A documentary on Brazilian trombone player Raul de Souza who, since 1996, has lived in Paris and suffers because he goes unnoticed, unrewarded in his...

The daily routine of a streetwise office boy, waiting in long lines, having to deal with some fishy situations, listening to music, and meeting...

Pilar, a young hotel maid, has her path crossed by Shin, a middle-aged South Korean guest. The plans of both go wrong and, despite everything that...

On January 19, 1982, Lilian lives her first disappointment. She is fifteen and after waiting for a long time, she realises that she has been...

Birdie used to live in the tree, but his nest’s been broken and he’s now living on the streets of Rio de Janeiro with all he needs to...

Documentary about the discovery of a ditch in a cemetery located in São Paulo, in which were found the carcass of Brazilian political...