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Spain, 1940s. Two young seamstress sisters, Maruxa and Coralia, have their lives changed during the Civil War. In resistance to the Franco dictatorship, the anarchists leave their house every day at two o'clock. Years later, they become the most photographed women in Santiago de Compostela, land of pilgrims. To find out what Maruxa and Coralia have done, director Uliane Tatit travels to the Galician capital and follows the paths made by the two sisters.

A portrait of Afro-Brazilian resistance traditions in Bahia and their confrontations with persecution and intolerance. The history of capoeira, which came from Angola, was persecuted and criminalized for decades, and later transformed into a national sport and spectacle. The maculelê, a warrior dance brought from Mozambique, accompanied by loud chanting. Finally, the candomblé terreiros - a mystical cry of rebellion.

REMIXING A NEW FILM.

Camera, political and sex.

A film in yellow.

Director Caio Omena presents his ideal about being against copyright.

With archive footage and testimonials from former filmgoers, a story of movie theaters that were located on the avenues of São João and Ipiranga and its surroundings, in São Paulo's city centre. Known as Cinelândia Paulistana, this area lived its heyday in the 1950s, reaching more than 15 cinemas in full operation.

After a coup d'état, the government of a Latin American country prohibits the sound.

Documentary about the extraction and manufacture of charcoal, in Pompeu, Minas Gerais, focusing on charcoal burners in action, their lives, difficulties, relationships with bosses and the work carried out in a medieval process.

A man is kidnapped and tortured during the time of the dictatorship, years later he finds the person responsible.

Portrait of Elizabeth Teixeira and the women who continue her fight. Leader of the Peasant Leagues in Paraíba, she starred in the classic "Cabra Marcado para Morrer" (dir.: Eduardo Coutinho, 1984) and made her mark in the history of the fight for Land reform in Brazil. The documentary is a production of De Olho nos Ruralistas, filmed in July 2023, in João Pessoa and Sapé, when Elizabeth Teixeira had turned 98.

The story of the summer in which 22 tonnes of weed were floating upon the waves of Brazilian seas, magically compressed in 15,000 shiny metal cans. Based on one of the most famous episodes in the history of Brazilian Cannabis culture.

It’s 1968, the military dictatorship is established in Brazil. After murdering a soldier, Alice flees to her hometown, a place she left as a teenager, and hasn’t come back since then. At the bucolic house, she finds her sister Carmem and her first love, Helena. As they organize their late mother's belongings, these women's relationship is put to the test. Alice hides the real reason for her return, Carmem dreams of reuniting with the son she hasn't seen for years and Helena, who became a nun, suffers trying to hide the love she feels for Alice. Powerless in the face of life's circumstances and censored in different social and personal layers, all that remains is to confront each other and themselves.

Apartheid, cinema, eyes, blood, resistence and revolution.

The problematic of the railway lines of Rio de Janeiro with their lack of efficiency and waste of government budget are presented through examples and situations that happened in the early 1960's. The documentary also presents possibilities on how to solve such problems.

The great capital of São Paulo in motion, from the first dawn until the end of the night, in magnificent corners.

A film in red, a film in pain.

A film diary of a trip between Kathmandu, Nepal, and the Thar desert, India. A sensitive and impressionist adventure.

While trying to take the enemy's trench, soldier Medeiros remembers his peaceful childhood in the licuri site when everyone knew him by his baptismal name, Maria Quitéria de Jesus.

In Brazil in the 1960s, communist pigs were tortured in the pigsties of the ultra-mega-rightist government to guarantee global democracy.

A Última Guerra do Prata offers a new perspective on the controversial Paraguayan War, a tragic conflict in which over 350,000 people died. Through visits to the sites of battlefields, analysis by historians, and consultation of rare documents and photographs, the series reveals the geopolitical interests that led to the conflict, the daily lives of the men and women who were involved in the theater of war, and the influence the Paraguayan War had on the formation of the nations that now make up Mercosur.

within an imaginative script and its echoing sounds

The story of Julia Mann, mother of the famous German writer Thomas Mann, is revealed in this documentary. Born in Brazil, crossing between Angra dos Reis and Paraty, at the age of seven she was taken to Germany, where she spent most of her life trying to adapt to customs very different from those she knew from her childhood. This tragic rupture marked her life and gave rise to one of the most unique families in the history of literature. It includes two of the most important German writers of the 20th century (Thomas Mann and Heinrich Mann), as well as characters marked by exile, death and flight.

a compilation of recordings from various filmmakers and people about their unforgettable interests and passions over the years.

“Álbum Cinematográfico de Sergipe” was made in the context of Brazil's participation in World War II. Presented in album format, it showcases the economic, social and cultural contributions of the State of Sergipe to the country, revealing traditions and innovations from the cities of Aracaju, Estância, Rosário do Catete, Propriá, Neópolis, Laranjeiras and Nossa Senhora do Socorro.

Discomposure is an experimental movie made of moving images of women, while they worked and were filmed under an aesthetic of fracture. Her bodies were positioned by the white middle classes men's eyes as if they were parts that served like props, support, and of spectators of lives which depended on these women. The movie disorganized this visual aesthetic. It did to see that, between who was filming and those entered, marginally, the scene, there was the black female look that stared at the camera, as an affront, so showing affirmation, contestation, and constraint.

The city of Belém and its cultural transformation in the 80s.

Tells the story of Lampião, a historical figure from the Northeast Region of Brazil. He was the most famous bandit and leader of the Cangaço.

An livid and comic presentation of Madureira in Rio de Janeiro.