Works that dive into specific realities to reveal the universality of the human experience and connect with large audiences without giving up a committed perspective.
Assuntar Filmes is a production company from Goiás, Brazil, focused on telling stories from singular perspectives that reach large audiences.
Every project is born of a generous gaze towards those who are rarely the protagonists.
We dive into specific universes to reveal universal conflicts.
The largest audience for a TV film on TV Globo, Brazil's largest broadcaster, in 2025, with Levanta, Regiane! (Get Up, Regiane!).
We want to expand our slate of projects and are seeking co-production and distribution partners.
Assuntar means to observe, to investigate, to dialogue and to reflect.
This is how we create.
Films that have already crossed millions of screens and screenplays ready to leap off the page
In Goiânia, Regiane discovers that her pitdog, a Goiânia street-food stand, is on the brink of bankruptcy. She has 45 days to save her business with the help of her family.
The miracles of a biracial bisexual woman go viral, drawing queer pilgrims and evangelical backlash to Goiânia.
Three ten-year-old girls discover that the feast of Saints Cosmas and Damian was banned in 1965. They board a time machine to bring the celebration back to their small town in the countryside of Goiás.
Ayana Amorim travels across Bahia with makers of Black music, from the Afro-Bahian matrix to the rhythms of Brazilian Black music.
A socialite obsessed with the glamour of Goiás high society moves back in with her sister in Vera Cruz when her husband is jailed for corruption. At risk of losing the place in the sun she climbed so hard for, she does everything to keep up the appearance of a rich woman, but her origins make her remember who she really is.
Marina is a young woman who has just moved into the Ovídio building in Curitiba following her mother's death. Longing for comfort, she finds it in her elderly retired neighbour, Seu Rodolfo. But an epidemic separates them and Marina is left truly alone. When a pigeon invades her apartment, a strange routine sets in.
Living alone on the small rural property she inherited, an elderly woman is convinced her fences are being moved and her animals stolen, while she's regularly visited by the ghost of her dead sister. When a young man moves in nearby, her suspicions grow and are proven right.
Siblings Paula and Danilo work in an unusual line of business, getting rid of inconvenient people. Nothing morbid. They just help you shake off that tiresome colleague who sends you forty messages a day.
In Pirenópolis, Dona Jacira and Seu Deodoro fall in love at 70. Co-produced with Globo Filmes.
Siblings Clara and Marcelo take refuge in fantasy while their mother struggles against an abusive relationship.
Natália will say absolutely anything to be left alone in her café on her own birthday.
Assuntar reads every project it receives.
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