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Experimental university short film inspired by grief, the passage of time and the filmmaking process

The film tells the story of Luiz Antônio, a clumsy radio host, who unexpectedly finds himself in charge of a bankrupt radio station. Relying only on his passion for rock'n'roll and a crazy team, he creates one of the most emblematic radio stations in the history of Brazilian rock, Fluminense FM. Among guitar solos and radio signal interferences, we follow the adventures misadventures of Luiz.

João Carlos Martins was a child with serious health problems. Because of this, he had a reclusive childhood. But one day, the piano came into his life. He arises as a stubborn boy who, in a few years turns into one of the biggest promises of the world classical music.

Images are created as a man encounters fundamental institutions. Meanwhile, colors transform into nature.

Amélia begins to sing in her husband's church, Preacher Sérgio, and from then on she becomes aware of her annulment and servitude. Through her fantasies, she recognizes herself as a woman and recovers her own voice.

Sergio and his father, Simão, haven’t seen each other for over 20 years. On the eve of the 2014 World Cup, Sergio returns to his hometown, São Paulo, hoping to watch the games with Simão, as they used to when he was a kid. It seems to be a perfect plan for a father-son reunion: a whole month together, their schedule based on the World Cup calendar. But as the days go by, their relationship starts to wander into unknown territory and their pact to watch the entire tournament together turns into a dangerous ritual…

In an ancient family mansion, mother Sydia and daughter Nina spend a tense night of isolation just as a solar storm threatens to collapse the Earth’s gravity. What begins as a fraught domestic moment quickly shifts when a mysterious visitor, Lara, arrives, and the house’s long‑missing employee, Joana, returns with disturbing news from the outside world. As the cosmic and terrestrial crises gather, the four women are forced to face buried secrets, generational trauma and shifting power dynamics. Their physical refuge becomes a battleground of psychological and symbolic upheaval, where the end of the world becomes mirror to the end of the old order — and perhaps the beginning of something new.

In “Orixás Center”, Bahian director Mayara Ferrão elicits a poetic-political atmosphere through a story unfolding from Yoruba cosmology. In the documentary, the performance of Black bodies gives rise to the archetypes of the Orixás, celebrating ancient memories and creating new imaginaries beyond the crossroads. Visual poetics delves into narrative poetics, echoing the beauty emanated by the Orixás.

The life of legendary Brazilian musician Alfredo da Rocha Vianna Filho, better known as Pixinguinha.

The short film tells the story of Negro Facundo Sombra, a Farroupilha hero who is visited by his former commander, General Netto, who asks him to fight in the Paraguayan War. After five years, Sombra returns from the war and tries to return home, which turns out not to be easy.

"We follow Detective Rodriguez on a case that will take him to new and abstract places and feelings"

Within a society that reviews its values ​​and paradigms, where power relations are put in check, the feminine and the masculine gain new meanings.

In the mid-1870s, Jacobina, daughter of German immigrants, became leader of a sect that believed in healing the body by cleansing the soul. After having a divine vision and speaking to Jesus, she changes her appearance and manners, disturbing the conservative population of the place. After the death of opponents of her sect, local authorities decide to take action against her and her followers.

A couple argues. She doesn't know what he hides.

Mário Sbardelotto is a middle-aged man who lives alone with a collection of bottles. Each of them, he guarantees, contains a different saci. When the oldest of them falls and breaks, Mário is sure that the little devil is loose in the house and will do everything to capture him again – including asking Negrinho do Pastoreio for help.

While shaving his head in a dark and shabby bathroom, Jesus, thin, filthy, and in torn clothes, nurtures doubts about everything.

A lonely and frustrated old woman offers a young student a deal that is difficult to fulfill: a house and food in exchange for a fluid daily conversation.

After losing his memory, Artur returns to a place of his past where he makes discoveries about himself.

Aboard a cruise ship out at sea, a young sailor discovers a door mysteriously leading to an apartment in Montevideo. Meanwhile, a group of Asian farmers find an abandoned shed in the valley, attributing it supernatural powers.

Marina Lenk is an experienced synchronized diver. However, an attack of Tinnitus — an unbearable ringing sound in the ears — drags her from the top of her game to the edge of madness.

I saw leaves that were moving. I thought: "It's a bird in its nest". I separated the leaves and looked; but there was no bird. The leaves continued to move. As I ran, faster and faster, I screamed. What moved the leaves? What moves my heart, my legs?

What would you do if only after the death of your husband, or your father, or your best friend, you found out that he had loved another man? “Tempo Rubato” is a story about two grieving processes—Ravi’s, who lost his first love to police violence, and Dora and Edu’s, who lost their husband and father, respectively. Tiago, Ravi’s childhood friend, visits his family after the funeral and brings with him two boxes full of videos that Ravi recorded throughout his youth, including a farewell video-letter to his family, in which he confesses the secret he kept his entire life.

