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Experimental documentary short that debates over Rogério Sganzerla's Brazilian cult classic "The Red Light Bandit".

Documentary about one of Brazil's biggest extreme music band, Vulcano.

The film focuses on Black writer Carolina Maria de Jesus, who lived in a favela.

Two pieces of ice touch each other at the burning asphalt of Cuiabá.

The film is close to the experiences of men and women forced to survive on the streets of São Paulo in the early 1990s, a time of deteriorating living conditions for workers, high unemployment and increasing urban poverty. Between approaching the problem as something structural and a sensitive look at the characters, the documentary portrays the lives of people who lost their work, distanced themselves from their affections and saw their identity disintegrate.

At 84 years of age, Lúcia Rocha admitted herself to a hospital in São Paulo to undergo heart tests. Upon receiving the news about the risk to her life, Lúcia, laconic, tells the doctor: 'Then open it'. This is the second time she has undergone bypass surgery. From this gesture, the documentary Abry was born (with y, sign of the unconscious, according to the nomenclature invented by his son, Glauber Rocha). To relate her memories, she invites filmmaker Joel Pizzini, who offers his mini camera as an instrument to amplify Lúcia's imagination. Abry is a poetic dive into Lúcia Rocha's fabulous universe, reconstructing her trajectory in Brazilian cinema through sounds, images and characters with whom she lived closely.

Pigeon Fanciers reflects on generational changes by exploring the unique relationship between humans and pigeons — pigeon fanciers and birds interact in front of the camera before the apotheotic moment of release. This is the first film by Jonathas de Andrade, one of the most important artists of his generation, shot outside of Brazil — a country he represented at the Venice Biennale in 2022.

A young filmmaker takes us on a walk through a rather peculiar neighborhood in the city of Maceió, where he meditates on his memories and the urban space from a sociological perspective.

The documentary talks a little about the carnival experience that Arlindo Rodrigues had during his more than 25 years of artistic life.

Putta (Whore) follows the story of three prostitutes living in the town of Foz do Iguaçu, on the triple border between Brazil, Argentina and Paraguay. The film traverses the complexities of each of the three prostitutes personal lives’–from transexuality to family and motherhood–in the context of the brothels and streets in which they work.

Cris and her family, residents of Ibura, on the outskirts of Recife, had to abandon their home due to the risk of collapse at the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic. Pregnant with her fourth child and fighting for a tubal ligation, Cris works as a digital influencer while the family rebuilds their home.

Five artists - a deaf person, two people with low vision, a person in a wheelchair and a limping person - are faced with a lot of questions, sent by the public, that reveal a whole imaginary around their bodies.

Aspects of the city of Parati, its architectural monuments from the past, and the painter Djanira as a central figure in the scene presented.

Porto Alegre, 5 October 1984, front page of a newspaper: "Extreme left-wing activist holds up the home of an ex-consul of Paraguay, then commits suicide". The extreme left-wing activist was the director's father. The ex-consul was an ex-nazi whose past her father was investigating.

A documentary which follows the lives of children recovering from their involvement with the drug war in Brazil. Set in a rehabilitation centre on the edge of the jungle, Dear Child follows a group of kids who have been rescued from the drug war, as they learn to become children again and not soldiers or drug addicts.

The championship seemed lost. Bad results, delayed salaries, and internal fights. In the midst of this storm, Fábio Luciano announces that he will hang up his boots and asks the players to help him become champion one last time. Mobilized by the captain's leadership, the team transforms and doesn't lose another game. Fla is Tri again, this time with a special flavor. By winning its 31st state title, it breaks the 103-year dominance of its rival from Laranjeiras and achieves for the first time the absolute hegemony of Rio de Janeiro football. With all the goals of the campaign, unreleased interviews, behind-the-scenes images and of the Flamengo fans, PENTATRI - THE HEGEMONY records this unforgettable chapter in Mengão's history. It also features a show of images from the final, with five exclusive cameras and new songs composed by the singer Roge. Another production by Fla Filmes, lucky charm since 2006.

In the year that marks 10 years since MC Daleste's murder, Sobre Funk produced an exclusive documentary about the artist's history and impact on the Brazilian music scene.

In Co-production with Hora Mágica. At the opening ceremony of the 2014 World Cup, a young man broke protocol and opened a banner in the center of the lawn asking for the demarcation of indigenous lands. Werá or MC Kunumi, son of the Guarani ethnic group, is a teenager, writer, composer and rap singer from the Krukutu village, in São Paulo.

In four acts, dancers combine steps of frevo, a traditional Carnival dance of Pernambuco State (Brazil), with others typical of contemporary rhythms like funk, swingueira, electro, and vogue.

The story of the musical friendship between veteran musician/filmmaker André Luiz Oliveira and Lorenzo Barreto, a boy with autism, over 15 years.

Documentary about the second feminist wave in Brazil.

A report on Sarney's inauguration as the governor of the Maranhão state. His promises are heard alongside images of the grim reality.

"You know what Kant said? / That if everything went ok at the middle / It will also be alright at the end, / depending over the idea made at the beginning. / And then – as illustration – / went on dancing / a foxtrot." Produced with found-footage in 16mm format, "Foxtrot" is a visual plasticity exercise that deals with bad luck processes.

The real story of Quilombo Olho d'Água from Serra do Talhado, in the state of Paraíba, Brazil, which became institutionally isolated from the rest of the country. Quilombos were runaway slave communities in colonial Brazil.

Beaches are closed during the COVID-19 pandemic. Nevertheless, the middle class must survive the tropicals.

"O Mar de Antônio Peregrino" tells the fascinating story of the pilgrim Antonio Conselheiro and the village of Canudos. In a region feared by its long droughts, thousands of outcast peasants and Indians came together to build a country utopia. The city has been wiped off the map three times but refuses to die. The film is a journey in search of the people and dreams of Canudos. Guided by Antônio Conselheiro's famous phrase “The drought will turn into the sea, and the sea will turn into the drought”, the film goes through the drought and the flood to meet a warm and strong people who never surrendered, cherished with the music of hope and missing.

It addresses the theme of modern slave labor in Brazil - the last country to abolish slavery - under its various facets (social, economic, political, etc.). The documentary sheds light on the practices of enticement and trafficking in human beings and exposes the precarious working conditions in the countryside and in the city resulting from the migratory dynamics driven by false promises of life improvement. Slave-like work, although illegal, now generates billions of $ 150 billion annually in the world, losing only to that of trafficking in drugs and arms, and is three times more profitable than in the period of legal traffic .

Poetic rescue of the memory of our Tupinambá ancestors. Considered extinct in the 16th century. The film has the testimony of Verá Miri, Chief / Pajé of the Guarani Mimbiá tribe.

An eldery woman travels back to her birthplace, next to her son.

Veronica Oliveira - Faxina Boa is a unique cleaning professional in São Paulo. Through a drift in Vila Buarque, the neighborhood where she was born and returned to work, she tells us a little about her trajectory.