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Documentary about Brazilian silent film "João da Mata"

The documentary brought the public closer to the work of artist Francisco Galeno, revealing his past on a trip to the Parnaíba Delta, in Piauí - a source of inspiration for his playful creations.

Who are the vaccine volunteers? What motivated them? Were they not afraid? For 9 months they opened their lives to us, recording such a difficult period in our history.

A woman explains her distaste for the use of underwear.

Short documentary about a once-notorious nightclub called "The Pink Panther" in Santos, Brazil.

A comprehensive view of the situation of different ethnic groups in Brazil. In the testimonies gathered in the streets and neighborhoods of various capitals, black, white, mulatto, Portuguese, Italian and Japanese express their opinion and describe personal experiences involving relationship, racism, miscegenation and cultural exchange.

A sensitive documentary about the life of Kauan, an 11-year-old albino boy.

"Poetry is the divisor, before it repression, after her freedom", thus recites the poet evanilson alves, "sarau of the jaguar - poetry of broken" documents the poetic sarau that happens every fortnight in sussuarana, periphery of Salvador. On stage birth abdias, women and men in poetry saw ounces in the jungle of the Bahia capital.

Antonieta de Barros (1901-1952), teacher, chronicler, and feminist, became the first black woman to hold public office in Brazil in 1935.

Flying over astonishing sights of Rio de Janeiro, you will see it's postcards from unprecedented angles, for the firts time recorded by high definition lenses. The visual spectacle staring the Cidade Maravilhosa (Marvelous City) of Rio de Janeiro, the Green Coast of Ilha Grande, Angra dos Reis and Paraty, the Sun Coast of Búzios, Arraial do Cabo, Cabo Frio,Saquarema and Ponta Negra and the mountains of Petrópolis and Teresópolis is complemented by the soundtrack, tastefully composed exclusively for the project Rio in HD, making it a symphony of sounds and images.

Documentary about the life of Tom Jobim, from the perspective of three women of his life: his sister, Helena Jobim, his first wife, Thereza, and his second wife, Ana.

Três escaladores brasileiros, Fernando Leal, Eliseu Frechou e Márcio Bruno lutando contra chuva, umidade, aranhas e escorpiões para colocar uma nova linha no Monte da Guiana Roraima.

The story was written in one of the biggest eSports championships in the world, which witnessed the resilience and unity of a group of people who found their greatest strength in their differences. The only tribe that welcomes all tribes to make the impossible happen.

Life and its moments go by too fast, imagine what it would be like to be able to regress to your mother's womb and be able to reflect everything that happened.

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.

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

With humour, the documentary shows the drama and struggle to produce the low-budget film "Fourth Grade B" over four years.

Early Brazilian silent film documenting the 1908 Carnival in Rio.

Patri writes, narrates, and acts in "The Skin of Gold," a documentary that draws from her intimate diaries to revisit memories marked by her childhood in Venezuela and the risks taken in the search for the coveted gold in the Brazilian Amazon. In the notebooks she collects along the way, where she writes and draws about her experiences, she reveals the plight of women in the gold mines, where, like the land itself, everything is torn apart and exploited.

A city that has been living for two years with the law that prohibits "clandestine parties". A youth who, when reunited, risks receiving a police raid on their doorstep, in the street, in the park or in the square. Spatial segregation, denial of the right to the city and public space for the leisure of the poor, black and peripheral. Willingness to make art, create music, lyrics, poetry, beats, hits and spread culture in this repressive scenario.

Orin: music for the Orixás is a documentary by Henrique Duarte, supported by the FGM Art Every Day edict. The feature film deals with the importance of candomblé terreiros music, its rhythms, songs, traditions and influence in Brazilian music.

Kiko Goifman always knew he was adopted. At age 33 he finally decides to undertake a journey to find his biological mother, and film it as a documentary. He starts off with the few facts he knows, aided by two private detectives, his adoptive mother, and his wife. He also writes an online diary detailing his activities and findings, which gives him additional tips. The title 33 not only refers to Kiko's age, but also to the famous film noir ".33", the age of Christ - "like Kiko - a Jew" , and other coincidences involving the number 33.

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.

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.

'Is this a movie? Can this be considered a movie? Dude, you don't know how to do it!'

Younger brother of Henfil and Betinho, Chico Mário became a great guitarist and discovered in music his way of expressing himself and looking at the world.

The scratched and faded – and at times almost abstracted – home movies that pass through the projector in Tetsuya Maruyama's "Shashin no Ma" simultaneously welcome and resist nostalgia, in what is both a meditation on the physical nature of the analogue film strip and the ghosts that reside within it as well as a poignant tribute by an artist-filmmaker son to his amateur-filmmaker father.

A collage of poetic performances leading through an audiovisual experience of being black. Looking at the black history of the port region in Rio de Janeiro, the film affirms the beauty of this black zone of the city, compiled to strengthen the feminine and the sacred sense of being.

Documentary about the artist, cartoonist and pioneer of Brazilian animation Luiz Sá.

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.

A montage of photographs (from police archives and newspapers) of tortured and murdered victims from the slums of Rio de Janeiro. The strange positions of the slaughtered bodies give a critical meaning to two traditional religious hymns that sing praise to the glory of God and the Virgin Mary. The strange postures of the mutilated bodies establish an ironical meaning to the traditional verses, while the voices of singers Agnaldo Timóteo and Ângela Maria add a pathos of deliriously popular, in an atmosphere of joy and triumph of the Virgin Mary. Film-shock. Basically an investigation about the force of gravity upon dead bodies. A small hymn of love to the mannerist art of sixteenth century.

In January 2013, Eduardo Coutinho back to Pernambuco to rediscover two of the characters in "Twenty Years Later" (1984): Cicero and João José.

The great capital of São Paulo in motion, from the first dawn until the end of the night, in magnificent corners.

Experimental Super-8 film documenting the making of André Luiz Oliveira's "The legend of Ubirajara" (1975). Shot in the Araguaia River Basin in central Brazil.