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A ten-year-old boy lives in an amusement park. While he has to fend for himself, his childish aspirations come to the surface, and he seeks answers about himself and the world around him.

Sex as a mutual creative gesture.

Red dolls for red girls, blue balls for blue boys.

The life of irreverent poet Gregório de Mattos, who lived in Bahia, Brazil, in the 17th century. Nicknamed Mouth of Hell, he used his transgressive poetry against the élite of the time.

It’s 1939, and the world is teetering on the edge. On the day World War Two breaks out, a group of people discuss the state of the world in a little bar on a South American beach, far away from the front. A Brazilian communist faces off against a Portuguese capitalist; an Argentinian fascist against a Trotskyist French actress. On this remote sandbank, they all defend their ideologies that have been overtaken by reality. Parallels with the contemporary rise of extremist ideologies in Brazil (and around the globe) are hard to ignore.

Guto wants to confess his love for Renato. But Renato wants to confess something to him too.

Brazilian short film, directed by Julia Murat.

I swear, I promise.

Surrounded by the vivid memories of her beloved, Mia wanders and travels through another dimension. There, in the City of Hidden Things, she discovers that she can not only see her lost friend, but the memories lost throughout her life.

Curtis, an American looking for an escape to a foreign land, joins his estranged Brazilian biologist brother Francis on a spontaneous journey to find a rare jungle beetle in the Amazon. While hiking, Curtis is bitten by a snake. As he enters a venom induced hallucinogenic dream the two brothers are captured as slaves by a fantasy tribe of Amazonian women, and given to the tribal queen. With the aid of another slave, Curtis must plot a rescue of Francis and their escape, unless he finds his new situation better than the life he left behind.

A film by Matheus Zenom.

In a riverside community, a father and son struggle to stay on their land.

The night of Belo Horizonte, Brazil, is a time capsule that relativizes the passage, blurs the senses, and recasts the definitions of future in the life of young Junior - who cannot wait to be emancipated from absolutely everything.

In a world where reality and fantasy walk together, a small group of mining settlers is attacked by Anhangá, a mythological being who protects the woods. Scared, they seek help from a mysterious old woman. But what will be the price charged?

A 12-year-old boy's obsession with insects and a borrowed Mini DV camera takes him on an unexpected journey during a countryside vacation in 2006, revealing hidden secrets within his family and challenging his perception of innocence.

The host of a failing television show starts making up live news. However, the things he says on air begin to actually happen.

After being sidetracked by Burnout and PTSD, Lavínia attempts to return to the relentless routine of urban life: buses, trains, the subway, and work. However, remnants of her past begin to project onto the cars of the present, blurring the line between memory and reality. While seeking refuge in the embrace of her wife Helena, the stations conceal an atmosphere of constant surveillance — intensified by Felipe, an ambiguous figure who feeds her state of alertness.

A weird guy tries to make friends at school, but they keep ignoring him. Filmed as a "Lumière Minute" exercise, that is: one minute, still camera, no sound, no editing and no script.

Marina gave birth to her son at the age of seventeen in a maternity hospital, where she endured sexual, obstetric, and psychological violence at the hands of medical professionals. Eleven years later, she turns to performance as a gestural act to birth the swords of Ogum and other vegetal kingdom species-royalties, transforming childbirth into a spell. Surrounded by the swords, she finds ways to defend herself and challenge modern science, which is deeply rooted in coloniality, racism, and the exploitation of human and non-human bodies. Modernity, after all, seizes the planet and its kingdoms to destroy them under colonial capitalist disregard.

Driven by teenage impulses, best friends Eric and Gabriel find themselves forced to go on an adventure set in the city of Santos after inviting their classmate Kauã to a party. Together, the three invite the audience to reflect on depression, inclusion and substance abuse in youth while showing the importance and strength of friendship in an engaging comedy.

I love you. I need to love you.

The film, set between 1855 and 1860, tells the story of Maria. She is sold by her stepfather to marry Alfredo, son of Manuel, a bankrupt farmer who wants to have an heir. The girl is then confined to the farm, being watched at all times. Until she comes up with a plan in search of freedom.

After a life of richness, a conservative industrialist blames himself for abandoning his youth's left values. In existential misery, he keeps looking for a possible personal redemption after a foreign company buys his business. His life breaks into pieces.

In the film, the ballroom movement is portrayed, highlighting the importance of the so-called houses — ballroom communities that welcome LGBTQ+ people in situations of social vulnerability, especially Black people, trans people, and travestis — and offer them a new perspective on life within this cultural context. These houses provide a space of freedom to be yourself, to compete for prizes, and, most importantly, to show how brightly you can shine on the dance floor.

The movie follows the trajectory of Teresa, a naive and romantic young woman who becomes a victim of a series of extreme circumstances.

The film shows the path of the first-year highschool students.

After seeing a post criticizing her city, Sophya proposes the idea of making a documentary with her friends to highlight the importance of local culture. However, problems arise with Beatriz's group, who devalue this culture.

Friendship was everything to them, but one day it wasn’t.

Several birds inhabit a region bathed by waterfalls, but a new development could bring changes to the dynamics of this ecosystem.

A young screenwriter does not have more creativity to write movies. Everything changes when he meets Aline, an extroverted woman, that helps him to find inspiration for a story.

Alice and Debora face the same situation: an unwanted pregnancy. However, social and, especially, economic factors will make their lives take opposite directions.

A man and a woman are laying on a chess-like patio. Both are trying to reach each other in the best way they can. However, for some odd reason they don't get on their feet, they don't talk to each other, and the only sounds heard are voices coming from a radio and strange sounds that seem to indicate something's about to happen.