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A day at the beach

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

The small town of Ponte Nova was stage to several historic moments in Brazilian history, none about itself.

With the aim of studying sexuality and the role of disciplinary power in controlling the female body for a Philosophy of Communication course, the short follows accounts by non-straight women about their process of discovering their sexuality and acceptance.

A fascinating trip to Buddhist temples in South Korea. Three nuns share ancient knowledge about the truths of the contemporary world and teach that the balance of eating habits is the key to our health body, mind and the preservation of the planet.

A day in the life of a group of stray cats, who live in a wealthy neighborhood

On screen, a bride gets ready for her wedding day. Off screen, middle-class young women from Rio de Janeiro share their experiences and impressions concerning virginity, marriage, sex and politics.

Set in the Cariri region of Ceará, in Northeastern Brazil, the film follows feminist activists who, through personal accounts and stories of resistance, reveal the urgent struggle against femicide and the pervasive effects of patriarchy on women’s lives. Against the backdrop of the Araripe Plateau, these women share decades of activism, reflecting on how female subjects resist the patriarchal modus operandi that violates their bodies and existence within a rural, developing Latin American context.

Recording of the meeting between Sebastião Marinho and a rapper (Smokey D.) from the perspective of looking. Using his device to see “thoughts, emotions, feelings”, Tonacci, in front of the camera, follows them from his production company’s room to "Viaduto do Chá."

Trem do Soul follows the timeline tracing a memorial and affective cartography of a young, black and peripheral movement that stirred hearts, bodies, minds and even uniforms in the 1970s in the metropolitan region of Rio de Janeiro.

The life and trajectory of José Rodrigues Mao Jr., history professor, unionist, singer and founder of the band Garotos Podres, an iconic Brazilian punk band from the 80s.

The sertão is everywhere, the sertão is within us. The concrete advances against Dona Maria, but she moves forward, calmly in the world.

A collage-style video essay that explores the idea of love through touch. Guided by fragments of films, paintings, photographs, and other visual images, a sensorial and poetic narrative is constructed around the protagonists of Alan Stephens Foster's painting "The Fall." Like a moving moodboard, the work connects different artistic and cultural expressions to portray gestures of affection, desire, care, and presence between diverse bodies. All of this through the hands.

Documentary of the legendary 1985 music festival in Brazil.

A feature-length documentary that combines interviews and artistic performances to share powerful stories of people who have gone through the process of understanding, accepting, and embracing their sexualities and gender identities. The film presents a range of “closets,” each with its own unique journey, while also revealing shared experiences across different lives. Cis and trans individuals, women, men, and non-binary people of various races, backgrounds, and ages recount the moments they came out to the world. Despite their differences, the documentary highlights the connections that unite the LGBTQIA+ community and celebrates its cultural and artistic expression—offering support, visibility, and a deeper understanding of what it means to come out.

Imagine a group of children from the favela. Compare them to a group of kids from classy apartments. Teach each group to make films. Show each film to the other group. Finally, gather the children where the two groups live, so that they can play and get to know each other as equals.

A day in the life of singer and songwriter Tim Maia. The Brazilian musical icon discusses themes such as his childhood, love, his musical influences, and life outside of Earth.

Documentary about the dictatorship and the politician Bolsonaro.

In the campsites, at the edge of highways, the option for staying at the fields. The tough survival and cultural habits. The typical chimarrão (mate tea) and country music, a factor of integration and resistance. The political organization: commissions, marches, assemblies and blockades. The position of the great farmers. The confrontation: the struggle for agrarian reform.

Group of comedians creates a complete show in one day. This is the idea of ​​humorists Patrick Maia, Thiago Ventura, Afonso Padilha, Murilo Couto and Renato Albani.

Dialoguing directly with the trilogy of documentaries “Images of the Unconscious”, made between 1983 and 1986 and based on clinical cases and therapies with a humanist approach and artistic expression, conducted by the pioneering psychiatrist Nise da Silveira (1905-1999) – screenwriter of that film –, here is presented, in two parts, an interview with the doctor, a student of Carl Jung and a pioneer in the application of non-violent treatments for psychiatric patients, given to director Leon Hirszman, in 1986. The conversation is divided in two parts: the first, "The emotion of dealing", the second, "The egress".

through the eyes of some stranger.

After the death of her husband, Jande tries to rebuild her life. Paulo, her son, tries to understand the direction that things are taking.

Through a poetic language, "White Noise" seeks to reflect on the whitening processes that Brazil suffered for 130 years, after the abolition of slavery. How it affects our offspring and makes it difficult to search for the identity of black people in a historically racist country.

What is it to be crazy? What does it mean to be normal? Was madness a disease or a form of expression for the human soul? A disturbing and exciting dive in one of the largest psychiatric hospitals in operation in Latin America!

A first-person documentary which aims to investigate, within the director's dyke experience, the most diverse performances of masculinity, taking into account her last three relationships and also interviews with her father.

Jorge Amado no Cinema was made for a television program dedicated to the writer Jorge Amado. In this documentary, Jorge Amado is filmed in his home, surrounded by his large family; in a bookstore, during an autograph session of one of his books, in a cinema in Salvador, at the avant-première of the film Tenda dos Milagres, by Nelson Pereira dos Santos, an adaptation of the book of the same name by Jorge Amado. Glauber films his friend with a lot of humor and affection. The camera evolves slowly, incessantly and quickly over the writer, his family members, actors and actresses from Nelson's film, in addition to passing through objects of candomblé rituals that make up Jorge Amado's museum.

"Admirável Chip Novo (Re)Ativado" is a short documentary celebrating 20 years of Pitty’s groundbreaking debut album. It features reflections on the album’s legacy and includes personal testimonials from the guest artists who reinterpreted its songs, highlighting the continued relevance of its themes like identity, rebellion, and technology.

“Salmo 23” follows Fátima, a crime scene photographer for the São Paulo Scientific Police during a night shift through the streets of the largest city in Latin America.

Chacrinha's legacy on TV and excerpts from his personal life are revealed through testimonials and archive images, which tell the story behind the cameras, the behind the scenes that consolidated a new way of communicating Brazil and the facets of a man who is one of the most interesting contemporary characters on the national cultural scene.

Three widows of political prisoners united against the dictatorship in Brazil and the repression of the military regime.

An experiment and a dialogue about recording, the act of filming and the colors available to whoever points the camera somewhere.