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The life of Mestre Pastinha, king of capoeira, is the theme of this documentary.

After spending a few months in the Vila Verde Village, the yãmĩyhex (women-spirit) prepare to leave. The filmmakers Sueli and Isael Maxakali register the preparations and the great feast for their farewell. During the feast days, a legion of spirits crosses the village. The yãmĩyhex go away, but they always come back missing their fathers and mothers

In Portugal, two Brazilian scholars analyze the historical, cultural, and spiritual ties between the two countries.

A reflection on the works and thinking of the last years of production by Torquato. Such as the magazine "Navilouca", the film "Terror da Vermelha", the column "Geleia Geral" and the controversial Cinema Novo X Marginal, among other passages important aspects of Brazilian culture in the 60s and 70s.

An emotional tribute to the 100 years of Portuguesa Santista, a football club created by the Portuguese community of Santos / SP. Testimonials from journalists, fans and ex-players passionate about time mix with the fictional story of Portuguese Lino, a resident barber from Santos who, upon receiving his grandson for the holidays, begins to introduce him to Briosa's trajectory from photos and club flags that decorate your establishment.

Vespasiano, in the interior of Minas Gerais, is home to one of the few national penitentiaries specifically for pregnant women and mothers with young children. Guided by these women, we entered fragments of the daily life of the prison unit: evangelical services, conversations, confessions, doodles, vanity, fear, censorship, punishment, longing, memory and the constant struggle for the experience of motherhood.

A poetic mosaic of intimate and cultural perspectives on Pará reveals a sensory experience of discovery. Between spontaneous records, memory, and affection, the narrative bridges Northern and Southern Brazil, highlighting the richness of Paraense culture.

Ivan Cardoso is the inventor of the terrir, a subgenre that mixes comedy, Brazilian chanchadas and classic American horror. This film promotes a rescue of his work by mixing archival material, animations and fictional reconstructions.

Nigim is an ufologist from the city of Passa Tempo in MG who recorded numerous appearances of et’s from the Planet of Jov. But now, it seems like who is being watched is him.

Fordlandia is a small settlement on the River Tapajos in the Brazilian part of the Amazon, where Henry Ford set up a rubber industry in the 1920s. Mainly due to the resistance of nature, the project failed and was abandoned some 20 years later. Fordlandia is a voyage of (de)colonisation whereby the drifts and detours of modernity in uncertain places are highlighted, turning away from whatever their historical imaginaries were. The tensions between industrial and natural landscape are levelled off in a certain horizontality of hierarchies between form and content, and at the same time the animal resignifies possibilities of the community of the living.

Documentary depicting what happened to the characters in the film Terra para Rose, made by the same director. Shows the life of some 1500 families of landless rural laborers who, for the first time in 1985, occupied an unproductive large landholding, the Annoni plantation in Rio Grande do Sul. After camping out for years in tents, facing down the police and negotiating with the government, the former landless laborers have managed to turn their dream into reality, and are now successful small farmers.

A short film directed and edited by Giovanna Massinelli that shows the immigrant struggle not only as a marginalized struggle, but a struggle of all peoples, a class struggle.

The daily lives of residents of the traditional neighborhood of Bixiga in São Paulo from the point of view of children. Living in unhealthy conditions and often without a family structure, the vacation period is perhaps the most precarious and problematic, as these children are left alone while their parents, who are not on vacation, go to work. From street games, cell phone games or walks in the neighborhood, these children will show that the Bixiga neighborhood is much more complex than you can imagine.

In 1835, the revolt known as Cabanagem began in the province of Grão-Pará (Brazil), in which blacks, indigenous people, and mestizos rose up against the political elite and took power. The documentary Cuipiranga is a quest to record the testimonies of the descendants, in the lower Tapajós region, of this revolt that is considered the first popular insurrection that went from simple agitation to an effective seizure of power.

Realce is a documentary short following two HIV-positive friends, DJ Deseo and porn actor Fernando Brutto, during one of their performances at Rio de Janeiro’s Carnival. The duo move through the streets of Rio and Carnival “blocos,” sharing their reflections on friendship, undetectability, their relationship with sex, and drug use within their own community.

Since discovering cancer, Omar has lived with pain, the imminence of death, uncertainty about the future and the suffering of his family. The documentary is a punch in the stomach, a plea for help and a breath of hope for those who battle the disease.

The short documentary ‘Complexos‘ features intimate and emotional views on how residents of favelas in Rio de Janeiro use media and arts to raise their voices and act for justice, dignity and respect. ‘Complexos’ is part of a collaborative process between the Finland-based Anti-Racism Media activism Alliance (ARMA Alliance) and the favela-based audiovisual collective Cafuné na Laje.

The origins of Brazilian popular music and the types of scales used, as well as the various currents that emerged and formed different schools. The great composers.

In Portugal he was a priest, in Brazil a revolutionary.

The documentary recalls the political reopening of the country, and narrates in detail the events that culminated in the election of Tancredo Neves as the first civilian president after 20 years of military dictatorship.

Sixty-six adolescents, residents of Favela da Maré, were selected to participate in a dance show led by the choreographer Ivaldo Bertazzo, which incorporated their own daily experiences. Ten years later, directors David Meyer and Helena Soldberg search for some of the participants of this experience.

