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As the Sars-Covid 19 pandemic increased, Rubiane Maia was in Folkestone, England, and Tom Nobrega in Tarapoto, in the Peruvian Amazon. Both were surprised by the sudden need to cancel planned trips to Brazil, their homeland. The closed borders brought unusual situations and an unknown feeling of exile. As news from Brazil reaches the distance like rocks breaking their computer screens, blurring the line between what is personal and what is collective, the pair of friends share their bewilderment and try to find some resonance amid the overwhelming amount of information that floats the virtual space.

A documentary that follows Rogéria's life and artistic trajectory from the duality between artist and character, between Rogéria and Astolfo.

A former shoe shiner overcomes poverty to conquer the world's highest peak.

Deadly Gorgeous is a documentary about the importance of beauty even after death. Mixing fiction and reality, the film explores the world of corpse makeup artists, cemeteries and a couple that need to think about how their own funerals would be like.

At a big banquet, 3 Arab friends who live in a refuge in Rio de Janeiro tell us their stories.

Documentary about Der Leone Have Sept Cabeças

Zhu Songling is a retired paleontologist who worked at the Chongqing Natural History Museum for 40 years. He tells us his story while the dinosaur fossils he repaired are exhibited to the public every day.

When you were younger, did you think your life would be like this? From this question, I build a documentary about memory, dreams, achievements and a few "what if?" would I be here?". Life takes different turns than we, sometimes, expect. Those are the turns that try to appear on this film.

Several days in the life of a nine-year-old child.

Ronaldo travels to the city of Soure, on the island of Marajó, and plans to renovate his parents' house, which has been unoccupied for a long time.

After learning kinetic art in France, Matilde Pérez (1916-2014) returned to Chile in 1961 to practice this trend but found herself ahead of her time. The testimonies of specialists and friends to Matilde generate a provocative speech about a culturally deficient country, narrated through the rescue of the work and the life story of an artist who questioned the established and was condemned to isolation.

Amazonia, 19th century. Alexandrina was a woman whose features and skin color made her an object of observation. An exhibit that a white colonizer could examine, evaluate, and own. But the legacy that Alexandrina and hundreds of others with similar fates left behind survives to this day. In their faces, rituals, jewellery, and symbols.

A debate about the agrarian reform in Brazil, in free and poetic form, showing the countrymen's struggles and hardships, and rural unionism issues after the military coup, kind of a nonlinear interpretation of Mário Chamie's poem "Lavra-Lavra".

Ten years after the last season, those responsible for one of the most watched series on Canal Brasil meet again to tell stories and, of course, produce a guerrilla recipe by culinary master Paulo de Oliveira.

A mirror of Brazilian society and the way they improvise as a form of creative process and survival in the current social-political structure.

The short film Studies on entangled life portrays a poetic look on the symbiosis between fungi and plant roots, known as mycorrhizas, and their relationship with soil health. The narrative is intertwined with the transformative experience of pregnancy.

In March 1982, Rádio Fluminense FM, known as MALDITA, airs in Niterói, which with irreverence, boldness and creativity in programming, breaks with the standardized foreign music markets and begins the so-called Rock 80 generation.

As the morning fog dissipates, the Yãmiyxop arrive in the village and take the children, carrying them on their backs. It is necessary to wake and tame the river so that it can baptize the new men. The film documents a portion of the delicate Tikmu’un Maxakali educational system.

The award-winning Pernambuco writer Raimundo Carrero - author of more than two dozen novels, some translated abroad - talks about his literary career, his method of creation, his experience as a theater and film actor, as well as his work as a playwright and screenwriter . In testimonies, before and after a neurological accident, Carrero reports what is essential in his work and reiterates that literature is the trade that makes him live. seventy lives written seventy times CARRERO.

The pianist Carla Ruaro and her team embarked on a 40 days expedition which involved hoisting a piano onto a boat and traversing the Brazilian Amazon. In collaboration with local composers, the aim of this independent project was to take contemporary Amazonian music to remote riverside communities and an instrument they've never seen before. Through the acquisition and transportation of the instrument to the workshops and musical presentations for the communities along the river margins, the project also strengthens the bonds with hold together the riverside communities, an appreciation of the value of communities and artists.

Documentary consisting of interviews with academics and professionals of the humanities and social sciences about the importance of culture as basic need for the human being.

Vila das Torres was a self-built community based on one of the largest urban gardens in Rio de Janeiro, below the energy towers of the Light Company and next to the train lines. Eight years after its removal for the construction of Parque Madureira, former residents report their memories.

Built as a flow of thought inspired by the concept of interior monologue by filmmaker Sergei Eisenstein, the documentary rescues the fragmented memory of a man who lived his childhood and adolescence during the military dictatorship, when it was common to beat his children at home and also in schools.

In Aldeia Pankararu, in the hinterland of Pernambuco, lives 5-year-old Otto. Affection, tradition and collectivity are essential values, formed by family trunks and where the child is sponsored by the community.

Socialism in Cuba by the eyes of four generations of Cubans.

Murilo Peres and Pedro Barros get a once-in-a-lifetime pass to roll on the fabled curves of some undisputed masterpieces of modern architecture. Oscar Niemeyer remains one of the most important architects in modern history. The Brazilian visionary, who died in 2012 aged 104, elevated modern architecture beyond the realms of function and created buildings that are works of art and express the highest attributes of humanity. His work with reinforced concrete in particular created new architectural forms and possibilities, eschewing the tyranny of angles to create waves and swooping arches of such soaring beauty that they represent nothing less than physical poetry.

Documentary made to commemorate the centenary of the birth of the legendary Paulo Benjamin de Oliveira, Paulo da Portela.

A film about friendship and overcoming death. A reflection on the journeys and cycles of life by an emotional trip that goes from Recife, Brazil, through Bolivia, to the Atacama Desert, in Chile.

A documentary about the artist Aloísio Magalhães.