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'Homo culinarius', as some researchers currently define, refers to our experience since cuisine was created. Its relationship with affection is displayed in this film in a way that explores the professional and home environment, through intimate captures of the filmmakers.

Xapiri is a Yanomami term that characterizes the shamans, male spirits (xapiri thëpë) and also auxiliary spirits (xapiri pë). Xapiri is an experimental film about Yanomami shamanism that was filmed during a meeting of 37 shamans at the Watoriki Reserve, Roraima, in March of 2011. The film was designed to take into account two different notions of image: those of the Yanomami and ours. Therefore, it does not set out to explain shamanism, its methods or procedures, but to allow different cultures to visualize and feel the way in which the shamans “embody” the spirits, their bodies and voices.

The documentary offers an intimate and sensitive portrait of the lives of prominent figures in Rio de Janeiro's drag scene, artists who enlivened and shaped the LGBTQIA+ nightlife of Rio de Janeiro.

The forró musical genre from Northeastern Brazil is a male-dominated industry. Some of the few female musicians who managed to fight prejudice and misogyny in order to succeed offer their perspectives on the matter.

In 1953, the artist Poty Lazzarotto created a panel for the facade of the Iguaçu Palace, seat of the Government of Paraná. The Palace was inaugurated without the panel and remained that way for 34 years. It was up to the Álvaro Dias Government to redeem this old debt. The "Iguaçu Panel" was built and inaugurated in December 1987.

Orson Welles goes to Brazil to shoot his documentary It's All True.

This documentary shows a country that has lifted 36 million people out of extreme poverty in 12 years.

Every woman has been a victim of sexual harassment, regardless of her cultural, social or economic background. To support such statement, on Women's Week a studio-van was parked at different locations across both rich and poor neighbourhoods of São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro. The studio-van was made available to any woman who felt like sharing her story. Once inside, they were left to themselves and were free to give their testimonies to the camera without the influence of an interviewer. A total of 140 women, with ages ranging from 15 to 84, shared their stories: from strangers catcalling in streets, buses and subways, to rapes committed by relatives, in their own homes, when they were still children. The film, which is part of a transmedia project, is comprised of a significant number of testimonies, and reflects upon an important part of the filming process: how did these women feel when they were telling their stories?

Documentary about behind the scenes of Pabllo Vittar's highly anticipated show at the first edition of The Town, in São Paulo.

The documentary follows the project "Vivendo o Trabalho Subalterno", which invited judges to experience a day of activities with invisible workers. In secret, judges exchange their robes for uniforms and live the day of street cleaners, waitresses and gardeners. In turn, manual workers are invited to discuss the role of judges in society. The initiative served as inspiration for the theme of otherness to be part of the initial training of labor judges in Brazil. The first two editions resulted in the publication of a book with the same name, the recording of a podcast and this documentary.

Delving into the world of funk from the outskirts of Belo Horizonte, Na Batida follows a participatory journey in which the filmmakers themselves become characters. The documentary seeks to capture the essence of funk, revealing the social, cultural and emotional impact of this musical movement.

Roupa Nova retorna à cena musical com versões acústicas para sucessos como "Whisky A Gogô", "Sapato Velho", "Dona", "Linda Demais" e "Volta Pra Mim". O álbum traz também as inéditas "Flor Da Pele", "Razão De Viver" e "Já Nem Sei Mais", além das participações de Ed Motta e Chitãozinho e Xororó. Com este disco, o grupo de sucesso dos anos 80 se lança em um novo século. Imperdível.

Who was Adelaide Carraro? Why is unraveling me a chore? Did I have more than 5 million books sold? One of the most read in Brazil between the 60s and 70s? Persecuted, accused of sensationalist, pornographic and author of a subliterature? Where are my tracks?

A timeless dialogue between two women, daughters of military personnel. Amália Lucy, daughter of the former president of the Brazilian military dictatorship, Geisel, and Andréa, the filmmaker. Using extensive archival footage, the film offers commentary on classified documents from the dictatorship era. Dalmatian asks Amalia Lucy a few questions. A German Shepherd opens a door to the past.

Too hot! The spawning fish do not come at the right time and the pepper plants end up dying in this heat. "This is a very different weather that not even the spirits can understand." From their gardens, homes, and backyards, the indigenous women of the Amazon involve us in their vast universe of knowledge while they observe the impacts of climate change in their ways of life.

Documentary made in the municipality of Luziânia - Goiás, presenting a black community, a remnant of the old quilombo.

Footage of Yuri Gagarin's visit to Brazil in 1961.

The story of Ayahuasca, from its emergence in the Amazonian Forest, to its popularity with the Santo Daime religion, and on to its arrival in urban centres. Combining scientific, religious and anthropological perspectives on the use of Ayahuasca in modern society, and in parallel with the director own healing process, for the first time, a holistic, yet balanced view of this controversial subject.

Amanda’s perspective on her hometown changes drastically when she discovers that the simplicity and memories in Neves have shaped her true home.

