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Sol de Campinas traces the work of archaeologists who, for the past ten years, have been excavating a ring of mounds surrounding a central plaza within a territory currently known as the State of Acre, Brazil. They transition from field to laboratory, interpreting how the land was constructed, what patterns were employed in settlement land use, and the composition of the anthropogenic earth that remains.

Footage of the creative process of Quasar Dance Company in 2013 in Goiânia for the creation of the show "Por 7 vezes" (Seven Times). The fabrication of those Olympic bodies (the work of high-performance dancers), directed by choreographer Henrique Rodovalho, reenacted the relationship between cinema and dance. Dance, offered to the film since Loie Fuller, is sublime, Apollonian, and Dionysically sacrificed to the ghosts of the image. As a former ballerina, the filmmaker returned to the dance hall and the stage, and what was documented as a process became, in the editing, a non-knowledge.

This documentary film was born from observing/the observation of the building site of USP (University of São Paulo), in the east zone of the city, between August 2005 and February 2006. Attempting to establish a critical stand regarding the issues experienced in this first building site, the investigation/observation of a different type of building site began: the self-managed "mutirão" (joint effort).

The character Jonh Michael embarks on a journey to tell you everything about Tim Maia.

Three film students filmed the residents of the building Poetry Plaza for a week. The building is located in the richest zone of Rio de Janeiro. On the last day of filming, the building manager confiscated almost all of the memory cards used in the recordings. The film is an edit made from the remaining footage.

In the midst of conservative politics in the city of Goiânia, an anti-prohibitionist collective mobilizes for the legalization of marijuana against government repression.

Fire liquefies what is solid. Fire melts human illusions.

Pointing out the importance of maintaining a playful spirit, which we all have when we are kids and society forces us to abandon in our adult lives, Drops of Joy is a documentary that speaks widely about the idea that playing is something very serious and urgent.

Landfill is a documentary that emerged from the perception of a paradox in relation to litter. While most people want to get rid of it, I met some ladies, pioneers of recycling, that they miss the trash from others in side of the house. From the time where I met up making the film, many things happened, both in the media, with all the newly fallacious discourse of sustainability, and in my personal relationship with the trash, when I became the 'householder. ' This is a film of these seven women, who are truly experts.

Bird breeders talk about their great passion, bird singing competitions.

"Sessões Anacrônicas" is a 80‑minute documentary, originally released in 2005, that takes viewers behind the scenes of the studio recordings for Pitty’s second album, Anacrônico, as part of a DualDisc release.

The relentless defiance of power by Preto Sérgio and his quest for the untold story, untying knots guided by the good winds that lead him to the outer sea and the inner sea.

A portrait of indigenous childhood: Guarani Kaiowá, Guarani Ñandeva, Baniwa and Khisetje.

Documentary on the social movement of homeless workers and the occupation of abandoned buildings in São Paulo, Brazil.

A documentary that explores Santos Futebol Clube's tradition of revealing great players, from Pelé to Neymar, and shows the trajectory of young athletes who dream of following in their footsteps.

In 2014, Andrea Beltrão, Malu Galli and Mariana Lima decide to make a theatrical spectacle. Maria Flor asks to attend the rehearsals and register with her camera the process of creating the piece. While observing the actresses on the scene and accompanying the construction of the work, the girl ends up identifying in the assembly the representation of the course of her own life and her profession

After losing the right to use his own name, Brazilian fashion designer Alexandre Herchcovitch takes back the reins of his brand.

Documentary-research on the global audiovisual industry and its effects on local cultures. Produced with a homemade digital camera in the best do-it-yourself style, without any production apparatus, director Leonardo Brant uses excerpts from films that discuss the hegemonic condition of the cultural industry and promotes dialogue with great thinkers.

Dona Alzira is an old lady who lives on an old abandoned bridge and survives from her fishing. Gradually she reveals her past and present history while waiting for the future.

A visual essay on ethnicity, gender and misogyny.

A dance group rehearses for their latest performance Inabitáveis about black homosexuality. While the choreographer conducts research and gives guided tours, he meets Pedro, a young trans girl looking for her own means of expression. She desperately wants to be taught by him.

A documentary about Banguela Records, a 90's brazilian rock label.

Felappi Montparnasse receives an invitation to dinner with old friends, but does not know whether to accept it.

Amplified voices of those affected and affected directly and indirectly by the collapse of the Vale dam in Brumadinho in Minas Gerais at the beginning of 2019.

The documentary mixes reenactments with true accounts from four characters/actors who tell the stories of six black gay men, their experiences and their romantic relationships crossed by racism and homophobia.

Photograph of King Vittorio Emanuele III. The ship Italia, formerly König Albert, under the command of Count Carlos Grenet and with the Italian ambassador Giovanni Giuriati, entering the port of Rio Grande, on May 2: events and groups of Italian reservists for their reception; popular and authorities, representatives of societies and the cities of Cachoeiro and Pelotas, music band, including a representative of the fascism of Caxias, present at the reception.

Collection of 15 black and white films by Jean Manzon, released between 1962 and 1963 for IPÊS (Institute of Social Research and Studies). IPÊS was created in 1961 and used to produce propaganda against the then president of Brazil, João Goulart, who was finally deposed in 1964 by a civil-militar coup.

Gilberto Gil talks with friends and share his thoughts, influences and reveal his impact on brazilian music and vision of the black people.

A documentary floating on this thin border between fiction and reality. An author comes to a small city in Brazil’s countryside, to turn Emelyn’s life into a fictional narrative. The more the author teases Emelyn with cameras, the more she becomes Bernard, a teenager boy divided between living the desire and continuing desiring.

Documentary about the foreign tourism in Rocinha, the biggest Latin America's favela, which receives about 3.000 foreign tourists per month. They come to Rocinha looking for the most varied aspects, from the poorness to the violence, from the geography to the architecture, from the viewing to the atmosphere, from the curiosity to the welfarism.

Documentary about the universe and the craft of popular photographers who work at parties, fairs and pilgrimages in the northeastern interior of Brazil.

Documentary about women who hold leadership positions among recyclable material collectors.

During the period of military dictatorship in Brazil, a group of low-ranking soldiers were sent to the Amazônia in order to exterminate the so-called Guerrilha do Araguaia, an armed struggle movement that was against the dictatorship. After forty years, the survivors of this mission report their combat experiences for the first time.

Shot in 1971 during Gal Costa's famous concert "Gal Fa-tal" in Rio de Janeiro's Sucata Nightclub, Ivan Cardoso's eponymous Super-8 short film shows the singer both in and off stage, interlapsed with scenes from Cardoso's "Nosferato no Brasil".

Luiz Antonio Guinski's airplanes pervade the boundaries between image and word, composing a body of work that destabilizes matter to explore drawing, chance, symmetry - the body and the machine.