Festival do Rio 2012

A man boards a limousine to be driven to his day's work: nine mysterious "appointments."

A high school French teacher is drawn into a precocious student's increasingly transgressive story about his relationship with a friend's family.

Faced with both her hot-tempered father's fading health and melting ice-caps that flood her ramshackle bayou community and unleash ancient aurochs, six-year-old Hushpuppy must learn the ways of courage and love.

A loan shark is forced to reconsider his violent lifestyle after the arrival of a mysterious woman claiming to be his long-lost mother.

A restless retired woman teams up with her deceased neighbor's maid to seek out a man who has a secret connection to her past life as a farm owner at the foothill of Mount Tabu in Africa.

The lives of the residents of a Brazilian apartment building and the security guards who get the job guarding the surrounding streets.

A documentary that follows the Serbian performance artist as she prepares for a retrospective of her work at The Museum of Modern Art in New York.

Dissidents in a French overseas territory attack a police station and take hostages.

They influence our decisions without us knowing it. They numb our senses without us feeling it. They control our lives without us realizing it. They live.

In the midst of increasing political violence, a young couple, two sisters, and a father and son are driven from Haiti to New York, where they must confront the truths of their interlocked pasts.

An examination of a failure of justice in the case against the West Memphis Three.

Rules must be followed. For the "supervisors" of the Bat Yam neighbourhood in Israel, this means ensuring that women are dressed appropriately, that people respect Shabbat, or that Arabs from Jaffa don't enter the neighbourhood with music blaring from their cars. Avi, Kobi and Yaniv are young and know how to fight. They want to force their neighbours to become religious, without hesitating to be violent in the name of God. The inhabitants admire the gang and are afraid of them at the same time. One day a new girl, Miri, arrives. She is not familiar with the strict rules of modesty. The gang's leader Avi is going to be torn between his feelings for Miri and his dedication to the gang.

In 1940s Porto, Portugal, a young boy joins a street gang after proving his worth. His growing affection for the gang's only female member puts him at odds with the jealous gang leader.

A film that excavates layers of myth and memory to find the elusive truth at the core of a family of storytellers.

Comic-book artist Jung returns to Seoul for the first time since he was abandoned at the age of 5.

While winds of freedom blow through the Arab world, the Iranian youth waits. They were the first to rise up against their leaders in 2009.

A documentary that follows six young dancers from around the world as they prepare for the Youth America Grand Prix, one of the most prestigious ballet competitions in the world.

On April 2nd 2011, LCD Soundsystem played its final show at Madison Square Garden. Documenting this once in a life time performance and an intimate portrait of James Murphy as he navigates the lead-up to the show, the day after, and the personal and professional ramifications of his decision.

After many years of separation, Bianca and her mother meet again in Porto. Together, they will hit the road with their strip show.

Two couples' romances are fancifully intertwined.

When a debt puts a young man's life in danger, he turns to putting a hit out on his evil mother in order to collect the insurance.

In Uganda, a new bill threatens to make homosexuality punishable by death. David Kato - Uganda's first openly gay man - and his fellow activists work against the clock to defeat the legislation while combating vicious persecution in their daily lives. But no one, not even the filmmakers, is prepared for the brutal murder that shakes the movement to its core and sends shock waves around the world.

Three characters of different social classes escape their unfinished painting in search of the Painter, hoping he will complete it.

A reenactment of the final days of the 2001 G8 Summit.

A look at four seasons in the lives of a happily married couple and their relationships with their family and friends.