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A portrayal of Brazilian Guardians of the Forest and their resistance to current problems and contemporary challenges such as climate and environment as well as agribusiness, village evangelization, drug use, and higher education.

Ana Josefa, 71, from Bahia, is the mother of seven children. With a bowl of coriander on her head, she traveled miles through the municipality of Tucano (BA) to sell a plant door to door and generate livelihood for her own family. And so it went through trials and missions.

Asháninka videomakers create a loving portrait of their own community, located in Acre, Brazil, near the border with Peru. The people organized to preserve a sustainable way of life on their forest lands, threatened by logging. Their efforts were recognized in 2007 with the Chico Mendes Prize for the Environment.

The film shows the journey of second-year high school students at the school.

The largest Indigenous mobilization in the country is also a place of encounter between the diverse knowledge and practices of Indigenous peoples in Brazil. Through the eyes of three Indigenous women filmmakers, the audience is invited to experience the daily life of the 20th Free Land Camp (ATL) and to discover how the different Indigenous ways of being are also expressed as unique ways of resisting.

Alumbrado is an invitation to the magical universe of a player enchanted by life and his dolls.

Part of the Indians in Brazil series, Our Languages relates the historic repression of indigenous languages in Brazil. Many Indian languages were nearly lost thanks to missionaries and merchants - who rewarded Indians for learning Portuguese with status and material gifts - and government-sponsored schools that punished children for speaking in their native tongues.

Ache- B is a consecrated artist, gives his perspective on migration and art and how these two have influenced his life and have allowed him to leave a mark for every corner of Latin America he has visited. Through his paintings and his passion for her, he manages to rescue the different cultures he met in his travels in Latin America, acquiring a connection with the people and the place.

From 3 years of research around Brazil, HÍBRIDOS, THE SPIRITS OF BRAZIL dives into the sacred culture of the largest country in South America through a very poetic and sensorial approach. As an exploration of trance-cinema, the film breaks down the distance between the viewer and the subject, guiding them trough a realm of movements, of non-stop dances, of music pulsating at high rhythms, creating in its core a new perspective about what might be the invisible and how to we deal with it in a creative way.

A documentary assembled upon visual records of cultural, political and economic events from 20th century Brazilian life.

This short essay film tells a personal story about pet cats and reflects on the act of filmmaking.

Facts of life in 1968, some remembered, some forgotten. Based on the diary Lost, by Silvia Escorel, and commented by the author in voice-over through the original letter written 54 years later, addressed to her brother a year and a half younger.

The depiction of a chaotic tradition in Brazil's countryside, the Malhação do Judas (Beating of Judas)

Millions of years ago, our ancestors took over the world. They already knew it: it's impossible to exist alone in this planet. How did we ever think we could?

Thirteen women, one photo. And a search for women who, in 1983, in a drought in the Pajeú hinterland of Pernambuco, fought for the right to survival, in a context where being a woman was limited to the function of managing misery.

Documentary about the first actress from Pernambuco, Almery Steves, who starred in four of the famous films of the Recife Cycle.

What happens when your land is being claimed as event zone for the two biggest sport events of the planet? A question that applies to the multi-ethnic urban Indigenous community of Aldeia Maracanã in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, as they face increased pressure ahead of the 2014 FIFA World Cup and the 2016 Rio Olympic Games. The Indigenous group lives right next to the sport stadium that stages the finals of both sport events. They wish to maintain their land as an Indigenous meeting place, like it has been since the early 20th century, but that does not correspond with the plans of the Brazilian authorities and the corporations coming with the sport events. From within the Indigenous settlement, the film explores how the arrival of the sport events is being experienced, how the pressure rises and how the community resists.

Rio de Janeiro, 1929. Isaltino, an 8-year-old boy, receives the news of the death of his mother, Sebastiana, and his younger siblings. The case made headlines at the time, reporting that Sebastiana had set herself and the children on fire. Decades later, Isaltino’s son uncovers more details about the story and begins to question what really happened to his grandmother and uncles.

