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The long awaited documentary about Sepultura's incredible journey from Brazil to the world.

In September 2007 Júlio Bressane goes to Ferrara. In the cemetery of the Italian city he ends up making two movies.

A spell breaking, Quebrante traverses the caves, ruins and phantasmagorias of the Transamazon BR230 Highway, portraying its stones and its ghosts. Set in tiny Rurópolis, the very first town ever built on the road, Quebrante follows Ms. Erismar, a retired elementary school teacher known in the region as The Cave Woman.

On the tranquil island of Paquetá, in Guanabara Bay, northwest of the city of Rio de Janeiro, someone is relaxing on the shore beside the rocks. Intimate telephone conversations contrast against news reports about the war in Ukraine, which is taking place simultaneously on a different plane.

At 84 years of age, Lúcia Rocha admitted herself to a hospital in São Paulo to undergo heart tests. Upon receiving the news about the risk to her life, Lúcia, laconic, tells the doctor: 'Then open it'. This is the second time she has undergone bypass surgery. From this gesture, the documentary Abry was born (with y, sign of the unconscious, according to the nomenclature invented by his son, Glauber Rocha). To relate her memories, she invites filmmaker Joel Pizzini, who offers his mini camera as an instrument to amplify Lúcia's imagination. Abry is a poetic dive into Lúcia Rocha's fabulous universe, reconstructing her trajectory in Brazilian cinema through sounds, images and characters with whom she lived closely.

In 2021, at 27 years old, Brazilian superstar Gabriel Medina won his third world title, then withdrew from from competition. This film follows Gabriel through Indonesia on a personal journey to see the world from a new perspective.

Documentary about Waldemar Iglésias, a man living in Sorocaba, Brazil, who has been to the movies on a daily basis for 58 years. He talks about his childhood, his dreams, his favorite actors and actresses and the classic movies and cartoons.

A philosophical inquiry about the miracle, through the interview with three specialists that seek to understand the specificity of these phenomena.

A source of inspiration for the cinematography of Ugo Giorgetti, São Paulo is once again the backdrop to this documentary in which the theme is the specialty of the city's culinary.

Searching and digging through the different resolutions that composes Brazilian cinema.

In a cluster of neighborhoods in the West Zone of São Paulo, common people have resisted for decades by providing coexistence and recollecting reminiscences amid the gentrification and verticalization process.

Dálvaro José de Oliveira survived the German attack that sank two Brazilian ships in 1942.

A documentary by Eduardo Coutinho about a hired-gun from Brazil's Northeast.

A look at the historic match between Corinthian Casuals and Corinthians São Paulo

Silenciados is a documentary that gives voice to the families of victims of urban violence in Brazil. Through their stories, the film discusses controversial subjects in the public debate: impunity, public security and minimum age of criminal responsibility. Unlikely the majority of Brazilian films that victimize the perpetrators, this documentary shows who are the real victims.

At four points in his life, meet Mr. Bao Jinshan, the Mongolian calligrapher from the city of Ordos, in Inner Mongolia, through his great talent with the brush, pen, paper and ink plate, the four treasures of calligraphy. A worker, an apprentice, a teacher and a preserver of the ancient Mongolian language, Mr. Bao dedicated his life's work to this great form of art and communication that is calligraphy.

A Brazilian documentary that shows the harmful effects of massive meat production in Brazil, reporting the deterioration of amazon forest and mistreatment suffered by animals in all the process of producing meat.

In the midst of a pandemic, government arbitrariness and the precariousness of Brazilian artists, the documentary shows how these four rappers resisted the difficulties of this period using only one weapon... music. Using plurality, creativity and cleverness, how did they produce music? What role did music play in this period? What did they have to do to stay alive as rappers?

In the late seventies, a group of Brazilian documentary filmmakers traveled to the ABC region in the suburbs of São Paulo with the purpose of recording a wave of worker strikes taking place in response to the negligence of the increasingly powerful and abusive automotive industry. Documenting striking women metal workers, Olga Futemma and Renato Tapajós’ Trabalhadoras Metalúrgicas is a particularly vigorous work among the films produced during this moment in São Paulo worker history. Scenes filmed during the first Congress of Metallurgical Women of São Bernardo and Diadema in 1978 are intercut with images documenting the appalling working conditions against which the women featured in the congress were striking.

This controversial film from director Glauber Rocha records the funeral of his friend, major Brazilian painter Emiliano Di Cavalcanti.

Aromantic people share their own experiences and perspectives on cinema, a medium dominated by romance standardized by normativity. Interviewees reveal how the way cinema portrays romantic relationships has affected them from childhood to the present day.

Mother, wife and daughter talk about the reality of living with the absence of a relative imprisoned.

