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The 580 days that president-elect Lula, from Workers Party, spent in prison are the subject of the documentary "Visita, Presidente". The feature brings together unpublished stories of figures who were beside him in prison.

This documentary portrays the imaginary of poor children about their daily experiences. Between the street, the school and family, they build a safe place, despite the violence.

The Oswaldo Cruz Institute, in Rio de Janeiro, serves as a major research center in the field of public health. Aerial shots depict vast green areas and rural regions with small farms, reservoirs, and riverside lands. The work of health agents is shown at a small remote outpost, along with the facility’s infrastructure and tools used to study endemic diseases. The film also records various landscapes, such as dirt roads cutting through the caatinga, as well as rapids and waterfalls.

Documentary about the painter Ismael Nery, which intersperses daily street scenes with paintings by the artist, under the narration of his 1931 Post-Essencialista poem.

The life and literature of Mato Grosso do Sul poet Manoel de Barros. Alternating sequences of interviews with the poet, verses from his poetry, and statements of connoisseurs of his literature, the film portrays a revealing panel of the author's language. Manoel de Barros, age 91, with some 20 books published, lives in Campo Grande. Acknowledged, the winner of several literary prizes, he is the Brazilian writer who accounts for the greatest sale in poetry in Brazil.

The film follows four digital influencers: Jout Jout, Bispo Arnaldo, Rita Von Hunty and Spartakus Santiago.

Documentary about grandma Elza.

The film follows the life of a couple of singers from Münster who became known for covering the most prominent voices of distinct eras of Schlager music. While Markus got recognition through youtube tributes to Udo Jürgens (known for introducing French Chanson in 1970’s Schlager) Steffi often performs the repertoire of Helene Fischer, a contemporary Schlager icon who opened the genre to a Global Pop standard.

Davi Gautto reads the original script for 'Memoirs of a Getaway Driver' and sets out to recreate the film as it was originally intended—before it was altered by production issues. These included scenes cut due to a rushed deadline, collaborators quitting at the last minute, and major edits made to reduce the film’s runtime to under four minutes.

A documentary about the cinematographic scene in Campo Grande, in Brazillian Midwest throughout the professional career of director Marineti Pinheiro.

Genuine connections between children and nature can revolutionize our future. But is this discovery still possible in the world's major urban centers? The new chapter of "The Beginning of Life" reveals the transformative power of this concept.

Nothing more than Pastor Silas Malafaia talking about homosexualism, abortion and moral depravity, flying saucers and aliens all at once. For 90 minute straight!

A documentary on the Brazilian volleyball program.

Realized from the encounter of differences between the counselor governor from the indigenous reserve Sikuani El Merey-La Veradicta Margarita Rodriguez Weweli-Lukana and the urban-indigenous in a cultural recovery process, Juma Gitirana Tapuya Marruá. This video was an attempt of healing the colonial pain from those open wounds that hurt in us all, hum@n and non hum@n, nature from Abya Yala.

A behind-the-scenes look at the making of Glauber Rocha's 1980 production "A Idade da Terra" (The Age of Earth), including unedited clips taken from the sixty hours of recovered raw footage.

SATELLITES is a documentary about the passion for soccer told through the points-of-view of characters who were following somehow the final match of the Brazilian Soccer Cup. The film moves the focus from the game to the field's margins, to the fans, to outside the stadium. The movie intends to capture the tension, atmosphere and charm of a final match. SATELLITES translates, based on images captured during that game, the sensation of being at the stadium watching the game with no images of the game itself.

Tempo Rei is the first audiovisual record of Gilberto Gil's vast work, celebrating the artist's thirty-year career, celebrated in 1996. Gil recalls his artistic trajectory, recalls striking facts and reveals some intimacies. Completely filmed on film, it includes great successes of the artist like Madalena, Cores Vivas, Vamos Fugir, Procissão and Expresso 2222.

A documentary on Brazilian musician Mario Gennari and the bond between his music's sonority and the public space of the streets of São Paulo.

Short film about racism.

The Marajó ceramic pieces in the National Museum's collection, their patterns and characteristics.

A sensitive reassembly of the Amnesty Caravan apologies to all who have had their lives affected by the civil-military dictatorship in the country. The work uses only archival material and is narrated by Paulo Abrão, former National Secretary of Justice.

In 1991, 67 families were settled in Brazil. It became one of the biggest clashes between the Landless Rural Workers Movement and the local elite. The doc revisits the history of the Liberdade no Futuro settlement, in these 30 years.

The daily life of the workers in the areas affected by the Grande Carajás Program, in Pará and Maranhão States (northern Brazil).

Three lonely drifters follow different paths on the roads of northeastern Minas Gerais, Brazil. A film about the connections between walking and thinking, in which the ever-changing nature of things turns life into a place of mere passing.

