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The film tells the story of the first skyscraper of São Paulo, the Martinelli building, and registers testimonials of its last residents who had to move after São Paulos’ municipality interdiction of the building. It shows the variety of human types and commercial establishments that used to exist inside the traditional building.

Thousands of people from every corner of the world go to India every year for a spiritual experience that provides self-knowledge and healing of past trauma.

A hybrid feature film that investigates contemporaneity through the body and its countless possibilities of expression and meanings. The film puts the body and the idea of the body in evidence, through metalanguage, articulation and confrontation of documentary, fictional and performative languages. The film follows the trajectory of the main character who uses her own body to formulate universes and investigate the meanings that are drawn in it. In a kind of subjective diary written on her skin, she records sensations and reflections, building relationships with thinkers, performances and archival materials, which lead her to other bodies and other stories.

Lambe sujos X Caboclinhos is a documentary that addresses the characteristics, contradictions and conflicts of the folk manifestation Lambe sujos x Caboclinhos, an open-air street theater in which the battle is staged between negroes fled from the senzala and Indians who were hired by the lord of ingenuity to capture them and bring them back to the slavery.

Life is what we don't want it to be.

The story of Kenneth Ofori, a Ghanaian who found a new home in Brazil.

Barbara Marcel runs a film workshop at the Faculty of Fine Arts in Kinshasa. Starting with a discussion of the film The Lion Has Seven Heads by Glauber Rocha (Congo Brazzaville, 1969), the filmmaker questions the relationship between her country, Brazil, and the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Marlene offers an impassioned consideration of militant filmmaking.

Documentation of the production of cassava flour, a basic component in northeastern Brazilian food.

Armed with music and a message, influential hip-hop group Racionais MC's turned their street poetry into a powerful movement in Brazil and beyond.

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.

Rescue historic community of Caldeirão, devout religious movement led by José Lourenço, who organized a camp in primitive socialist mold. The community was destroyed by police from Ceará and bombing by planes, leaving more than a thousand peasants killed. Through testimonies and symbols of popular culture, the film is a reflection on the power, freedom, and struggle for land.

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.

2021. I arrived in Havana and had to isolate myself before going to my final destination, ideas of Cuba were being made, remade and unmade through the windows I passed, trying to make a home.

Through reports from people who live or have experienced the routine of fighting drug trafficking and the police, mixed with reports from security specialties, psychologists, writers and journalists, we want to present the public with both sides of the same tragedy. Without taking sides either way, bringing the viewer to reflect on our current public security policy and its consequences on the lives of the population.

A portrait of the one hundred years of Santos Football Club, where history is told by the real facts, their meaning and emotion. "To born, to live and to die Santos", the path of the first Brazilian football team to become World Champion twice since its foundation. From Pelé goals era to the irreverent football of Neymar’s generation, the history is told by supporters, players and historians, inserting the football passion into the cultural context of Brazil and inside each Brazilian as well.

Favela Olímpica unfolds in Rio de Janeiro on both sides of the wall separating the new Olympic Stadium and the favéla Vila Autódromo. Nothing prevents the co-existence of these two worlds but some judge them "incompatible" including Rio's mayor. His wish to reclaim these area reserved for Rio's poor since the 1990 sets off a lopsided power struggle as people with little means fight to keep their home. Meanwhile, the Opening Ceremony approaches . . .

Compilation of images by cameraman William Gericke (credited as producer and cinematographer), who for 50 years traveled around Brazil and recorded some rare images of the country's history in the 20th century.

Documentary about the self construction in peripheral neighborhoods of São Paulo. It gathers statements of residents of three areas: Taboão neighborhood in São Bernardo do Campo; Jardim d’Ávila in Osasco and Jardim Castilho in Embu. The film registers the life conditions in those areas and the sacrifice the workers are committed to in order to fulfill their dream of having a house: building, little by little, with the help of friends and relatives, on the weekends.

