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A study on female characters taste for relationship from brazilian cinema.

Trying to understand Douglas Mendoza’s work, Jharol, his son, takes a trip into Douglas’s memories.

The film shows the lives of four foreign musicians from different backgrounds and musical genres that after visiting the City of Rio de Janeiro, ended up falling in love with the city, choosing it to live in and becoming typical cariocas.

Creating new verses for a well-known Portuguese rhyme, the piece reaches out from one end of the Atlantic to the other, bridging Brazil and the African continent, both metaphorically and spiritually, as the artist’s own family pictures flow in and out of the water.

A documentary about two Indian tribes living in the State of Bahia, Brazil: the Tumbalalás and the Tupinambás.

In Brazil, a country led by an openly homophobic president, Rio de Janeiro is one of the most dangerous places to be a member of the LGBTT community, and trans women of color are the most vulnerable. 'Na Luta Delas' (‘In Their Fight’) follows a group of women bravely fighting back, as they track the growing violence, learn self-defense, and challenge the systems failing to keep them safe.

In 2019, the queer-punk band Anti-Corpos decides to return to Brazil and undertake a north-south tour. The film is a portrait of this journey, being guided by the impressions and feelings of the band members.

The region of Cunha, in the Paraíba Valley, the burnt clay brick, pau-a-pique and rammed earth motivate to highlight the vernacular construction processes that are still alive, involved in the construction process of the three unique projects. In the exercise of re-imagining architecture through the daily process of transforming the primordial material that will shape the projects, the team proposes to reveal the works for the day-to-day work of two potters in the region: Zé Taubinha and Burrico.

With footage, direction and editing by João Victor Medeiros, the agile camera reveals the electronic intimacy often seen by the rapper in his creative process. Recorded in January 2020, before the Covid-19 pandemic, therefore, the documentary "O Líder em Movimento" is not just a traditional behind the scenes recording recording.

The independent work accompanies the beginning of the artistic trajectory of Lyz Parayzo, a visual artist who, through his works and performances, puts into question the space of art in a non-binary body coming from the periphery. Lyz, has the body as the main work support and her daily performance as a research platform revealing the mismatch between what is said, what is done, discourse and practice. For the lack of authorization, for the intrusion, for the unwanted inclusion, questioning the free school that does not allow to be freed, the art gallery that does not include the non-salable, the institutional space that assimilates the transgression since it has already been incorporated by the system.

The documentary "The Silenced Cannot Change The World", has as essence the listening of an unpublished interview with the educator Paulo Freire, were he talks about rebellion, authority, licentiousness and love. Two others young caracters, one from Pernambuco hinterlands and the other from Recife streets, get together with the educator on a contemporary approach tha stimulate a total reflection about the themes.

She knew the solitude of the streets of São Paulo, but her faith and determination would change the course of her history.

Through the accounts of the settlers, we will show the daily lives of these women, how they live, work, articulate within a movement marginalized and excluded by society.

Documentary produced by TV Cultura addresses the archeological site of São Raimundo Nonato, a municipality in the south of Piauí, where traces of men who lived here at least 50 thousand years ago were found. The video brings images of the excavations and focuses on the researchers' daily work. Niede Guidon talks about the beginning of his work, the difficulties he faced to develop his research and the situation of the site today. In addition to the excavations of the archaeological site, the documentary shows the valley and the caves that exist in Piauí, where they also found traces of the fauna and flora that existed in the place.

Glitches, errors, ideologies and unexpected readings by AIs working in a museum of contemporary art.

Baderna is a city in a countryside region of Brazil. Founded in 1871, it was built by black enslaved people and today it remains emancipated from the Brazilian state. With its mundane conflicts and its historical resistance, the city also maintains an intense relationship with nature. The movie narrates the day when Baderna receives 'Obaluaê', the 'Orixá' lord of the Earth, in a search for the cure of the 21st century.

Documentary produced by Adriana Althoff in 1985, talks about the enigmatic Ilha dos Corais located in Palhoça - SC and interviews the only resident João Jeca, who lived isolated there from 1962 to 1999

This is the history of one of the biggest soccer players ever. His times with Flamengo, then in Italy with Udinese, until his farewell in Japan.

A documentary that portrays the reality of a trans man, trying to portray him as a person, an artist and a human being. At the same time, the hard and true reality of the transition from the initial stage to the current stage, a documentary with a different aesthetic, showing the world transsexuality through the experience of a trans man.

