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An unknown narrator questions life and death, while observing the day to day life of a cat.

Faggots have a lot to learn from dykes and vice versa.

Adelante is an invitation to immerse ourselves in the stories of eight refugee Venezuelan women. The documentary is an intimate description of the consequences of a political situation affecting an entire country. By bus, hitch-hiking, on foot, these women have travelled 214 kilometers with the dream of leaving hunger, lack of medicines, homophobia, sexism and political confrontations behind. Yuleima, Maritza, Juling, Ruth, Daynelis, Jennifer, Nairobis and Yalsy narrate, in their own words, what it is like to be an e’chapalante woman. They continue to look for a better life, beginning their stories from scratch.

Between the first and second waves of COVID-19, Nikolas Candido "wrote" an audiovisual letter to his friend. In a series of obscured fragments, he captures the changing mood of Rio de Janeiro with a digital 8mm camera. Although on the surface, life goes on as normal, the city is slowly sinking into darkness. Just like the whole country, where up to 4,000 people died every day during the most critical stage of the fight against the virus.

The capixaba band Dead Fish is today the great reference of Brazilian melodic hardcore. With its 25 years on the road, its background has changed several times, but its questioning and combative spirit remains intact. To tell this story full of ups and downs are the founding members, eternal, fleeting and momentary members, as well as producers and people close to the group. Filled with unreleased archival material Asphalt - 25 years of Dead Fish offers a complete overview of a life dedicated to music.

Personal and universal records narrate the irreversible second in which all deep traumas are exposed and created, the second that breaks 'normality'.

Born on June 13, 1868, in Vila do Parazinho, today Paracuru, the poet and novelist Antonio Sales was also a theatrical, chronicler, lecturer, journalist, memorialist and creator of the literary movement Padaria Espiritual that brought together writers, painters and musicians. Antonio Sales died in Fortaleza, on November 14, 1940. The documentary “O poeta, Antonio Sales” has testimonials from names in the literature of Ceará, such as professors Sânzio Azevedo, Batista de Lima, Rodrigo Marques, Cecília Cunha, Aíla Sampaio and José Leite Junior; the production company Maira Sales; the master in Literature Regina Fiúza; and researcher Francisco José Júnior.

The Yarang are a group of 65 women from the Ikpeng people who collect native seeds in the Indigenous Territory of Xingu (Brazil). Mothers, daughters, grandmothers, and granddaughters who together, over the course of a decade, have collected 3.2 tons of forest seeds. This little ants' work made it possible to plant about 1 million trees in degraded areas of the Xingu and Araguaia river basins. These are the seeds that will form the forests of the future.

Incluídos is a documentary about waste pickers in Rio de Janeiro, one of the most precarious and unhealthy working conditions that exists sustaining big corporations. A lot of profit is made, but not for the own workers.

From the end of the Years of Lead, cultural movements that were previously stifled by censorship began to swarm across Brazil. Between the last dictatorial term and the Sarney government, musicians, actors, visual artists and all kinds of people emerged wanting to express themselves through art. Contradictorily, one of Sarney's first acts in power is to censor a work by filmmaker Jean-Luc Godard, a pioneer of the Nouvelle Vague.

A tram track is found in archaeological excavations for the construction of the Faria Lima subway, in Largo da Batata, the main region in the west of São Paulo. Taking the symbolic concepts of archeology on loan, the documentary goes in search of the “horizons” of history, memory and now, which portray narratives of the residents, shopkeepers and neighborhood goers. As in an excavation, the short investigates the history of Pinheiros from the indigenous village to the occupations of today, going through layers of time to understand urban processes and imagine future for the city.

A very special ball is stolen in a mysterious way.

Archaeology, that is what whites call the study of the remote past. What they call prehistory. As if history only begins when writing appears. As if oral tradition has no history. Who has no history, has a future? What will be the future of munduruku, after the hydroelectric plants? What will the hydroelectric dams be a thousand years from now?

Accident or inspiration, Dub inserted the experiments of Jamaican producers and sound engineers into urban popular music made in any part of the world from the 1970s.

An intimate portrayal of the Zawose family, a lineage of Tanzanian artists from the Wagogo people. Set in a secluded village near Bagamoyo, the film explores how music is deeply interwoven with daily life, identity, and ancestral tradition. The documentary highlights the family’s dedication to preserving their unique musical heritage, including handcrafted instruments like the ilimba (a type of thumb piano) and the zeze (a bowed string instrument), both of which are central to Gogo musical expression.

"Rocha Matriz" is a documentary short examining the production chain of ornamental rocks from the perspective of an alien consciousness, which understands matter as information. Navigating across trade fairs, harbors, and marble quarries, it traces connections between labor, the global commodities market, interior design trends, and the deep time of Earth.

Video about the life of spinners dolphins at the Fernando de Noronha archipelago that shows the activites of the NGO Projeto Golfinho Rotador.

Documentary photography about an American football team in the city of Santos.

In a region where drought lasts most of the year and family farming does not guarantee livelihood, mother and daughter see outsourced home sewing in the rural area of Caruaru-PE as the only way out. But what is the price to be paid?

Documentary about Caravaggio

The works of Alexandre Wollner, pioneer of the profession of graphic designer, determined not only a new direction for Brazilian visual production, but also a personality proper to this art. In his career, he conceived visual identity projects for companies that made him internationally recognized. documentary-book, which includes a DVD with an 85-minute interview, is based on Wollner's testimonies about the history of design, in addition to original projects and documents existing in his office. Wollner was a student in the first class at the Institute of Contemporary Art at Masp , created by Pietro Maria Bardi in 1951. Studied at the pioneering Ulm School, which served as a model for design schools in Brazil.returned to Brazil determined to create a new industrial awareness, leveraged by design.

A riveting documentary style look into the brazilian food industry

The film narrates - through the testimony of residents, fishermen, surfers and environmentalists - the increase in shark attacks as a result of the inauguration of the Port of Suape, in Recife.

The film talks about the consequences of the journey that Aline Motta undertook in search of her roots and questions the sense of belonging to a place that might not acknowledge its seemingly evident kinship. It brings together Lagos in Nigeria, Cachoeira in Bahia, and the artist’s home town Rio de Janeiro in Brazil through the waters and bridges that connect the three cities and their common ancestral background.

In the mega-city São Paulo, with its eighteen million inhabitants, survival is a question of skilfully exploiting the rules - for all layers of the population. This committed documentary illustrates a lifestyle that seems far away and in the future but is an everyday reality.

Recently elected as one of the 7 Wonders of Nature, the Iguazu Falls are portrayed in all their splendor. Through the tours, adventures and attractions in a show of aerial images, this video makes a real foray into the Iguazu National Park, telling the history of the falls and showing the beauty of the flora and fauna of the region. The itinerary also includes other attractions such as the Bird Park, the Three Borders Mark, and Itaipu, the world's largest hydroelectric power plant.

Documentary on stage performance and all the metaphors behind it.

Documentary about anchieta avenue and houses around.

A son seeks to understand his history and that of his mother through the reports of his family.

Short film about a father who needs to take care of his daughter alone.

Short film about Pietra's life as a transsexual and her relationship with society and her mother's love

Dipped in memories in the form of images and texts, I try to find you.

The starting point for this colourful film is a letter from human rights activist W.E.B. Du Bois to the American embassy in Brazil. The fact that in 1927 it was impossible for African Americans to travel to Brazil reminds us of the inequality still faced by that country’s black inhabitants.