Free Brazilian Movie Night
Offered monthly at no charge, movies provide a feel for the Brazilian culture and Portuguese language (*Sub-titles provided). Movie Night is a great opportunity to meet up with friends, practice your Portuguese, and network with other members of the community.

Movies List

	Moro no Brasil
	Date:	Saturday, February 18 2012     Time:   8:00 pm
	Description:	Moro no Brasil ("I Live in Brazil") is a musical journey that delves deeply into the heart of Brazil. It is a stirring passionate documentary that grants the viewer unparalleled access to the diversity and musical richness of Brazilian music, reaching far beyond Samba and Bossa Nova. Writer/director Mika Kaurismaki's musical journey covers 4,000 kilometers, with stopovers in Pernambuco, Bahia and Rio de Janeiro, and presents the voyage from the roots of samba to its present-day excursions into rap and funk.

	Waste Land
	Date:	Saturday, January 21 2012     Time:   8:00 pm
	Description:	An uplifting feature documentary highlighting the transformative power of art and the beauty of the human spirit. Top-selling contemporary artist Vik Muniz takes us on an emotional journey from Jardim Gramacho, the world's largest landfill on the outskirts of Rio de Janeiro, to the heights of international art stardom. Vik collaborates with the brilliant catadores, pickers of recyclable materials, true Shakespearean characters who live and work in the garbage quoting Machiavelli and showing us how to recycle ourselves

	2 Filhos De Francisco - A História De Zezé Di Camargo & Luciano
	Date:	Saturday, December 17 2011     Time:   8:00 pm
	Description:	The story of Francisco, a very simple and poor man whose dream was to see his children become country music stars, and who made all the efforts to make it happen.

	De Pernas pro Ar
	Date:	Saturday, November 19 2011     Time:   8:00 pm
	Description:	After being left by her husband and fired from her work, a workaholic businesswoman is forced to go through a big change in her life and becomes a partner on a decadent sex shop.

	Sexo Com Amor?
	Date:	Saturday, October 15 2011     Time:   8:00 pm
	Description:	Three couples in different stages of life, different ages and different social classes, have one thing in common: their love lives pass through a turbulent time. Lack of desire, betrayal, love, passion, insecurity and provocations, it all comes to light when their children are caught browsing a book of erotic art and parents are called to a meeting.

	Muito Gelo e Dois Dedos D'Água
	Date:	Saturday, September 17 2011     Time:   8:00 pm
	Description:	Roberta (Ximenes) and Suzana (Duarte) are sisters who plan a kidnap of their own grandmother, who used to torment them as children with rigid rules of etiquette and social conventions.

	Viva Sapato
	Date:	Saturday, August 20 2011     Time:   8:00 pm @ Alliance Gallery, 3201 Allen Parkway, Houston 77009
	Description:	A light-hearted and high-spirited story, full of spice, sensuality and romance, Viva Sapato tells the tale of Dolores, a beautiful Cuban dancer who decides to leave her failing marriage and open a restaurant by the beach with her aunt from Brazil. When her aunt sends her a pair of shoes instead of the money to start up the restaurant, she angrily sells the useless gift for spare change. Her dream fades away - until she discovers that the money was hidden in the heel. The zany search for the shoes begins, as she follows the footsteps through the lively streets of Havana, running into the quirky, colorful characters that bring Viva Sapato and Dolore's dream.

	Nosso Lar
	Date:	Saturday, June 18 2011     Time:   8:00 pm
	Description:	Based on the book of the same name, this film features rich spiritual effects and a soundtrack written by Phillip Glass. Nosso Lar tells the story of a 1930's era physician called André Luiz. When he dies, André arrives to another dimension and is forced to redeem his earthly mistakes in a sort of "purgatory", before being accepted in an idyllic spirit colony —the beauty of Rio de Janeiro & the futuristic architectural features of Brasilia served to create the stunning backgrounds of the main character's life on the other side.

	É Proibido Fumar
	Date:	Saturday, May 21 2011     Time:   8:00 pm (*New Time!)
	Description:	BABY (Gloria Pires), a chain-smoking guitar teacher in her forties, craves for a romantic relationship. When musician MAX (Paulo Miklos) moves into the apartment next door, she sees in him the possibility of turning her lonely life around. She instead finds herself unexpectedly involved in a love triangle that leads to a terrible jealous rage. A bad time to give up smoking.

	Trair e Coçar É Só Começar
	Date:	Saturday, April 16 2011     Time:   8:00 pm (*New Time!)
	Description:	Olimpia, a quirky maid, plays tricks on those around her, causing hilarious confusion between couples. As she believes, love is a game in which everyone cheats.

	A Mulher Invisivel
	Date:	Friday, March 18 2011     Time:   7:30 pm
	Description:	A romantic comedy in which a 35-year old man is abandoned by his wife and falls in love with his neighbor, a perfect, ideal woman. The only problem: she doesn't exist!

	Primo Basilio
	Date:	Friday, February 18 2011     Time:   7:30 pm
	Description:	Luisa is a romantic, dreamy and delicate young woman married to Jorge, an engineer, a man of good habits and good economic conditions. They didn't know each other well, but got married and Luisa was a good wife, "she was clean and happy as a bird". Everything get changed when she meets a childhood love, her cousin Basilio. What seemed to be a great adventure will became a nightmare and Luisa will discover the price of her infidelity.

	Deus é Brasileiro ("God is Brazilian")
	Date:	Friday, January 21 2011     Time:   7:30 pm
	Description:	God (Antonio Fagundes) has reached the end of his patience with the human race and has decided to take some time off. But he must find someone to fill in for him while he's away. Running down his list of saints, he travels to Brazil, where he meets Taoca (Wagner Moura), a likable young man with a passion for life that inspires God to revise some of his ideas about the human race. Directed by Carlos Diegues.

	Favela Rising
	Date:	Friday, December 17 2010     Time:   7:30 pm
	Description:	This is how Samba-Reggae started in Rio De Janeiro