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Raised as Catholics by the Queen of Portugal, the orphans Leonor, Brites, and Mécia are sent to the Brazilian colony with the order to get married. The harsh adaptation to the precariousness of the New World is felt differently by each of them.

The trajectory of Antônio Carlos Bernardes Gomes, known as Mussum, from Trapalhões. His poor childhood, his military career, his relationship with Mangueira and his success with the group Originais do Samba, as well as behind the scenes as a member of Trapalhões.

Film about the Bahian singer dives into the moment when shy Gracinha becomes Gal Costa, during the violent, innovative and mind-blowing years that helped shape Brazil's greatest singer.

In 1961, father and son travel to Porto Alegre. Their severance leads both to unknown realities.

A loose stage adaptation of the classic by Alexandre Dumas, told as an interactive electropop musical experience, breaking the boundaries between stage and audience.

Old man Cipriano is dead. His body, however, remains among the living due to a pact with Death. The pact has come to an end. In this film, it is Cipriano's soul that narrates the last events, and this narrative establishes an arc constructed in the director's own study with the raw material filmed in S-16mm, after more than 20 years of filming. Life and death. Tales, dreams and religions. A journey into the Latin American imagination through a long pilgrimage through the backlands of Piauí.

Aníbal Alencastro worked in different cinemas in Mato Grosso in the 1950s and 1960s. Now, he recalls stories related to the job of projectionist.

Salvador, Bahia, January 1835. After more than a decade of hard work, Guilhermina, 27, a slave of Muslim origin, finally gets the resources to buy her manumission, as well as that of Teresa, 11, her teenage daughter. But, contrary to an old promise, his “lord”, farmer Souza Velho, refuses to sell the girl's letter. When Pacific Licutan, Salvador's most esteemed Islamic leadership, is arrested by the Bahian authorities, the Muslim community goes into a boiling state and begins to articulate a jihad. In desperation, Guilhermina sees in the uprising the only way to win her daughter's freedom.

Photography has the ability to reconstruct the past and does so through the memory of a narrator, that is, someone who was present at the time of the portrait, or who has a deep understanding of its context. Evidência da Falta is a documentary that explores this aspect of photography, delving into the complex relationship between the individual, emotion, and recollection.

Empire of Brazil, 1870. A queer indigenous body slowly dies on the cross while a transgender gypsy woman is banned by her people. A half-breed soldier stands in the middle of the way. A child and an old woman cross their stories like destined lines on the palm of a hand.

The fundamental role of the Austrian Archduchess Maria Leopoldina in the independence of Brazil. Through the reading of personal letters and archival images, the film transports viewers to Imperial Brazil, presenting a strong Empress, ahead of her time and politically more prepared than many imagined.

A pictorial portrait of the legendary sambista, Assis Valente. The film traces his biography in a sensorial way, capturing a world divided between joy and despair.

A documentary about the greatest soccer team to ever play in Comercial FC, accompanied by many testimonials of sport journalists, and ex-soccer players, besides a lot of previously lost historical footages. A movie made by fans, for fans

Nine years after Brazil's Independence, popular protests force Emperor Dom Pedro I to hastily flee the country. The ghosts of Imperial Brazil project themselves into today's Brazil on the traditional Quitanda's street, in Rio de Janeiro.

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.