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The enlightened and extra-terrestrial Brazilian genius-multi-instrumentalist flies to Asturias in 2008 to give a music workshop. His journey takes us on another: that of his career, the ostracism with which he would be punished, his perpetual crusade for the materialization of “the idea”, his unique inspiration and incredible sense of humour. All emitted through his words and those of the people that surround him. An authentic pioneer, a free and cosmic spirit.

To the beat of his avant-garde and eclectic rhythms, Brazilian rapper Emicida performs hits from his album AmarElo at the São Paulo Municipal Theater.

A series of interviews of torture survivors from Brazil dictorship are mixed with performance.

The 80th birthday of Erasmo Carlos, pioneer of Brazilian rock, in never-before-seen images: the Tijuca gang, Jovem Guarda, international success, Roberto Carlos and his influence on behavior.

In the late 1970s, young filmmaker Sérgio Santos from Rio de Janeiro lived in Santa Teresa and was a neighbor and friend of singer Raimundo Fagner from Ceará, who was beginning to reap the first fruits of a solid and long career that he would build over the following decades. Sérgio then decided to make a short film to record moments of the rising star.

Through rare and striking footage from her own films, Eunice Gutman Has Stories revisits the journey of one of the pioneers of feminist cinema in Brazil. This is a tribute to the director, who will celebrate 50 years of work and 85 years of life in 2026.

The rubber tapper movement in the 1970s and 1980s, at the Brazilian state of Acre. What is a tie? “It’s the way we found to prevent deforestation. We stand in front of the farm workers and gunmen with our families, women, children and elderly and ask them not to cut down the forest and leave. They are workers too, and we explain them that their future is in jeopardy as well. This heartfelt speech always works. Simple, defenseless, unaware workers are the ones who cut down the forest.” (Chico Mendes. Jornal do Brasil. 13 days before he was murdered.)

Singer, poet and composer of iconic songs such as "Kátia Flávia" and "Rio 40 Graus", Fausto Fawcett is also the author of five novels and several performances that reveal a vast and unique universe. Starting from real and everyday signs with roots in Copacabana, his work crosses narrative, philosophical and temporal boundaries to establish futuristic visions and sensory experiences that shake up human adventure.

A regular day at Master Divonzir's dojo.

An overview on Brazilian hip hop through interviews with some of its most important artists.

...discussion of leftist attitudes towards democracy and popular movements; in parallel, a discussion about the role of militant cinema in relation to real political struggles.

A documentary film about the Brazilian town of Toritama, the self-proclaimed capital of jeans. The workers of the city’s self-managed small businesses only get one real break from their self-exploiting lives in the textile business: the annual Carnival.

A star goalkeeper threatens a woman who is pregnant with his child. Her pleas for help go unanswered in the shadow of his fame — then tragedy strikes.

A record on Brazilian samba school Estação Primeira de Mangueira's victory on the 2016 carnaval parade. Mangueira's parade that year was a homage to singer Maria Bethânia. The documentary also follows Bethânia on the celebrations of Our Lady of Purification, in Bahia, northeast of Brazil.

Men risk their lives breaking into moving freight trains to recover leftover grain and sell it on. Nightwalker translates into film these nights of endless work in which bodies disappear, swallowed up by the striking industrial landscapes of the Rio Grande port and ensnared by the Brazilian economic crisis.

The documentary "Chico e as Cidades" was directed by José Henrique Fonseca in 2001 and re-released by Biscoito Fino in June 2009 with three previously unreleased extras: Cecília's music video and takes of the songs "Injuriado" and "Futures Amantes." The DVD was made from the show "As Cidades" – premiered by Chico in 1999, based on the repertoire from the album of the same name. However, far from being a video version of the show, it is a documentary that covers various themes from the composer's life and work, as well as special appearances by Maria Bethânia, Jamelão, Oscar Niemeyer, Tostão, and the Velha Guarda da Mangueira.

Palestinians Faez Abbas and his wife Salha Nasser live forcibly displaced from their culture and family.

The life and musical work of Brazilian zoologist and composer Paulo Vanzolini, author of very popular songs such as "Ronda," "Volta por Cima," and "Na Boca da Noite," recording tributes to the composer, which brought together big names in Brazilian music such as Inezita Barroso, Chico Buarque, Paulinho da Viola, and Martinho da Vila.

In 1979, an agreement between Brazil, Paraguay, and Argentina allowed for the exploitation of water resources from the stretch of the Paraná River, starting from Sete Quedas.

A poetic dive into the cultural richness and strength of women who play a fundamental role in maintaining the musical traditions of the Amazon. A journey through the region's sonic aspects, from samba de cacete to carimbó, through masters such as Iolanda do Pilão, Miloca, Bigica and Onete.

The arrival of the Suape port and industrial complex brought business opportunities for large construction companies and their planned "high standard" neighborhoods in contrast to the life in the periphery and rural area of Cabo de Santo Agostinho (PE), the most vulnerable city for the young black men in Brazil.

Documentary about São Paulo samba musician Germano Mathias.

The life of Italian Brazilian ethnographic and stage photographer Emidio Luisi, through testimonies of friends and colleagues, and the showing of his works.

