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Documentary about the building of the Rio-Niteroi bridge, in Brazil.

"No País das Amazonas" begins showing the indigenous people of Amazonas. Then, it presents the economical activities showing each step in the production line of the incipient local industries, inclusive with the exit of workers from a factory in the end of the working period. The documentary shows also the boats on the river, the fishing of manatee ("peixe-boi") and preparation of the flesh with salt, the rubber trees, the extraction and each step of the preparation until the rubber mattress is ready to be exported, the Brazilian chestnuts, guaraná and smoke and the insects.

The visits of Brazilian sanitarist Oswaldo Cruz to Amazon in early 20th century.

A brief tribute to Brazilian painter Cândido Portinari relating to his humble beginnings as a citizen born in the town of Brodósqui, located on the countryside of São Paulo. Some of his paintings and poems are presented along with some archive images.

A map explores cruising spots in Natal/RN, where there are always champions in the bathrooms.

The daily life in São Joaquim, a Huni kuin village by the Jordão River, in the state of Acre. Augustinho, the village’s medicine man (Pajé) and patriarch, his wife and his father-in-law remember the captivity in the rubber tree plantations and celebrate the new era.

In a city each day more privatized who decides who can occupy the public spaces? Who decides the place and value of art?

By starting a project of researching the life of a grandfather who he have never met, the filmmaker from Ceará, Arthur Leite, began to investigate the history of his own family. The deeper it gets, the more it departs from the original idea, and he realizes that the character is actually his grandmother Rosa – who, facing the camera, starts to make unexpected revelations about this unknown past.

Made from videos recorded between 2018 and 2021, daydreams and memories get entangled with the street landscape.

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 documentary about Dona Ana, a lady who created a nursery and saved and helped the lives of many people.

Quilombo and Indigenous Ka’apor communities in the Amazonian state of Maranahão, Brazil, are facing multiple forms of ecoviolence, from cattle and soy farmers taking over their lands to structural and political violence with the police and state government systems working in favour of landowners.

The consequences and repercussions of the Cesium 137 accident are monitored soon after the event and 14 years later.

Video installation, two-channel. Commissioned by Fundação Bienal de São Paulo for the 36th Bienal.

In order to invent a region, it is necessary to create its culture, preferably with the help of cinema. Inspired by the book and play “A Invenção do Nordeste”, this is a re-editing of Brazilian films essential to the foundation of the Northeastern imaginary.

This documentary is a sad sight of the reality of child abuse victims who now live in public shelters in Brazil, with stories told by themselves. Children and adolescents who are now in shelters were victims of violence. Most were the victim of the own family and others never knew theirs. The years are passing and the childhood and adolescence of them also ...

Documentary showing a couple of photographers driving for 35 days, leaving Brazil for Ushuaia.

A letter film for Abbas Kiarostami

In 1962 the conservative forces against President Jango created a climate of instability in the country. Besides the political crisis Brazilians lacked basic commodities such as rice, sugar and beans. Amidst this scenario happened, especially in Duque de Caxias, one of the greatest popular looting that has news in Brazil's history in the twentieth century.

It's morning in a Tikmu'un - Maxakali indigenous village. The air is filled by fog, smoke from bonfires, and the smell of strained coffee - the people live go through their together and slowly. Later, they head towads the city in the back of a truck. Their presence at a market exposes a clash of two worlds.

A conversation about time: The aging of the black gay man portrayed by Márcio Januário from his homonymous show "The Love Songs of an Old Gay Man".

In the 1960s, a creative production of erotic comics emerged in Brazil. But censorship conspired to bring them to an end. Satã, Chico de Ogum, Beto Sonhador, Maria Erótica and other characters join the comic artists in this battle against the dictatorship in this documentary where the worst fiction is reality.

A Brazilian avant-garde film matching the image of John Wayne on horseback to incongruous discourse in Portuguese.

