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Within the revelry of Rio's Carnival, Ilma writes to her son. How does she sense his presence in the crowd?

In the late 1960s, Thomas Farkas imported equipment suitable for direct sound, and released a collection of documentaries called "Brasil Verdade" ("True Brazil"), after the Military Coup d'État took place in Brazil, which happened without any popular resistance or revolution or reaction of the society. The five short films are directly related to this fact and its consequences to the country.

Memories of the Brazilian slavery past overflow into ethereal landscapes and harrowing noises. Through a visual poetic essay, an intimate and sensory journey reflects on the silencing and invisibility of black people in diaspora.

A historical record of the introduction of the witch's broom disease, caused by the fungus Moniliophthora perniciosa, in the cocoa plantations of Bahia.

In this documentary Coutinho examines the plight of the people who live off the waste of the Brazilian cities. These people make their living by scavenging the immense urban garbage dumps searching for whatever they can find to sell as well as whatever they can find to eat.

A sound and visual journey that portrays the life and work of singer and composer Luiz Melodia. The Poet of Estácio himself tells us, in the first person, his trajectory as a black boy born on the hill until his transformation into one of the greatest artists in the history of MPB. The film also features an unpublished collection made available by Jane Reis, his wife and businesswoman.

Dignity is a good reason to fight, or to walk away? Past and present issues on immigration, gender, and dignity in countries - Italy and Brazil - that share many similarities, starting from a biased relationship with their national memory.

A time traveler gathers data to create an Afro-diasporic mythology. She seeks to build an Afrocentric narrative based on a decolonial language and a synesthetic experience of understanding the world.

The Favela Pacification Program was launched in 2008 to reduce crime and drug trafficking in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. In April 2015 however, police shot and killed 10-year old Eduardo in Complexo do Alemão, causing uproar in that community. Alemão and other pacified communities began to realise that the program had become the very thing it was designed to destroy. Taking place in the build to the 2016 Olympic Games, this is the side of Rio that you have never seen before.

Between April and July 2020, filmmakers Davi Mello and Deborah Perrotta exchanged video letters. He lives in São Paulo. She lives in Turin.

The film chronicles both the life and work of Brazilian author and engineer Euclides da Cunha and a failed attempt at directing his biopic in the 1980s and 1990s. Footage from the unfinished film is included alongside archive and documentary material.

A visual essay on ethnicity, gender and misogyny.

A young adult confronts his lifelong question: Is he a man or a woman? Through a dream, he revisits his past, facing his deep desire to be reborn.

A spell breaking, Quebrante traverses the caves, ruins and phantasmagorias of the Transamazon BR230 Highway, portraying its stones and its ghosts. Set in tiny Rurópolis, the very first town ever built on the road, Quebrante follows Ms. Erismar, a retired elementary school teacher known in the region as The Cave Woman.

In this short documentary film, the activation of grandma's memory is explored by revisiting old pictures of her loved ones.

A film in Super-8 by Sérgio Péo. Documentary scenes from everyday life and performance gestures are mixed in this fast montage of images produced on the streets of Rio. Phrases written on the asphalt (or extracted from signs and newspapers) punctuate the entire film.

Brazil-Cuba pandemic letters.

A film made with images found in the garbage. A memoryless country that tries to elaborate its past through letters without a named sender or receiver. Letters are made from desire, it doesn't matter if they will be read. Autofiction as a path to touch what lays in dormant state.

Three young people circulate in different mobility categories. The newly emancipated city goes through its everyday experiences.

Poetry, interviews and conversations between plants, still trying to find out what is love.

The story of the University of Brasília, since it was only a project in Darcy Ribeiro's head until the fateful events in August 1968 when its campus was invaded by the police, during the military dictatorship, thus putting an end to its independence.

The importance of the Cannes Film Festival in world terms and what it represented for Brazil in 1971. For Brazilian cinema, Cannes 71 represented the transition from film to industrialized production. It is the meeting of producers, technicians, critics , celebrities in general, offering opportunities for greater knowledge and renewal of values

A short documentary on Belair, an independent Brazilian film company that lasted for only five months in 1970.

The documentary brings the accounts of 7 religious of African origin on the Afro-religious foundation called O Bará do Mercado Público, based on the routes and urban experiences of blacks in the city of Porto Alegre.

This documentary follows the vacations of four prisoners, during four days, while they spend Christmas with their families for the first time.

Life and work of brazilian actor, poet and songwriter Mário Lago.

The final months of pregnancy and the first ones after the birth of a baby are unique experiences in a woman's life. And when this daily life is lived inside a prison?

Operation Condor was a secret agreement between the military dictatorships of the Southern Cone in the 1970s, with the knowledge of the CIA. These governments to shared information and violently repressed suspected left-wing subversives.

Made in a partnership with a group of young women from the Tenote Porã village (São Paulo, Brazil), the film blends fiction and documentary in a narrative around Piragui, the owner of the fishes in the Guarani Mbya tradition.

"Eu Tenho a Palavra" is a linguistic journey in search of the African origins of Brazilian culture.

The world through the eyes.

Filmmaker Roberto Farias' passion for cinema is revealed by his daughter Marise Farias through an intimate look, from childhood to his political, economic and cultural role in Brazilian Cinema. Through Roberto Farias himself and friends such as Luís Carlos Barreto, Cacá Diegues and Zelito Viana, the film tells the stories of the director who achieved a direct dialogue with the public through successes such as O Assalto ao Trem Pagador (1962), the trilogy with singer Roberto Carlos (1968 to 1971) and Pra Frente Brasil (1982). Texts from an unpublished book of memories are interpreted by his brother, actor Reginaldo Faria.

In 1953, the artist Poty Lazzarotto created a panel for the facade of the Iguaçu Palace, seat of the Government of Paraná. The Palace was inaugurated without the panel and remained that way for 34 years. It was up to the Álvaro Dias Government to redeem this old debt. The "Iguaçu Panel" was built and inaugurated in December 1987.