O Shaolin do Sertão is 2016 Brazilian comedy film, directed by Halder Gomes and starring Edmilson Filho, Fábio Goulart and Bruna Hamú. The film won the Grande Prêmio do Cinema Brasileiro for Best Comedy Feature Film. Plot The movie takes place in 1982. Professional vale-tudo fighters were struggling because of the lack of matches. So they decide to travel through several regions of Brazil to fight with altered and violent people from small countryside towns. And one of these, known as Toni Tora Pleura (Fábio Goulart), travels through the countryside of Ceará and in one of his winning fights, announces that he will arrive in the city of Quixadá, where the protagonist of the film lives, Aluísio Liduíno (Edmilson Filho), who likes to be called Aluísio Li. Aluísio is fascinated by Chinese culture and especially by Kung fu films. Because of this, he behaves and dresses like a Shaolin, which makes him a laughing stock in his city. He works at Seu Zé's (Dedé Santana) bakery and is in love with his daughter, Anésia Shirley (Bruna Hamú) - even though she is engaged to Armandinho (Marcos Veras). The candidate for mayor of Quixadá, Rossivaldo (Frank Menezes), using Toni Tora Pleura's challenge to win votes from the population and win the local election, summons opponents to face him. With the lack of volunteers, Aluísio Li appears, indicated by his friend Piolho (Igor Jansen) and he offers himself for the fight. Rossivaldo then gives Aluísio money to prepare for combat. Piolho's cousin, Jesus (Haroldo Guimarães), informs Aluísio that in Quixeramobim, a city neighboring Quixadá, there is an alleged Kung fu master named Wilson (Falcão) and says he can train him for fighting. In this they both go to him and Aluísio asks to be trained in the Chinese martial art. Wilson refuses, but when Aluísio shows him the money, he changes his mind. Right after the training, Aluísio receives his Shaolin graduation from his master and at night he goes together with Piolho to a bar in the city and gets involved in a fight with some MMA fighters and winning. Aluísio then pays Master Wilson and returns to Quixadá. The victory in the fight at the Quixeramobim bar soon reaches the ears of the Quixada population and Aluísio is received as a celebrity by candidate Rossivaldo and his boss Seu Zé. That same night, Aluísio is woken up to solve a