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Wim Wenders details a doctor's program to educate and assist children with eye disorders into gaining abilities to use their vision in the future. Part of the anthology film Invisible World (2012).

Made for Somewhere From Here to Heaven, exhibition at Askuna Zentroa, Bilbao.

Rodrigo, the director of this film, was given three months to live. Lonely in facing death, he searches for Eduardo, his first boyfriend. But Eduardo won’t answer.

Originality in a time of poorly made copies, a filmic inventory of a strange time, a kaleidoscope of images, in a constant game of ruptures and continuities. All this from 365 videos published on an Instagram page in 2018, added to an original soundtrack and a text adapted from Dürrenmatt's play Dialogue of a Vile Man, a text that synthesizes our time well.

"Why is it that I've never lived in one sector definitively? Because I feel bad. I feel bad about the air of one place." Tarabatara is a call to daily life and the charms of a gypsy family from the hinterland of Alagoas. The documentary captures moments of a period of pause in the nomadism of these gypsies. In the figure of the eldest and their memories, in the women and children of the group, with their speeches and gestures, with their looks and tasks.

A documentary about climate change in Brazil, especially at Atafona Beach (in the Campos de Goytacazes region), which is being swallowed up by the sea. Narrated by Sonia Guajajara and Sidarta Ribeiro, the film deals with the genocide of the native people of Goytacazes.

Documentary focusing on a cesarean section in a hospital in São Paulo.

A film essay about Brazil discovered through Orson Welles' eyes during the shooting of It's All True.

With testimonies from stars such as Ademir da Guia, Afonsinho, Gerson and Nei da Conceição, the film pays tribute to Didi, Mr. Football, elected best player in the 1958 World Cup and inventor of the dry leaf kick.

Corinthians has spent 23 years without winning a title. Its fanbase, however, only grew and became more and more present: both in the life of the team and in the political life of the country.

In 1918, Maria José Rebello from the state of Bahia applied for the national admission exam for the diplomatic career, a fact that left much of society astonished. Setting a precedent as the first woman to join the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Maria began a 100-year journey for Brazilian women in diplomacy.

The adventures of Pedro, a musician who is trying his luck in Rio de Janeiro, in the 1950's. He leaves his hometown Belo Horizonte to share a lodging with his brother Carlos in Rio. During one of his gigs, he meets Arlete, a singer in a vocal group and fall in love.

Documentary about the group of people gathered in 1991 who call themselves "Doutores da Alegria" (Doctors of Joy). They dress as clowns and go to the hospitals to bring some comfort to young patients.

The construction of the Brasilia dream is blurred in precious scenes that preceded the opening of the city, filmed as sombre. What will be the future of these buildings and monuments? What will become of the future of these workers?

During another work day, Sara pieces together fragment of her prejudices.

The sacred and the profane are explored through the dialectic between sacred images and the world of BDSM when we meet Guilherme and his fetishist persona Luke.

Woman in Art is a documentary that celebrates the creative strength of women, exploring the stories and contributions of those who have transformed the artistic landscape.

Biography of the ideas and teachings of Marcel Mauss, considered the founder of Anthropology who lived and wrote in the first half of the 20th century, in France. His work is discussed through the testimony of three students, carried out in Paris between 1997 and 1999. Denise Paulme died 4 months after the interview, Germaine Diertelen died 9 months later and Germaine Tillion, aged 95 in 2002, still works. The three were part of the first generation of French anthropologists, formed in the 1930s.

A modernist capital, from the geological formation of the Central Plateau to the present day, passing through the saga of its construction. Brasília is the result of a genius generation that wished to recreate Brazil, then still archaic, slave and colonial, in a modern, authentic and utopian Brazil.

Aroldo Maciel, an audio technician at a university in Cuiabá, created an earthquake prediction method that has been challenging scientists around the world. He has great fame in Chile, to the point of not being able to walk the streets without being recognized. "Sísmico" shows great tremors predicted by Aroldo, his method, his conflict with science and his relationship with the Chileans.

Seven lives, seven stories, one passion: Frevo. The collaborative writing of a piece which welcomes us to the world of seven great maestros of Pernambuco. Jose Menezes, Nunes, Clovis Pereira, Guedes Peixoto, Duda, Ademir Araujo and Edson Rodrigues - living legends of this rhythm that is an intangible heritage of Brazil. A journey through Frevo.

Mauro, a former soccer player from the city of Recife, Brazil. Having made only one goal in his entire career, he became famous as a symbol of Ibis Sport Club, which entered the Guinness Book of Records as "The Worst Soccer Team in the World". With a lot of humour, Mauro manages to turn his misfortune into triumph.

The documentary tells how the artisanal cheese production technique arrived in Minas Gerais in the 18th century, brought by Portuguese adventurers in search of gold. Today, almost 30 thousand families live from the production of artisanal cheese throughout the state.

Documentary about groups ignored in society.

Documentary about the tradition of clowns in carnival party in the neighborhood Rio Vermelho in Salvador.

Pedro de Almeida leads the funeral of João Batista, who died with 120 years old.

The discoveries and frustrations on accessing a memory of a father and of a time in the Brazilian history that are rarely public. The young filmmaker plunges into this unknown past of her almost unknown father. He, a Brazilian intellectual, imprisoned and tortured during the military dictatorship, is silent about this since that time. A father and a fatherland that does not like to answer any questions, that loves but rarely talks.

In this follow up to the mondo success "Anaconda", the explorer Rolf Blomberg travels into Brazil's jungle in search of the terrifying Xavante indians. The expedition starts at the harbor town Belém at the end of the Amazon river, and continues inwards from there. In the ghost town Manaus, in the middle of the jungle, we visit the strange opera house (that is depicted in Herzog's Fitzcarraldo). On the river island Bananal in Rio Araguaya we meet the indian tribe Carajá and experience their daily life with bow hunting, fishing and dance rituals. at Rio das Mortes in Mato Grosso we win the friendship of the terrifying Xavante indians. After a visit to Rio de Janeiro the expedition continues to the Atlantic coast and Portaleza whose population of fishermen still use a primitive fishing raft, "jangada", for their long and dangerous hunting journeys at sea.

The story of Rio de Janeiro’s movie theaters and the radical transformation they have endured since the invention of Cinema.

Yndio do Brasil is a collage of hundreds of Brazilian films and films from other countries - features, newsreels and documentaries - that show how the film industry has seen and heard Brazilian indigenous peoples since they were filmed in 1912 for the first time: idealised and prejudiced, religious and militaristic, cruel and magic.

The film follows the daily experiences and dreams of the residents of a specific type of seclusion of freedom in which the convicts assume the maintenance of the space, the control of their own activities and their security. With a multifaceted approach, it proposes a reflection on the creative potential of incarcerated people, the documentary genre itself and its truth.

A mix of documentary and musical that evokes João Gilberto's universe.

the arrival of a cat at pspsps

A subtle and delicate journey of possible ways to face our aging.