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A 96-year-old begins to talk about her spirituality, her view of life, and her perspective on what lies ahead. The granddaughter gently weaves moments and memories together.

It portrays the centenary of a Catholic church, highlighting the evolution of Capernau Catholicism and reporting the difficulties encountered by the faithful.

Sonhos Interrompidos showcases the popular movements that planted new seeds, from which new utopias emerged. The work revisits struggles driven by equality and justice within libertarian movements across different periods in the history of Brazil and the world, connecting the aspirations of various generations for land distribution, education and healthcare for all, and development.

What is the meaning of death? In his first documentary, Pedro Rino narrates the poetry and the mystery found inside the book “Nove Noites”, from the author Bernardo Carvalho.

A student interviews his classmates about why there are so many jokes about 9/11 and none of them takes it seriously.

Escombro is a collage and found footage film that brings together a series of natural disasters around the world over the last thirty years. The film features disasters caused by climate change and also the exploitation of the earth's natural resources.

A building is about to be demolished, and as an act of fear and lost, he remembers every single soul who passed through by...

UNTITLED talks about the hardships of making a documentary of a topic as complex as sexuality, which is to this day a taboo in the society, approaching it in a comical way showing the steps that went wrong throughout the process.

Arrival of Governor Bulcão Viana in Joinville. Reception at the Municipality building. The arrival of the princes of Orleans and Bragança, D. Pedro and D. Elizabeth. Miss Universe contest: the missions, including the one from Brazil, in leisure and bathing suits.

A tour of the geek and nerd side of Goiânia, from kpop dancers, gamers, event organizers, cosplay designers and the cosplayers themselves.

The Xibe ethnic group crossed China from east to west to defend the western frontier in the 18th century. Their main weapons were bows and arrows. Since then, they have kept their archery alive, passing it down from generation to generation. What began as a way of defending the country has become a sport that they are really good at and respect. Heirs of Xibo Archery focuses on people who have inherited this tradition and how they deal with it in their own ways.

Akyns are Kazakh poets who sing improvised songs to the sound of the dombra. Jiahenur, a famous akyn in his region, is our guide on this musical journey through Kazakh life in the Chinese city of Kanzu, in his home province of Xinjiang. The narration for this documentary was improvised by Jiahenur and the dombra solos were played by Alaxi, his son.

«Lasting barely ninety seconds, the images from 'Solo' show a lone woman who is masturbating with a statue of St Anthony in a domestic and religious setting. It was shown just once at the 5th Jornal do Brasil Mesbla Amateur Film Festival, in 1969. The masculine gaze of the time merely declared these images “iconoclastic”, “erotic” and “comical”. Ashamed by the negative response to her work, the director decided to self-censor, hiding her artistic past and her films from the world» —Izabela Silva.

Marking the fourth centenary of the city of São Paulo, this documentary provides a brief overview of the city's history, then dynamically captures the present-day metropolis and the skyscrapers that dominate the plateau in the 1950s.

A documentary about Yone Lindgren who has been fighting since the beginning of the 1970s (the most violent phase of the Brazilian civil-military dictatorship) for what could be a simple dream, but with a dimension of utopia for LGBTQIA+ people: the right to come and go, ride holding hands, being who you are, with pride and without fear. Yone is a mother and grandmother. She is a political activist who believes in the power of affection. She lost a son, murdered by homophobia, and continues to fight. She maintains an active channel on Facebook and YouTube, supporting and welcoming lesbians and the LGBTQIA+ population who still suffer from violence and oppression in the country.

A non-film, with a non-story. moments to keep, moments to hold, moments.

Follow the journey of parasitologist Luis Rey, who became passionate about studying and combating diseases of poverty while still a medical student. Rey was impeached by the dictatorship for his Communist Party activism and, in exile, gained international recognition by promoting schistosomiasis control in Tunisia, working for the World Health Organization. Upon returning to Brazil, he dedicated himself to Fiocruz until the end of his career.

When Mariana connects the Military Dictatorship's violent legacy as the structure behind Brazilian families, she embarks on an introspective journey to deconstruct her family life growing up in Brazil.

Remembering that this documentary is not an official documentary by Cogumelo Records, which aims to launch an official project about its history soon. I would like to take this opportunity to apologize to the bands and people who were not mentioned in the documentary, as it is impossible to cover everyone, especially the way we work, without sponsorship, without a producer, with our own resources. I hope you understand.

An afternoon documentary about boxing in the city of Fortaleza.

In 1964, days after the military coup that established the dictatorship in Brazil, Gustavo Dahl, filmmaker and thinker of Brazilian cinema, writes a letter to his friend Glauber Rocha, who was in Cannes presenting his film 'Deus e o Diabo na Terra do Sol'.

Experimental short film, shot in Super 8.

"Caminhos Para Redenção" is a documentary about life choices, the magic of 7th art and stories. Stories from inside and outside the big screen. Stories that cross the paths of art and life. Spectacular and everyday stories. Stories, like those that tell the movies.

Lilian and her four kids are in search for a better life. She dares to leave her violent husband in Guatemala and joins the migrant caravan in order to make it to the Mexican-US border. Being a single mother, this is her only chance to make the dangerous way through Mexico.