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Filmed with a cybershot camera, the experimental short proposes a journey about architecture, loneliness, and hope.

In the cosplay world, where anything can be adapted, a simple change in a character’s skin color still meets resistance. Amid challenges such as racial and gender prejudice, cosplayer Kami Júpiter shows that everyone can see themselves in the characters they love and that Black ninjas do exist.

They are the queens of the night, divas of the gay world. With dazzling colors and endless joy, these artists fill nightclub stages with brilliance and capture society's imagination. Queens offers a glimpse into the lives of these warriors, where not everything is as it seems. The film also addresses issues such as gay rights and follows the drag queens at the LGBT Pride Parade in Copacabana, Rio de Janeiro.

A document of one of the greatest cultural events of Latin America in an innovative way, the film mixes documentary and fiction to pay homage to the artists of the contemporary Brazilian theater, who come together in the city of São Paulo every year to celebrate the coming of the spring. The fictional storyline shows the shooting of the documentary which is directed by a foreigner director and his Brazilian second-rate crew. They join forces to make a successful film based on the event.

The evolution of the carioca samba beat since the beginning of the 20th century is the theme of this film. The process of introducing percussive instruments and their transformation to give rhythm the peculiarity it assumes in Rio de Janeiro is detailed. With rare exceptions, musicians, composers and percussionists from the world of samba, without musical training, are intuitive talents, who do not write scores, which increases the importance of recording this memory, guided by masters such as Marçalzinho, Monarco and Wilson das Neves.

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.

Helena Ignez's first film as a director is a homage to American architect and contemporary artist Vito Acconti, who made an urban intervention over a bridge in São Paulo, transforming that space for it to be used as shelter by nearby homeless people.

A poetic documentary by Alfredo Nagib, it outlines a futuristic vision of electricity through the musical universe of Kodiak Bachine, a composer and performer, a cybernetic character with punk hair. Kodiak Bachine is a pioneer of Brazilian electronic music and a founding member of Agentss, the country’s first electronic music band. Bachine plays himself as a man from the future who, although he has learned to control machines with his mind, has also become dependent on them.

The Warao people break through the boundaries created by colonization, inhabiting the city, occupying the streets, occupying the banks of the river, occupying the fringes of society. Looking toward the future of their people, they sing to heal, to love, to dream, and to make the rain come. In the outskirts of São Luís, a people inhabit a space with their territorial ancestry. And they celebrate a new ally: the sea of Brazilian Jamaica.

Social media phenomenon Deive Leonardo reflects on God's love, sings and tells stories about the disciple Peter's spiritual journey in this special.

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

About to turn 100 years old, Santo Amaro School closed its doors in 2020, amid the pandemic, leaving former students in deep sorrow. The story of the school is now told by different generations of students, teachers, nuns and employees, who return to the school building to remember their time over there: an unreachable past, which, through memories, becomes present once again.

This documentary feature looks at the work and lives of twelve contemporary Cuban artists, living in Havana today. Through in-depth interviews, the film covers a diverse range of subjects and issues, from supply shortages and constant blackouts ('apagones') to family life, love, sex and music. Visiting each person in their home and studio, the film explores the varying styles, techniques, themes, philosophies and ideas present in their work. Through this is revealed the many obstacles and difficulties that are faced on a daily basis and the feelings each person has towards the place they call home.

It is a documentary directed by the band Serpente, one of the oldest rock'n roll bands in Belo Horizonte. The band Serpente was formed in 1982 with an original objective for the time: to play live songs of their own authorship in a style based on the deepest roots of rock'n roll and traditional rhythm and blues.

Two unique cities that have been courted configure a universe where many references from João Cabral's vast production can be found. Recife/Seville enters these cities, having as a guide the poems, testimonies and cases narrated by the poet's voice and printed lyrics, and, thus, show the man João Cabral de Melo Neto.

Documentary in two parts about Brazilian writer, journalist and sociologist Sérgio Buarque de Holanda. The first part describes how the author used to pass his days with family and friends, while the second offers a historical panorama of the times, including his reaction to Nazism and the years of Vargas’ dictatorship, and the arrival of the modernist movement in Brazil.

An hour-long conversation with Brazilian Cinema Novo director Joaquim Pedro de Andrade conducted by Sylvia Bahiense.

In the film’s own words, "the objective is to recreate in five chants the synergy that generates revolutions." In 2018, a wave of protests toppled the political oligarchy that perpetuated power for over a decade in Armenia, in what became known as the Velvet Revolution. Thoughtfully staged and split into separate acts, or "chants," each is a film unto itself—microcosm, self, home, society, and macrocosm. Experimental elements are used to suggest connections through images, while voiceovers and text overlays provide historical and social context to the images.

The documentary follows a caravan of acrobats through the suburbs of Rio de Janeiro, presenting the situation of circuses in Brazil through testimonies from several circus artists.

A fire on November 3 destroyed the transformer that brought light to most of the population of the state of Amapá, causing a 22-day blackout, the largest in the country's history.

A character who has a voice and a body narrates an interrupted love experience. This immersion in subjectivity, as well as some fragments of almost lost poems by Safo and Lucrécio and some musical paths, lead us through images of different bodies of other people in constant motion in the streets, at parties, at home or inside the subway, while they move from somewhere indefinite to another in the city of São Paulo - in an indeterminate mix between the most everyday concreteness of the gesture and the possible abstraction of dance.

A Brazilian street dancer training for a major contest dives deep into a culture that's given a voice to countless dancers.

At 30 years of age, the director is coming to terms with the death of his father, who he does not remember, through images he attempts to reconstruct. This is the case with his first photo, taken in a photography studio that still today lives on in his memory.

Documentary about Mário de Andrade's research on Brazilian folklore music.

Cultural, metaphorical dialogues that seek to reflect roots in the interior of Brazil and the current moment of Brazilian cinema in these places.

An independent documentary about the rise of major ballroom dancer and choreographer Carlinhos de Jesus.

Documentary on the view, testimonies and times of Darcy Ribeiro, since military dictatorship.

In the interior of Sergipe, a musical rhythm fills the parties and moves people. Music lovers and singers of the genre share their stories and how arrocha affects them.

Is love between black women more than a love story? Niázia, resident of Morro da Otto opens her house to share the most important layers in the search for this answer. Law student Leilane presents us with the challenges and possibilities of building a journey of affection with Camila.

In 2000 a group of homeless people decide to go to a shopping mall to protest, to confront the misery of the excluded middle-class consumption.

It portrays the cultural manifestations of the inhabitants of the favelas on the banks of the Belém River, an important river that runs through the city of Curitiba, whose source is in the Cachoeira neighborhood, flows south towards the Center, and then flows southeast, passing through Prado Velho, Hauer and Boqueirão, where it flows into the Iguaçu River.

Everyday life on the beach, filming a short film, the sea as the horizon.