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In Itapetim’s countryside, deep inside Sertão do Pajeú in the Pernambuco backlands lives Leonardo Bastião in a rammed earth housing, a poet who, even without knowing how to read or write, built through his improvised metrical poetry and his relationship with the local environment an overwhelming cultural universe. After a lifetime of anonymity, videos of Leonardo declaiming authorial verses surfaced online and reached millions of views and even gave birth to a book transcribed by fans. In 2019, at the age of 74, the illiterate poet reflects on life, nature and homesickness, while scholars of popular culture try to explain the media and linguistic phenomenon that is his life and work.

A conversation about time: The aging of the black gay man portrayed by Márcio Januário from his homonymous show "The Love Songs of an Old Gay Man".

The poet Chacal, invited by Harvard University, spends a week in the United States, where he showcased his poetry and performance art.

This documentary features “Poetas Vivos”, a Porto Alegre-based Poetry Slam Collective and its members. Slam poetry performed by Cristal, Agnes and Felipe Deds. It also addresses Black resistance in poetry and the lives of these poets.

The documentary brings together two of the most important voices of Black resistance on the contemporary international stage: Brazilian journalist Edson Cardoso and Ethiopian filmmaker Haile Gerima, who, through an intense dialogue, explore the challenges posed by racism and the possibilities for overcoming its harmful effects.

How far can dream an artist with little chances?

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.

Pescadores de Palavras" directs the focus to names that go back to marginal literature, from the "Mimeographer Generation" in the 1970s and 1980s, and to the resilience of current literature. how Grupo Picaré revolutionized the region's literature, how Revista Mirante remains the country's oldest independent literature magazine, and how the artisanal publisher Costas Felinas persists in its activist ideal of remaining faithful to the non-commercial and non-commercial ideal. mercantilist.

What look us consists in objects and stories from some inhabitants of Cruz Machado city - that one where it's only possible to arrive if you are really willing to go there. Among the inhabitants, there is the director, who goes back to her native town in search to look at others and herself in a very sensitive moment of her life, her break-up after a 20-year relationship.

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 stories of three world renowned masters and a young man who redeems his life reveal the virtues and violence of Capoeira, as well as its surprising origins.

Sixty years ago the pianist and arranger Brazilian Joao Donato meets with friends musicians to play and turn those moments into historical performances. The habit began in the late 1940s, when the acriano Donato newly arrived to Rio. Born into a musical family, his father was a major, airplane pilot and mandolin, his mother liked to sing and brother planned to be a concert pianist, he decided to learn piano instrument closer to that which dominated the accordion. Hence to attend meetings at the home of Dick Farney in the early bossa nova was a leap.

Various views of the Palm Tree’s Ally, the Corcovado funicular and the high tide in Rio de Janeiro before Christ the Redeemer came to dominate the scene.

A multi-artist, transindigenous, Northeastern body in São Paulo city.

I will recite all the names of the apples in a chain, enchain them, enchant them, bind them, bound them, chant them. The “feral house” of the poem is not a metaphor, it is the term for an abandoned house overtaken by foliage, a domicile lurking, covered, protected, masked, hidden, returned, and wild in a world that was not working. We will not be going back. The unmaking of the future has accelerated. Our entanglement is clearer than ever. Urgent memories of a world before our time, before our time keepers, appear with astonishing presence. They overtake what we thought was the future. It has no name yet, and is growing.

The Sesc Experimental Theater - TESC emerged in 1968 in the city of Manaus/AM, during the military dictatorship. The group began its activities in a period of increasing censorship and repression on the part of state apparatuses, responding with radical scenic expression in productions that sought to explore the process of theatrical creation. As a reflection of their artistic development, the group focused on themes related to the Amazon, in shows that were dedicated to demystifying the illusory euphoria of the Manaus Free Trade Zone, and studying indigenous cultures in depth. The TESC produced works that represent historical milestones in the expression and construction of Amazonian identity.

Pyroclastic flows (also known as a pyroclastic cloud or pyroclastic wave) are the devastating result of some volcanic eruptions. They are fluid bodies, composed of hot gas and pyroclasts (gray and stone) that can travel at speeds of up to 160 km per hour. In this case, the eruption is Cinema Marginal and the pyroclastic flows are called Ozualdo R. Candeias.

Triggered by the unveiling of a family secret, Aline Motta went on an ancestral quest, traveling to rural areas in Brazil, Portugal, and Sierra Leone, and creating a counter-narrative to what is usually told about the way Brazilian families were formed. A discussion about racism, representation, belonging and identity.

Through documentary images, old photographs and interviews, the director presents the Santa Tereza cable car, not only as an original means of transport and tourist element, but also as an important part of the history of the city of Rio de Janeiro.

Between April and July 2020, filmmakers Davi Mello and Deborah Perrotta exchanged video letters. He lives in São Paulo. She lives in Turin.

In Ana there are irregular paths through which one travel, not knowing where it will be taken or where it really begins. Its paths distract and hide, like a maze of colors and images.

This documentary showcases the life of Carolina Maria de Jesus, a brazilian writer.

In the south of Mato Grosso do Sul, almost on the border with Paraguay, indigenous and rural producers are disputing land ownership. In a tense atmosphere, there are clashes, evictions, attacks and even deaths. The conflict comes from centuries, caused by errors of the Brazilian State itself. Now, both sides demand urgent solution. The dispute has already turned into a tragedy of great proportions.

A documentary about the Rio de Janeiro police killings praticed as so-called "self-defense acts". The film follows people who deal with those deaths in their daily lives, showing how Brazil's Federal Government deals with these cases, from the police investigations to the courtrooms.

Documentary about the the politician Magalhães Barata's death and mourning, in Belém Brazil.

Belém, northern Brazil; a tourist and a beggar meet in Ver-O-Peso market, a culturally rich site in Amazon.

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 director dives into her father's past when she meets the nun who helped her family escape the Civil War that expelled many Angolans from their lands in the 1970s. They came to Olinda, and, as a tribute, the first daughter born in Brazil won the that woman's name.

A short documentary about Brazilian football club Figueirense.

Marcela is surrounded by people at a bus stop. Paying close attention to small social dynamics that are usually invisible to almost everyone, she has a chance encounter that will alter the course of that day.