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Life and work of Vladimir Kozák.

Escaping the Russian Revolution and World War II, two couples immigrate to Brazil and share the same house in São Paulo. A series of romantic complications mark the family’s history, which registers the marriage of two identical twins with the same man and other unusual situations, showing how reality often outdoes fiction.

The voice and the unmistakable interpretation of Gal Costa, in honor of Tom Jobim, with songs that should always be remembered: 1. Fotografia (Photography), 2. Por Causa de Você (Because Of You), 3. Garota de Ipanema (The Girl from Ipanema), 4. Derradeira Primavera (Ultimate Spring), 5. Wave, 6. Brigas Nunca Mais Discussão (Discussion Fights Never Again), 7. Piano na Mangueira (Piano in Mangueira), 8. Esquecendo Você (Forgetting You), 9. Chega de Saudade, 10. Samba do Avião (Airplane's Samba), 11. Anos Dourados (Golden Years), 12. Desafinado (Out of Tune), 13. Tema de Amor de Gabriela ( (Gabriela Love's Theme), 14. Ligia, 15. Janelas Abertas (Open Windows), 16. Corcovado, 17. Bonita (Beautiful), 18. Triste (Sad), 19. Chovendo na Roseira (Raining in Rose), 20. Falando de Amor (Speaking of Love), 21. Felicidade (Happiness), 22. Frevo.

In recent times, there is a lot to talk about 2012; the possibility of the end of the world or the beginning of a new era. But this is for those who follow the Mayan Calendar. What about other religions? Christians believe in the second coming of Christ, Judaism awaits the emergence of the Messiah, Hindus have the concept of the change of Yugas with the coming of the Kalki avatar, Buddhists believe in the arrival of the Bodhisattva Maitreya. And science, atheists, environmentalists, what do they believe? The film explores the many and diverse apocalypses and each point of view behind them.

From the 60's, the neighborhood of Pedra de Guaratiba, in Rio de Janeiro, was invaded by a varied artistic community.

1983: O Ano dos Videogames no Brasil tells the story of how video games, as a new form of entertainment, officially arrived in the country in 1983, but it will also bring information about the before and something about the after. The focus is essentially on devices that preceded the cartridges, such as Casio's game watches, Game & Watch handhelds and PONGs/Telejogos, but mainly - and especially - the first national generation of video games itself, the Odyssey generation, the Atari 2600 and its clones, Intellivision and SpliceVision (ColecoVision).

A portrait about a Cuban family and Jenni, a professional 100 m sprinter…

The documentary asks the question: "where are the LGBTQIA+ people in the history of Rio Grande do Sul?"

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.

In partnership with Kenner, one of the brands that sponsor BK ’, the artist released the mini documentary“ Gigantes ”, where he shows unpublished scenes of the rapper in the studio in the process of producing the album.

"Medical Baptism: An In-Depth Analysis of University Hazing" explores the impact of hazing rituals in Brazilian medical schools, revealing their physical and psychological consequences on students. Through interviews, reenactments, and analysis of emblematic cases, the film highlights how these practices perpetuate a culture of violence and humiliation. It aims to raise awareness in society and inspire educational policies for a safer and more respectful university integration.

This documentary follows public high school students in Brazil for three years as they seek to transform their lives and pursue their dreams.

Documentary about the Latin American foreign debt, made in five blocks that cover everything from a brief history of debt to some possible alternatives for a solution, passing through the description of its mechanisms, its most serious crises and its social consequences.

In this short, Willer’s poetic images and his voice dress the streets, the skies, the avenues. Here is Willer, the great poet and living legend of the sixties generation, in front of the camera, letting us into his universe, which Priscyla Bettim & Renato Coelho approach as a poetic encounter, in which experimental cinema becomes a powerful catalyst for his poetry. From an erotic and personal approach, the filmmakers give substance to what Willer states...or perhaps it’s the reverse: it is the images that coexist freely with the sound field of words and music.

Entering the virtual world of “Second Life”, Brazilian visual artist Paulo Bruscky meets film director Gabriel Mascaro. Mascaro, an ex-film film director from north-east Brazil currently lives and works making machinima (virtual short films) in the “Second Life”. Paulo hires Gabriel to make a machinima documentary of his adventures as a newcomer to the “Second Life”.

Documentary that presents an overview of the production of cartoons and comics in Brazil.

