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The boy runs after the ball. The worker builds concrete dreams between buildings and soccer balls in a lowland field in Recife. The poet receives a word ball, gives a literal stroke and makes an imaginary goal in this film about football, passion and poetry. João Cabral's America goes beyond the four lines of the field or paper, it transcends time and the field; update the memory to the fact that the love of football will not be volatile or ephemeral, neither in defeat nor in victory.

The short film Studies on entangled life portrays a poetic look on the symbiosis between fungi and plant roots, known as mycorrhizas, and their relationship with soil health. The narrative is intertwined with the transformative experience of pregnancy.

A short film on Brazilian filmmaker Carlos Reichenbach and his works, including interviews with those who worked with him and with the man himself.

"Bs.As." is an experimental documentary film that reframes the history of immigration from Galicia (Spain) to Buenos Aires (Argentina). A Galician man's curiosity about his long-lost relatives who immigrated to Buenos Aires takes him on a surreal journey across times and space. Through travel, photographs, letters, and phone calls he explores the unpredictable ways in which immigration creates both bonds and distance between people and places. "Bs.As." received various awards including the Premio Foco Galicia (Tui, 2007).

The documentary closely follows the turbulent months of the electoral period that culminated in the invasion of the National Congress, the Planalto Palace and the STF on January 8, 2023.

"Casulo Musical" is a documentary that explores Brazilian rock artist Pitty’s creative process during a unique musical project born in pandemic lockdown. The film follows collaborative songwriting sessions with various artists in her home studio and showcases the making of her 2022 EP Casulo, released alongside her new label of the same name. Divided into four episodes, it highlights the EP’s production during a Twitch channel series in 2021

The way artists see their art, and how that makes them see the world.

Eight gay men between the ages of 50 and 70 share their memories, experiences, and nocturnal images, asking themselves what place their bodies now occupy.

Mestre Cupijó is one of the pillars of Pará music, pioneering rhythms like siriá and banguê. The documentary portrays how he and the musicians who accompanied him developed their sound.

Reminiscences (1909-26), family film by Ouro Preto filmmaker Aristides Junqueira, collection of the MAM-Rio Cinematheque and Brazilian Cinemateca, is unveiled in his stories and points of view in the form of a filmic essay with archive footage, family scenes, interviews and voiceover to tell the unknown biography of a Brazilian film pioneer.

Sugarcane is cut and milled in an animal-drawn mill. The sugarcane juice is taken to a tank to strain the liquid. The bagasse is used to feed the furnace that heats the pan where the juice is boiled. The mill grinds the coffee, whose husk is also used as fuel to feed the furnace. Care is taken with the boiling juice to reach the required consistency. The molasses is then obtained, which is beaten, deposited in molds and, after drying, removed and its burrs trimmed.

In the First Republic (1889-1930) as well as in the Vargas Era (1930-1945) the traditional terreiro communities were criminalized, their religious leaders were persecuted and their sacred objects were seized. In Rio de Janeiro, more than 200 objects were seized by the police, and after the end of the official criminalization, they became part of the collection in the Museum of Civil Police. The documentary The Sacred within us deals with the past of persecution towards traditional terreiro communities, the "Black Magic" collection found in the Police Museum, the difficulty of access to the collection by religious, researchers and the population in general, as well as the struggle for to release the sacred objects that have been in the possession of the Civil Police of the State of Rio de Janeiro for 100 years.

The film narrates, from an intimate point of view, the daily life of President Dilma Rousseff in her official residence, the Palácio do Alvorada, while awaiting the verdict of the impeachment process. Portraying the hallways of the palace, designed by Oscar Niemeyer, we see the coming and going of political meetings, the daily routine of the kitchen, the exchange of guards, whispers and phone calls. We feel the growing tension of officials, advisers and former ministers.

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Delve into the life of Antônio José Santana Martins, known as Tom Zé. Born in Bahia, this scholar of Brazilian music heads to São Paulo to propel a career filled with unusual and hilarious stories. The tropicalist artist revisits memories of his childhood in Irará, shares stories about his fellow tropicalismo movement colleagues, and reveals how his album "Estudando o Samba" won over David Byrne and launched him onto the global stage.