Larissa, Morgana, Carol, Amanda, Talia and Juli. Who live on the island of Amparo, which lies across from Port, in Southern Brazil. They go for walks along two different river beaches, away from the constraints, these girls chat about mutual desires, trade secrets and talk about love.

Videolência tells us about two film collectives in São Paulo and reflects on the production of popular films from the periphery, intertwined with representations linked to said periphery and violence as a whole. The film is made from interviews with various members of the collectives and visual essays portraying the periphery and its (sometimes fantasized) intersection with violence.

An intimate short documentary about a young black architect who lives in the downtown area of Teresina and her impressions about living in a decaying neighborhood.

"Land in Sight (Terra à Vista) is an experimental short film shot on Super 8mm film in Brazil, in the states of Bahia, Pernambuco, Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo. The film begins with an image of Monte Pascoal, the first spotted land by the Portuguese, moment when the colonization process was initiated and consequently, the extermination of the indigenous people. The film documents everyday moments that juxtapose with scenes of resistance from different indigenous communities during a protest in São Paulo."

The Documentary tells the story of Jane Vanini from the author's reflections on her militancy-building process. Starting with the meeting of the two during the “Jornadas de 2013”, we will look at Jane's path as we follow steps, from her hometown, Cáceres, to Concepcion, in Chile. It is the possibility of discussing this journey from a personal point of view that makes this project unique and takes us to social, political and human borders. This window is opened to us through Jane's 41 letters to her family, allowing us to glimpse nuances of her intimacy and militancy choices. It was while researching Jane's militancy that the author debated these reflections on his own militant career and the context in which it takes place. Telling Jane's trajectory, going through her family and religious formation and its implications for her activism was one of the moments of encounter between these two days.

A city of 8,000 inhabitants in the middle of the Amazon rainforest transforms a religious festival into an event for diversity.

The documentary "Rebolão! Mas sua irmã gosta", shows the true story, under a human eye, of the protagonists who went viral but remain unknown. The team followed the routine of teams Trem Trio Balada, Trenzinho dos Gêmeos, Trio Sensação e Barulhão, Foguete da Alegria and Trio Big Folia, showing the size and importance they have for the young people of the city.

Luiza grew up communicating with her grandmother through film-letters. In the images, always filmed by her mother, she and Sister Cecilia showed how much they grew. Five years after his grandmother's death, the rehearsal film, It's alright, grandmother is drawn as a final letter. With a difference: now it is Luiza who narrates. The film interweaves sisters' daily records and archive footage to revisit childhood memories and outline the weight that distance has put on the family.

The dream of the life of an erguided man, stone by stone, in the high sertan of Ceará.

Documentary about the brazilian poetess Ana Cristina Cesar, icon of the Mimeógrafo Generation and "Poesia Marginal", books like A Teus Pés, her aspirations, her life e her creative proccess. Artists, friends and researches remembers the poetess.

A mixture of a time travel, a documentary, artistic and performative record of the director's subjective view of the places, people and moments he spent from 2015 to 2018. Filmed on super 8 mm film.

A Hora Morta is a trip through downtown Rio de Janeiro, using images captured in the first two weeks of the coronavirus quarantine, presenting a bucolic and unprecedented view of several areas that would normally be occupied by crowds and full of traffic.

“Álbum Cinematográfico de Sergipe” was made in the context of Brazil's participation in World War II. Presented in album format, it showcases the economic, social and cultural contributions of the State of Sergipe to the country, revealing traditions and innovations from the cities of Aracaju, Estância, Rosário do Catete, Propriá, Neópolis, Laranjeiras and Nossa Senhora do Socorro.

From having so much fun up there, he fell, fifteen meters, he ran out of air! How far does the truth go? How far does the imagination go? I would like to remember a little more. A film about childhood.