Know in full all about the particularities of this rail ride that has been enchanting thousands of passengers for over a century. In this trip it is difficult to distinguish who plays the main role: whether the Railway or the Nature. The Paranaguá - Curitiba Railroad is one of the largest engineering works in the world, with 110 km (68 mi) of tracks including 13 tunnels, 30 bridges and several wide span viaducts. In the course of the trip, what is easily perceived is the beauty of the scenery when crossing the Serra do Mar, considered a Biosphere Reserve by UNESCO.

The documentary goes on to show how this boy deals with a disease that has killed millions of people around the world, and talks about his fears and the courage to give voice and face to the thousands of people living with the virus in the country.

Documentary about the black roots of capoeira.

FAKE NEWS, short documentary produced during the Guerrilha DOC workshops. The work consists of captures made in the Women Against Bolsonaro act of September 29, 2018 in Santos / SP and research work.

The Chico Mendes III Settlement is located 7 km from Recife, in the municipalities of São Lourenço da Mata and Paudalho, the margins of BR 408. There are 55 families who live there, arising from the conflicts that occur during the camping period between 2004 and 2008, in areas formerly belonging to Engenho São João. The MST assisted and guided the occupation, as did UFRPE guiding the Agroecological transition. The difficulties are many, from growing Organic products, such as the lack of rain in a punished soil, but these women of fire exemplify the female leaders in the settlement and bravely support the loneliness. With faith and the certainty that their return to earth is not in vain, bearing fruit for sustainable posterity.

Is the woman invisible in samba? Invisible, but essential. What keeps a foot structure almost always invisible. It is necessary to give birth to the samba that in the parades of carnival was deferred to the detriment of the plastic, of the esthetics of a product offered to the world that does not necessarily reflect the reality. Here, at the origin, the woman appears in the segments sustaining the institutions maintainers of the "roots", although the environment remains dry of machismo, they lead wings of composers, they play firm in the battery, they succeed like carnavalescas; are at the forefront of projects to preserve the intangible heritage of their associations. Many are inserted in samba wheels, currently the niche where the most samba root is exposed.

For three times yuxibu sang shuku shukuwe, life is everlasting. It was heard by the trees, the snakes, the crabs. It was heard by all the beings that shed their skins and shells. For three times, yuxibu sang shuku shukuwe. But the inocent was unable to hear him in silence. And life became brief.

After 25 years on stage, the creator of the famous Brazillian drag queen Dillah Dilluz faces difficulty to find work, besides prejudice and exclusion within his family. An intimate portrait of a restless artist who "invents his own joy."

A documentary about bourgeois ideology and its means of domination. The film shows a historical view on the rise of the right-wing from the 1930s onwards, and follows it up to modern-day Brazil.

Documentary about Diana Island in Santos.

In front of the camera, transgender people reveal how they chose their new names. The testimonies evoke the affective memory of these characters and the importance of having their identity acknowledged.​

Documentary focused on the last interview granted by the award-winning Maranhão theater artist Aldo Leite, illustrated with testimonials from people who lived with him.

The hands in the Círio de Nazare, a huge catholic religious event in Belem, northern Brazil.

The brazilian military campaign in Italy during the Second World War.

Rare footage of Alberto Santos Dumont making his sucessful experiments in Paris.

Verequete, one of the great masters of carimbó, an afro-indigenous music genre from brazilian Amazon.

Documentary about the historic exhibition released in São Paulo, 1922, that revolutioned the arts in Brazil.

The diary rotine of the yanomani woman and children.

Descendent of black slaves and indigenous people, Mestre Damasceno got blind when he was 19 and today is a great name of the music and culture in Marajó island, in brazilian Amazon.

Crowd crowded in front of the commander's mansion; the coffin being loaded; the procession with the funeral carriage and carriages and cars with wreaths on Avenida Dom Pedro I, on Rua Silva Bueno next to the family factory and on Rua Florêncio da Abreu. At the cemetery people speak in honor; the tomb, flowers and the descent of the coffin. The gathering of people at the entrance of the Orthodox Church at the seventh day mass. Panoramic of the city.

A look at the Pacifying Police Units (UPPs) in Rio de Janeiro through politicized speeches by artists from some locals communities. With music and performances thematizing social exclusion and police violence, these artists discuss the rhetoric of peace and question to what extent the arrival of the UPP does not represent an intensification of the criminalization of poverty.

The documentary narrates the story of the James Neel and Napoleon Chagnon's expedition to Yanomani territory, in 1968. It's a support to these indigenous people, who claims the devolution of the blood samples collected during the expedition, samples used today by the Project Genoma.