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Every Saturday morning for 34 years a pioneering ecologist farmers' market brings together city people and those who produce their food. Unfolding a collective narrative, the film follows diverse individuals—rural farming families, urban naturalists, progressive clergy, and environmentalists—who united against a problematic conventional agricultural model. The story weaves through voices of those who organized to imagine an alternative. Through captivating visuals from the market and rural landscapes, the documentary illustrates the diversity of people, regions, and crops shaping the market today. Archival materials, including intimate VHS recordings by participants, paint a poignant historical backdrop, showcasing the grassroots movement that emerged from farmers, agronomists, priests, and environmentalists, forging a sustainable path forward.

After 50 years, José and Maria break off their marriage for good and agree to tell their grandson, for the first time, about the reasons that led them to this decision. A story about love, pain and forgiveness.

Inspired by the book "Os homens que mataram o facínora: A história dos grandes inimigos de Lampião" by journalist, historian, and screenwriter Moacir Assunção, the film tells the story of the Nazarenos, residents of the Nazaré do Pico neighborhood in Floresta, Pernambuco. They faced off against Lampião, the Coluna Prestes, and the Pernambuco police in the early decades of the 20th century.

Something changed? Thirteen years after the biggest flood ever recorded in Rio de Janeiro, director Diogo Vianna talks to Guilherme Meirelles, the "Angry Driver", about the viral excerpt from the documentary “Flood of Truth”. With never-before-seen images, they talk about the behind-the-scenes of what happened, the city's issues and the repercussions of their speech.

A capture of long shots of the old Pimenta farm, located in Indaiatuba, a middle-sized city in São Paulo. The film seeks to capture an intimate look at space and the passage of time.

Documentary film made out of videos shot by miners.

This film, directed by Cristiane Bernardes and anthropologist Tiago de Aragão, reveals the everyday political work of Brazilian women MPs from across the political spectrum. We see them navigating tense relationships with other politicians, staff, the media and citizens, during the last turbulent year of Bolsonaro’s government.

The documentary celebrates the resumption of the planting of traditional maize varieties by the Guarani M'bya people in the Kalipety village, where there used to be a dry and degraded area, a result of decades of eucalyptus monoculture. Considered as one of the true foods that divine beings have in their heavenly homes, corn undergoes rituals and blessings from planting to harvest, when the village gathers to celebrate. Eating it keeps the vitality of human beings in balance, just like the deities.

You've been asking me about Canada for seven years, why I decided to leave Brazil, and I finally decided to tell you.

Unable to find the words that are in his heart, a son recruits three musicians to translate into music the letters he wants to write to his mother, hoping to give himself peace of mind.

footage from 3 different continents but with one thing in common.

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Craftsmanship in the Jequitinhonha Valley, Minas Gerais, researched by Professor Saul Martins. The film shows the work of various artisans, with their testimonials about their difficulties in life and influences (religion, customs, beliefs) that are reflected in their ceramics.

Film from 1926 that shows scenes of Curitiba and the waterfalls between Curitiba and Foz do Iguaçu. The documentary also shows how rivers are important for the development of the State of Paraná.

Is it possible to use sound to travel through time and experience the fate of other people? This story of a sound engineer studying recordings of war conflicts from the past transports viewers smack dab in the middle of a ravenous rampage where the horrors of the past come to the fore. The film also presents a philosophical reflection on the role that sound plays in our world. The film was developed on the program of the AAMOD Premio Zavattini.

Irish artist Richard Mosse’s world-premiere moving image work, Broken Spectre, is a powerful response to the devastating and ongoing impact of deforestation in the Amazon Rainforest. Filmed over three years in remote parts of the Amazon Rainforest, Broken Spectre is presented across an immersive 20-metre widescreen panorama, utilising different visually arresting strategies to depict the unfolding crisis; each shifting in scale and focus to convey these urgent environmental fault lines more powerfully.

Driven by will to give life and realizing the hinder it’s inevitable to face the spiral of time. An abyssal record guided by morethanhuman relations through internal landscapes and authentic conversationsto reestablish the flow of Metamorphosis: leaping from being to being like new ways of saying I.

The stories of two single mothers, bringing with them some essential reflections on how the responsibility for raising children falls on women and exposing the issues surrounding the lack of support and acceptance.

The "Dupla de 3" theater collective selects ten young independent artists from different regions of Rio de Janeiro to create a unique and authorial performance, developed at a distance in the midst of a global pandemic. Among them, only one meeting point: Praça XV. Between them, only one bridge: Art.

The film investigates the technologies that will allow a more sustainable agribusiness, visiting the six Brazilian terrestrial biomes. Interviews with rural producers, activists, scientists and researchers, indigenous leadership, sustainability and agribusiness technicians present us an X-ray of how food production is going in the Amazon, Cerrado, Caatinga, Atlantic Forest, Pantanal and Pampa, bringing characteristics, problems and solutions that are often far from the concerns of the urban citizen who does not know how and where the food that reaches the table is produced.

In "Chegamos Sozinhos Em Casa - Fragmentos", a musical documentary, the band Tuyo performs all the songs on the album, in an artistic tone, replicating the uniqueness of the live shows.

A short film about transvestiginal people who live, inhabit and 're-exist' in the Chapada dos Veadeiros, in the interior of Goiás. The protagonists are Gustavo and Gaé, trans men who open their lives and their skin to the eyes of the camera.

An audiovisual poem exploring time, gender, origins, The flow of images and sounds attempt a reflection of a lethargic feeling of the isolation. The main techniques used were the multiplicity of different images on the screen, the mixing of different sounds, the attempt to generate a connection between the film planes in the montage process, etc.

"Pajubá" is a language created by black LGBTs as a mode of resistance. Given this, the present short film seeks to rescue the reality of people who experience in their own skin the strength of intersectionality between race, gender and sexuality in the São Francisco Valley region.

With the stories of Aline Souza, Elaine Torres, Eulária de Jesus, Liane Pereira, Loanda Rufino and Rosimeire Miranda, the special highlights the protagonism of mothers in the favelas of Brazil.

A Brazilian filmmaker living in Thailand falls in love with Haruki, a Japanese guy who's leaving the country in a few weeks.