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Can a transvestite produce theory? This short film, recorded in the villages of Santo André and Guaiú, in the south of Bahia, features the text and performance of performer and teacher Dodi Leal, who presents a vision of embodied knowledge production based on a brief narrative of her artistic work. 'I'm afraid of theories that don't dance' indicates the deep relationship of the trans body with environmental art, investigating the movement of gender in the mangrove, the vivification of river thought and dance flows of the sea. The concepts dance and vibrate as the binarism of body versus nature is broken.

A visit into brazilian artist Ramonn Vieitez's studio, getting to know his misterious world, full of masked characters and enchanted objects - discussing his work process and how being a self-taught artist guides his creations.

Paths and deviations of a degraded profession. Workers seeking to flourish in institutional ruins.

In 1942, at the age of 6, José Wilson Baltazar entered the cinema for the first time. Since then, he has dedicated more than seven decades to assisting films, attending the most diverse types of rooms, from noble spaces to decadent pigsties, watching from classics of world cinematography to pornographic productions. Its history is confused with that of the audience of the seventh art. So it deserves to be told.

The city of Belém and its cultural transformation in the 80s.

South to south / is quiet waiting / Montevideo. Mario Benedetti.

A short film about the experiences of Izah and Murilo as they go through their gender transition process.

A documentary about acting and improvisation.

This documentary portraits the military action on the side of the State of Minas Gerais in support of Getúlio Vargas's provisional government, during the Constitutionalist Revolution of 1932 in Brazil. The film details the performance of the Minas Gerais Public Force, highlighting its strength and strategy in the name of a United Nation ideals.

Rio de Janeiro, 1929. Isaltino, an 8-year-old boy, receives the news of the death of his mother, Sebastiana, and his younger siblings. The case made headlines at the time, reporting that Sebastiana had set herself and the children on fire. Decades later, Isaltino’s son uncovers more details about the story and begins to question what really happened to his grandmother and uncles.

A Última Guerra do Prata offers a new perspective on the controversial Paraguayan War, a tragic conflict in which over 350,000 people died. Through visits to the sites of battlefields, analysis by historians, and consultation of rare documents and photographs, the series reveals the geopolitical interests that led to the conflict, the daily lives of the men and women who were involved in the theater of war, and the influence the Paraguayan War had on the formation of the nations that now make up Mercosur.

Short film about the city of Cabo Frio, it's streets, people and architecture (or anti-architecture, as the director described). All of that with the soundtrack of Beethoven's 7th symphony - second movement

In the year in which sustainability is one of the priority themes in the electoral debate, Miriam Leitão went to the Amazon, one of the regions of the country that suffer most from deforestation.

Born with cerebral palsy, Isabela Gieseler Pinheiro is a film student and lover of various forms of art. In this, she goes on a journey to remember her history as an artist and as a person with a disability in order to seek a form of self-knowledge and self-transformation.

Facing the high stakes of the planet's social and environmental crises, a group of companies find solutions using a new economic model. In turn, they empower consumers to make positive change by voting with their dollars.

"69" is an experimental film made from an extensive Super 8 archive filmed by Edmond Conilh de Beyssac, a French aviator. In context, everything was filmed in March of 1969, on a trip to Brazil. The film was transmuted into the idea of Anarchive, a concept created by the philosopher Erin Manning, activated in a process of audiovisual experimentation.

A tour of the monumental stained glass windows that are part of the artistic heritage of Brasília, created by Marianne Peretti, the only woman in the team of artists who accompanied Oscar Niemeyer in the federal capital. The film discusses the arrival of the Franco-Brazilian to Brazil and the meeting with Niemeyer that resulted in an artistic partnership of more than two decades and made it possible to combine the colors of her stained glass in the light of the tropics.

In the biggest pandemic of this century, thousands of unemployed are becoming app delivery people to survive. Submissive to an exploitation system, they seek better working conditions while dealing with their two biggest concerns: COVID-19 and hunger.

Lost in an unknown kingdom, exiled due to a strange drowning, the artists find shelter in a stable, and there, together, through music, they see an escape to this terrible destiny. Second video from the series "Messer In Concert", recorded between the years 2017 and 2019.

Between hangovers and floods, the film proposes a reflection on the relationship between Rio de Janeiro and the forces of water from images of archives and soundscapes that evoke conflicting aspects, however constituting a city that, formed by grounding processes, seems have as destination the submersion.

A documentary about the life of the four members of punk rock band Dreads 'N' Drones. The footage allows a peek into the rise of the group, their creative interactions and the importance of 'cirandeiro'. This is the first of many grasshoppers to come.