Dame, a Senegalese immigrant in Pelotas, achieves his biggest dream: to be a professional soccer player. On a trip to defend his new club, he recalls the difficult times he faced: missing Senegal, the difficulties as a street vendor, the illegal trip to Brazil and the longing for a love that was left behind.

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.

Celebrating the 50th anniversary of the most beloved Brazilian stadium: Canindé.

3’00” | DV | Colour | 2002 | Brazil Screening Format: DV Filming Format: Super 8 Directed, Photographed and edited by: Cao Guimarães Collective of people, streets, neighborhoods, names, of buses that lead people through the streets of neighborhoods named after people.

A short film essay on Blue Velvet (1986) and The Man Who Fell to Earth (1976). The fact that Blue Velvet was almost shot in black and white is explored in comparison with the original scenes, as the choices of different directors (within a ten-year interval) when choosing Roy Orbison's music for their films.

The documentary presents the saga of the construction of Brasília told by 50 women who arrived between 1956 and 1960. A new and feminine way of recovering the history of Brasília's beginnings. Times of dust and enthusiasm to contribute to the dream of JK, Niemeyer and Lucio Costa.

When women's football was authorized in Brazil in 1979, a club left the beach to dominate the fields and the sport in the 1980s. RADAR EC was the precursor of women's football in Brazil, filled Maracanã, and was responsible for the formation of first Brazilian team. A passionate story of a club that represented a nation.

The varied concepts of human rights in Latin America are discussed from the point of view of characters who are, in some cases, protagonists of the continent's contemporary history. Musicians, writers, architects, teachers; ordinary people in countries that are in a constant process of transforming their societies. Their testimonies address issues that go beyond what traditionally defines human rights. Presented in internal chapters within the documentary, the film deals with the understanding of individual and collective rights such as issues of gender, sexual orientation, education, communication, environment, indigenous peoples, public security, and military dictatorships. Human rights can be an element of integration in Latin America through a new vision of the concepts that define life as a basic right to be conquered.

The panorama of film production, from 1898 to 1966, told through the work of young pioneers who built the odyssey of cinema. The lines, styles and trends are in this anthology of many of the best moments of Brazilian Cinema, which seeks, in a moment of maturity, to perpetuate and encourage the impetus of the pioneers.

A recollection of moments between a kid and his granduncle that leads to a personal exploration.

On January 14, 2012, 10,000 devotees of "São Marcos de Palestra Itália" stopped the streets of the west zone of São Paulo to thank the graces received during its 20 years of career from their patron saint who exclusively defended the alviverde goal of the Palmeiras and the Brazilian team.

Documentary about Brazilian music circa 1969, with extremely rare scenes, such as the only color footage of Pixinguinha, images of João da Baiana, one of the fathers of Samba, Maria Bethânia rehearsing at Barroco nightclub, Baden Powell playing his acoustic guitar, Paulinho da Viola showing his masterpiece "Coisas do Mundo, Minha Nega", that he had just finished, and Márcia, a singer from São Paulo.

Tribute to the Carioca poet Ana Cristina Cesar, with quotes from Charles Baudelaire, Sylvia Plath, Czeslaw Milosz, T. S. Eliot, Armando Freitas Filho, Cacaso, Carlos Drummond de Andrade, and Manuel Bandeira, accompanied by music from Billie Holiday.

This Brazilian documentary follows four drag‑queen artists — Tchaka, Hellena Borgys, Márcia Pantera and Vera Ronzella — as they share their personal journeys, performances and identities. Filmed between late 2022 and early 2023, the film explores both the celebratory, glamorous side of drag performance and the challenges these performers face (prejudice, resistance, the work of building a public art identity). Beginning with their stories and everyday lives, the documentary invites viewers into their creative worlds — how each developed their persona, how they navigate their art in society, and how they claim their truth on stage and off.

A new-old disease returns to haunt humanity. Experts, doctors and the population discuss its existence

The documentary presents relics of the Riot Girrrl scene in Brazil that landed in São Paulo through cassette tape coming from the US state of Washington, where the movement was born.