A hug movie, for the biggest storyteller in Latin America.

In 1958, Rodolfo Nanni made the documentary "O Drama das Secas" (The Drama of Droughts) in the semi-arid region of northeastern Brazil. Half a century later, the director returns to the northeast, following the same route as his previous film. Now, he addresses not only the difficulties faced by small farmers, who continue to face enormous challenges, but also examines the issue of global climate change and its devastating consequences.

Xiclet is a plastic artist who settled in São Paulo in the early years 2000 and has since transformed the house where he lives in a public space, focused on the dissemination of artists who stay out of the great circuit of the arts. In addition to artist and galley, Xiclet is a tireless teaser of the "status quo".

The journey of a woman from Pernambuco and her rejection to everything that seems to have no way. Living deep dilemmas in personal life and trying to rebuild other lives, she begins a journey through the prisons of Recife, in the intention that parents recognize their children. Experiencing solitude in his own skin, Marli shows us that affection can be redemptive and that lack of hope is the most intolerable evil for the human being.

Documentary about the second feminist wave in Brazil.

Portrait of the polemic visit of the blogger Yoani Sanchez throughout Brazil, showing the activist's background in Cuba, in order to discuss freedom of speech in the world today.

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Responsible for some of São Paulo’s most iconic buildings, Artacho Jurado blended colors, shapes, and textures to create an architecture that, decades later, still feels ahead of its time.

The story of the black American linguist Lorenzo Dow Turner, responsible for recording and photographing the Candomblé terreiros, in Bahia, between 1940 and 1941, generating an unprecedented collection.

“Dub Echoes” is a documentary that traces the origins of the Jamaican dub music and it’s influence on the development of hip hop and electronic music.The film shows how the Jamaican invention called dub ended up influencing much of the music we hear today, from electronic music to hip-hop, transforming the studio in a musical instrument and giving way to all of sonic experiments.

Monumental live document of one of the most popular German heavy metal legends of all time. Released to celebrate the bands 25th anniversary. Included are songs from all episodes of the band's journey and was recorded on May 7th in Sao Paulo's Directive Hall, Brazil. The DVD also features the documentary " A Journey To Brazil" as a bonus. Nuclear Blast. 2005.

Short film created for the 2012 anthology 'Mundo Invisível' (Invisible World).

Six stories of children and adolescents who had their rights violated, and the reality of the Rights Councils and Guardianship Councils (newly created in 1995) of two Brazilian cities, Blumenau and Belo Horizonte.

A fictional love letter provides a real encounter.

People are driven by their passion for sports, which is nothing new when it comes to football in Brazil. Yet not all forms of love are allowed on and off the field. In this scenario, the multi-sport team from the Southern State of Curitiba, Capivara Esporte Clube, tells its experience in fighting homophobia and trying to include both male and female homosexuals in the traditional sport.

Mr. Biu (Seu Biu) was the last native resident of Tatuoca Island in Pernambuco (Northeast Brazil), a place now considered part of the territory controlled by the Suape Port Industrial Complex. The Suape Complex controls the region and through its #miliciasuape it has been intimidating, expelling and removing the local populations. A carpenter, Mr. Biu has fabricated tables for years; in her project made for “Convocatória para um Mobiliário Brasileiro” (“Open Call for a Brazilian Furniture”) an installation at the MASP (Art Museu of São Paulo), the artist Carla Lombardo dubbed these tables as “Gentrificada” (“Gentrified”). The movie builds a regime of visualization with technical images that invite us to think about representation and orientation in a world of data.

“Carioca,” Chico Buarque’s first DVD of original songs since As Cidades (1998), features musical direction and arrangements by Luiz Cláudio Ramos and production by Vinícius França. The repertoire includes the choro-canção Subúrbio and Sempre, a track composed for the film O Maior Amor do Mundo, among others. In this work, the artist speaks about his city with the youthful spirit reminiscent of the age when he first earned his famous nickname. Voltei a Cantar / Mambembe / Dura na Queda / O Futebol / Morena na Angola / Renata Maria / Outros Sonhos / Imagina / Porque Era Ela, Porque Era Eu / Sempre / Mil Perdões / A História de Lily Braun / A Bela e a Fera / Ela É Dançarina / As Atrizes / Ela Faz Cinema / Eu Te Amo / Palavra de Mulher / Leve / Bolero Blues / As Vitrines / Subúrbio / Morro dos Irmãos / Futuros Amantes / Bye Bye Brasil / Cantando no Toró / Grande Hotel / Ode aos Ratos / Na Carreira / Deixe a Menina / Sem Compromisso / Quem Te Viu, Quem Te Vê / João e Maria

“when I think of all the things I’ve been thinking of I feel insane”