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- In the great restaurant of life, there are those who eat and those who get eaten. Raimundo Nonato finds an alternative way, a life of his own: he cooks in order to survive and find a place in society. He arrives in town without a penny in his pockets and starts working as help in a decadent bar, a nasty place, lost amid the urban desert. He sleeps in the storage room on the back, and under a cold neon light learns how to fry "pastel" and "coxinhas", outdoing his "master", Zulmiro, the owner of the bar. Nonato is ignorant, but talented. He knows how to work the kitchen, soon others realize it too. The first one to notice him, is Iria, a prostitute, who doesn't know how to cook but loves to eat and starts an affair with him. Then, Giovanni, the owner of the Boccaccio (an Italian restaurant in the neighborhood), offers Nonato a job as his apprentice. A turn of events results in Nonato spending time in prison. For the prisoners and their boss, the violent Bujiù, Nonato is a savior; in fact soon their meager meals turn to a feast of exotic dishes orchestrated by Nonato's magic. As a consequence of this, Nonato is given the following the nickname, a well suited one indeed: Rosemary.
- Nonato, with his food, won over the powerful in the hierarchy of the prison where he is serving his sentence. But the arrival of a famous Italian mobster will shake the structures and place the chef at the epicenter of a power struggle.
- He was just a common man working as an animal control officer; however, he caught the wrong dog.
- "Infinitamente Maio" is a drama with an underlying gut feeling about betrayal in love. Raul gets home to find his wife, Assiria, having sex with another man. Right then and there, Raul is thrust into a whirlpool of depressive and violent emotions, which seem only to wane during the brief moments when he leaves his home to buy flowers at a nearby flower shop, where he catches the eye of a salesclerk called Amanda. Through alternating extremely realistic scenes with cruelly metaphoric images, the movie portrays Raul's feelings, trapped, as any other betrayed person would be, in his obsession to understand the "how" and the "why" he has been betrayed.
- Four friends share the dream of making a great action movie, and not even their extraordinary talent for getting into trouble will make them give up on making it.
- An astronomer is forced to leave the city where he lives in order to save his relationship. He ends up returning to the place he never intended to come back: The small town where he was born, stage of a great childhood trauma. Once there, he will discover the truth that will change his life forever.
- A musical comedy whose argument is the relationship difficulties between man and woman, but, much more than that, it is a film about CINEMA.
- Some recent and controversial findings have helped Brazil play an unprecedented and central role in the world archeology scenario. The ascertained date of some remains found at the Serra da Capivara National Park in the state of Piauí for example, suggests that men lived in this region 50,000 years ago. Regardless of when they arrived, these men left thousands of rock paintings and engravings: a priceless scientific and artistic legacy, virtually unknown by Brazilians themselves. The documentary Luzia's Atelier Rock Art in Brazil stems from this perception, thus taking us to a fascinating trip that probes into Brazils visual remainings. Its first section consists of a comprehensive survey and an analysis of existing rock art in Brazil, through some of the most breathtaking and majestic prehistoric sites. The film, however, does not simply consist of a list of conclusions drawn by archeologists about our prehistoric past. The second section of the documentary presents an attempt to apply the archeological scientific method to the analysis of the current Brazilian remains. The camera then turns to the concrete walls of large Brazilian towns and unveils extracts from these sites valuable and surprising information about Brazils contemporary man, relating them in an unprecedented way to the ones made by our ancestors. A lyric and striking journey, in the search of impossible answers to questions that apply both to todays and prehistoric men: Where do we come from? What are we doing here? Where are we going to?