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An autobiographical documentary made by a mother who follows the gender transition of her adolescent son: between 2016 and 2019 she interviews him addressing the conflicts, certainties and uncertainties that pervade him in a deep search for his identity. At the same time, the mother, revealed through a firstperson narration and by her voice behind the camera that talks to her son, also goes through a process of transformation required by the situation that life presents her with by breaking old paradigms, facing fears and dismantling prejudices.

Before Cinema Novo revolutionized the Brazilian cinematic scenery, a young craftsman and Bahian filmmaker had already paved the way for the beginning of the journey for some of the biggest and most popular films of Brazilian history. The documentary tells fragments of the story of director Roberto Pires, through snippets of his life and a journey through his body of work, interspersing archival footage, scenes of his films and an interview with his son, also a filmmaker, Petrus Pires, followed by a poetic narration and an original soundtrack inspired by his film Abrigo Nuclear.

Here lives happiness-here lives happiness, say old recordings found in the phalluses in the areas of prostitution in Pompeii. A tale of sexuality in colonialism. Mathias, a European traveler, passes through a coastal town below the equator and implodes the routine of those he encounters. In his own words: “their skin tone attracts me like an abyss.”

A year after the first edition of the "Festival Maia" in the city of São Mateus do Sul, old and new artists and invited bands appear at the event, exhibiting their art for the world to see, and reinforcing the power of original and independent art from a small town in the interior of Paraná.

Through testimonies, the documentary recalls the enormous process of removal of favelas that took place in the south of Rio de Janeiro in the 1960s and 1970s.

A journey into the interior of garbage, contemplated as a phenomenon of the human spirit, and not only as a product of human action. This essay-documentary, inspired by modern chaos theory, transits between the reality of statements and the surrealism of poetic images, seeking to integrate the conscious and unconscious life of the human mind. Apparently simple phenomena hide very complex behaviors. Maybe garbage is all that we don't want to see

Three blind sisters, Regina, Maria and Conceição, earn their living by singing in front of churches, in Brazil... They tell their amazing stories, full of drama, heartache, rape, poverty, death and hope.

Samuel lives in Ponta Negra, a small village on the coast of Paraty, Brazil. At first the idyllic daily life following the rhythm of nature and the development of the kid's identity set the tone of the film. We go along with the boy and his family for six years. Little by little emerges a more complex reality and its contradictions, between modernity and tradition, nature and technology. The arrival of electricity and tourism in the village crystallizes the deconstruction of an idealized paradise, drawing a portrait of contemporary Brazil.

The film shows the resistance movement of the residents of Favela do Vidigal against the removal order, an important chapter in the history of Rio de Janeiro in the 1970s.

The body re-exists and insists. It is never a closed envelope, but a channel of passage and trance among the most diverse spiritual dimensions (Obatala Film). Film-devotion, film-offering, film-gift. Shot in the mythical Ile-Ife, the sacred city of the Yoruba people and founded by the Orisas, this film seeks to sensory affirm the vertigo of coming into contact with Obatala, orisa creator of the world, of light. Trance of sparks of light, of bodies in spiritual connection.

Made in a partnership with a group of young women from the Tenote Porã village (São Paulo, Brazil), the film blends fiction and documentary in a narrative around Piragui, the owner of the fishes in the Guarani Mbya tradition.

The love for the sea, Dorival Caymmi, and Iemanjá united filmmaker Carolina Rolim and musician BNegão. During the development of the project “BNegão Canta Caymmi” in 2018, the two met in Salvador (BA) to capture, by the sea, the immersion the artist experiences when interpreting this repertoire. Accompanied by Bernardo Bosisio on guitar, the intrepid vocalist of Planet Hemp transports himself to the universe of the beach songs of the Bahian composer, transforming his performances into a ritual.

In this short documentary film, the activation of grandma's memory is explored by revisiting old pictures of her loved ones.

When women's football was authorized in Brazil in 1979, a club left the beach to dominate the fields and the sport in the 1980s. RADAR EC was the precursor of women's football in Brazil, filled Maracanã, and was responsible for the formation of first Brazilian team. A passionate story of a club that represented a nation.

Who are the chicks that make up the funk movement, and where are they? Funk has always been a form of protest, just as being a woman is. BEAT IS PROTEST: FUNK FROM A FEMALE PERSPECTIVE depicts the last decade underground scene of the funk women protesters in São Paulo. The testimonies come from transgender and cisgender women who navigate this universe in different roles, such as singers, DJs, beat-makers, producers, entrepreneurs, rappers, and dancers, and also from drag queens.

