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A report on Sarney's inauguration as the governor of the Maranhão state. His promises are heard alongside images of the grim reality.

The Forensic Psychiatric Hospital is a medium-security level, closed structure, with a rehabilitation component. The service provided includes psychiatric, psychological, medical, therapeutic and social care. The 32 men who inhabit the unit were considered exempt from punishment by the court. They feel time going by. Slowly. The film settles in this individual time.

Brazilian soccer players Sócrates, Casagrande and Vladimir lead a historic movement in sports by adopting a democracy within their team, making a statement against the country's military dictatorship.

Follow the journey of three jaguars in the Pantanal region.

A montage of 48 Brazilian films made between 1898 and 2022. The moments, the frames, where we feel a glimmer, an innovation, some experimentation and emotion coming to us at different times. A fine thread that runs through cinema since its birth, and even before.

A documentary that follows the participation of members of the LGBTQI+ community in the 2nd of July 2019 Parade, sometimes focusing their lenses on the performance of the beacons, or with the public that honors the moment.

The short film follows the daily lives of Pai Marcos Luciano de Oxalá and Madrinha Catingueira, LGBTQIAPN+ Umbanda leaders in Piauí. The film looks at their experiences inside and outside the terreiros, showing the tensions between gender, sexuality and religiosity. The title refers to the expression "turning the leaf", used to describe a ritual in Afro-Brazilian religious shrines in which people's sexual orientation or gender identity was "turned".

A precious visual record of cattle ranching activity in the Mato Grosso hinterlands during the 1930s, seen through the eyes of a pioneering duo with an anthropological and ethnographic perspective.

The life and work of the late samba singer-songwriter Candeia.

A documentary that tells the story of doctor Paulo Cesar Fructuoso who carried out his work as an oncological surgeon in parallel to the materialization sessions and spiritual surgeries held at the famous Lar de Frei Luiz.

"O Mar de Antônio Peregrino" tells the fascinating story of the pilgrim Antonio Conselheiro and the village of Canudos. In a region feared by its long droughts, thousands of outcast peasants and Indians came together to build a country utopia. The city has been wiped off the map three times but refuses to die. The film is a journey in search of the people and dreams of Canudos. Guided by Antônio Conselheiro's famous phrase “The drought will turn into the sea, and the sea will turn into the drought”, the film goes through the drought and the flood to meet a warm and strong people who never surrendered, cherished with the music of hope and missing.

Guided by his doctor (or is it voices in his head?), a young director is given a mission: to go to Texas to make an abstract roadmovie (“Unfocused film! Focus is repressed!”) about the Housecore Horror Festival of Film and Music, a festival that brings together cinema and extreme music.

The existence of racial discrimination did not prevent the affirmation of the black community in the urban space of São Paulo. Members of the black community, in intimate accounts, tell their origins, life trajectory, dreams, anxieties and how they see the situation of blacks, 102 years after the supposed abolition of slavery. Black women and men continue to have to fight for minimum rights and recognition of existence. Black resistance is an example of the struggle of oppressed peoples.

The scratched and faded – and at times almost abstracted – home movies that pass through the projector in Tetsuya Maruyama's "Shashin no Ma" simultaneously welcome and resist nostalgia, in what is both a meditation on the physical nature of the analogue film strip and the ghosts that reside within it as well as a poignant tribute by an artist-filmmaker son to his amateur-filmmaker father.

May our smiles not be forced for your enjoyment and may our pains no longer be hidden. May my mother Yemanja help me. A short film about the pain we carry alone and that we only confess to the sea, which is life, but for us, black people from the diaspora, it's also a memory of a past of sadness and death.

