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On January 14, 2012, 10,000 devotees of "São Marcos de Palestra Itália" stopped the streets of the west zone of São Paulo to thank the graces received during its 20 years of career from their patron saint who exclusively defended the alviverde goal of the Palmeiras and the Brazilian team.

The concerto for piano and orchestra of Fantasia Brasileira and its movements (Prelude, Song, Dance), illustrated by images of the performing musicians and Brazilian scenes: a raft at sea, a farm, rural workers, a church and a series of waterfalls.

A couple separates. 18 years later, their daughter wants to know what happened.

A fairly shabby, dark, three-part wardrobe in a hallway: About ten years have passed since Joana Claude suffered sexual violence when it was assembled. Now the time has come to not only disassemble it. Instead, Joana sets out to destroy the artefact of pain completely. The gesture is made with fervour, tearing out the shelves and doors looks like retroactive resistance, what was pent up finds an outlet. At the same time, the ritual is characterised by gradual escalation: At first the director speaks of her relationship with her parents – a big sweat stain on her back already beginning to show –, in the end everything is in flames. The act is short, it lasts only a few minutes. And yet it allows an intimate insight that acquires a universal, strength-giving character as it unfolds.

A short film that emulates the activities of early Brazilian filmmakers known as "cavadores".

From domestic images, food reveals a way of living in community.

Vera and Gabriel, an elderly couple, navigate through past and present, telling their own life story. Their remembering, rendered in images from family archives that confound themselves with images of the present, suggests a personal diary on love and death.

Through personal stories, interviews, and images captured in the Piaraçu village during the event "The Call of Chief Raoni," we discuss the importance of standing for indigenous rights and environmental protection arising from their presence in the territories as a fundamental part of efforts towards a balanced climate.

Fátima, Lô and Helena are three friends that love to dance forró. They live in the Alto da Penha, in Crato. As Fátima and Helena work hard taking care of the cemetery flowers, Lô recall the ladies for a forró party in the neighborhood.

An interview about education and working conditions among Brazilian peasants in the 70s.

At a time when the world is discussing the impact of human actions on the environment, Amazônia Eterna presents a critical analysis of how the world's largest tropical rainforest is understood and appreciated.

Six people, one family, ten years later. Dois Tempos resumes the narrative of the lives of the Braz, created in 2000, in the documentary A Família Braz. In 2010 the same directors return to the same house to update the portrait of the six characters. A decade later, what has been done with your expectations of the past, how you live life in the present and what to provide for the future.

Follows former customers and employees of one of the most famous brothels in Brazil called the Casa Rosa as they come back to the house where it once stood in all its glory. Revisiting the old bedrooms we get to know stories of men and women of all ages and their experiences inside the house. A film about memories, morals and negotiation.

In the largest city of Brazil, Lora is a free woman, full of life, who revels a different way to think about the situation of homeless people.

Based on a montage of mandatory political propaganda for the 1989 presidential election, the film presents a debate on politics in the country through a reflection on the speeches of the main candidates.

The imminent closure of a small cinema in the Constitución neighborhood of Buenos Aires, Argentina, will be the propitious element to reflect on the mystique of the cinemas of yesteryear and on the figure of the film projectionist. A personal homage to the liturgy of cinema, its ghosts and its dreams.

A documentary about the dreams and wishes of common people. Small stories from the everyday lives of different people who have simple, anonymous routines and who develop their stories far removed from the traditional postal cards of a city. The protagonists are heroes of the domestic scene, who deploy their days with much patience and no tears. With no great victories or large defeats... and without desisting from fighting for their small accomplishments. A subjective essay about private minimal spheres.

The documentary portrays the collective traumas of the militarization of Rio de Janeiro’s favelas occupied by the Armed Forces during the mega sporting events. Through voices from within the favelas, the film documents the struggle for justice and reparation for victims of human rights violations.

On the edges of their bodies, between the fragility of existence and its desiring intensities, three brazilian artists are transmuted with each performance. Their works question the limits we set in and for our own bodies.

The film reveals the moments that preceded the Samba Schools' competitive parade in Rio de Janeiro's 1996 carnival. Narrated by actor Hugo Carvana and filmed by three separate 16mm camera units, the documentary focuses exclusively on the gathering of each school before its parade at the Sambadrome Marquês de Sapucaí - the real and imaginary space where everything happens.

Through the files of Cuban cinema news program Noticieros ICAIC Latinoamericanos, the documentary shows the most relevant events of the second half of the 20th century as seen by the documentary filmmakers of the island. During three decades and under the general direction of Santiago Álvarez, these moviemakers witnessed almost everything: from the shivers of the Cold War to Bola de Nieve's piano solos; from the discovery of the killing fields in Cambodia to the Carnation Revolution in Portugal. In 2009, the original negatives of Noticieros ICAIC Latinoamericanos were declared part of the "world memory" by UNESCO.

