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In 1917, director Major Luiz Thomaz Reis travels with his associate, Marshall Cândido Mariano Rondon through the Center-West and North of Brazil, being the official cinematographer of the expedition. "Ao Redor do Brasil" is a footage with the fragments of three films of Major Reis.
Blending testimonies from historians and residents of Avenida Augusto Maynard with unreleased footage from 1989, the film draws a comparison between Aracaju of that time and the city as it is today.
Documentary about the local team Estrela Mirim, from tiny town Mateus Lemes, trying to be champions of Copa Itatiaia, the main amateur footbal tournament in Minas Gerais.
No Terreiro Mora Deus Também is a medium-length observational-participatory documentary produced by Retravo. It focuses on portraying and immersing the viewer in the cultural setting of Umbanda through interviews with workers and participants, interwoven with the full recording of the gira process. The project's aim is to demystify and break stereotypes associated with Umbanda's popular image in Brazilian culture, offering an emotional and personal perspective to bring the stories of those involved with the religion to the screen. It aligns with the general research areas of Communication: Ethics, Philosophy, and Religion, emphasizing religion (as a set of cultural systems, beliefs, and worldviews that establish symbols connecting humanity to spirituality and moral values), along with the specific research areas of narratives, memories, and identities.
A theater director is forced to interrupt the rehearsal of his new play to record a painfully honest statement about the practice of Art in the State of Piauí.
The story of Julia Mann, mother of the famous German writer Thomas Mann, is revealed in this documentary. Born in Brazil, crossing between Angra dos Reis and Paraty, at the age of seven she was taken to Germany, where she spent most of her life trying to adapt to customs very different from those she knew from her childhood. This tragic rupture marked her life and gave rise to one of the most unique families in the history of literature. It includes two of the most important German writers of the 20th century (Thomas Mann and Heinrich Mann), as well as characters marked by exile, death and flight.
The documentary deals with the experiences, pain and dreams of three black solo mothers from the outskirts. Joelma is the coordinator of the Mário Andrade Community Center, a space created from a tragedy that unfortunately repeated itself and left thousands of victims in Brazil and around the world: the loss of a child due to police brutality and abuse of authority. With the Center, Joelma, Patrícia and collaborators, despite the painful past, transform Mário Andrade's memory into hope and care, helping more than a thousand families in the Paz e Amor community, where it is located.
Two thousand fishermen, living in a 50-kilometer stretch of the coast of Rio de Janeiro, between Macaé and Cabo Frio, are threatened with paralyzing their activities. An anhydrous alcohol production plant, located on the banks of the São João River, is causing water pollution, with the indiscriminate release of "vinhoto", a by-product of sugar cane. It prevents the penetration of sunlight into rivers and compromises their oxygenation. Pollution, carried by the current, is already reaching the sea waters. Fishermen, scientists and technicians denounce the plant's procedure, which puts the health of the region's inhabitants and the traditional fishing economy at risk."
Experimental projects carried out during scientific initiation - 2002 / UFRJ
Syllvio Luccio is a transsexual male being transformed in the middle of the Brazilian dry lands, a region of high temperatures, poverty and where male’s virility is extreme.
Based on footage shot in the devastated neighborhoods of Maceió (Brazil), the film reconstructs a landscape silenced by urban collapse and the physical erasure of the territory. Time and space lose their clarity, and the fragments left behind become a fleeting memory, shaped by absence, resistance, and cinema itself.
In a field of silence and wordless gazes, the text takes shape on the faces that fill the screen. Bodies react and confront prejudice, vulnerability, and the central question: what does it mean to be a man? Against a stark white backdrop, multiple masculinities unfold, revealing not one path, but many ways of being.
Funerals of Oswaldo Cruz in Rio de Janeiro. "The great São Paulo; The arrival of the body to the gare of Praia Formosa; The exit from the iron to the cemetery of São João Batista; Associations that were represented and several funeral tributes."
In September 2023, Dr. Alessandra Ribeiro Martins, Bianca Lucia Martins Lopes, and Flávia Tamiris Soares Silva, members of Comunidade Jongo Dito Ribeiro, from Campinas, Brazil were invited by Rosely Conz, assistant professor of Dance at the University of Colorado at Colorado Springs (UCCS), to spend a week sharing their traditions in Colorado, USA. Using archival footage filmed at Fazenda Roseira, Comunidade Jongo Dito Ribeiro headquarters, and UCCS, this documentary plays with the concept of transit - geographical, cultural, and social of Jongo. It includes points of view of the members of Comunidade Jongo Dito Ribeiro and UCCS students to highlight dance education and race issues.
Goiânia Rock City is a must-watch documentary for music lovers who want to dive into the history of independent rock in Goiânia, a scene that stirred up excitement and even made waves internationally. The film explores Goiânia’s music scene of the 2000s, showing how iconic bands, cultural venues, and festivals helped transform the city into a true rock hub.
A personal and intimate documentary in which Maria Cleusa dos Santos, mother, grandmother and great-grandmother tells her life story and about the houses where she had lived and lives today.
A film financed by the Medical School of Recife and directed by the physician Octavio de Freitas, showcasing the facilities of the new building, various laboratories, classes for practical and theoretical lessons, and the tribute to participants of the 5th Brazilian Congress of Hygiene. The spotlight is on the Hospital for Nervous and Mental Diseases.
Every September 27, Julio Valverde and his family make a Cosmas and Damian’s caruru at Soteropolitano, a Bahian food restaurant located in São Paulo. Over 25 years, the promise to offer this party has been fulfilled.