The walls in the Brazilian city of Belo Horizonte are inundated with painted pictures and words, from stunning murals to old-school graffiti, and from enigmatic cries from the heart to furious cursing. Marcos Pimentel uses his mostly static camera to capture an impressive number of these public statements.

Stories about Brazilian people's faith and their devotion to popular saints.

Noeli lives in a suburb of Porto Alegre, is a housewife and has two children. She was born in a country town, went to the capital, worked in a bakery, got married. She's an ordinary person. But there are no ordinary people.

Even though it was planned, Brasilia's Pilot Plan barely considered the crossing of an exotic animal through the Residencial Axis.

Heavily guarded, a luxurious castle lies on the bank of the Pinheiros River, in São Paulo.

More than 30% of Brazil's Pantanal biome was affected by fires between the years 2018 and 2021 due to unscrupulous agribusiness. Felippe Mussel's experimental film consists of a sound spectrogram of these fires, from which a fragment of the Ecuadorian constitution gradually emerges, granting nature the same rights as humans.

RUMO recalls the trajectory of the São Paulo homonymous group that wrote a fascinating chapter of Brazilian musical history, especially in the 80's. Filled with humor, irreverence and language experiments - fundamental characteristics of the group - the film discusses musical creation and cultural production, as well as the effervescent cultural panorama of São Paulo city of the 1980s.

A documentary that explores the conflicts between the fear of family repression and the desire for social change by telling the story of the director who, at the age of 18, creates an LGBTQUIA+ struggle movement without his parents knowing.

The findings of Danish paleontologist Peter Lund. The landscape of the region of Lagoa Santa, the men, the houses and the animals. Some of the caves from where Lund collected the remains of prehistoric animals and humans. Some fossils from the caves of the Lagoa Santa region. The fossils of the Lund room in the National Museum of Rio de Janeiro.

In 1996, filmmaker André Luiz Oliveira started preproduction of Viva o Povo Brasileiro, a film adaptation of the novel by João Ubaldo Ribeiro. Principal photography went on for nine years, but the production was shut down after a series of unfortunate events. This documentary retells that story, repurposing the fictional footage and chronicling the work both in front and behind the scenes.

The 1948 South American Championship, won by Vasco, the first continental world champion. In the absence of period records, radio commentary was recreated, and the highlights were animated. The trajectory of CR Vasco da Gama up to that point: the fight against racism, São Januário as the country's main sports and social arena, and the culture dominated by Vasco fans.

Nobody could have imagined that one day we would be forced to be isolated in our homes. That the police are roaming the streets, telling people to stay indoors. That the streets are silent and empty. That our relationships are tested with the simple inevitability of being together 24/7 in the same space. We all experienced something, whether it be painful or reflective, but it changed us. An international phone line was opened and people left messages reflecting their feelings, thoughts and experiences. 22 filmmakers from 15 countries united to make a visual-philosophical documentary of isolation.

An improbable geopolitical line between the small Hungarian village of Nagyvárad and the Yanomani indigenous land, in the Brazilian Amazon. A Jew who survived World War II, Claudia Andujar came to Brazil as an exile and dedicated her life to the defense of the Yanomani people. Her valuable collection, her untiring activism, her past of war and the vulnerability of the current indigenous people are revisited through dialogues between Andujar and shaman Davi Kopenawa and activist Carlo Zacquini, with the interlocution of Hungarian philosopher Peter Pál Pelbart.

Machado de Assis, the most famous Brazilian writer, is transported, without further explanation, to current times. Received with skepticism by the Brazilian Academy of Letters, where he will be questioned by immortal colleagues who suspect they are dealing with an imposter, Machado defends himself vehemently. Is he the true Immortal, founder of the Academy?

"El Maldito Darién" is a short documentary film that exposes the dangerous journey of migrants through the Darién Gap, known as the "jungle of death."

In six decades, Teatro Oficina has done more than revolutionize theatrical language in the country: the aesthetic influence of José Celso Martinez Corrêa's company extends from Tropicalism to the renewal of Brazilian audiovisual languages ​​from the 1960s onwards. The film revisits a story that it involves personalities such as Caetano Veloso, Glauber Rocha, Lina Bo Bardi, Chico Buarque and Zé do Caixão, brings together scenic art, ecology, architecture and sexuality, and mixes art and life in the search for a Brazilian based language.

In this film, Laerte conjugates the body in the feminine, and scrutinizes concepts and prejudices. Not in search of an identity, but in search of un-identities. Laerte creates and sends creatures to face reality in the fictional world of comic strips as a vanguard of the self. And, on the streets, the one who becomes the fiction of a real character. Laerte, of all the bodies, and of none, complicates all binaries. In following Laerte, this documentary chooses to clothe the nudity beyond the skin we inhabit.

There’s a myth that suggests the ghost of the 16th-century Portuguese king Don Sebastiaan founded a magical kingdom on the island of Lençóis off the Brazilian coast after his defeat against the Moors. Five centuries later, a young Portuguese woman (and a small film crew) arrives there. The island is still enchanting.

Documentary about the poet, writer and playwright Hilda Hilst, considered by critics as one of the most important voices of the Portuguese language of the twentieth century. Through the use of personal sound and image files, interviews, meetings and fictional interventions, we will seek the memory and the presence of Hilda Hilst in her daily life at Casa do Sol, the farm where she lived in Campinas.