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A reflection on identity from memory. Who we are, how we are seen and how small gestures can be charged with meanings and intentions, sometimes hidden, sometimes not so much.

The filmmakers spoke to ex-political prisoners who had been tortured by the military government who were at that point supported by the US government.

The history of the world's biggest festival, the Rock In Rio.

Life on the Jaramataia farm in the interior of Paraíba and the relations between the cowboys and the owners of the land.

The Clube Naútico Capibaribe film about access right after the tragic battle of the afflicted.

Experimental short film showing a single 10-minute shot of the sky.

When we give something a name, does it lose or make sense? A female body proposes an apparently simple game - it asks women from diverse generations the definition of something that in theory unifies them. Part of a transmedia project, the film is the main entrance to a narrative that has many points of view and no right answer.

Two documentary makers meet again, through a TV news show, with a friend from their youth, Camilo Mejía, the first United States soldier to fight in the Iraq War, who after being declared a deserter by the military court spent a year in prison. "Why are we here? Do we have a right to do this? Are we, at least, protecting ourselves?" The documentary finds in Mejía, an antiwar activist presently living in Miami, a reflection about the war experience.

The impact of the dialogue with a 102-year-old lady causes a principal to revisit fragments of his memories.

Child prostitution, water caontamination, hundreds of kilometers of dead trees, tons of murdered fish, thousands of homeless and unemployed families. It seems that the progress promised by the construction of the Hydroelectric Plants on the Madeira River, in Rondônia, has passed far from that region. This work intends to give voice to those affected and affected who suffer and fight daily for the guarantee of their rights. This is the case of Nilce de Souza Magalhães, a woman, fisherwoman and fighter, who months after the recording of this film was murdered. For Nicinha, and all the people affected in the Amazon region, not a minute's silence, but a lifetime of struggle.

To open a photographs box is to travel through past and present, thinking about the future.

Narrated in the first person and based on the story of the director's mother, who suffered from Alzheimer's disease, the documentary presents reflections and questions about the meaning of life and coping with death. The documentary alternates between footage filmed with her mother and reenactments featuring actress Laura Cardoso.

This experimental short film proposes a lyrical plunge into the sacred words of the shaman Valdomiro Flores about the original territory and the traditional way of being Kaiowá indigenous people (Mato Grosso do Sul/Brazil) elaborated from a set of images of the phenomenon of kuarahy jeguaka (head ornament of the Sun).

A documentary on prolific underground Brazilian filmmaker Rogério Sganzerla.

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.

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

The return of an absent daughter to the city where she was born -absent for fear of a crisis from her bipolar mother- is the trigger for a family reunion.

Alphaville is a slice of the lifestyle inside the wall. The portrait of a Brazil surrounded, where danger, unwanted interactions, all kinds of movement, heterogeneity and unpredictability of the streets are supposedly kept away.

Also known as A World Apart, this Brazilian documentary series by Arne Sucksdorff was produced during his years living in Mato Grosso with his wife Maria da Graça and local collaborators. Filmed between 1970 and 1976, it records everyday life, landscapes, and wildlife of the Pantanal wetlands, highlighting both the beauty of the region and the pressures facing its environment. Combining observational footage with an ecological perspective, Mundo à Parte extends Sucksdorff’s work in På jordens baksida (1972), continuing his exploration of Brazil’s natural world and the communities who live within it.

In Mãe Luiza, on the outskirts of the city of Natal, the sounds of everyday life are mixed with the beats of funk, leading us to immerse ourselves in a universe of dreams, recognition and prejudice experienced by local youth.

The life and work of director Luiz Rosemberg Filho.

A host of personalities reminisce about the life and work of songwriter, lawyer, and congressman Humberto Teixeira — aka "Baião Doctor" — the author of such classic Brazilian popular songs as "Asa Branca". A musical film about the baião, a movement in Brazilian music in the 1940s and 1950s that was later snowed under by samba and bossa nova.

The Santa Teresa tram in images from the 1940s and 1960s in downtown Rio de Janeiro places the viewer in a space and time constructed through sounds inserted in these images.

A group of filmmakers goes fishing on the Pinheiros River in the city of São Paulo.

Who cares for the mothers who care? Tatiana, Simone, Shirley, Luciana and Natália have something in common: they are mothers of people with disabilities. In addition to life being transformed by motherhood, special needs children require even more availability. But the dreams and desires for life pulsate in their speeches and, especially, the transformed and challenging learning from the experience of being mothers of children with disabilities.

In Brazil, in the State of Mato Grosso do Sul, in the region of the Rio Taquari, the increasing and continuous silting of the rivers has led to the overflow of waters and the flooding of lands over the years, causing significant changes in the lives of its inhabitants. This has made it impossible to cultivate the soil and raise livestock, a form of livelihood for local families. Member of one of these families, Ruivaldo Nery Andrade, our guide character, struggles to save his farm, through the construction of a manual system of dikes to contain and alter the course of invading waters and, thus, resume his activities and guarantee the survival of the land.

Flavia Ribeiro meets 8 female ex-offenders with whom she helped as a volunteer in the Women's Chain, city of Santos. Together, in a inhospitable and precarious space, they transformed anguish into art, rebellions into dialogue, despair into hope.

The boys of an Tikmu'un - Maxakali village are initiated by the spirits that live on the ground. From now on they will be able to attend the kuxex (house of religion), socialize, feed and learn from the Yãmiyxop.

The story of Severino, a man who tries to escape the misery and the drought prevailing in the rural backcountry of the Northeast of Brazil. He heads for Recife, passing through desert and forest regions, expecting to find a better life.

In 1956, the artist Candido Portinari donated a large work of art called "Guerra e Paz" to the United Nations building to be displayed at its headquarters.

The 'Vídeo nas Aldeias' performed with the Enawenê Nawê Indians, for fifteen years, extensive records of Yaõkwa, their longest ritual, in which the masters of ceremony pull, for seven months, a myriad of songs, in order to maintain the balance of the earthly world as a spiritual world. In this film, another fifteen years later, the Enawenê Nawê rediscover these images and, with them, deceased relatives, customs that have fallen into disuse and precious ritual songs.

The Lourenço mine, in northern Amapá, continues to attract people driven by the dream of gold, despite the extreme wear of bodies and souls that the activity provides. We enter this world through the oral accounts of young and old miners who share the idea that "gold never ends", and give their lives in search of it, digging, blasting and grinding the rocks of the mountain that guards one of the largest gold deposits in the country. region.

Carapiru is a member of one of Brazil's remaining indigenous peoples, living in harmony with nature and making wise use of the local flora and fauna. But Carapiru is suddenly forced to fend for himself and flees into the nearby rain forest, building a new life for himself with the help some sympathetic settlers. However, after rebuilding his life Carapiru is uprooted once again, this time by government agents. A expressive visual storytelling in this study of the native peoples of Brazil in the 21st century.

Germany's Helloween are undeniably one of the most influential heavy metal bands to emerge from Europe during the 1980s. By taking the harmonies and structure of classic bands like Iron Maiden and Judas Priest and infusing them with the urgency and energy of the growing thrash metal movement, Helloween created something unique and truly embody the essence of 'power metal'. The band remains a strong force today, as proven on this new double DVD, Keeper Of The Seven Keys: The Legacy World Tour 2005-2006 Live on 3 Continents. Captured live in Sao Paulo, March 25th, 2006, along with alternate takes from Sofia and Tokyo shows from the same tour, this release is a must for any fan of fantastic Heavy Metal.