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Nuria, 12, Fabio, 9, and their mother arrive on a small island in the middle of the Amazon, bordering Brazil, Colombia and Peru. They fled the Colombian armed conflict, in which their father disappeared. One day, he mysteriously reappears in their new home.

Father and daughter try to reconcile despite the distance.

Felix, oppressed by his daily life with Caio, discovers a place to escape, where he meets Naim.

"Cães" proposes a reflection around the socio-cultural heritage of the brazillian land structure, specifically the northeastern sertão, in which it has its support, in a system of land concentration, in the hands of a minority represented by the old rural oligarchies.

The film tells a little of the history of Brazil immersed in the caricature of the conditions of making cinema in this country. Flora and Carlos Manoel fall in love. She, from a family linked to the Monarchy, and he, a republican activist, live their love in the last days of the monarchy, without knowing that the end of the empire would also mean the end of their romance.

Poor and beautiful girl is hired by a sales promoter to advertise a new brand of soap. The success is immediate, but the need for a new face hinders her way to stardom.

A small-scale romantic love story, shot with a digital camera in black & white and in a documentary style. We follow the conversation between two lovers, each on a different side of the world; he is in Recife, she is in Kyiv. On one side is dark, on the other light, but both experience the same emotions and hence feel nearness and contact.

Guided by a fortune teller, a young Black gay man embarks on a journey through the tarot cards to revisit the wounds of his past, overcome rejection, and understand the price of freedom. Between pain and self-discovery, he dies and is reborn to realize that the true bail for freedom is confidence — in himself, his voice, and his purpose. Blending six songs and seven poems into a cinematic narrative, Livre com Fiança is a visual album about self-esteem, faith, and liberation. Written, directed, and produced by Spartakus, with music videos by Ricardo Souza, Marco Antonio Ferreira, and Breno Shinn, the film reflects on how the pursuit of success and popularity can imprison the soul — and how self-love and respect for diversity can become the path to true freedom.

Adapted from the theatrical play "A festa" by Italian playwright Spiro Scimone, the short film portrays the misconnections and unsatisfied affections of an ordinary, less affluent family consisting of a father, a mother, and a son, isolated within a kitchen. The dramatic situation revolves around the preparations for the parents' wedding anniversary. In an atmosphere that blends comedy, melancholy, suggestive silences, and mundane phrases filled with double meanings, they react in various ways to the celebration of the marriage.

Helena sees herself locked in her daily melancholy inside her comfortable room. The difference between the real and the imaginary captivates her in her search for movement.

A motorcycle courier transports his past self to the future to show the consequences of the profession and warn him of the risks. The short film criticizes the precarious conditions of informal workers and advocates for greater recognition and labor rights.

A poetic license allows Samantha (Tetsuo Takita), a soul full of nuances, to experience all the emotions described by Fátima Guedes, our singer and poet, in her poems and songs. Jean Willys was invited to leave the film's final message.

The lives of two men are connected by a succession of events in the course of one night.

While mourning her missing sister, Rayane balances helping her fisherman father and practicing for the school's music festival — provided she doesn't become an ox first, a misfortune assailing several teenagers in the area.

A film in which dream and reality intertwine, A Moça do Calendário tells the story of inácio, 40, married, without a permanent job. Ex-street sweeper, he works as a mechanic at Barato da Pesada, where he dreams of the calendar girl.

This hybrid documentary, crafted for the Psychosocial Processes II course at UNIRIOS, intricately weaves together contemporary perceptions of female aging in the Alto Sertão of Alagoas. Through the eyes and lived experiences of its central character, the film delves into the nuanced expressions of womanhood as it intertwines with the passage of time, offering an intimate exploration of identity and resilience in a richly textured cultural landscape.

A man returns to his former beloved's old home, carrying the groceries he used to bring for her. Upon arriving, he discovers that she no longer lives there, leaving him to confront the memories and the absence that has replaced her.

A black-and-white film.

Caio and Mari are two young people living in a relationship that goes beyond any definition. Over ten years, the plot transits between three striking moments where their desires conflict and their relationship is put to the test. The film, originated from the short film of the same name in 2006, proposes a reflection on sexuality, labels and how time constructs and transforms relationships.

In the words of the director, a movie about 'the colonizers in the view of the colonized', the movie presents a series of disconnected happenings throughout Europe and Brazil emphasizing the perception of human life as trance-like experiences and thus offering a view of the human history as a connection of symbolic behavior.

How heavy is an emotional relationship in TRANSit? Giving love? Losing love? Having, in my chest, not only a heart but also longing? That's why I record you this: for us to continue.

Pablo lives happily in Rio de Janeiro, but his son is about to be expelled from school in Argentina. He has to go back to Buenos Aires and fix things.

In Brazil's countryside, Amanda tries to get her first show while Thamires tries to make her first film, both at risk of the highway.

Ana, a Portuguese actress, dives into Brazil's current atmosphere of identity and political crisis while trying to portray in a feature film the colourful life of famous singer and actress Carmen Miranda, who helped define Brazil's identity.

Onde as Flores Crescem is a brazilian film

New film by director Anna Muylaert based on "Geni e o Zepelim", a classic by Chico Buarque.

Apoptosis tells the story of the last living human in the world, after a lethal virus devastates all of humanity; it will accompany both her grief over losing her partner and her inner paranoia about possibly not being completely alone.

A comedy that tells the story of a married couple whose wife finds out the husband is gay. At the same time, the comedy voices the plights of the Latin American community – also called the “invisible community” in the UK. The film combines the sharpness of both, Latin and British humour.

Two young women meet online and decide to meet for the first time. Rita is a visually impaired woman and Luiza is going through a delicate time in her life. Throughout this meeting, the two share experiences, create bonds and, in the process, Luiza finds a new way of reconnecting with herself.

Ana (Manuela Campagna) is a 17-year-old girl who lives in a border town between Brazil and Argentina. There, she has no leisure options and no internet access. Your only refuge is to visit a tallow / lanhouse known as "The Cave". It is there that, one day, she ends up meeting Murilo (Fagundes Emanuel), the boy she will fall in love with.

Rio de Janeiro, in the period in which the Police Pacification Units (PPUs) were beginning to be deployed in the city. Edna (Lilia Cabral) is the mother of Julio (Pedro Nercessian) and Silvio (Fiuk). One day she wakes up desperate to see that Julio just disappeared!

Shot across three continents, in New York, São Paulo and Cape Town, this documentary chronicles the intergenerational experiences of spatial violence and its correlation to apartheid spatial planning and its modern incarnation, gentrification.

To buy medicine to relieve his ailing grandmother's pain, a determined Brazilian boy travels to the capital to sell the family's only valuable possession -- a goat -- encountering unexpected challenges along the way. After arriving in the big city, he experiences the best and worst of the unfamiliar urban environment.

Everyday the routine is repeated. The father comes home, eager to spending some time with his daughter. One day, however, his routine is shaken and he must face the future.

Young executive woman returns to small town of Dois Córregos and remembers the time, in the late 1960s, when she met her uncle there, a man who was running away from the military dictatorship ruling Brazil at the time.

A guy tries to play his piano.