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A requiem to polish poet Rafal Wojaczek

Filled with raunchy laughs, this documentary compiles outrageous scenes from sex-comedies that shaped Brazil's "pornochanchada" boom of the 1970s.

Music, history and traditions of black community of amazonic Brazil.

Karoline, a filmmaker and the daughter of a domestic worker, embarks on a journey across Brazil to investigate the relationship between the slave quarters and the maid's room.

Installation depicting photographic portraits of indigenous Amazonian communities at Sebastião Salgado's Amazônia exhibition. Accompanied with music from Rodolfo Stroeter.

Documentary about the birth of bossa-nova, in Brazil, and the major stars of this musical style.

In this original film from the multistreaming O POVO+, five supernatural narratives from Ceará intertwine in a suspense that blurs between reality and fiction. The exhumation of a body, a child with an unexpected attitude, the story of the woman in black, the house from which a character is expelled and a woman who hears and sees things "from another world".

We question the most unquestionable period in our history. The result was an international investigation with part of secret attempts, discovery of Soviet documents and a lot of investigation by the Brazilian media. It was all under our eyes.

In a nostalgic and reflective tone, this 15-minute documentary revisits the decline of DVD rental stores in Brazil through the stories of three former store owners. Two of them share their experiences of closing their shops, while the third continues to run one that remains open to this day. A tribute to memories, technological transformations, and the enduring love for physical cinema.

A discussion on Brazilian cinema, focusing on São Paulo's Boca do Lixo production pole.

Created by Haroldo Costa in 1956, "Brasiliana" was a Brazilian musical with a repertoire of Black music that toured the world, visiting more than 90 countries between the 1950s and 1960s. Bringing Afro-Brazilian music, dance, and culture to international audiences at a time when Brazil was still synonymous with "samba, football, and beautiful women," the show helped present a more authentic image of the country's culture to the world.

The life of Luz del Fuego, her artistic performances and involvement with naturism. One of the great Brazilian feminists and precursor of the Brazilian naturist movement.

During the Second World War, a cooperation agreement between the Brazilian and US governments led to the transportation of around 60,000 men from the Northeast of Brazil to the Amazon Region to work on the extraction of latex destined for the American arms industry. Half of these men died before they could return home and many others are still awaiting recognition as "national heroes" and the pensions equal to those of servicemen they had been promised.

In Porto Alegre, everyone has a story about a place that used to be and no longer exists. Between absences, memories, and traces of the early hours, the reasons for the closures and what still insists on remaining as a mark of the city are revealed.

A biography of Paulo César Farias, better known as PC Farias. PC was treasurer of former President Fernando Collor de Mello and was directly involved in the process that culminated in Collor's impeachment, deeply shaking the recently restored Brazilian democracy. The film features the participation of dozens of people who knew and lived with Farias, abundant documentation and exclusive archive material, which reveals the intricacies of Brazilian politics, focusing especially on the relationships between capital, ideology, power and organized crime.

How Do You See Me? is a Brazilian documentary feature that entwines both experienced actors and beginners to explore the hardships and the happiness that are inherent to the job when detached from the glam and glitz of the gossip industry, creating a diverse and comprehensive mosaic of what it means to be an actor in Brazil, a country so full of contradictions. The film brings forward a reality that the masses usually don't get to know: the men and women moved by a deep passion for acting and touching people. With Julio Adrião, Matheus Nachtergaele, José Celso Martinez, Cássia Kis, Nanda Costa, Babu Santana, Luciano Vidigal and Letícia Sabatella, among others.

Flute player Carlos Malta searches for traditional pife players and the mutual dependencies they share with the contemporary music to which he belongs.

Denise, Hannah and Leticia are three ordinary women with extraordinary stories to tell. As transgender people, they talk about the challenges of finding their true identities within an intolerant and prejudiced society.

An unusual adaptation from Guimarães Rosa's tales.

In the village of Koenju, in Rio Grande do Sul, young Mario and his "gang" make fun of the challenges of today's Mbya-Guarani reality.