In 2019, this short film documentaries the daily of severals subway artists in the stations of Rio de Janeiro

A subversive take on the urban symphonies of the past, with anti echoes to São Paulo, Symphony of a Metropolis (1929) by Adalberto Kemeny and Rudolpho Rex Lustig was inspired by Walter Ruttmann’s classic Berlin, Symphony of a City (1927). This short film by Bettim & Coelho pays tribute to Piva in relation to the Brazilian city. A tribute to a poet who is missed, but also a visual and sonic epitome of explosions, nightlife and rock, which is also invoked through the self-portrait, the frantic exploration of the city and its lights.

Silvio Tendler goes through his life remembering the movements he was part of during the brazilian dictatorship and his adherence to socialism.

The arrival of Sacadura Cabral and Gago Coutinho in Rio de Janeiro. The reception in Catete, the mass in São Cristóvão, etc.

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

"A Little More A Little Less" is a simple, low-budget and no voice-over documentary. Images of São Paulo from above and pictures invite us to a trip that shows,as the directors put it, that one’s pain is a tragedy, and the death of millions, a statistic.

"Lobão - Não Há Estilo Sem Fracasso" investigates the artistic career of Lobão, one of the most famous musicians of brazilian rock in the 80s. From some interviews with people such as Edgard Scandurra, Liminha and Marcelo Sussekind, this short movie shows various points of view about music industry and it presents hits of Lobão such as "Das Tripas Coração" and "Mal de Amor".

Brazil is home to the third largest gypsy population in the world, with approximately 800,000 members. Director Naji Sidki explores the lives of several gypsy communities across the country, showing how they preserve their traditions while integrating into Brazilian society, with a special look at their developments in music.

Documentary about the daily life and struggle of workers from the 1930s generation in Brazil. Told through the memories of a feminist and four union members, the film shows the different faces of the workers' organization experience at that time, from Vargas' influence to communism, culminating in the common trait of their relationship with the workers' bases.

An overview of the Brazilian vinyl market and its main players to understand the dimension of a universe that mixes sounds, money and passion. New factories, labels, stores, rarity-hunting mercenaries, collectors, DJs and a whole complex ecosystem revolve at 33 rpm around this renewed and beloved industry.

In the ‘land without evil’ humans will find peace, according to the Guaraní. Not far from Rio de Janeiro, they have built a village where they can live according to their customs and their children can grow up equally influenced by ancient traditions and the modern world. The uncommented observation of their everyday lives full of games, laughter and music enables the audience to pose questions – and to search for their own right answers.

A documentary on the restoration of Rogério Sganzerla's 1970 film "Copacabana, Mon Amour".

The documentary follows oral accounts from people in the Cariri region of Paraíba and Pernambuco who have witnessed or heard stories about the "pagan baby." This refers to the practice of burying infants who were born and died before being baptized near crossroads and gateways—an old custom that was once widespread in the region. According to tradition, some people would later hear the cries of these souls and would perform improvised baptisms to help guide the child's spirit to heaven.

Three young people report on what it was like to be a play child.

The dancers and their forms. Their pains. Their dreams.

Short film by Helena Ignez, for the "Programa Convida", from IMS, dedicated to creation during quarantine.

A portrait of Belém do Pará from the point of view of bloggers, authors of virtual diaries around the city, is reflected in the eyes of its young contemporary flaneurs.

Documentary addressing the composer Cartola and the transformations that took place in Morro Carioca and in Samba during his life. Founder of the Escola de Samba Estação Primeira de Mangueira, Cartola has his life and his music marked by his community and his School, far from the city His school, created as a playful and expressive center for the mangueirense, has now become a point of tourist attraction. This made work possible for the inhabitants of the hill, but it transformed the spirit of samba and its aesthetics.

At the meeting in the Ongamira Valley, Argentina - Sierras Chicas de Córdoba with Juan Carlos Asís, Krishnamurti's secretary in the Americas, we reflected on love, happiness and the integration of human consciousness with nature, for a new spirituality inspired by the values ​​of the original cultures of America.

Short film made in the middle of the Collor Era depression, at the Cinematheque of the Museum of Modern Art in Rio de Janeiro, with statements by the projectionist Wagner Oliveira.

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