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After impacting Brazil by showing the perverse consequences of the use of pesticides in O Veneno está na Mesa, director Sílvio Tendler presents the second film from a new perspective. Poison Is On The Table 2 updates and advances the approach to the current national agricultural model and its consequences for public health. The film presents agroecological experiments undertaken throughout Brazil, showing the existence of viable alternatives for the production of healthy foods, which respect nature, rural workers and consumers. With this documentary, comes the certainty that the country needs to take a stand in the face of the dilemma that presents itself: In which world do we want to live? The poisoned world of agribusiness or of freedom and agroecological diversity?

The history of Brazilian school CCPA (Colégio de Ciências Pura e Aplicada), located in Aracaju, Sergipe.

Documentary about the Memory Project of Student Activism of UnB (University of Brasilia) - PROMEMEU in portuguese.

Three stories of the fight against the advance of agribusiness, the expansion of mining and illegal logging in the Baixo Tapajós.

Esu is a popular African deity for thousands of years and we may never know its exact origin. But it is possible to understand how Esu went from God in Africa to Devil in Brazil. This tragic story, which goes through colonization and slavery, is not over yet. “EXU and the Universe” follows the complex path of a culture transformed into resistance over several centuries.

Short documentary about a woman known from a film by Eduardo Coutinho.

Created at the 2019 Avignon Festival, The Lingering Now, Our Odyssey II made a splash with audiences and critics alike. In a singular form that joins theatre and film, Christine Jatahy treats the subject of migration with infinite depth: “That which forces millions of individuals to be on the move. That which nationalism traps in refugee camps where life, suspended, elapses. No salvation for these men, these women, these children ripped from their ancestral homes with no promise of any future. A time that stretches endlessly where memories burn the heart, unable to move forward.”

A road trip through gay spaces in small town South Africa, Graeme Reid's documentary introduces viewers to hairstylists, preachers, traditional healers, and beauty queens. This moving film provides an alternative vision of acceptance and celebration, in contrast to the wave of homophobia that is sweeping across sub-Saharan Africa.

Film about murdered transgender people in Brazil.

The clown troup VagaMundo visits 9 quilombola communities in Rio Grande do Sul state, southern Brazil.

The daily life of four trans men in their adaptation processes with their fears and desires.

The story of resilience and hope of Viktor Frankl, the Austrian psychologist who survived Nazi concentration camps during World War II.

The clandestine congress of the National Union of Students, held in October 1968, resulted in the collective arrest and registration of 700 students who opposed the dictatorship.

Almost seventy years after the day they’ve met, a couple is invited to reenact their encounter for a film. However, some incidents prevented the shooting from happening. Trying to piece together the fragments of this story, as well as the history of the city that it took place, his grandson retraces the family past, including his own, searching for some vestiges that something might have survived to the passage of time.

The Austrian Alps are a beautiful but hostile environment, with fewer people living within them on a daily basis, but Andi and Andrea decided to make them their home.

A short film on Getúlio Marinho, musician and pioneer on intrudicing Afro-Brazilian religious music in the recording industry.

Behind the scenes of the event "Pixote In Memoriam", held in Diadema (SP), commemorating the 30th anniversary of the filming of "Pixote: A Lei do Mais Fraco", by Hector Babenco.

An experimental narrative about machismo in the Northeast of Brazil.

Documentary about indian people Nhambiquara, living in Brazil, and their celebration of girls' first menstruation, which is for them a sign they are ready for marriage. The film also tackles their struggle to keep their cultural identity and retrieve their lost lands.

The story, controversies, victories and defeats of Carlos Marighella, one of the leaders of the armed struggle against the military dictatorship in Brazil.

"Playcenter DOC" is a documentary film made independently in 2012 by employees of the Rides department ("Raides": the department responsible for operating rides) of the Playcenter amusement park, which was located in the western part of São Paulo, Barra Funda, from July 27, 1973 to July 29, 2012. The film tells the history of the park with a greater focus on the Rides department. In it, you can see employee meetings before the park began operating, moments of relaxation, lunch, among many other remarkable things that only employees had access to. And even never-before-seen footage of the dismantling of Boomerang; the first major attraction to leave the park.

Maria José's life story reveals not only the harsh reality she and her family faced, but also a portrait of the real Brazil. Like a butterfly that is born crawling, she finds her beauty where it is not convenient to be found and sets her flight free to the sky.

turíbio projects their memories onto the remains of images

Brazilian and English anthropologists bring sounds from Togo, Congo, Mozambique (and other African countries) to musicians in Brazil, showing the multiplicity of sounds and rhythms that were born in Africa. The Brazilians are often surprised as they encounter these African sounds. The African artists who migrated to São Paulo talk about their artistic experiences and their experience in Brazil.

A film financed by the Medical School of Recife and directed by the physician Octavio de Freitas, showcasing the facilities of the new building, various laboratories, classes for practical and theoretical lessons, and the tribute to participants of the 5th Brazilian Congress of Hygiene. The spotlight is on the Hospital for Nervous and Mental Diseases.

Short footage about the illegal settlements issues and the struggle of the residents for the regularization of the land's possession.

Facing many problems, such as impaired hearing and speaking, abnormal bone formation and poverty, Brazilian black naïve artist Moacir lives in the National Park of Chapada dos Veadeiros, aloof and oblivious of outside world, and was discovered by director Walter Carvalho in the 1980s. He spends his days drawing marvellous works with his crayons, depicting human and fantastic beings, fauna, flora, his own inner visions, mystical themes and sex, with a trace of impressive primitivism and beauty. The film registers his daily life.

In the Espinhaço Mountains one winter, a group of small-town Brazilian girls are experiencing the end of their youth. Impossible romances leave marks on their bodies and the surrounding landscape. Each of the friends finds her own particular way to overcome the loneliness and to live within a tangle of uncertainty.

This short film portrays a group of gay teens in Sao Paulo, Brazil, and their worldviews. The testimonies of 10 young people between 16 and 18 call attention to important issues and other issues that are just fun. Through the statements of this group, the documentary gives voice to the new generation and finds out what they think about identity, sexuality and prejudice.

Funeral of Afonso Pena.