What look us consists in objects and stories from some inhabitants of Cruz Machado city - that one where it's only possible to arrive if you are really willing to go there. Among the inhabitants, there is the director, who goes back to her native town in search to look at others and herself in a very sensitive moment of her life, her break-up after a 20-year relationship.

Street scenes from Salvador, Brazil and Harlem, New York.

At 19, Antonio fled his Portuguese farm family for life on the other side of the globe. Five decades later, his decision still leaves an irrevocably sour taste.

ACTS OF MEN should have been a film about the daily lives of massacre survivors in Brazil. Everything was planned for us to start shooting in April 2005. But reality did not wait. On the last day of March, exactly one month before shooting was scheduled to begin, things changed: A terrible massacre took place in Baixada Fluminense, near the city of Rio de Janeiro. Twenty-nine people were killed by a death squad, the largest massacre in the history of Rio de Janeiro. The killers are extermination groups made up of policemen who work in the area, and who are involved in extortions, kidnapping, drug dealing and homicide. This has been going on since the 1950s, but it has never been as extreme as it is today

Based on the book "A dor mais doída: relatos de violência obstétrica", this animated short film portrays gender-based violence through the testimony of the author Caira Lima, who shares the story of her aunt Gleide's first pregnancy experience.

A fictionalized documentary about a group of artists in residence at the Yaddo Foundation, one of the oldest artist residencies in the USA, located in Saratoga Springs, Upstate New York. Through this film, the group made a collective experiment that deals with the individual experience of the process of creating a masterpiece. As the movie unfolds, the characters go crazy with their own questions, revealing the anguish of artistic creation.

The film presents Stella Of Oxossi, Iyalorisha of lle Axe OPo Afonja (a Camdomble temple founded in 1910), who tells the stories of Camdomble and her life in an exclusive and brilliant interview about matriarchal societies, the cult of Shango, syncretism and the future of Camdomble.

The arrival of a chemical plant in a fishermen haven brings along social transformations, interfering with the local traditions. A landmark of Cinema Novo, the result of a partnership between Mario Carneiro and Paulo Cesar Saraceni.

Brasília, 1999. An impeachment request is filed by the opposition. She accuses President Fernando Henrique Cardoso of having committed a crime of responsibility. Loyal government deputies fine-tune their arguments, while the opposition promises not to budge.

Winner. It was this word that went through the echo of Internacional de Porto Alegre in 2006, after the FIFA Club World Cup title. In a final historical story, the Colorado defeated Barcelona's mythological time, led by former tricolor Ronaldinho Gaúcho.

Documentary about the events that occurred on October 2nd, 1968 in Mexico

Defying the idea that ballet is an art form steeped in the history of the wealthy white elite, this documentary captures the dreams of two black children from the Favela in Brazil, who, despite constant prejudice and doubt, are both determined to beat the odds and follow their dreams to use dancing as an escape rarely found in their tough day to day lives.

Documentary that focuses on presenting the State of Rio Grande do Sul, its main cities and its people.

To record their debut album, the duo Agridoce moved to a house in Serra da Cantareira. The idea was to be isolated from the world, in a pleasant environment and close to nature, in the spirit of the Agridoce sound. In addition to Pitty and Martin, Rafael Ramos (producer), Jorge Guerreiro (sound engineer) and Otávio Sousa (photographer and cameraman) spent 22 days working in a harmonious atmosphere and without any rush. In May, “Multishow Registro: Agridoce – 20 Passos” arrives in stores, the record of this season through the lens of Otavio Sousa. There are recording scenes, relaxed moments, music videos and songs that didn't make it onto the album, such as “La Javanaise”, by Serge Gainsbourg, “Alvorada” and “Bday”, composed by themselves.

Documentary aimed at the discussion of gender diversity, class and race within São Paulo’s LGBTQI+ community.

film about the desire of listening. An intermingling of voices from childhood, dreams, history, sex and politics. A visual essay about the universe of sounds. What is sound? What is the sound experience? Sound placed and replaced as Energy. Nothing more should be said. The final conclusion, while the spectator flies over an infinite sea, talks about spreading fragility open. That is the Sound.