Experiments and improvisations in a feijoada among friends filmed not to be a short film. Edition of the duo Baiestorf-Bortolanza with unpublished / excluded scenes from the movie "Gore Gore Gays". A style exercise will only occupy your head. Synopsis: Girl leaves inland and arrives in the big city to live her dreams.

A diary of a trip filmed by Glauber in Punta del Leste (Uruguay – 1972) that documents the reunion of the Rocha familiy: Dona Lúcia, the mother; Anecy Rocha, the sister; Paloma, the daughter, and Walter Lima Jr., the then brother-in-law, with the director, exiled in Europe.

In TRANSO, people with disabilities share their stories and reflections in an intimate conversation about sex and relationships. Celebrating affection, self-pleasure, and the diversity of sexuality, the film features participants like Ana, who, at the age of 52, receives her first vibrator from two friends, and Fernando, a digital influencer who found love at an out-of-season carnival.

On a Sunday in Diadema, an alien wanders in a search for the Northeast elsewhere in the middle of the urban landscape.

Áurea and Vander, maids all his life, reflect on the new law regulating the profession.

It’s Carnival in Rio. A young man wanders through the streets of the city and the remains of the huge cardboard parade floats. Driven by grief over the bankruptcy of his samba school, he’s also haunted by memories of his dead father and a lost love. An impressive cinematic experiment composed of fragments of the present and the past, developed as part cinema, part art installation in the tropical setting of Rio.

A documentary about the permanence of brazilian native rituals in nomadic and rural communities among the pervading capitalism.

The documentary shows the history of the emergence of some of the first film courses in Brazil and their fundamental role in the development of national cinema. Featuring stories from professors and students of these pioneering courses and a vast use of archive materials, the film presents initiatives that sought to bypass financial and political problems to make Brazilian cinematography possible and train its new generations of filmmakers.

Documentary about the preparation of a popular celebration of "Dia do Preto Velho", one of the most important rituals from the Umbanda in Brazil.

The documentary features rare images of important moments in the trajectory of Tricolor Paulista and testimonials from important players of the club, such as Rogério Ceni, Raí, Careca, Dario Pereryra, Waldir Peres, Serginho Chulapa, Cafu, Pintado, Muricy Ramalho, Zetti, Zé Sérgio. And interviews with illustrious fans, such as the actor Lima Duarte, tennis player Fernando Meligeni and the musician Andreas Kisser.

The sequence of graduation of law graduates in Seu Cavalcanti helps to understand the Sergio Moro phenomenon in Brazil.

Medium length film on environmental protection in the 1988 Brazilian Constitution.

Two Lawalapiti young men from Alto Xingu learn to build a canoe from the bark of the jatobá tree, a quick and simple technique that leaves the tree still rooted and alive, and that has ceased to be used and is only known by the oldest Lawalapiti men.

Moments of a group of high school students at a party, before the college admission tests start.

The lives of eight people, of different ethnicities, creeds, professions and social groups, living in the cities of Rio de Janeiro, São Gonçalo and Nova Iguaçu during the first 9 months of the pandemic.

The camera goes back through the alleys and alleys of the community, leading the viewer to compare, with simultaneous shots of 76 and 96, the little or almost nothing that was accomplished, the neglect of the State, the abandonment over the 20 years. Finishing with a virtual image of the colored facades, as part of the proposed urbanization.

Gerd Wenzel was born in Berlin, and as a boy he arrived in Brazil as a refugee from East Germany. Here, he was a pastor, found himself a football commentator and, today, recovered social and political activism. At 75, after fleeing the Second World War, overcoming Nazism, being persecuted by the military dictatorship and never getting tired of the fight for freedom ... Gerd, a good friend, has a story to tell.

Ancestry, identity, spirituality, indigenous education, and harmony with nature are aspects that characterise Potiguara Katu music. In this documentary, immerse yourself in the musicality of the Potiguara Katu Indigenous Community from the cities of Canguaretama and Goianinha in Rio Grande do Norte.

The documentary Entremarés discusses the daily life and work of women who survive fishing activity in the Ilha de Deus community, located in the neighborhood of Imbiribeira, in Recife (PE).

20 years ago, Vila Verde found the path to community autonomy in lowland football. Through Carlinhos' passion, we see the trajectory of the Vila Verde Football Championship.

Mode of Production 'makes the Union of Rural Workers of Ipojuca its central character. Retirements, layoffs, labor relations and a supposed economic-social development that approaches as a distant mirage or, perhaps, ghost: the Port of Suape.