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Funerals of students Ribeiro Junqueira and Araújo Guimarães, murdered in Rio de Janeiro. You can see perfectly the exit of the coffins from the Faculty of Medicine and the great funeral procession parade through the central streets to the cemetery, as well as the moment when the academic Armando Aragão spoke from a window of the Faculty.

At 91, TV news anchor Cid Moreira opens the doors of his house and to his unconscious, revealing surprising facets of the man who entered the homes of millions of Brazilians every night for 30 years. Brazil’s most famous voice narrates his own history, deconstructing his mythical image and guiding the spectator through a maze of memories. Archival remembrances and images trace a panorama of his life, which is tied to the history of Brazilian TV.

Short musical film paying a tribute to samba composer Zé Ketti, one of the greatest popular artists of Brazilian music. In a jam session, in the late composer's house in Inhaúma, a neighborhood of Rio de Janeiro, a group of friends get together to play his music while a "feijoada" (typical Brazilian food with black beans)is being cooked in the kitchen. The samba-players, first-rate samba stars themselves, remember Ketti's great hits in a homage to the man who was best known as "a voz do morro" ("the hill's voice" - but hill as a metaphor for a place where poor people build their shacks in slums, in opposition to city, where middle-class people live in Rio). Among the guests, names of the traditional "samba-school" Portela and ex-partners. Also, the presence of a black hat on an empty chair, represents the composer himself, who died in 1999, after a life of many accomplishments in music, and appearance in three of Dos Santos's films: "Rio, 40 Graus", "Rio Zona Norte" and "Boca de Ouro".

Documentary that shows and explains in detail the characteristics of the culture of the Xavante Indians, such as ceremonial, work, social organization, artistic practices, etc. It also reveals the tribe's struggle to preserve their lands and customs. Historical archive images of the first contacts with the white man.

This documentary accompanies the journey of artists who exalt and celebrate ancestry and the orishas in their work. It also offers a manifesto against one of the biggest problems facing Brazil: religious racism. The feature brings together stories from music, theater, fashion, dance and the visual arts to promote reflection on the power and importance of black representation, art and diversity

In a society where monogamous affective values predominate, some people opt for a relationship arrangement that is becoming known as polyamory.

Director Will Nogueira seeks to revisit his history with his mother, Cleusa. Using archive images of the family, he proposes an essay on what changes and what survives time, in them and in this relationship.

An immersion in the creative process of Scene 11, renowned Brazilian contemporary dance group, which completes 20 years of career.

On the triple frontier between Brazil, Colombia and Peru, the twin towns of Letícia and Tabatinga form an urban island surrounded by the Amazon rain-forest. Following the ordinary events and the constant come and go of people along the border, Terras portrays the presence and the influence of the frontier on the lives of its inhabitants.

Short documentary about the ideology of publicity and mass medias.

Short documentary about Cine Art Palácio in Recife-PE, Brazil.

The film is the life of a woman from birth to death. All scenes will be real. The character will be lived by several people, of different ages, in different regions of the country. Filmed as a documentary, it will be transformed into fiction through the manipulation of images.

In a time marked by longing and uncertainty, at the beginning of a social isolation, two friends disappear. The pandemic becomes a backdrop for the loss of innocence and the rescue of long-lost things. Ingenuous is like a farewell gift from the only link that united these two missing figures; two strangers who get lost, or maybe, just maybe, just met.

Neville D'Almeida’s “Bye Bye Amazônia” tackles on the problems that plague the world’s biggest rainforest and its native people.

For Ana Caetano and Vitória Falcão, Tocantins' city of Araguaína is one of the most special places in the world. They both grew up there and where they received their musical education before, they even knew each other. They have since moved on to become one of the biggest names in Brazilian music.

A filmmaker embarks on a poignant journey with his parents to the secret city where they unknowingly contributed to the creation of the first atomic bombs.

Birth, life and death of a carnival sculpture. Linked to the mythology of the Orixás, a metaphor of creation based on the Babalotim doll, a boy idol who has lived through many carnivals.

Nannies combines autobiographical elements with a reflection on the presence of nannies in Brazil. With a subjective narration, the film incorporates photographs, domestic footage and newspaper adds from the 20th century, as well as contemporary images of nannies and children, building a personal narrative about the presence of nannies in the daily lives of many Brazilian families. A situation where the affection is genuine, but does not dissolve violence and racism.

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.

In this unprecedented director's cut, the short films "Peixe Vivo" (fiction) and "Peixes Vivos" (documentary) merge into a single film, engaging with the theme of trans childhood.