A film student explores personal archival footage to understand how various forms of art have influenced his life and continue to shape his journey to this day.

A documentary that explores the origins and the historical, social, and cultural factors that sustain discrimination and prejudice against the LGBTQIA+ community in Brazil. Through interviews and analysis, the film reveals how these roots are deeply embedded in society, continuing to influence behaviors and policies to this day.

Four children play an online multiplayer game, collaborating on strategies to advance while each trying to stay alive.

"Feet on the ground, window to the sky" is a mini-documentary that brings to light the importance of the protagonism of youth in the process of planning, elaboration and decision making related to urban designs. Through the story of Yasmin Bernardo, a young resident of a community in Ibura, Recife (Pernambuco), it is possible to access, at the same time, a critical perspective of the reality she lives in, as well as creative and inventive ways to overcome limitations imposed by social inequalities, urban violence, among other elements that prevent young people like her from fully experiencing what the city has to offer. The documentary is the result of the Designing Public Spaces Workshop held by UN-Habitat in December 2021, when young people from Ibura discussed the challenges and desires for public spaces in the community.

"Ato Final" is a documentary about the first trip of the bands Klitoria and Mototaxi to Minas Gerais in September 2024, marking the last "act" of the Com As Próprias Pernas tour.

In the midst of a breathtaking landscape of mountains and lakes in China lies a hidden Taoist temple dedicated to Xiwangmu, a deity capable of granting immortality to those who achieve complete harmony with nature.

Fragments is a documentary that explores the feelings expressed in dedications, using archival images and videos to reveal the emotions and memories they evoke.

An autoportrait from João Victor Montuori in a short-film format made for the 10th IFA Film Directing Masterclass with Ruben Östlund. Each student selected made their own video based on five questions with one and a half minutes limit. João used a mix between footage from his previous films and footage made especially for the autoportrait.

Method used to combat the coffee borer: the use of a purge chamber, the application and circulation of sulphide in gutters, the use of the compound in empty bags, the use of water to seal the chamber lid, in order to prevent the spread of the pest. Aspects of coffee harvesting, transportation and storage, as well as the daily lives of farmers and their work techniques.

The film presents behind-the-scenes footage of the film adaptation of Lavoura Arcaica (2001), which includes the creative process of the director and actors. Raquel Couto was Carvalho’s assistant director in the production.

Four interviewees who live with Autism Spectrum Disorder talk about the diagnosis process and the influence of Autism in their lifes.

The documentary that uncovers the creative, political, and spiritual journeys of China’s foremost 20th-century painter Chang Dai-chien (1899-1983). The film follows his unusual life journey from pre-Communist China to Argentina, the jungles of Brazil; his much acclaimed exhibits in Paris and Germany in the 1960s; as well as his final years in California and Taiwan, in a thirty-year exile in the West that has been shrouded in mystery. Through interviews and previously unseen archival materials, we follow three decades of this artist’s creative and spiritual quest far from his homeland.

The same ones who were supposed to make the Pact for Life, do not fulfill what the pact proposes. What made the director make a documentary about police repression was the aggressive way they arrived at Rua das Ninfas in the pandemic, treatment that they did not do and do not do anywhere else

20 Something is a character-driven exploration of young-adult age and through the use of real people with real stories, it shatters the existence of the idealized 20s and aims to leave viewers with a hopeful and optimistic feeling.

In 2012, Rodrigo Piquet, from the Museu do Índio, showed Marcelo Zelic, from the group Tortura Nunca Mais, a film he had found called ‘Arara‘. The title did not refer to the animal, nor to the people known by that name. Zelic underline it as an important probative record on the teaching of torture during the military dictatorship. They were images of the graduation of the Guarda Rural Indígena, in Belo Horizonte, produced by the anthropologist Jesco Von Puttkamer (1919-1994) in 1970.

The Panará children present their universe in a play day in the village. Wartime is over but it remains alive in the children’s imagination.

Documentary about the work of the Brazilian musician/songwriter Itamar Assumpção.

In Fernando do Noronha, offshore Brazil, lemon sharks have mastered the art of catching sardines in the surf zone… with the help of unexpected allies!

The story of Joseph of Anchieta , the Jesuit missionary who forever changed the history of Brazil

Terrain of "all" that is said. Dipped in the void, bodies vibrate.

Documentary about the heavy rock scene in Pernambuco.