Maria Bethânia takes her poetic narrative to Mozambique for the first time. The interpreter presents excerpts of works connected by different forms of expression in the Portuguese language. With testimonies from Mia Couto, José Agualusa and several Mozambican and Angolan writers and literary critics, the documentary shows the development of literature in these countries, delving on its importance during the anti-colonial resistance, the connection with native languages, the oral traditions and the influence of Brazilian writers.

Inspired by the book of the same name by Paula Dip, this is a biography of the Brazilian writer Caio Fernando Abreu. With a mixture of languages inherent to Caio F.'s work - cinema, theater, music and literature -, the narrative line is conducted through testimonies from family, friends, editors and scholars who maintained a relationship with the author. And actors who interpret their texts.

Searching for Makunaima is a cultural and historical account of the most Brazilian character there is in fiction. The film begins with Makunaima, one of the founding myths of the native people from the border between Brazil-Venezuela-Guiana, first captured in the writings of the German ethnographer Koch-Grünberg at the beginning of the 1910s. With interviews in Portuguese, German, Spanish, and in the indigenous languages Macuxi and Taurepang, Searching for Macunaima reclaims this amazing character who represents Brazil in many ways (from literature to cinema to theatre) and remains relevant to date.

With the participation of great stars of television drama, the documentary promotes an emotional journey through the great moments of soap operas, celebrating its seven decades on Brazilian TV.

Chronicles the life of military lieutenant, later communist militant and Brazilian politician Luiz Carlos Prestes.

Through testimonies from partners, workers, collaborators, artists, and people who followed the productions of Lira Paulistana, the film tells the story of this cultural phenomenon, a catalyst for the new musical trends of the time, which took place in São Paulo between 1979 and 1986. In addition to showcasing the undeniable importance of Lira Paulistana as a stage for avant-garde music in São Paulo, highlights its significant role in other areas, such as record production, journalism, editorial work, and the visual arts.

Since the 1970s, Roberto Pires has militated against the use of nuclear energy. For that, he went looking for the biggest Brazilian name in this subject, César Lattes, professor of Nuclear Physics at UNICAMP. Believing that nuclear energy could, in the long run, extinguish human life. With the collaboration of Orlando Senna, he writes the screenplay for the film “Abrigo Nuclear”, an ambitious production, science fiction film entirely produced and shot in Bahia. With little money, armed with his creative ability, Roberto builds a 'spaceship' and a studio in the backyard of his house. He calls children, relatives and friends and begins production on “Nuclear Shelter”, which is released in 1981. With statements by Orlando Senna, Laura Pires, Nonato Freire, among others, the documentary "Bahia SCI-FI" intends to explore the universe that surrounded Roberto Pires, Bahia and the possible nuclear war of the late 1970s and early 1970s. 1980.

A brief look at the traditional Bexiga, am important neighborhood in the early 20th century with the massive arrival of Italian immigrants who felt at home while developing their businesses and generating a great economy to São Paulo. But in the second half of the century the families of means left the place; others were evicted due to a government crisis...and then with plenty of empty houses and spaces Bexiga became a spot for home invasions from poor families who were living under the streets.

Fabiana is a seasoned trucker who has crisscrossed and conquered the roads of Brazil for 30 years. The fact that she is transgender doesn’t seem to make any difference for her nomadic life. In many places, she can hook up with a variety of women and is in her element among the guys on the road. Now she is approaching retirement, Fabiana realises her life will change drastically. Her house, where she lives with her girlfriend when not on the road, will become her new world.

May 2019: Two Brazilian women traveled to Algiers during the demonstrations of Hirak, a popular movement for democracy. In the middle of the crowd, they met a young girl. The sea that separates them is the same one that can join them together.

A young Brazilian director decides to make his film, but he wants to portray reality, without interference, just by chance.

A brief look at Amazonas, its population, their costumes, the rich nature and its importance to Brazil and the world.

A short documentary about the Bossa Nova, a style of zamba developed in the 1960s in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

The past of a region that grew on the foundations of the faith, through the catechesis of the Jesuits who formed the theocratic kingdom of the Guarani.

For the Licantanay, the original inhabitants of the Atacama Desert, Hoy'ri means Earth. In the world's driest desert, where stromatolites—the oldest fossil evidence of life on the planet—still exist, paleontologists dig into the past in search of answers about the evolution of life and the cosmos. The aridity of the desert preserves primitive conditions from 3.5 billion years ago, inspiring the search for answers that transcend time.

During the 2018 elections, conflicts between Brazilians intensify over the major ideological differences in social, economic and identity spheres. As much as the documentary is a political cut in Ceará, one could well imagine it anywhere in the country, which certainly reflects widespread chaos, dark times. Within this process, when immersed in the streets, it was observed that, in fact, politics was a mask to incite other discussions. And so it turned out that the clash was not in the debate of more basic and collectivist agendas, but in the boundaries of the ego.