Karen Akerman Movies

Child solidarity is stronger than death.

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

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

Syrian brothers Adel and Hadi Bakkour take to the streets of Rio de Janeiro fighting for democracy in the country where they chose to live. History...

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

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...

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 young man’s father, close to death, reveals to his son the true story of his own father’s end. The mean old gaucho was murdered by some...

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...

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

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,...

In 2019, the leakage of messages exchanged by authorities in Brazil undermines the credibility of Operation Lava Jato. A group of journalists follows...

Cinematographic transcreation of a text censored in 1968.

In Alasca landscape never changes, only grows old.

In exile, a Brazilian child develops strategies to rise.

Thirteen elderly people with cognitive illnesses attend the Psychogeriatric Day Clinic at the CHPL Hospital. The treatment is based on...

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

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.

If I didn’t blossom, if I remained unbloomed, it’s because my roots were poisoned. I know it's false, an induced error, but... this is me.