FiGa Films



Alice's House
(A Casa de Alice)

Chico Teixeira’s multi-award winning first feature about contemporary life in Brazil. As portrayed by the luminous Carla Ribas, Alice, a middle-aged manicurist living in Sao Paulo, has to overcome obstacles by the male dominated world she finds herself trapped in. Filled with profound insights about family, relationships, and trust, it is the most unlikely of Brazilian films.

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PROPER EYES (Por sus propios ojos)

Alicia, a cinema student prepares to film a documentary on male prisoners’ wives. She goes to the entrance door of the jail. A woman called Elsa offers to talk, her son is imprisoned......
.....Elsa’s eventual testimony: she used to live with a permanent knot in her throat, worrying that at any moment her son would be delivered shot on her doorstep; however, she prefers things as they are now. Although far from the ideal situation, she can now at least rest easy because he’s alive.