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Footage shows families arriving in luxury cars and being welcomed by the patriarch. Images show the interaction between generations and children playing ring-around-the-rosie and jump rope in the garden. Family members pose for the camera.

Residents of quilombola communities in the south of Brazil struggle to keep alive the tradition of singing the Ternos de Santos Padroeiros and other inheritances of their ancestors.

Lasagna is a short film about one of the thousands of quirks that cats have that sometimes scare us. Saci, the owner, is watching TV in her room when Lasagna starts to stare at the door. Is there something behind her?

The film follow the artist, musician, composer and serenader Francisco Trindade da Silva, known as Chico Curió from Tiradentes/MG. Through the five blocks that make up the film, we experience the musicality and elements of the artist's daily life, who tells his stories, talks about his composition process and his self-taught trajectory through music, revives his memories, shows his relationship with drawing, visits friends, has his serenade with the group 'Trio Curió' and presents, uncut, 4 of his original compositions for guitar.

Crossed by greed, two hundred and seventy-two people were buried by tailings from the Vale mining company in Brumadinho (MG), Brazil. The emptiness that now crosses those who try to carry on will never be filled. This tribute film is dedicated to the victims of the irresponsible mining tragedy that continues to take its toll with blood and devastation.

A Brazilian news website planned to post only positive articles for an entire day as an advertising campaign. That day was September 11th, 2001.

The filmmaker has shot for 16 years Lula da Silva's trajectory on politics which took him to the Presidency of Brazil. Through unique indie filmmaking, we observe the path that takes him to get elected, reelected, impeachment of his successor and colleague Dilma Rousseff, and Lula's incarceration process that paved the way to Jair Bolsonaro's presidential triumph in 2018.

Tucum’s hammocks, the first contact with white people. The Parakanã women weave the strings of their history.

This is the life of Bernardo, a 13 year old boy who is born from MCs in the Federal District turns into BMO.

The congada was born in Minas Gerais, two centuries ago and is the only popular Afro-Brazilian ritual linked to Catholicism. Every year, on the occasion of the Feast of Our Lady of the Rosary in Ouro Preto, descendants of the slaves from Angola, Congo and Mozambique gather to celebrate the enthronement of a new king.

Documentary about another vision of the city of Santos.

Pixinguinha, one of the pioneers of Brazilian music, composer of some incredibly sophisticated melodies, talks about his music and life.

Founded 15 years ago in Jacarezinho - one of the biggest favelas in Rio de Janeiro - Jacaré Moda is a modeling agency that is transforming the Brazilian fashion industry by challenging standards and norms, and bringing young people of peripheries to fashion. This film tells the story of three models from Jacaré Moda: Caio, Camila, and Natália. Often discriminated against for their backgrounds, they looked to fashion as a way to learn, rediscover their self-esteem, develop their talent and originality. Through their stories they express themselves as a force of change and as individuals who resist the idea that favelas are only a place of poverty and violence.

The short film, a performatic documentary, approaches a historic garden (in the Museum of the Republic), amid the urban chaos, the way people interact with each other and with it and how the garden unfolds in multiple facets, from the globalizing to the singular.

From Brazilian favelas to dusty Congolese villages, from a neolithic Scottish island and Mayan royal courts to modern English soccer pitches, “Bounce” explores the little-known origins of our favorite sports across the centuries, and traces how a simple invention like the ball has come to stake an unrivaled claim on our passions, our gaming consoles, our money, and our lives. Equal parts science, history and visual essay, “Bounce” removes us from the scandals and commercialism of today's sports world to uncover the true reasons we play ball, helping us reclaim our universal connection to the ball games we love.

Sergio Vahia de Abreu, documentarist Adrian Cowell and chief Raoni, who participated in the expedition that demarcated the geographic center of Brazil in 1958, were very involved in the expedition that demarcated the geographic center of Brazil in 1958. The trio participated in the expedition led by the Villas Boas brothers and organized by the Brasil Central Foundation.

Infodemic, pandemic, pandemonium.

In the late 1970s, the labor movement began to gain strength. In 1988, the workers of the National Steel Company (CSN) in the city of Volta Redonda decreed a great strike. Military intervention is immediate; repression kills three young workers and injures dozens.

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.

Michael Engel's curiosity about anthropology took him to the Xingu National Reservation in the Lower Amazon Basin, where he lived with the natives for a month. Aided by Brazil's top anthropologist, João Americo Peret, he created XINGU LAND OF NO SHAME - A PERSONAL JOURNEY. In it he explores the daily rituals and culture of the Xingu inhabitants.

Inspired by John Berger's 1980 essay "Why look at animals?". This observational film in five acts explores the urban spaces that exist for the purpose of, well, looking at animals.

The ritual of the ‘umbu festival’ and the daily activities of the Pankararu indigenous people, dedicated to subsistence farming. Located 100 kms from Paulo Afonso, in the backlands of Pernambuco.

The decision of the famous player Alex to return to his original local team after playing in various national teams.

More than 10 years of research, several trips and visits to museums, film libraries, libraries, public and private collections, and a tireless work of footage and interviews, a film that tells the pre-cinema's history in Brazil, especially in the Amazon, with the city of Belém as the protagonist of this surprising story in an unexpected scenario.

In this independent (and unofficial) documentary from the Ala Secreta channel, Aline Lauxen breaks down every detail surrounding the game Until Dawn, released in 2015, and its little-known past — including two completely scrapped earlier versions made for the PS3, cast changes, and story alterations. Created by a single person and totaling over seventy hours of production, Until Dawn Como Você Nunca Viu is exactly what Brazilian fans of the game needed: a comprehensive piece covering everything about this iconic title in the horror genre.

Valter Vieira da Silva, a 71-year-old record seller known by his nickname, Golias. Popular in Espírito Santo since the heyday of LP. Clients and friends report a bit of this charismatic character, who survives with the vinyls for more than 50 years.

The film follows the experience of a group of young people going to Bar do Oli.

The recorded funeral of Brazil's 6th president, Doctor Afonso Pena.

Another Urban Documentary (Mais um Documentário Urbano) It centers around Caio Leite, a comedian from Aracaju, who decides to hold an event to launch his book a few weeks before moving to São Paulo. Throughout this journey, the film combines his reflections on art, music and, of course, comedy.