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A documentary that focuses on two young male inhabitants of Recife (statistically, the fourth worst city in the world to live in) who have both reacted strongly to their situation. One has become a drummer in a rap/rock band. The other has killed forty-four people and is now in jail. Both use the term "Wicked Souls" to describe their enemies.

Bubu is a poet who has been committed to state institutions for the insane twelve times. He challenges the meaning of hospital-jails, hybrid institutions which sentence the insane to life imprisonment. The poem "The House of the Dead" was written during the filming of the documentary and reveals the forgotten deaths that occur in these judicial asylums. There are three stories in three acts of death. Jaime, Antonio, and Almerindo are anonymous men, considered dangers to society, whose punishment is the tragedy of suicide, the unending cycle of being committed to the asylum, or surviving life imprisonment in the house of the dead. Bubu is the narrator of his own life and also of his own destiny-death in the asylum.

Bati da Vila is a short documentary that brings the wisdom of Dona Nicinha and the oldest families of Vila de Ponta Negra, showing the process and importance of making Bati olive oil, valuing the memory and ancestral wisdom of this important territory of the city of Natal, Rio Grande do Norte.

The documentary presents relics of the Riot Girrrl scene in Brazil that landed in São Paulo through cassette tape coming from the US state of Washington, where the movement was born.

bibi crosses the city balancing piles of metal and plastic on top of his load. these cargo bikes adapted by him and other scavengers from ceará turn brasília’s “rich garbage” into an opportunity for popular, autonomous and clean recycling, trying to pave the way for a better life in the brazilian capital. “no rastro das cargueiras” presents the techniques, landscapes and stories of a group of waste pickers-cyclists in the counterflow of urban consumption and in the struggle for the right to the city.

As Jack begins his gender transition process, Brazil is plunged into a wave of extreme conservatism. The film follows the transformations in his life and in the country, crossed by an extreme right-wing government and a devastating pandemic. Through an intimate account of the daily life of Jack and his friends, we see a network of affection and solidarity flourishing in the midst of an adverse context.

The life of fishermen and the structuring of the fishing industry in the region of Salgado Paraense.

An adventure in the jungles of Roncador, marking the historic encounter with the fearsome Xavantes.

Aspects of the life of the Kamaiurá, an indigenous tribe that inhabits the Upper Xingu. The manioc-based food, the training with bow and arrow and the work carried out by the young Indian, the girls learn how to spin, and the boys develop the knowledge of the tribe with the shamans. An important rite is the Kuarup, which honors a great dead leader. The procedures for the rite: the decoration of tree trunks, the painting of bodies, the dance choreography, the physical confrontation between the Indians. Finally, the trunks are taken by children to the waters of the Xingu River.

Amid the civil-military dictatorship implanted with the 1964 coup, Sergio Muniz had the idea of making a documentary about the action of the Death Squad. At the time, the press still had some freedom to disseminate the work of these death squads formed by police officers of various ranks, and that he acted on the outskirts of cities like Sao Paulo and Rio de Janeiro. The victims of police repression (as today) were men, poor and black, and this condition is supposed criminals.

The film, created in exile from 1971 to 1973 between Cuba and Rome, is considered a "semi-finished" work by Glauber Rocha. It has a certain pedagogical character and seeks, through dialectical editing, to conduct a critical review of colonization, class struggle, messianism, and the establishment of populist governments in the Third World. There is a chronology in the events presented, which, supported by extensive iconography (films, engravings, photos, etc.), create "free" associations that allow the viewer a "polyphonic" view of the "History of Brazil."

It tells the life of anarchist Antônio Fernandes Mendes from his birth, in 1936, in Quixeramobim-CE until his death, in 2015, in Salvador-BA.

Thirty years ago, a rubber company enslaved a group of Asháninka people, manipulating them into tapping the trees in the lush borderland between Peru and Brazil. The company was expelled by a coalition of Indigenous and non-Indigenous people, led by one mixed race couple. Now the adult children of this marriage combat political corruption and ongoing environmental disaster.

Video presentation of the Vito Giannotti Occupation, located in the port area of Rio de Janeiro. This video was produced as part of the Luta Pela Moradia No Centro Da Cidade project, a 4-year ethnographic research project comparing different models of social housing in the central region of Rio de Janeiro. It involves a team of 8 international researchers from 3 universities: Syracuse University (New York), King's College (London) and Universidade Federal Fluminense (Rio de Janeiro).

Amid the explosion of colors, sounds, and excesses of Olinda’s 2025 Carnival, Cuceteiras VII: "Cucesniff?" dives into the behind-the-scenes of a house that becomes the epicenter of partying, chaos, and connection. A group of friends shares a roof during the most intense days of the year, living a routine filled with alcohol, drugs, unexpected guests, and catchphrases that go viral among revelers. Between laughter, hangovers, and confessions, the documentary captures the raw intensity of human connection when the masks come off — or multiply. A chaotic, honest, and irreverent chronicle of youth, freedom, and the unmistakable heat of Pernambuco’s carnival.

