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What can we learn from children when it comes to politics? During the 2018 Brazilian national elections, two boys, sons of candidates, and their families, experience the impacts and transformations caused by the electoral race and the Brazilian political moment.
"Café Quente" is a heartwarming documentary guided by Dona Ângela, a 69-year-old woman who, in addition to sharing life experiences, reflects on the arrival of old age.
Filmed on the routes between the Maxakali territory and the territories of Pataxó de Barra Velha and Reserva da Jaqueira Porto Seguro, which go through different regions currently occupied by national society, but that were once crossed incessantly by the indigenous peoples.
Through the perspective of three young people who moved from where they lived to go to college, this is the record of a conversation about what goes and what stays.
Teachings of an Issei. Advice, spirituality and challenges.
A collective born by the love for Hip Hop culture, in one of the most contradictory places of all. They tirelessly seek to foster and strengthen this culture in the region, taking their name all over on Brazil and the world. Facing all kinds of prejudices, together, they persist in the battle to be better for others. Because they believe that culture is not about what we like, but what can really change lives.
A recap of Sé and its cultural and historical importance in recent centuries. The spiritual sequel of Nilce Trajan's “Praça da Sé” (1974).
Various aspects of the customs of the Bororo indigenous people. Crafts, dance, games, village layout and funeral ceremonies.
In the documentary, Vidaincerta portrays this underground side. A Solidão do Emo Preto tells the story of the emos who were forgotten, victims of racism in rock. Alongside artists who helped build the emo scene in Santos and the surrounding region, the musician brings a new perspective on the violence suffered by those who do not fit into the aesthetic standard that has become known as emo.
Os Paralamas do Sucesso embark on a journey to the parts of Rio de Janeiro that were the most significant in their history. It was in this city that the band's career began. The artists recall the songs and sounds that they used to draw inspiration from, and the new rhythms that were changing the history of music. From Vovó Ondina's house to Circo Voador, Herbert, Bi, and João recall stories, relationships, and feelings in different parts of Rio, taking us on an exciting journey. We will get to know about their first steps in music, when all they had was their dreams and they still couldn't imagine that their efforts to make music would turn them into one of the most important bands in the history of Latin music.
Renata Falzoni's film shows the reality of a Brazil that pedals and resists a scenario of motorization and priority to cars and motorcycles on the streets. From small Afuá-PA to the megalopolises of São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro, the bicycle is the choice of thousands of Brazilians and "Elo Perdido" investigates the factors that build the resilience of Brazilian cyclists when adopting a sustainable means of transport in cities.
3 ex-presidents of Brazil, 12 ex-ministers of State, 7 ex-governors of the Central Bank, bank owners and finance specialists tell the Brazilian economic history and speculate about the present and the future of the country. 125 years ago Brazil was a poor country with slavery. 60 years ago 50% of Brazilians were illiterate. 25 years ago inflation rate reached 84% a month and 35% of the population was extremely poor. In 2013, Brazil ranks the seventh world's largest economy, inflation reached 5,4% a year, poverty was reduced to 12% and the country is looking forward to be wealthy. Will it happen? Agile cutting, simple language and smart graphic arts allow the answer to this and other questions to be interesting and available to all audiences.
Marina gave birth to her son at the age of seventeen in a maternity hospital, where she endured sexual, obstetric, and psychological violence at the hands of medical professionals. Eleven years later, she turns to performance as a gestural act to birth the swords of Ogum and other vegetal kingdom species-royalties, transforming childbirth into a spell. Surrounded by the swords, she finds ways to defend herself and challenge modern science, which is deeply rooted in coloniality, racism, and the exploitation of human and non-human bodies. Modernity, after all, seizes the planet and its kingdoms to destroy them under colonial capitalist disregard.
In exile, a Brazilian child develops strategies to rise.
The streets of Latin-america's big cities are crammed full of cars. Justified by poor public transportation or having chosen isolation, people drive one car each. Outside, a diversity of urban characters take the traffic light, a mere traffic control device, and turn it into their own meeting place.
Documentary featuring Patrick, a 9-year-old boy who is in first grade for the third time without knowing how to read or write.
Based on four experiences—Francisca in the Aymara Network of ERBOL Bolivia, Almir in the Amazon incorporating the Internet, Matías in the Mapuche Radio of Patagonia, and Ariel working with video in the villages of Brazil—the documentary seeks to represent the way in which indigenous peoples use their own means of communication to resist the invasion of their territories, the plundering of their resources, legal persecution, cultural discrimination, the lack of official recognition of their institutions, the denunciation of their inequalities, and the vindication of their differences.
A young adult confronts his lifelong question: Is he a man or a woman? Through a dream, he revisits his past, facing his deep desire to be reborn.
A young man from the periphery recites poetry in the midst of a community shooting, where the police state kills blacks and the poor with war frequency.
The Legend of the Paraguay War Legend tells that during the Paraguay War (1864-1870), families that lived near the border and soldiers who were leaving for battle used to hide their valuable belongings by burying them in secret spots, in order to safely recover them after the war. In several cases, though, the only people who knew about the secret spots of those personal treasures died before they could go back to recover them. According to inhabitants of that region, the spirits of those tormented men would reveal the location of those "buried and hidden" treasures to chosen people in their dreams, visions or by haunting them. "The Legend of the Paraguay War" approaches local legends in a historic and literary way. Those legends were born from within the biggest conflict in South America, and were developed and influenced by the local imaginary view of the world and which can be considered a relevant part of those people's identity up to this day
Jeniffer Rocha, a black trans woman, landless farmer and performer, guides us on a journey through her life-performance and struggle.
The surviving 14 minutes of the original documentary about the Villas Boas expedition to the Amazonian tribes in Brazil.
World Cup, garden, ritual. In the midst of an intense - and common - day in the village of the indigenous people Enawenê-Nawê, in Mato Grosso, Kularenê tells us how, when they left the same stone, Indians and whites took different paths: the first guided by Wadari, his ancestor, and the others by Lareokotô, grandfather of whites and father of technology.
The Sertão is reconstructed according to the memories of migrants who went to the interior of São Paulo a few years ago. Through the power of orality, 5 characters transport us to this space and tell us about the universal and singular of the youth lived in the region.
Residents of quilombola communities in the south of Brazil struggle to keep alive the tradition of singing the Ternos de Santos Padroeiros and other inheritances of their ancestors.
This is the life of Bernardo, a 13 year old boy who is born from MCs in the Federal District turns into BMO.
In the form of a documentary, this Final Year Coursework chronicles the career of Selma Light, a transgender woman, drag queen, and activist, a prominent voice in the LGBTQIA+ movement in Florianópolis, Santa Catarina. The construction of the biographical narrative revisits key moments in Selma's career, such as when she traveled with theater companies, her first time as a drag queen, and her debut as a performance artist. Her personal life is also explored, from her childhood in the countryside of Rio Grande do Sul to her acceptance of her gender identity. Her current work adds a new challenge to the struggle of the LGBTQIA+ community in the capital of Santa Catarina: she holds a public office, never before held by a trans person. She has the decision-making power to advance the struggle of the LGBTQIA+ community in the capital of Santa Catarina.
Documentary short film covering two survivors of the argentinian military dictatorship.
