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Discover the daily life of a small Muslim village in the Casamansa region, southern Senegal, full of rites, music and magic. The inhabitants try to survive and maintain their traditions, in the midst of civil war and the smuggling of goods.
Patricia, Zahreen, Jamile, Maria, Jamila and Marcela are cariocas women who adopted Islam as a religion and began to wear the hijab, a traditional veil that covers the hair of Muslim women. The film dialogues with these women and shows the consequences of this religious option in their relationship with their families, at school and work
Join the enchanting journey as a city awakens, its components harmonizing in a grand symphony of self-expression, where every brick, tree, and whisper shapes its own destiny.
Mothers share their experiences adopting their children.
You left without giving me the chance to say goodbye. It's only now that I'm traveling alone away from Goiás that I can say goodbye. That's why I'm writing you this letter.
A little girl presents the construction of the place she lives now.
The daily life and development of young models of an agency located in the Jacarezinho favela, North Zone of Rio de Janeiro.
A documentary on Brazilian artist Siron Franco.
Documentary about the historic interview conducted by director Zelito Viana with Darcy Ribeiro about the Brazilian indigenous people in 1977. Actor Marcos Palmeira reproduces the anthropologist's lines.
This documentary is a collection of interviews of homosexual boys who are proud to be labeled queers. They discuss the stigma behind the word and how they reacted to homophobic attacks they've face at some point of their lives.
An eye-opening he said/she said perspective on timbó fishing, a traditional practice of the Indigenous Yanomami people that involves the entire community and a vine used to stun fish, seamlessly blends preservation documentary, origin myth, magic realism and the reality of mining and economic threats to Yanomami culture in this formally inventive reclamation.
What does your hair say about you? With this question, we approached more than forty people in Salvador, Belém do Pará, Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo and the answers reveal stories of resistance, conquest, affirmation and overcoming. Based on ethnic, age, socioeconomic and gender diversity, we can draw an original portrait of contemporary Brazil from the hair of Brazilians.
Maria and her people work to reforest their ancestral indigenous territory by transforming an abandoned sewer in their village on the outskirts of São Paulo. As they fight for land recognition rights, their deep spiritual connection with nature and the Guarani Mbya culture empower them to become guardians of Atlantic Forest's last remnants in Latin America's largest metropolis.
A requiem to polish poet Rafal Wojaczek
The documentary portrays the situation of black dancers on the national scene, paying tribute to the black body and its rhythms. Making use of consecrated and contemporary names from the universe of dance in Brazil, the production reproduces a history of black dance in the country.
Gisele says she is the only female guitarist to wear niqab. Leading a heavy metal band, she shows the world that she is serious.
A double love tribute: to the final film by Yasujiro Ozu (1903-1963) ‘An Autumn Afternoon’ or ‘Sanma no Aji’ (1962) and ‘A Rising Sun That Painted My Horizon' (2018). An archival re-appropriation cine-poem. A found footage haiku.
A new-old disease returns to haunt humanity. Experts, doctors and the population discuss its existence
Artistic experimental documentary short that explores the universe of Brazilian artist Lygia Clark. Sensorial experiences, the perception of the body, forms and tactile sensations are mixed and reflect the human race as part of the cosmos, getting lost to find itself. Art, stripped of its virtuous image, as an action of the common human being, the expression of living things, runs from the mechanical repetition of movements and attitudes.
35mm record of the figures that still haunt the Boca do Lixo de Cinema, in São Paulo. With emphasis on the deterioration of the cinematographic support itself, as well as the abandoned movie theaters in Cinelândia. And of course, the end of Cinema as a whole.
A detailed retrospective of an emblematic moment in Brazilian history, the abolition of slavery, presented from another perspective. Contrary to what was preached by textbooks and other aspects of official history for a long time, it was not merely the signature of Princess Elizabeth in the Golden Law on May 13, 1888, that freed the slaves, and neither was such a gift a gift or a step in the direction of mythological racial democracy.
The story of the pursuit of a dream. It's a trip into the mind of a journalist and photographer in a challenge at the Mont-Blanc, France. The documentary reveals how he tried to reach out for his potential and understand the passion for climbing and the love for the mountains. It shows that it's is not about going higher, but reaching further.
An intimate portrait of a composer reflecting on the birth of music, suspended between intuition and the meticulous work of shaping sounds, timbres, and rhythms. Drawing from childhood memories, marked by a home filled with music, Birkett revisits his relationship with the guitar and with free creation, both before and after theory.
A decadent and symbolist Portuguese poet, António Nobre died of tuberculosis at the age of 32 (1900), having published only one book (Só, 1892). A symbolist Brazilian poet, Augusto dos Anjos died of pneumonia at the age of 30 (1914), having published only one book (Eu, 1912).
A look at the raftsmen of Ceará and their craft - entangled by the fishing tradition and the bravery to face the sea, its perils and its mysteries.