It is a documentary about the trajectory of the liberation of the Brazilian woman's body and exposes the differences of this trajectory to white and black women. The film presents interviews, archive images that illustrate some of the factors that contributed to this liberation in Brazil - such as music, dance, fashion and the contraceptive pill - and proposes a discussion about feminism through the deconstruction of the masculine. The film incorporates fictional scenes where men do not realize their macho and racist behavior and full of class prejudices, rooted and accepted by society.

A psychiatrist and psychoanalyst from Rio Grande do Sul who lives in Rio, Carmem Dametto is 72 years old. Author of several books and an advocate of an unorthodox therapeutic approach, she currently sees her patients in an office located in her spacious home, which she practically never leaves. Her constant companion is her daughter Marcela, who always enjoyed swimming in the garden pool. Not anymore.

The trajectory of the Portuguese professor and activist Vítor Ramos is revisited by the look of his daughter Guiomar Ramos. Through letters and photographs, in addition to a trip to the countries where her father lived, she seeks to understand the circumstances of his death, very close to the Carnation Revolution (25/04/1974), a movement that would take him out of political exile after twenty years away from home.

José Mauro is nervous about leaving his old apartment. Hilda and him will move to a place where everything will be new again, after 35 years living together. Hilda doesn't know what to do with the objects from that house that was never hers, and from where José Mauro has not left for the past 20 years. Everything will be packed and the old mattresses thrown away.

A travelogue through the remains of São Paulo failing 80s economy, including its in ruins film industry.

Built as a letter to JK in his centenary, the film shows what remained in the memory of Brazilians 26 years after his passing in a car accident in August 1976.

Rescue bridge of the Tupinambá de Uruçumirim village, headquarters of the Tamoia Confederation until 1567, when it was destroyed in a genocidal operation, commanded by Portuguese led by Estácio de Sá, with the support of the Jesuits Manuel da Nóbrega and Anchieta, here founding the city of Rio de January. Testimony and contemporary point of view from Pajé Sapaim Kamayurá.

Exterínio proposes a reflection on the lives of trans women in a city in the interior of Rio Grande do Sul, based on a murder that occurred in 2016. Memories, provocations, life stories that intersect in a plot about the difficulties of living and being trans in the interior of the country that most murders trans women in the world.

Letter Beyond the Walls reconstructs the trajectory of HIV and AIDS with a focus on Brazil, through interviews with doctors, activists, patients and other actors, in addition to extensive archival material. From the initial panic to awareness campaigns, passing through the stigma imposed on people living with HIV, the documentary shows how society faced this epidemic in its deadliest phase over more than two decades. With this historical approach as its base, the film looks at the way HIV is viewed in today's society, revealing a picture of persistent misinformation and prejudice, which especially affects Brazil’s most historically vulnerable populations.

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.

Celebrating Maria Bethânia's 60-year career, showcasing her artistic intimacy and the union between poetry and music.

In the midst of conservative politics in the city of Goiânia, an anti-prohibitionist collective mobilizes for the legalization of marijuana against government repression.

Documentary about the epidemic of fires in favelas in the city of Sao Paulo and its relationship with real estate speculation. Includes testimonies of former mayor Fernando Haddad, journalist Leonardo Sakamoto, and urban planners such as Nabil Bonduki, Ermínia Maricato and Ana Paula Bruno. In addition to these, there are also compelling testimonies from victims of the fires, as well as from other authorities, such as city councillors who composed the controversial Parliamentary Inquiry Commission investigating the fires in 2012 and the Civil Defence.

The problematic of the railway lines of Rio de Janeiro with their lack of efficiency and waste of government budget are presented through examples and situations that happened in the early 1960's. The documentary also presents possibilities on how to solve such problems.

An authentically marginal cinema created in Catholic university in Brazil. One of the most intriguing and imaginative moments in modern cinema in the voice of some of its select conspirators—with Carlos Reichenbach at the lead—, and through the most razing flow of images that can possibly be conceived.

Occupation Inc. exposes European businessmen and politicians involved in the economic exploitation of Western Sahara, the last colony in Africa and one of the most militarized, violent, and censored territories in the world.