Old couple are being evicted and turn to their five children for help. Since no one can accommodate the two of them, the children decide to separate the couple.

The life of Reno, an artist who lives and works in an old building in the Recife neighborhood that is rapidly transforming. His inspiration and tools have been found in the beautiful Capibaribe River which is filled with pollution and death.

Two young men share different points of view of the same sexual encounter in a public space.

Thiago lives with his family on an isolated farm in the arid backlands of Minas Gerais, Brazil. As the story unfolds and Thiago is forced to confront separations and betrayal within the home, Thiago begins, little by little, to see and understand a place that he had never been able to before, thus slowly letting go of his innocence.

The Unseen follows the story of a young man who struggles to find a place within a social community. Without any dialogue, the film explores the tension between introversion and finding a sense of social belonging.

A group of unknown gay men connect via a dating app for casual encounters. The starting point is a chemsex party, where drug use intensifies sexual experiences, but also reveals the depths of human emotions. The film explores both the fascination and liberating energy of these encounters and the emptiness and loneliness that can haunt a gay man’s life.

After the death of his foster parents, a young businessman goes into a journey in search of his biological mother. During the search he faces the social and religious prejudice that surrounds the LGBTTQ Brazilian community.

Set in a dystopian Rio de Janeiro, where the urban reality consumes the mental health of those on the periphery. The plot follows a young man who did not choose conflict, but is forced to inhabit it. On screen, the protagonist manifests in simultaneous versions (child and adult), drawing on elements of nature and ancestry to re-enchant a dehumanized world. The visual construction leans into an aesthetic that oscillates between the hyper-realism of urban textures and the metaphorical distortion of a world in collapse, creating an experience that is simultaneously visceral and poetic. Although it visually engages with the urgent themes of our time, the aesthetic of armed conflict functions as a metaphor for the invisible battles each person faces within themselves. The final revelation reframes the entire journey: the war the protagonist moves through does not take place in the outside world, but inside his own mind.

A poet from the shadows, a filmmaker with no films and an enigmatic muse. A sort of "false documentary" about the passage of the poet by the city of Londrina in the fifties by the eyes of American filmmaker Jim Kleist.

As if adolescence is not hard enough, a young, fatherless teenager living in a small town in the Brazilian heartland, confronts a degenerative eye disease that will ultimately leave him blind. As his vision deteriorates, he goes through the pain and confusion of his unreciprocated first love, and ultimately will have to learn first-hand how to see life with different eyes.

The Cambridge Squatter tells the story of refugees, recently arrived in Brazil who, together with a group of low-income workers, occupy an old abandoned building in downtown São Paulo. Daily dramas, comical situations and different views on the world commingle with the threat of impending eviction.

The biopic of Noel Rosa, one of Brazil's best poets and composers.

The true story of Tancredo Neves, the first civilian president of Brazil after a 20-year military dictatorship, and the infamous hospitalization which led to his death before he ever managed to take office.

In a world where people don't age, the government finds itself facing a population crisis. It is then created a government program to control overpopulation. The program involves the killing of people who turn 30. However, a man questions himself about this political doctrine during his last birthday.

Everyday family life as perfectly normal madness. “As Melhores Coisas do Mundo“ follows a few days in the life of the 15-year-old Mano, who is fighting on two fronts: his parents have just got divorced and he is going through puberty. Mano tries to make his way through life, with its first sexual experiences, his depressed brother and his self-centered parents. It’s a humorous homage to the pitfalls of daily life and the diversity of life.

Orson Welles goes to Brazil to shoot his documentary It's All True.

People experience different conflicts in their love relationships. Definitive moments in which ties are strengthened or broken. Everywhere there is death, the feeling of the imminence of something terrible, the impression of an end.

A itinerant cinema comes to Rita’s small town and she has the opportunity to go to the movies for the first time in a long time.

The female robot Glenda reflects about her relationship with the ballet.

Leo goes to Juatama to pay an unexpected visit to his mother, Cleide, whom he hasn't seen for a long time. During their stay, both will have to deal with old conflicts that led to the separation from this relationship. Even without knowing how his mother will react, Leo gathers the courage to reveal his real intention in visiting her: to say goodbye.

A following deceit leads Giovanna to dwell over memories from her past relationship.

A phenomenon of popularity in the 1960s, Wilson Simonal saw his meteoric career fall apart when he was accused of collaborating with the Brazilian military dictatorship.

When a dying man receives a kiss from a bereaved man who tries to save him, the man is jailed as a homosexual. He is released from jail, but his life has been ruined by the incident -- and the man eventually is killed by his own father-in-law. The kiss that resulted in the eventual persecution and death of the man is never shown in this plodding, downbeat drama.

Teacher and human rights activist Josimar falls in love with Luís but needs to delve into himself and understand himself in a new context of life and identity after receiving news that shakes him.

After a woman comes into contact with photographs from an archive, she reflects on her existence through her memories and the memories printed on photographs.