"Além do Muro" is a short documentary that provides a glimpse into the culture of pixo in the city of Curitiba, Brazil.

Francisco Brennand is an eighty-five year odl, painter, sculptor and ceramist from Brazil. He lives and works isolated in an open-air museum set in an old ceramic roofing tile factory that belonged to his father. Based on his diaries, written over the past 60 years, the film narrates the artist's journey from the moment he moved into the factory until today.

Rodrigo, Diogo, and Gabriela Melim welcome Chef Tati Lund. Together, they will prepare burgers using only vegan and organic ingredients: jackfruit meat and chickpeas.

The Land Without Evil is the mythology that guides the Guaraní communities. It narrates the search for a lost paradise. From the moment that Europeans crossed the Atlantic, it became the anima of a resistance discourse. How many different weapons does it take for a fight? The solo exhibition of Patrícia Ferreira Pará Yxapy, one of the most engaged women among Brazil’s Indigenous filmmakers combines new works and the archive behind her audiovisual journey over the past 15 years, always in close collaboration with the Mbyá-Guarani Cinema Collective. It presents Indigenous cinematic practice as a tool of resistance and healing showcasing intimate and painful thoughts on the feminine, on spirituality, colonization, and the relationship to land.

The fans of Goytacaz suffered for 25 years away from Serie A of the Carioca Championship. In 2017, a historic campaign leaves the club close to comeback. “25 Years” shows the emotion of Alvianil fans and players throughout the B1 Series of Carioca.

A meeting with music, composer, poet and sociologist Negro Léo. He gives his thoughts on the development of music, Brazilian and international politics, the rise of neo-pentecostal evangelical churches and obsession over social media, in parallel with his own life story.

A personal essay which analyses and compares images of the political upheavals of the 1960s. From the military coup in Brazil to China's Cultural Revolution, from the student uprisings in Paris to the end of the Prague Spring.

"Confluências" presents ways of celebrating and other ways of life in the Saco-Curtume quilombo, in the rural area of São João do Piauí, the territory from which master Antonio Bispo dos Santos (Nêgo Bispo) shared his knowledge, concepts and experiences.

The film follows the Miss contest season in Brasilia and satellite cities of the Federal District in the year 2010, revealing the contradictions behind the catwalks of fashion.

Documentary about the Brazilian poet Joaquim de Sousa Andrade.

Celebrating the last show of their COR tour, the duo explore their individualities through their most intimate thoughts, documented in a real way. These reflections permeate their lives on stage, but reveal the truth behind them.

Documentary about the Manguebeat Movement and one of it's leader Chico Science

Ruth de Souza inaugurates the existence of black actresses on stage, television and cinema in Brazil. She carries within her the genesis of an important part of the achievements for black women over almost a century of life. At the age of 95, surpassing 70 in her career, amidst reflections and memories, a dialogue was born between two generations of black artists, Ruth and the director.

A documentary film following the celebrated Brazilian artist Saint Clair Cemin over the last five years. Directed by Svetlana Cemin the film represents an intimate portrait of the artist and a deep reflection on the sculptor's journey to make his masterpiece, Psyche, a marble boat. This experimental documentary reflects the making process of Psyche from the embryonic stage in his studio in Brooklyn, through the finishing touches in China, and to its final destination in Cleveland, Ohio.

Journalist Dermi Azevedo has never stopped fighting for human rights and now, three decades after the end of the military dictatorship in Brazil, he's witnessing the return of those same practices.

The third live album by Brazilian alternative rock band Charlie Brown Jr.

As a toddler, Hermeto Pascoal made a flute from a pumpkin stalk so he could make music with the birds. His love of the sounds of nature has remained with him throughout his life. They play a major role in the music of the famous Brazilian composer, bandleader, conductor and multi-instrumentalist – known in Brazil as ‘the sorcerer.’

Didactic documentary on the History of Brazil

The result of more than ten years of research and using archival material, photos and videos recorded by the residents themselves, during conflicts that took place in the 1990s, this documentary addresses important facts for the then invasion of Estrutural. Begun in the 1960s, almost simultaneously with the construction of Brasília, this invasion arose on the outskirts of what is now the largest open-air dump in Latin America. Residents, politicians and military personnel present their views on the past and present of the community, in a synthesis of the process of urbanization in the Federal District.

À Flor da Pele is an observational documentary guided by the lives of Laiz and Joselito, both Black and albino. By juxtaposing Laiz at the height of her 7 years and Joselito at 60, the film weaves together and highlights the complex ancestral web that connects these two lives.

Biographical portrait of samba dancer Nelson Sargento in Morro da Mangueira, Rio de Janeiro.