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Documentary-poetic record of the birth of the persona Heloísa Teixeira, conducted through the lens of an 85-year-old woman who remains in tune, promoting and revealing a diverse Brazil.

In the 1970s, they were championing the fight against Brazil’s military dictatorship. Forty years later, what’s left of Libelu? What does adult life have in store for you after the revolutionary youth?

Between the end of one session and the start of the next, the collective desire to bring a film club to life collides with the ghosts of precariousness and the decay of cultural spaces.

With police and bounty hunters hot on her heels, a young filmmaker embarks on a wild ride with a Brazilian brotherhood of balloon builders. A real-life action film with an incredible story about finding freedom against all odds.

Reminiscences (1909-26), family film by Ouro Preto filmmaker Aristides Junqueira, collection of the MAM-Rio Cinematheque and Brazilian Cinemateca, is unveiled in his stories and points of view in the form of a filmic essay with archive footage, family scenes, interviews and voiceover to tell the unknown biography of a Brazilian film pioneer.

“Lusitanos” seeks to portray the Portuguese that exists and resists in the heart of each one. Between achievements and difficulties, the film goes after characters who helped write Lusa's 100 years of history.

Using coffee, a very common and familiar drink in the day to day of the Brazilian people, Periodical intents to show how the climate crisis affects, in many different ways, the more marginalized classes in São Paulo.

The faces, the gestures and speech of beggars, madmen and revelers passing through the streets of São Paulo. The sounds and images are illustrated with Frantz Fanon extracts.

Life and work of the popular painter Bajado, interviews with Gilberto Freyre and João Câmara, scenes of daily life in the city that always inspired him.

The Documentary presents the tragedy in Brumadinho, as a result of the collapse of the bean dam at Mineradora Vale, which resulted in one of the biggest catastrophes with mining tailings in Brazil.

A documentary about Luz del Fuego, the naturist dancer who shook the moral foundations of Rio de Janeiro in the late 1940s and early 1950s with her transgressive way of life.

At the height of the rubber boom, the British presence transformed the Amazon. Ports, railways, mansions, and river transport connected Manaus and Belém to the world. Behind this legacy, however, lay a profound human cost. Revisiting this period, the documentary reveals how modernization was sustained through the exploitation and erasure of Indigenous peoples and Black communities, questioning the enduring marks left by this past.

Documentary made a year before the great international pandemic, Bruno Ferreira follows a couple who work as jugglers at traffic lights

After the painful elimination of the Brazilian team from the 2023 World Cup, fans of a saddened country give new meaning to the defeat, promoting reflections that transform frustration into celebration and sadness into joy. Samba, cachaça and football paint the landscape of an essentially Brazilian cultural moment.

The life story of Bisi Alimi, who went from being an anti-gay prosthelytize, preaching hell fire and damnation to those who strayed, into becoming the first Nigerian to come out on national TV.

Built in the heart of the metropolis of São Paulo, a maritime lighthouse holds mysteries and lives in the imagination of the city's residents.

A documentary chronicling the life and works of Brazilian poet, songwriter, journalist and avant-garde filmmaker Torquato Neto, from his beginnings to his suicide at the age of 28.

When Thomas Rittscher built a Hawaiian board in his backyard in 1935, he did not imagine that gliding on the waves would be one of the most practiced sports in Brazil and in the world. "Tábua Santista" tells the story of the first surfboard in Brazil, through a replica of the pioneer board built by three friends from Santos, 80 years after the Rittscher brothers surfed for the first time in Santos, marking the beginning of surfing in the country .

A documentary on Cosme Alves Netto (1937-1996), former head of the Cinematheque of the Museum of Modern Arts at Rio de Janeiro.

Zahy Guajajara, 23, is one of the indigenous leaders of a village created next to Maracanã, in the old Museu do Índio, in Rio de Janeiro, threatened with demolition. In this video created with four hands with Felipe Bragança, Zahy, a shaman and storyteller from his village, takes a new look at the place where he lived and resisted.

In 2018, Brazilian band Expurgo was invited to play in the Obscene Extreme Festival, in Czech Republic, and went on a tour through the interior of Europe. In their luggage, the group took 15 years of stories, friendship and extreme music. The documentary gathers testimonies, behind-the-scenes footage and the concerts of the Minas Gerais band on their first tour of Europe.

"Xuxa 20 anos" is a special produced by Rede Globo in honor of the 20th anniversary of the debut of presenter Xuxa Meneghel on the channel. The special was shown on October 14, 2006, and later released on DVD.

Two images by unknown authors and unknown times share the war.

The history of the mobilizing of a group of 110 employees from Caixa Econômica Federal bank over the course of a year, after being unfairly dismissed in 1991 under the Fernando Collor de Mello government.

The Mediator tries to remain impartial while filming people calling for a coup d'état in Brazil.

I swear, I promise.

A short documentary about the fantastic world of Bianca Exotica.

Identity conflict, loss of traditional ways of life and resistance. Past and present in current experiences. Documentary about the Iny people, who live in the village of Santa Isabel do Morro, on Bananal Island, Tocantins. Meanings and tensions between the recovery of the original traditions of leaders and elders and the incorporation of white culture by indigenous youth. Processes of experiences and memories: dismay and resistance in facing the Iny identity. Delicate record of different imagery views in the intertwining between indigenous filmmaker and the film's director.

The contrast in the extremely rudimentary form of xelite mining and the use of tungsten, obtained from xelite, in the most complex instruments of nuclear technology.

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.

Luiz Roberto Galizia died very young, but he left behind a wealth of personal archives. 30 years later, his niece Ana Galizia plunges into these archives to follow the traces of this uncle she never met.

The research conducted in Bahia in the early 1940s by the African-American linguist Lorenzo Turner, in Candomblé terreiros in Salvador and Recôncavo Baiano, left as a legacy precious audio records of religious personalities such as Mãe Menininha do Gantois, Joãozinho da Goméia and Manoel Falefá. The documentary addresses the importance of making music in these communities, providing an overview of the material recorded in Bahia by Turner and the oral tradition still sung and played both in the terreiros and in the popular music of Bahia.

Get down a little; I bow my head and disappear at the end of his bone.

A doctor mistaken for a thief. A cleaning lady treated as a slave. A mother who lost her son murdered by the police. A Trans employee who is never promoted. What do these people have in common? Their skin color. A human and poetic documentary sewn together with various narrative threads – characters, music, slams and black intellectual thinking – that unveil the racism rooted in Brazilian society.

Photography and the written word become powerful tools for preserving fleeting moments and capturing the spirit of communities in Olhares Cruzados pela Terra. Through a sensitive, collective narrative, the documentary weaves together memories, knowledge, and territories to honor 40 years of Brazil's Landless Workers' Movement (MST) while imagining new paths for the future.

Intimate conversations between a daughter and her mother. Through these off-screen dialogues, the film explores themes of family history, the Holocaust, and Judaism, blending personal memory with historical reflection.

Lloyd Kaufman Goes to São Paulo, Brazil to teach his famous "Make Your Own Damn Movie" Master Class, and while there he meets with the heart of the Brazilian film industry!

Documentary by Leon Hirszman about the economic conditions of film production in Brazil, produced in 1975 with sponsorship from Embrafilme and kept unreleased since then.