The documentary Black Rio! Black Power! looks at the influence of the Black Rio movement on culture, society and the struggle for racial justice in Rio de Janeiro and Brazil between the 1970s and 1980s. The film shows the movement's impact on music and on the direction of politics and the black movement during the period of re-democratization, influencing genres such as hip-hop and funk, and the affirmative stance of the younger generations, who perpetuate the black pride and aesthetic appreciation spread by Black Rio 50 years ago.
In 2015, Brazil was struck by the biggest environmental disaster in its history, when the dam for a mine reservoir collapsed and 40 million cubic meters of toxic sludge flooded into the Rio Doce. The pollution then spread out for hundreds of kilometers—all the way to the Atlantic Ocean.
Invisible Water Layers discusses and questions the origins of Teresina and its urbanization over the years. The film deals with the move from the capital of Piauí to Oeiras in 1852, the ideas of modernity at the time and the problems that resulted from this process in people and in the city. Along with the idea of progress of the railway, factories and steamboats, many families and workers were relocated from the central areas of the city to more distant parts. The traditional ways of life of these people coexisted, not free from conflict, with the will of civility of the local elites. With 4 interviewees, including architects, historians and researchers, the film also brings a rich set of images from different places in the city, such as the Center, the Parnaíba riverbank and the Poty Velho neighborhood.
Nitrato expresses the ambiguities and contradictions of the Cinemateca Brasileira. The film deals with the richness of its collection, the recognition of international entities, and explores what its relationship to the general public was like. Nitrato also portrays the neglect with which the institution is treated, as seen in how precarious its building infrastructure is, how politicians neglected to communicate with the institution’s staff, and the aftermath of another fire in the building.
The documentary questions the knowledge of sociology in the face of the crises of the contemporary world. Experts in the subject discuss and evaluate the usefulness of this discipline and propose new ways for its application.
In the dressing room of the French cinema, minutes before attending a lecture, François Truffaut recalls his trajectory
Between here and there, we do not belong anywhere. The world collapses into snow and flames.
In 458 BCE, Aeschylus staged the Orthasty trilogy. The tragedy culminates in the trial of Orestes, who killed his own mother to avenge his father's death. His acquittal by the Athenian jury put an end to the eye for an eye, tooth for tooth and converted from the Erinias, goddesses of revenge, in Eumenides, as defenders of the democracy, a civilizing landmark in the western culture.
This hybrid documentary, crafted for the Psychosocial Processes II course at UNIRIOS, intricately weaves together contemporary perceptions of female aging in the Alto Sertão of Alagoas. Through the eyes and lived experiences of its central character, the film delves into the nuanced expressions of womanhood as it intertwines with the passage of time, offering an intimate exploration of identity and resilience in a richly textured cultural landscape.
In the words of the director, a movie about 'the colonizers in the view of the colonized', the movie presents a series of disconnected happenings throughout Europe and Brazil emphasizing the perception of human life as trance-like experiences and thus offering a view of the human history as a connection of symbolic behavior.
The story of the University of Brasília, since it was only a project in Darcy Ribeiro's head until the fateful events in August 1968 when its campus was invaded by the police, during the military dictatorship, thus putting an end to its independence.
A poetic and personal cinematic meditation on displacement and loss, SKIN OF GLASS follows filmmaker Denise Zmekhol’s journey after discovering that her late father's most celebrated work as an architect, a modernist glass skyscraper in the heart of São Paulo, Brazil, has become occupied by hundreds of homeless families.
Cassandra Rios was a writer who caused controversy in the 1970s. In the middle of the Military Dictatorship, she addressed homosexuality in her works, being persecuted under allegations of pornography. With testimonials from friends, family, readers, and colleagues, a tribute to a pioneering artist who showed the woman as a sexual being and still opened space for the discussion of a topic considered taboo.
The challenges to keep the forest standing
A feature documentary on the life and work of Brazilian conductor, teacher, musicologist and composer José Siqueira. Founder of some of the most important Brazilian orchestras, including the Brazilian Symphonic Orchestra, Siqueira was part of the 3rd. nationalist generation of Brazilian composers who used folklore as a source of inspiration and emphasized their northeastern roots in their work. An artist and leader of the musical class who showed the world the strength and diversity of Brazilian culture and who remains unknown in his own country after having his history erased by the Brazilian military dictatorship.
"My Uncle with the Camera" follows 30 years of home movies shot by Paulo Henrique of his family in Vitória—an upper-middle-class family from Espírito Santo growing up in Brazil during the 1990s and 2000s. Through the intimate gaze of his camera, a political panorama of Brazil emerges, shaped by masculine family affectivity.
São Paulo, the largest city of South America. Eighteen million inhabitants. Over seven million vehicles trying to move in a jammed traffic… And in the middle of this chaos, over 500 thousand motorcycle couriers risking themselves to satisfy the immediacy of our needs. Three die everyday, and yet the working class remains despised, rejected and misunderstood by society.
Shot across three continents, in New York, São Paulo and Cape Town, this documentary chronicles the intergenerational experiences of spatial violence and its correlation to apartheid spatial planning and its modern incarnation, gentrification.