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Arquivo Aberto is a series of five videos that revisits the "Vídeos nas Aldeias" project with the aim of returning the audiovisual recordings made during the project to the original communities.

Scliar, a painter of the world, immersed in the time of his silence. All that the artist sought to bring to the skin and heart of his painting is the inner vibration of every inhabitant of the world. The chromatic vibration does not come from the paints but from the land he harvests from each place he visits. Scliar used earth to give colour to his canvases.

A film to share with the family group.

The film brings some of the best stories about the singer, told by his friends - Cássia Eller, Ezequiel Neves, Ney Matogrosso and Frejat - and by his mother, Lucinha Araújo, in atouching testimonial.

Kalú Kariú, a trans artist and poet from northern Brazil, reflects on how “saudade”, an untranslatable feeling of profound nostalgic longing, becomes a powerful source of creation. After eight years away from his roots, Kalú invites us into a space where memory, distance and identity intertwine, and art is born from absence.

A group of college friends gets together to make their first movie.

Through their windows, residents report criticism, poetry and reflections on the Covid-19 pandemic in the Vidigal favela.

Experience the lives and surroundings of a few São Paulo punks, the fierce Brazilian birthplace of this global culture of dissent. In a country with a well-known non-rock musical tradition, where corruption is cultural and violence is routine - Punk brought a cathartic expression more akin to urban realities. As a working class movement that started under the violent grip of Brazilian dictatorship, this is do-it-yourself at its most creative, and a celebratory means of resistance.

In the outskirts of Recife, something that has always accompanied us is “being together”: Parties, dances, weekend meetings. It is an essential need to cope with everything we face in everyday life.

Invited by his brother, physician Luis Alvarado, filmmaker Ramon Alavardo records two unpublished surgeries carried out at the Hospital das Clínicas (Clinical Hospital), in Vitória.

Santiago, Amsterdam, Berlin, Cologne, Paris, London, Porto Alegre, Sao Paulo. The cities that witnessed the brief life of the poet, playwright and writer Caio Fernando Abreu (1948-1996) are now revisited and covered with fragments of his works and memories of his friends, such as Maria Adelaide Amaral, Grace Gianoukas and Adriana Calcanhoto.

The film portrays the power of the collective that transforms people marked by the barriers imposed by HIV and follows six HIV-positive characters in different social contexts.

"Caminhos da Mantiqueira" traverses roads, stories and lives in search of the Serra da Mantiqueira's own unique identity.

A small house will be suspended by more than a thousand helium balloons. The idea is for Cani to be suspended inside the house and jump with his parachute.

Wednesday, in Rio de Janeiro, is different from other days for having football at night. “Wednesday: Game Day” traces the journey of some workers through the Bafo de Onça radio station. But as not everything is about football, there are those who prefer to dance to cheesy music at Feira de São Cristóvão at the end of the day.

Iron Maiden at Cidade do Rock, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil on September 22, 2013. Setlist: 1. Moonchild 2. Can I Play with Madness 3. The Prisoner 4. 2 Minutes to Midnight 5. Afraid to Shoot Strangers 6. The Trooper 7. The Number of the Beast 8. Phantom of the Opera 9. Run to the Hills 10. Wasted Years 11. Seventh Son of a Seventh Son 12. The Clairvoyant 13. Fear of the Dark 14. Iron Maiden Encore: 15. Churchill's Speech 16. Aces High 17. The Evil That Men Do 18. Running Free

Through a collage of spaces and times, the interventions and interferences of nature and human beings in the south of Brazil reveals themselves... or try to hide.

Beaches are closed during the COVID-19 pandemic. Nevertheless, the middle class must survive the tropicals.

Renan and Alana rehearse for their Quadrilhas Juninas, a dance that portrays a meeting between youth, old age, and the popular cultures of northeastern Brazil.

Stories of prejudice, abandonment and overcoming difficulties are told by the residents of Santo Ângelo, a city built to treat leprosy patients. The human testimony of the remaining residents reveals the marks that remain from the time when hospitalization was compulsory. Condemned to isolation from a lifetime, without love and in revolution, in music and film as the main weapons to face their personal dramas.

The Phantom Dancer appears in the collective imagination as the symbol of the essence of Theatro José de Alencar. Her spirit, which reflects her moments of glory, floats in the imagination of those who experienced and still cultivate her grandeur. The ghost of a majestic past intertwines with the stories and legends of the place. In memories, curiosity enchants those who are in the midst of their nebulous existence.

Four friends get together to make a movie. And I watch them. An essay-film about the filming process of Os monstros, by Guto Parente, Luiz and Ricardo Pretti and Pedro Diógenes (Alumbramento Filmes). A letter-film, a diary-film, an essay-film, an archive-film, a garage-film.

What is the difference between a story and a good story? In this short documentary, ten of the greatest screenwriters in Brazil answer this and other questions, guiding us through the universe of creative writing and all its possibilities.

Helping to preserve a sonorous language that is steadily disappearing, this film is part of a longer multimedia project exploring the tradition of church bell ringing throughout cities in the state of Minas Gerais, Brazil. In its tender, drifting exploration of the art and meaning of the bells, the film patiently reveals the quieter, inconspicuous details and tangential stories of those within resonant range.

Stories of ancient, lost civilizations deep in the Amazon have endured for centuries. But what if they were true? In 2008 Nat Geo followed two archeologist who proved such cities were in fact right front of our eyes. Now, in 2018, even more discoveries show how extensive and populous these Amazon civilizations once were.

A documental short film about the director's childhood memories in their grandmother's old house, which no longer exists.

Onça is a dive into the cherished memories of director and screenwriter Keyci Martins, who relives the Easter holidays in her family's village. Under the leadership of her grandparents, the family gathers around traditions that preserve the culture of Maranhão.

1972. A Kombi travels from Amsterdam to Goa, India. This journey is the raw material for Boom Shankar, the only film directed by Guará Rodrigues, a mythical character in Brazilian cinema, both as an actor and behind the camera, as an assistant to some of the greatest directors of the period. That film disappeared before its release, but some recently found fragments are combined with testimonies from members of the trip that recover the libertarian and pioneering spirit of the time.

Brazilian filmmaker Octavio Cury travels to Syria and obtains a book written by his great-grandfather, an icon of Arab theater. From now on, his findings will emerge from an encounter between two worlds.

The recorded funeral of Brazil's 6th president, Doctor Afonso Pena.