One hair salon. Seven haircuts. Seven experiences of exile. The documentary stars the owner of the salon, Fernando “Pablo” Mupapa, as he unfolds from the haircut ritual to open himself up to the voices and reports of immigrants from the Democratic Republic of Congo living in Brazil. Through a connection with Africa, the dialogues between Pablo and his clients recorded by the filmmakers reveal assertions of identity and the dream of an anti-imperialist revolution.

The documentary portrays the life of Bahian communist leader Giocondo Dias, the left-wing activist who lived two thirds of his life in hiding and led the PCB party as general secretary.

The documentary covers the carrer of Ivair Ferreira, striker and left winger revealed by Portuguesa de Desportos in the 1960s. Nicknamed "The Prince of Football" by The King of Football (Pelé) himself. He was in the "Yeah, Yeah, Yeah" attacking trio of Portuguesa (alongside Leivinha and Servílio) where he played for fifteen years; was in Corinthians' attacking duo with Rivellino; and North American champion playing for the Toronto Metros-Croatia with Eusébio.

After an initial meeting in 1964 interrupted by military dictatorship and a new meeting in the early 1980s to end the film "Twenty Years Later", Eduardo Coutinho once again find Elizabeth Teixeira, survivor of peasant struggles.

For the first time ever, experience the work of a nation as it host the world and puts on a show like never before.

The infamous anti-hero Marcelo Nascimento da Rocha is one of the greatest Brazilian con artists ever that has lured several persons with his schemes. The director and writer Mariana Caltabiano proposes to write his biography and to make a documentary about his life, and she is also lured by the swindler that discloses his rise and fall.

The work and life of the important Brazilian filmmaker Geraldo Sarno are intimately revealed during the filming of the series "Sertão de Dentro" and the feature film "Sertânia".

On the violent border between Brazil and Paraguay, a war is being waged around the expansion of agribusiness. On one side sits lawyer Luana Ruiz, the heiress to contested lands and one of the strongest supporters of president Jair Bolsonaro. Ruiz, like other ruralistas—rural wealthy elites and agribusiness producers who advocate for Indigenous cultural annihilation—has become empowered and her ideas of hate have flourished under Bolsonaro's anti-Indigenous agenda. On the other side sits teacher, Guarani-Kaiowá leader and activist Alenir Ximendes, embodying powerful Indigenous resistance and communal ideals. Having personally suffered losses at the hands of the ruralistas, Ximendes emerges as a powerful force against Ruiz, fighting for the protection of her community, their lands and Indigenous constitutional rights. This film contains sensitive images and dialogue in its portrayal of this urgent struggle for sovereignty.

Chico Science, Nação Zumbi, and their manguebeat. This is the theme of the documentary. The film explores the story of an artist, a band, and a musical genre that emerged in the early '90s, blending the roots of Brazilian culture with contemporary and international influences. As a result, the art, cinema, and especially the sound known as "manguebeat" stood out in the country's music scene as something entirely unique, original, and inspiring.

In the post-pandemic future of covid-19, will the centrality be the financial casino and the accumulation of wealth by an elite or a quality life for all, with less inequality? Did the minimal state show itself capable of serving the collective? How to guarantee life without social and labor rights? What model of society do we want to live in? The film addresses the dismantling of the concept of social welfare and makes us reflect on the incompatibility of neoliberalism with a humanist project of society.

A folk festival in the city of Teresina in Piauí, is portrayed with all the elegance in the lens of photographer Pedrinho de Moraes and filmmaker Paulo Cezar Saraceni. A dance of colors, folklore and the beautiful nature of the region.

A fictional love letter provides a real encounter.

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.

Who cares for the mothers who care? Tatiana, Simone, Shirley, Luciana and Natália have something in common: they are mothers of people with disabilities. In addition to life being transformed by motherhood, special needs children require even more availability. But the dreams and desires for life pulsate in their speeches and, especially, the transformed and challenging learning from the experience of being mothers of children with disabilities.

Documentation of the preparations and expeditions of the Frente de Atração Arara da Funai, in the state of Pará, Brazil. With the construction of the Transamazônica, the Arara territory (without contact with the white man) is cut in half, and the Indians react by attacking the workers. Aware that all contact is a creation of dependency, the sertanista Sydney Possuelo, who also reflexively narrates the documentary, leads the expeditions that aim to identify the groups, how many individuals there are, establishing territorial limits to protect the area against invaders and loggers in the region.

Documentary that addresses, through the testimony of directors and actors, the work of Dib Lutfi, considered one of the greatest photographers of Brazilian cinema.