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An elderly man lying on the grass waiting to die. In his pocket, a message announced that he was from a distant land. He had no documents or any possessions. His desire was to die alone and anonymous. This is the beginning of a documentary that tells the touching story of a man who was determined to plan and control his own death. It is a film about freedom, life and death.
Shot in Lapland and Brazil, this film is about Man’s relationship with Nature, from the indigenous people’s point of view. Listen to the oral culture of the Saamis from the Arctic and Fulni-ôs from Brazil. Beyond the ice fields, beyond the trees, the climates, the skins, the same intuition : the whole future is in their own hands.
In 2018, Brazil's first shelter for LGBT+ refugees opened its doors in the city of Manaus, the largest city of the state of Amazonas. This collaborative documentary film tells the story of three residents who are all trying to build a new life in this incongruous urban metropolis. A candid, and intimate insight into the many challenges faced by LGBT+ refugees.
Short documentary about a once-notorious nightclub called "The Pink Panther" in Santos, Brazil.
Documentary about independent filmmaker José Sawlo
Infodemic, pandemic, pandemonium.
"Until My Fingers Bleed" is an experimental documentary, in which the performance's images intersect with the archival materials of the official government media channels. The spectacularization of the speech and the potential acting of the president are beyond documentary, approaching a fictionalized reality, by bringing out perverse poetics.
Documentary about Guinea-Bissau, African soccer, and the colonial emancipation movement.
An analysis of the phenomenon of accelerated urbanization in Brazil, and more particularly in Rio de Janeiro and Sao Paulo.
Nine years after Brazil's Independence, popular protests force Emperor Dom Pedro I to hastily flee the country. The ghosts of Imperial Brazil project themselves into today's Brazil on the traditional Quitanda's street, in Rio de Janeiro.
Mitsue's routine changes with the visit of his grandson.
A documentary about Yone Lindgren who has been fighting since the beginning of the 1970s (the most violent phase of the Brazilian civil-military dictatorship) for what could be a simple dream, but with a dimension of utopia for LGBTQIA+ people: the right to come and go, ride holding hands, being who you are, with pride and without fear. Yone is a mother and grandmother. She is a political activist who believes in the power of affection. She lost a son, murdered by homophobia, and continues to fight. She maintains an active channel on Facebook and YouTube, supporting and welcoming lesbians and the LGBTQIA+ population who still suffer from violence and oppression in the country.
In 1964, days after the military coup that established the dictatorship in Brazil, Gustavo Dahl, filmmaker and thinker of Brazilian cinema, writes a letter to his friend Glauber Rocha, who was in Cannes presenting his film 'Deus e o Diabo na Terra do Sol'.
This short documentary explores the situation of the incarcerated male trans population and their health problems generated by the gender binarism that dominates the prisons.
Annual pilgrimage of pilgrims to the ruins of Nossa Senhora da Guia, on the north coast of Paraíba. After visiting the temple, the faithful indulge in the coco de roda dance.
The making of the album.
A look at the world around us through the lens of a camera, in pursuit of transmitting the importance of its sensitivity and understanding art's role in shaping our meaningful vision.
Chief Eduardo Werá Ortis walks through space and time to record and narrate the origin and journey of his indigenous community from the perspective of the Mbya-Guarani culture.
Are there ghosts in the Palace of the School of Communication at UFRJ? That’s what two young documentarians set out to discover as they interview students from the university. The answers vary widely — from skeptical dismissals to tales of shadows and those who claim to have seen something… or someone.
The documentary reveals the creative process of theater director Amir Haddad and his group, Tá Na Rua, showing how the culture of Rio de Janeiro and collective work mix in the company's rehearsals and shows.
A documentary short that speaks on the hierarchical organization and the contents of an Afro-Brazilian nagô temple.
16 members from the Brazilian Academy of Letters share their views on the current situation of the portuguese language.
Ana Paula (42) and Mariana (25) follow parallel paths as prison officers, far from their roots and emotional ties. While Mariana dreams of a transfer that will boost her career and adult life, Ana Paula longs to return to São Paulo and live in the metropolis. The exhausting days inside the prison units make decisions increasingly difficult in the search for a future. At Christmas time, emotions run high, both because of the prisoners' dream of freedom and the female officers' desire to belong. After all, when all seems lost, who can they trust?
A simple trip to Angra dos Reis turns into an unforgettable moment for nine junior year high school students.
Documentary short film that captures the album release event of Zepelim e o Sopro do Cão's debut, "Caranguejo de Açude", which took place at Farofa na Praia de Campina, featuring special guests Escurinho and Banda Labacé.
In August 1979, during the military dictatorship in Brazil, a hunger strike that began at the Frei Caneca prison in Rio de Janeiro spread across the country, demanding the expansion of the Amnesty Law, which initially did not intend to include political prisoners who had committed homicides. To document this moment and strengthen the strike, the prisoners conceived and clandestinely produced the short film "Água, Açúcar e Sal".
Made by the residents of Vila dos Pescadores, in Cubatão, during audiovisual workshops at the Querô Institute through the Querô Community project, the documentary builds, through testimonials, a little of the history of the old residents of the neighborhood and their direct relationship with fishing and the environment, bringing the positive look of the residents about Vila dos Pescadores.
The concept of work is understood as the human activity carried out with the aim of producing a way of obtaining subsistence connected to the passage of time. The question that arises is how work can be the surrender of one's life (Make a deliberate incision in one's flesh, as a symptom of psychological or emotional distress.) In this vídeo, Silvio Eduardo Crisostomo exposes workers in activity alluding to bodies as ready-to-cut meat. Work as such activity sounds like repetition: the act of demolishing, building, living, and dying make up the simultaneous quadrilogy on a polyethylene cutting board.