'Black girls don't play with black dolls', says the lyrics of Preta Rara's rap, one of the characters in It Looks Like Me. The documentary explores the lack of black dolls in the Brazilian market and shows the work of the artisans who try to change this scenario facing the gigantic toy industry with their handmade dolls.

The official documentary of the Copa Libertadores Feminina 2023

In the midst of a pandemic scenario, the festive culture of Fortaleza faces obstacles to remain resplendent, which takes us to Praça dos Leões. How is the Lions Cultural Bar? How to deal with the absence of new memories? How to deal with silence? Saudades dos Leões is a documentary that seeks to invoke the memory of this space and rescue moments of joy and cultural relevance in the lives of its audience, mostly LGBTQI+. Furthermore, it talks about its silence and how the lack of this symbolic space weighs on people's history.

The DVD MY DEAR FRIEND opens the retrospective series of work of Chico Buarque, highlighting some of his passions: the city of Rio de Janeiro and its partners and friends. "I kept an almost alien look on Rio I still have a relationship with the city of wonder. " Friends, partners and songs will be happening in the first episode of the series, in a relaxed and intimate way.

Learn about the trajectory of student leader Marcos Medeiros and learn more about his exile in France and Cuba. In 1968, he joined the counterculture when political activism became an audiovisual expression of intervention in social reality.

In Miguel Burnier, a small, deserted town in Minas Gerais, Brazil, a few remaining inhabitants have been trying since 2005 to survive the purchase of their land by a mining giant. Tormented by unemployment, isolation and alcoholism, they try their best to keep their community together and to breathe new life into this village where the world seems to have collapsed.

The documentary follows the many facets of actor and director Sérgio Britto, from behind the scenes at theater companies to his experiences in literature and opera. The actor was the creator of the "Grande Teatro Tupi," a program that produced over 450 play adaptations and featured actors such as Fernanda Montenegro and Ítalo Rossi.

Transvestite, black, peripheral and adept at candomblé: this is Mãe Dorinha!

Álvaro Tukano returns to his homeland after forty years. It's a journey of reunion with his origins, customs, family, and friends left behind when he had to flee persecution from the Salesian priests' boarding schools and the government, and became internationally recognized for his denunciations of the attempted cultural genocide against his people. The trip fulfills his father's request for him to receive initiation into the rites of passage of the Sacred Flutes and the Jurupari Dance, a ritual Álvaro was never able to participate in because the education he received within the Salesian missions prohibited and punished young indigenous people who sought to cultivate their culture. Upon his return, he finds the boarding schools in ruins and abandoned, and his people gradually resuming the sacred rituals that the machine of forgetting tried to erase.

Brazilian singer-songwriter Caetano Veloso reflects on his imprisonment in 1968, during the military dictatorship.

In the military dictatorship, many political prisoners were tortured and killed by the Brazilian army. In Bahia, those who survived were transferred to the Lemos Brito penitentiary complex.

The charismatic Dinho talks about his extraordinary life story and how he defied the conventions of his fishing village in southern Brazil by becoming a crossdresser and starting to weave lace – a task traditionally performed by women.

The architect Thiago Bernardes revisits the brilliant and controversial life and career of his Grandfather, Sérgio Bernardes (1919 - 2002). Through a vast granted material he explores the trajectory of one of the greatest Brazillian architects.

Documentary about the epidemic of fires in favelas in the city of Sao Paulo and its relationship with real estate speculation. Includes testimonies of former mayor Fernando Haddad, journalist Leonardo Sakamoto, and urban planners such as Nabil Bonduki, Ermínia Maricato and Ana Paula Bruno. In addition to these, there are also compelling testimonies from victims of the fires, as well as from other authorities, such as city councillors who composed the controversial Parliamentary Inquiry Commission investigating the fires in 2012 and the Civil Defence.

The documentary takes a voyage of discovery about festivals, rituals, cooking, music and dance, revealing the struggle to keep alive the culture of its African ancestors and Candomblé.

This fantastic documentary seeks to rescue the Brazilian prehistoric records through popular culture, folklore and legends connected to it. A look at the origin of Brazilian history led by real characters, elders of Brazil’s interior, who keep the myths that have been passed down for centuries in small social groups. With texts by Bernardo Silva Ramos, one of the pioneers in the discovery and interpretation of rock art.

The National Truth Commission, installed in 2011 to investigate crimes committed during a military dictatorship, brought to the public a still very obscure chapter of our history: the existence of an indigenous detention center in the city of Resplendor (MG), called Reformatório Krenak . First installed within the territory of the Krenak ethnic group, and later transferred to Carmésia, it imprisoned and tortured not only Krenak indigenous people, but several other ethnic groups such as the Pataxó, imposing restrictions on their ancestral practices under relentless surveillance by the military. The documentary shows how this concentration camp worked, and the consequences of this collective trauma for the affected indigenous peoples.