Fictional stories, real testimonies and historical facts intertwine in the voices of the four actors who make up the cast and bring up themes such as civil union, family, struggle, HIV / AIDS, political representativeness, racism, transphobia and censorship.

The combination of COVID-19 and the far right in power could spell the end of human life on Earth. Short film made for the IMS Convida program.

A fascinating and poetical collage of countless images from the 20th century with the purpose of revealing matters of life and death during the era and its many social, cultural and political transformations, with the director making several statements on several issues, combining fact and fiction to compose his powerful mosaic of images along with the magnificent music of Wim Mertens. A true work of art that dares to make several questions about the human condition, its contradictions and ironies.

The documentary shows, in the form of journalistic reports, the revolution against the Federal Government in 1924, which was suppressed.

In the film, indigenous peoples tell the dramas and the danger of contamination of rivers and waters by mercury from mining. The animation is available with narration in two indigenous languages (Yanomami and Munduruku), in addition to Portuguese. The narrations were made by the indigenous populations themselves, and the script was developed collectively between audiovisual producers, researchers and the peoples portrayed.

An image of a boat going down a river, a voice of impostation declaiming direct verses that warn us: we, the poor, have value only in the face of the rich's need. A documentary about the celebration of the Ticumbi festivities in Conceição da Barra, north of Espírito Santo - Brazil.

Made by, for, and with São Paulo fans, SOVEREIGN 2 won’t just tell a story; it will revive on the screen the majesty of the pitch, bringing back the raw emotion of the fans who have the joy of supporting the most successful club in the land of football. Sovereign 2 – because this kingdom is ours.

Who is Bárbara Virginia? a rescue of memories, a search in search of the filmmaker Bárbara Virgínia. This is a work of human and emotional archeology that brings to light the life and work of a woman who made much of the cinema culture and was forgotten ... Barbara was the first portuguese filmmaker to make feature film and the only woman to make a film in the Portuguese dictatorship and was in the competition in the first edition of of Cannes in 1946.Filmed between Portugal and Brazil, in this intimate and poetic film we accompany Searching for Barbara Virginia.

The dreams and utopias of a generation of men and women who dedicated their lives to the fight for justice, freedom, and democracy, using the story of Apolônio de Carvalho as a common thread. His fight, without frontiers, along with the Republicans in the Spanish Civil War, with the French Resistance against Nazism, and in the fight against the military dictatorship in Brazil in the 1960s.

Luís Perseghini, a former member of Brazilian Comunist Party, remembers his life e and his dream of living in a socialist country.

Beautiful tribute to the composer Elton Medeiros. Together with his last partner Vidal Assis, he sings, tells stories and moves.

A profile of Francisco Marto, an actor and dancer from Paraíba, and his relationship with the artistic world. Colleagues from work and his aunt, with whom he lives, testify about his art, talking about provincial prejudices, the dream of stardom and the possible migration to a big city.

A travelogue film using Pound's concept of invention as a starting point.

Documentary by students Beatriz Camargo, Eduardo Tardin, Guilherme Amoroso and Thais Gurgel from the Department of Journalism and Publishing (CJE) of the School of Communications and Arts (ECA) at USP about the musical group Cansei de Ser Sexy.

Making-of about the recording and release of the album Tudo Ao Mesmo Tempo Agora (1991), with the brazilian rock group Titãs.

Berlin‘s past and future through the eye of an outsider - nothing but the naked truth by someone being torn apart by life and longing.

The TV film mixes documentary and drama to tell a story full of memories and great achievements from the forty-year career of the country music duo Chitãozinho & Xororó.

Anezia dos Santos talks about her childhood in Votorantim Factory's Workers' Village.

Documentary built with homemade pictures about everyday life in the twentieth century.

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.

In Belo Horizonte, Teresinha de Jesus has been wandering the same path for 13 years, becoming a well-known figure in the city.

A documentary on cover artists.

Blending behind-the-scenes footage with eerie undertones, the documentary captures the making of Off Kid with the same unsettling and sensory atmosphere as the short. A journey between the real and the uncanny.

This four-episode Swedish documentary series by Arne Sucksdorff draws on footage shot over four years in Brazil—especially in the Pantanal wetlands—and is narrated from Sucksdorff’s personal diary. It combines images of plants, animals, landscapes, and daily camp life with moments of tension (e.g. threats to wildlife) and reflection on humanity’s relationship with nature.

Brazil is one of the countries that most kills women in the world. In Porto Alegre, feminist collectives fight against this reality and support those who need help.

One dance floor, many bodies, a sound that moves through them.