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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.

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?

Lucha libre is part of Mexican culture, but how did something that was shown in circuses and fairs become a cinematic genre? Join us to learn about this trajectory.

A little girl presents the construction of the place she lives now.

"they lived and laughed und loved end left" — a filmed diary of 2013

Video compilation by Mike Patton featuring various shocking film clips such as coprophagia, BDSM, Budd Dwyer's suicide, a young boy drowning, Mr. Bungle's music video for “Travolta”, skits starring Mike Patton, and much, much more.

In the age of multiplexes, a small Brazilian movie theater strives to survive with an alternative programming in the city of Maceió.

Helena Ignez is one of the main female figures of Brazilian cinema. She developed a new style of acting. Nowadays, she directs independent films. The documentary tells some of the History of Brazilian cinema, its political context and Helena's trajectory.

In the midst of a breathtaking landscape of mountains and lakes in China lies a hidden Taoist temple dedicated to Xiwangmu, a deity capable of granting immortality to those who achieve complete harmony with nature.

In 1918, Maria José Rebello from the state of Bahia applied for the national admission exam for the diplomatic career, a fact that left much of society astonished. Setting a precedent as the first woman to join the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Maria began a 100-year journey for Brazilian women in diplomacy.

André Câmara is a 45-year old Brazilian photographer who's been living in London for 20 years. 87-year-old Maria do Socorro left for the US 25 years ago to follow her son, Fernando. Both André and Maria wish to return to live in Brazil. In this attempt, difficulties boil up in André's journey as he faces a need to reconnect both emotionally and professionally. Neither has any idea of what kind of country lies ahead after more than two decades away from it. The place they fled from is no longer the same one they left behind. Between emigration and a return to their roots, they will have to forge a new identity.

Despite the primarily male environment, women are increasingly seen within metal, not only as an audience, but also in various bands. Even with prejudice always present, metal also begins to integrate the presence of trans women, who seek their space within this art, with talent and a lot of stage presence.

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.

A documentary about urban violence in Brazil, especially in Rio de Janeiro. Policemen, drug dealers, and shantytown dwellers get trapped in a daily war that knows no winners.

A behind-the-scenes look at the making of Glauber Rocha's 1980 production "A Idade da Terra" (The Age of Earth), including unedited clips taken from the sixty hours of recovered raw footage.

Documentary about the life and work of conductor Jorge Antunes, made by filmmaker Carlos Del Pino in 2005. The film won an award and was financed by the Ministry of Culture, in the DocTV 2 project. The saga of the composer, teacher and conductor Jorge Antunes is shown in this 51-minute documentary. Jorge Antunes, a pioneer of electronic music in Brazil, emerged in this musical genre in 1961. Today he is considered one of the most important composers of experimental classical music in Brazil, and is considered by international critics to be the "leader of avant-garde music in Brazil". Many of his works are politically engaged: the composer is a political activist, member and leader of the PSOL (Socialism and Freedom Party). Among his main works in this line, the opera Olga, the Elegia Violeta para Monsenhor Romero and the Sinfonia das Diretas (Sinfonia das Buzinas) stand out, the production of which is reported in detail in the film.

Abrindo o Armário dives into the process of liberation and conquests of the gay movement in Brazil. Through interviews, archival images and artistic performances, the film shows how homosexuals from different generations faced resistance, conquered spaces and fought for the right to construct a political, social and collective identity.

At the age of 93, shortly before her death, Anésia Pinheiro Machado takes the viewer on a journey through the 20th century, showing how she fell in love with aviation and the difficulties she had to manage to infiltrate a newborn environment and until then dominated by men. Anésia, in the interviews recorded for the film, recounts her experiences as one of the pioneers in aviation.

João Gilberto receives Caetano Veloso, Gilberto Gil and Maria Bethânia during the recording of his album Brasil.

Records the sights and sounds of the many extraordinary street musicians from the Northeast of Brazil whose music and lyrics tell the stories of their lives with improvised humor, drama and colorful vulgarisms.

In a building in the south-central area of ​​Manaus, the most contrasting reactions are recorded during an earthquake felt by the building's residents. Meanwhile, the gardener Elizon describes in his own way the causes and possible consequences of the event.

A deep investigation, in the way of a poetic essay, on one of the main Latin American movements in cinema, analyzed via the thoughts of its main authors, who invented, in the early 1960s, a new way of making movies in Brazil, with a political attitude, always near to people's problems, that combined art and revolution.

"I walk for mystery, I live for mystery ... Our body is a machine, or does it take care of it or do you know it?" Between the memories of the nightclub and reports of daily resistance: Tikal dances and defies standards.

Heir to one of the richest families in Brazil, at the beginning of the 20th century, Jorge Guinle decided from a young age that he would not work a day in his life. A cultured, generous and charming man, Jorginho, as he was known, lived in luxury and wealth, met the most powerful men and most desirable women of his time, and died at eighty-eight years of age by a miscalculation: he didn't imagine that he would stay so long on the planet.

A documentary that explores the history and impact of magazines, newspapers, fanzines, and other journalistic media produced by and for the LGBTQIAPN+ community in Brazil. The idea for the documentary came about in 2020, during the pandemic, when the director began studying the history of the LGBTQIAPN+ press, an investigation that resulted in a video for the filmmaker's YouTube channel, published in 2021. The film presents an overview of the LGBTQIAPN+ press, from the mimeograph in the 1960s to the internet today, and is also a portrait of Brazilian society and the evolution of the rights achieved by this community.

'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.

This docudrama portrays the true story of Flordelis dos Santos, a strong and courageous woman from Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. She resided in the Jacarezinho favela, located in the northern zone of the city. From facing drug dealers to challenging judges, she had an eventful life. Her determination led her to shelter and care for over 40 abandoned children, showcasing her unwavering resilience.

This delicate and impressive collection of life experiences centers on a group of foreigners -- Chinese, Peruvian, North American, Senegalese, Australians, French -- who are trapped in Brazilian jails.

Based on Michael O’Neill’s book of the same name, this documentary tells the story of the ten years the author spent photographing yoga’s great masters. Created as a deep extension of the original book, the film poses very human questions from our current perspective, mixing it with elements of movement and experiential sound, resulting in a new view of the Art of Yoga.

In the film’s own words, "the objective is to recreate in five chants the synergy that generates revolutions." In 2018, a wave of protests toppled the political oligarchy that perpetuated power for over a decade in Armenia, in what became known as the Velvet Revolution. Thoughtfully staged and split into separate acts, or "chants," each is a film unto itself—microcosm, self, home, society, and macrocosm. Experimental elements are used to suggest connections through images, while voiceovers and text overlays provide historical and social context to the images.

The documentary portrays the confrontation of students with agents of the military regime, which became known as "The Battle of Maria Antônia". The event took place at Maria Antônia Street, which housed the Faculty of Philosophy of USP and the Mackenzie Presbiterian University, ended with the death of the student José Guimarães and the arson of the Faculty of Philosophy.

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.