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In Brazil, women's football has already been banned, has been the target of sexist comments and still receives less investment than men's practice in several aspects. However, instead of stopping them, women have fought to break down these barriers and continue to grow in the sport. "Beyond the impediment" is a short documentary that uses different perspectives to address women's persistence and passion for football. Here, it's forward and the game continues. This film was created and produced by students of the NÓIS NO DOC ONLINE 2023 course, carried out as part of the É NÓIS NA FITA project.

The repetition of a young person's daily routine throughout the pandemic cloistering period.

The documentary presents the life of young favela dwellers who work with drug trafficking. The documentary was recorded between 1998 and 2006, when the producers visited various poor communities in Brazil, recording a total of 90 hours of video. The name of the documentary comes from the term "falcão" (falcon) used in the slums to refer to the lookouts who keep watch over the community and inform when the police or a rival group approaches. During the recordings the two producers had to face the hostile environment where the boys lived.

"Juanita", through an intimate and poetic statement, tells the story of Márcia Gomes da Silva. A mother who had her youngest son disappeared and her life transformed. Inspired by the homonymous poem by Cida Pedrosa, the film tells us about pain, love and hope.

In Portugal, two Brazilian scholars analyze the historical, cultural, and spiritual ties between the two countries.

In the midst of a breathtaking landscape of mountains and lakes in China lies a hidden Taoist temple dedicated to Xiwangmu, a deity capable of granting immortality to those who achieve complete harmony with nature.

In 2012, Rodrigo Piquet, from the Museu do Índio, showed Marcelo Zelic, from the group Tortura Nunca Mais, a film he had found called ‘Arara‘. The title did not refer to the animal, nor to the people known by that name. Zelic underline it as an important probative record on the teaching of torture during the military dictatorship. They were images of the graduation of the Guarda Rural Indígena, in Belo Horizonte, produced by the anthropologist Jesco Von Puttkamer (1919-1994) in 1970.

On February 17, photos recorded leakage of tailings from the deposit basin of the miner Hydro Alunorte, the company and the state government denied any incident. The Evandro Chagas Institute released a report confirming the contamination in several areas of Barcarena. The daily lives of the local population was directly affected by yet another environmental disaster.

In 2010 Marãiwatsede received the sad title of the most devastated area in the Amazon. The film tells the story of the Xavante people who had their land taken by the military in the beginning of the dictatorship, to create the Suiá Missu farm, considered the largest landowning in the world in the 1970s. The Indians are back and want to recover their territory. .

Follow the journey of parasitologist Luis Rey, who became passionate about studying and combating diseases of poverty while still a medical student. Rey was impeached by the dictatorship for his Communist Party activism and, in exile, gained international recognition by promoting schistosomiasis control in Tunisia, working for the World Health Organization. Upon returning to Brazil, he dedicated himself to Fiocruz until the end of his career.

An afternoon documentary about boxing in the city of Fortaleza.

An ethnographic documentary following the Folia de Reis party that is celebrated every year at Morro de Santa Marta on Rio de Janeiro.

Six drag performers give an account of their artistic, personal and social experiences in Sao Paulo. Focusing on the creative processes that culminate in the performances, the artists share experiences from the cathartic and particular world of drag art: the creation and maintenance of a lifelong character. After investigating the specificities of this art, the documentary connects them to the social performance that all of us carry out daily.

Documentary about the rise and fall of Leandro de Itaquera Samba School, a cultural organization from São Paulo east end that had a major role during the profissionalization of Carnival competition in the city.

The documentary explores archive footage from behind the scenes of the Brazilian team that won the fifth world soccer championship in 2002. Years after the title, players, journalists and artists are face to face with the old videos and remember the days they spent in South Korea and in Japan. 'The Family' offers to show how simple people with such different backgrounds form a time when the main secret was the sense of collectivity.

Duplo R is a mockumentary set in a support group for people who suffer from racial reversal. These people contaminate the motives and anxieties that go through being white.

The trajectory of the Portuguese professor and activist Vítor Ramos is revisited by the look of his daughter Guiomar Ramos. Through letters and photographs, in addition to a trip to the countries where her father lived, she seeks to understand the circumstances of his death, very close to the Carnation Revolution (25/04/1974), a movement that would take him out of political exile after twenty years away from home.

“While we are here” mixes fiction, travelogue, film diary and documentary to tell the story Lamis, a Lebanese woman who just moved to New York and Wilson, a Brazilian man living illegally for 10 years in the same city. The film narrates the story of their relationship in a personal way by articulating macro-political issues with intimate ones.

The final months of pregnancy and the first ones after the birth of a baby are unique experiences in a woman's life. And when this daily life is lived inside a prison?

Pietro Ximenes, through an old Cyber-shot camera belonging to his mother, records his last year with Luiz, João Matheus, Yan, Daniel, Pedro, Arthur Mattos and Davi studying together

A collection of found-footages depicting Mané Garrincha, one of Brazil's most legendary football players.

Almost every story has a beginning, middle and end. But this is different. We live a lot from the reception at the airport to the final tango of our conductor. What we built together was unique. And it will never end.

A documentary short on the formation of the Brazilian city of Feira de Santana, located on the state of Bahia.

Folk cinema from the eternal never-ending collage that is INDIA. A journey through the ancient Southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu featuring Hindu trance ceremonies, street music, festivals, nagaswaram improvisations, impossibly loud cities, ancient temples, processions, devotions, decay, fireworks, abstractions and more. India is impossible to know: it is impossibly old and impossibly new, impossibly rich and impossibly poor, quiet and chaotic. Offered here is one perspective, raw, captured live and in the moment, with an emphasis on India's complex and mesmerizing sounds.

In 2020, we celebrated 50 years of winning the Tri, won at the Mexico World Cup in 1970. The film portrays the backstage of that title, the political and social context of Brazil at the time and how that selection of superstars marked the lives of many people. To tell the story of this achievement, different names in different spheres of Brazilian and Mexican society.

Twenty-two years later, the locals of Ilha dos Marinheiros (were "Ilha das Flores" has been shot) give their point of view and explain the negative repercussions of the movie on their lives.

Documentary about the political and social origins of frevo, from the nineteenth century.

In the hinterland of Paraíba, the small wooden mills powered by animal traction, called “bolandeiras”, are doomed to disappear.

Inside a Brazilian slaughterhouse, two skilled men build a cow.

Ana goes to Crato, twelve years later, to do some research on the portraits made by Telma Saraiva. She knows little about Telma and what brought her to attention. She makes a journey back home in search of the meanings of the images.