On the life and poetic works of AUGUSTO DOS ANJOS, based on research conducted and material gathered from Glória dos Anjos, his daughter. Screened at the 3rd Brazilian Short Film Festival (Rio de Janeiro, 1973).

This 12-minute Brazilian short film employs the found footage style in a slightly different way. The film is presented as a merge of two separate files extracted from the police archives in Sao Paulo, Brazil. On the first one, two policemen talk to each other, while watching and analysing images captured by surveillance cameras that shows a woman being stabbed to death by a couple, just before the two aggressors get killed by a mysterious man that shows up at the place. The second portion of the movie shows the intriguing facts that happen during a police raid on the apartment where the suspect of killing the previous couple lives.

The cartoonist Laerte goes a long way through São Paulo searching for a certificate.

The supernatural story of Fluminense's unprecedented CONMEBOL Libertadores title. An emotional account in special interviews with top scorer Germán Cano, star Marcelo, hero John Kennedy, key players Nino, Felipe Melo, André, John Arias, and coach Fernando Diniz. Watch exclusive footage and experience all the emotions of the fans who lost in 2008 and reached the skies against Boca Juniors at Maracanã on November 4, 2023. A record for eternity in the heart of the Tricolor fan!

In this visual essay, Ana Costa Ribeiro uses personal archives to delve into the adventurous, relatively short life of her grandfather Joaquim da Costa Ribeiro, a pioneer in experimental physics in Brazil in the middle of the last century. He was the discoverer of the thermodielectric effect: “something to do with lightning,” as it was explained in a child’s terms to his granddaughter.

A young Slovenian girl arrives in Brazil right before the outbreak of World War II. She is alone, single, has left the family and her great love back home, with the promise of returning in one year. Unable to return, she settles down and has a new family and a new life in Brazil. Vida, which means 'life', is her name and she is the director's grandmother who returns to Slovenia with her granddaughter 73 years after her arrival in Brazil. Their journey, the family journey, has a different nature: subjective, poetic and emotional. A journey that struggles to retain unstable memories, relieving feelings and discovering what is hidden in our souls.

A documentary about the celebration of the National Samba Day with the aim of preserving the memory of part of the history of samba, which was being forgotten by the press and the Brazilian people.

About the Hungarian photographer, an exponent of the history of the Brazilian documentary, directed by filmmaker Walter Lima Junior and sponsored by Petrobras.

A Brazilian documentary short from Alberto Botelho about the first railway battalion.

Documentary about UFF on the occasion of the 15th anniversary of its foundation.

Jesus, Lucio and Pereira are former police officers who were expelled from service and now work in Mundo Maravilha, an amusement park. The embarrassment of leaving led Jesus to try suicide. Today, he coordinates the work of 28 private security guards and wishes to return to the Police. Lucio got in to avenge his mother's murder and hunt outlaws. Pereira today is a protestant Christian and plays Perereco, a child's character that entertains kids at church. In the cheerful landscape of the park, the Brazilian documentary Jesus no Mundo Maravilha reveals, through the dreams of these three former police officers, the values of Police culture in Brazil.

The experiences of the vocational education at Oswaldo Aranha Highschool, São Paulo, based on a ideia of creating a social microcosm to put the children in a direct touch with their Country reality.

A documentary about an intinerant amusement park that travels through the poor Brazilian Northeast and the hardships faced by the people around it.

"The mourning for the Baron Rio Branco": the repercussion of the diplomat's death - flags at half a stick, the cinema Pathé and a theater room - which featured spectacle Zé Pereira - closed in mourning, other commercial establishments also closed. Facade of the Itamaraty Palace, "where Mr.'s deceased. Baron of the White River." "Curious in front of the Itamaraty," site of the wake. "Distribution of the Official Diary." The Diplomatic Body. "The Mr. Marshal Hermes and the Ministry visit the fiery chamber." "The Burning Camera." "The people visit the fiery chamber." President Hermes da Fonseca, the Ministry and the people pass through a coffin covered in flowers. "The funeral procession." Crowd, cavalry, carriage, funeral car covered in flowers, saved from gunfire. "In the Cemetery of S. Francis Xavier." Business, coffin being transported, men try to open passage, wreaths of flowers; speeches.

Between February an May of 1970, Julio Bresane and Rogerio Sganzerla made 7 films for their company Belair that were forbidden by the Brazilian censorship that reveal today images of an unique freedom.