Sixteen young black people talk about the experience of going to university in Brazil after more than a decade of affirmative policies in education.

'Falas da Terra' sheds light on the plurality and the struggle of the indigenous people for the right to exist, in a historical rescue of valuing their cultures.

A film portrait of Jose Mojica Marins.

A mother discovers that her son has a disability that causes her breast milk to intoxicate him. But the discovery comes too late to prevent the loss of neurons.

The life and the work of José Leonilson, one of the most important Brazilian artists of the 80's, who died of AIDS at the age of 36 in 1993. The video explores Leonilson's poetic and intimate universe through his work and through fragments of a diary he recorded between 1990 and 1993, where he talks about art, sex, memory and poetry.

Life and its moments go by too fast, imagine what it would be like to be able to regress to your mother's womb and be able to reflect everything that happened.

People are driven by their passion for sports, which is nothing new when it comes to football in Brazil. Yet not all forms of love are allowed on and off the field. In this scenario, the multi-sport team from the Southern State of Curitiba, Capivara Esporte Clube, tells its experience in fighting homophobia and trying to include both male and female homosexuals in the traditional sport.

The film deals with the process of globalization based on the thought of geographer Milton Santos, who through his ideas and practices, inspires the debate about Brazilian society and the construction of a new world. Santos discusses his views on the importance of respecting difference and his belief that an alternative globalisation model could wholly enfranchise all citizens of the world. An illustrious presence in 20th century social sciences, the man dubbed as ‘geography’s philosopher’ eloquently elucidates a developing world perspective on the global age.

Artistic documentary that combines images of human beings and nature to achieve a highly significant aesthetic result. Irrational deforestation in Itaúnas (northern Espírito Santo, Brazil) makes the village vulnerable to sand blown by the intense winds. In 1968, the region becomes uninhabitable, producing a living example of ecological disaster.

Venetian gondola installed in an artificial lake moves the life of a small town in southern Santa Catarina where 95% of the 13 thousand inhabitants are descendents of Italians from the Veneto region. Only four gondolas were officially donated by Italy, the others are in Toronto/Canada, Saint Petersburg/Russia, and Las Vegas/USA. The documentary recovers the history of the coming of this gondola to Brazil and reflects on why it rekindled the sense of Italian identity in the town. They even have the “Carnival of Venice”, and the festivity gathers hundreds of masked party goers in costumes made by local artisans.

Stimulated by sketches in which young actors improvise about situations related to AIDS and Sexually Transmitted Diseases (STDs), students from a public school in Rio de Janeiro and teenagers from the Zona Sul and the Baixada Fluminense debate these themes. This video was made by CECIP for the Adolescence and STD / AIDS Project, with the support of the Ministry of Health's National STD / AIDS Control Program.

Documentary on famous Brazilian actresses, female directors and the role of women in Brazilian film history.

Three mythical African princesses tell how Olorum, lord of the Universe, has created the Earth, according to the Nagô tradition.

Footage of the creative process of Quasar Dance Company in 2013 in Goiânia for the creation of the show "Por 7 vezes" (Seven Times). The fabrication of those Olympic bodies (the work of high-performance dancers), directed by choreographer Henrique Rodovalho, reenacted the relationship between cinema and dance. Dance, offered to the film since Loie Fuller, is sublime, Apollonian, and Dionysically sacrificed to the ghosts of the image. As a former ballerina, the filmmaker returned to the dance hall and the stage, and what was documented as a process became, in the editing, a non-knowledge.

Tafers Code follows five teenagers at the T.A.F. language school in Itaquaquecetuba, guided by the charismatic Teacher Gilmar. Each episode explores the unique challenges and strengths of the students as they discover how learning English can transform their lives. With humor, emotion, and a touch of documentary style, the series culminates in a final project that inspires not only the characters but everyone to take the first step toward a brighter future through language learning.

An everyday story about love, tolerance and colors.

In this short film, Ivan Cardoso records Brazilian film director Rogério Sganzerla sending a message to Brazil.

Half a century ago, Brazilian composer and musician Antonio Carlos "Tom" Jobim (1927-1994) introduced bossa nova to a worldwide audience with "The Girl from Ipanema." This relaxed, cool, sensuous music blended jazz and samba. After recording an album of songs by his friend Jobim, Frank Sinatra is reported to have said, "I haven't sung so quietly since I had laryngitis." Naturally, "The Girl from Ipanema" and Frank Sinatra are featured in this musical collage of countless seamlessly edited excerpts of concert footage that cover decades of events all over the world: from Rio de Janeiro to Lisbon, Paris, Copenhagen, Jerusalem, Tokyo, Montreal, New York and back to Rio.

A film about human relationships and the passage of time, about memory, and family archives.

“Naked Eye” is a film-documentary of long-length of the artistic and existential universe of the singer Ney Matogrosso, which proposes to recreate through archive’s images in counterpoint with the current production of the artist, thirty-five years of career marked for inventive and transgressing spectacles, always symphonize with its time. Through a coherent boarding with its intransigent trajectory, the film intends to translate the language musical-corporal of Ney Matogrosso, trying audiovisuals resources that express signs evoked poetical politicians and in the repertoire of the singer. A film-song that that looks for to, ultimately, embody the voices of an artist who searches for a nation.

Mothers share their experiences adopting their children.