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From within the walls of a prison, a group of inmates writes scenes about a Man. As they act out their words, their cells transform into childhood landscapes, hospital rooms, and places flooded by the outside world's light. But as the story unfolds, the lines between imagination and reality blur, and we begin to wonder who this Man is.

A community daycare experience in Vila Kennedy, Rio de Janeiro, where resident mothers works in the neighborhood.

Documentary about the Latin American foreign debt, made in five blocks that cover everything from a brief history of debt to some possible alternatives for a solution, passing through the description of its mechanisms, its most serious crises and its social consequences.

Documentary about the Brazilian capital

A documentary about the creative process of Gurcius Gewdner.

70 People, amongst scientists and researchers, explore the amazon.

November 2018. In a post-election climate, Kit Redstone lands in the devastated Olympic City, Rio de Janeiro. Writer, director and theater performer based in London, Kit is a transgender man and comes to Brazil with the aim of producing a play with transsexual actors in the country that kills the most transvestites in the world. During the process, we meet these artists and their perspectives on what it's like to be LGBTQI + and artist in an apocalyptic setting for social minorities and culture producers in the country.

The term "mongrel complex" refers to a feeling that is characteristic of certain classes in Brazilian society. This feeling, marked by defeatism, pessimism, and misinformation, is closely linked to the denial of "who we are as brazilians". The documentary "The Mongrel Complex" explains this feeling, discusses the theme, and gives a brief social and political panorama of Brazilian reality.

It is a documentary that traces the course of different Venezuelan refugees who arrived at different periods in recent years in Brazil. From Pacaraima (Roraima's border with Venezuela), Fortaleza and Rio de Janeiro, passing through the shelters of Boa Vista.

“Vai na Fé” is based on a true story from the life of English screenwriter and director Macie Chandler — who also acts in the film — whose life changed after watching a match played by O Glorioso.

The image burns.

With a cast of one hundred people making the street their home, a temporary community transforms a public square into a great stage.

‘Amores de Rua’ questions the attitude towards sexuality espoused by a society in which sex workers fight for the right to citizenship. The film travels through Vila Mimosa, Praça Mauá and erotic nightclubs frequented by all genders, where performers mouth along to camp hits. The film presents a discussion about sexuality based on testimonies from sex workers, transgender women and representatives of associations including Euridice Coelho (then president of the Association of Prostitutes of Rio de Janeiro) and Gabriela Silva Leite (from the organisation Vida Prostituição, Direitos Civis e Saúde).

Documentary that uses metaphors to deal with industrial development in Brazil. From the attempt to build a national industry to the almost immediate invasion of foreign capital.

In the social landscape of Brega, music videos are the catalyst of an appetite for success as encouraged by capitalism. 'You are seeing things' looks at this world where self-regulation and image management play a crucial role in the construction of voice, status and identity of a whole new generation of popular artists.

Without a ZIP code, people do not exist on the map. In the Frei Damião community, the largest urban favela in Santa Catarina, residents face the invisibility imposed by postal exclusion and show how the fight for an address is also the search for recognition, rights and belonging.

The day-to-day life of a family of farmers from the up-country of Coronel Freitas, city in the west of Santa Catarina, Brazil. The routine of a married couple and their children, from the moment they wake up until bedtime. There is no narration or soundtrack. The narrative is constructed solely through the linearity of the scenes, all of which preserving the ambient sound.

In this documentary, Prof. Laércio Fonseca presents facts and connections between cosmology, the universe, The Earth Project and The Planet Deadline according to Chico Xavier. Where did I come from? Where I go? Is the end of the world near? Was Chico Xavier right? Do we have a deadline? Find out the answers to these and other questions in this movie.

The documentary rebuilds the life of the Brazilian architect João Batista Vilanova Artigas. His relatives, friends, students and six of his major works tell the history of this iconic Latin-American modernist.

An experimental reinterpretation of Brazilian traditions in which a battle is decided by cooperation rather than conflcit.

Do our past and present selves share the same identity? In "Por Outra Lente", Pedro and Luísa revisit their childhood to create an autobiographical documentary, using home videos recorded by their father. A reflection on memory, growth, and identity through the act of filmmaking.

Seven doctors and public health specialists accept the mission to fight the pandemic, working voluntarily. This unforeseen task in the careers of Paulo Chapchap, Maurício Ceschin, Gonzalo Vecina, Drauzio Varella, Sidney Klajner, Eugênio Vilaça and Pedro Barbosa is commented on by them. In addition to following this committee, the documentary brings reports from frontline professionals, working in São Paulo and Manaus, about the experience of going to Covid-19 to take care of patients and the elderly.

Manifesto of the Pataxó tribe, with the testimony of the chief José Guajajara, in front of the Monument to Estácio de Sá, where the Tamoios massacre took place in 1567, on the coincident day that celebrates the foundation of the city of Rio de Janeiro, 20 January.

In a small island convulsed by the 1959 revolution, Santiago Álvarez used the Seventh Art as a political weapon and created an aesthetic that became a reference in the documentary field. Santiago, who called himself a permanent traveler through history, registered the most significant facts of his time, from the Cuban Revolution to the disintegration of the Soviet Block. He took to spectators from all continents a counterpoint to the history narrated by the United States Information Service, USIS. Through his works, we dive into the Cuban political and cultural scene, the tensions of Latin America, the Vietnam War, the countless conflicts for African independence, always with a peripheral look that is characteristic of his cinema, currently converted into a memory of a world in transformation.

Cidade Correria is Brazil pulsating and radically collective. Encounter with the overflowing of everyday urgencies, contradictions and potencies through the voice and birth of Coletivo Bonobando.

Entirely shot on a mobile phone, the film evolved from chance encounters in the streets of London: Sandrine, an attractive young woman on a mission to find a husband, Steve, a seasoned beggar, struggling with addiction and and Steve's girlfriend Precious, a poet. Blurring the confines between fact and fiction. the film raises questions about the relationship between filmed and filmmaker. The closer he gets to his subjects, the more the obstruction of his camera seems to distance him from them. Ultimately People... reveals a personal and humane space that only came into existence precisely because it had been filmed.

In the Maxakali Vila Nova do Pradinho indigenous village, when the women miss their children who died young, the Tatakox go to dig them up and bring them to the villages for their mothers to see. Then, on the same day, the ritual continues as the living boys are taken by the spirits to stay in the men's house and learn.

Based on a montage of mandatory political propaganda for the 2014 presidential election, the film presents a debate on the political direction of the country through a reflection on the speeches of the main candidates and the role of image in the construction of these speeches.

A short documentary, composed entirely of archive footage, on "Praça Onze," a Brazilian samba song by Herivelto Martins based on actor Grande Otelo's efforts on saving Praça Onze, where Carnaval parades were held in Rio de Janeiro up to the late 1930s, from being demolished.

"A fisherman, dark-skinned and shirtless, sits in a boat on a quiet river and, before long, catches a fish. The fish gasps for air and the fisherman holds it to his chest until it dies. This sequence—performed by a series of fishermen, of various ages and using various styles of capture—is the spine of the work, interrupted by passages of quiet natural beauty; one shot is a steady, stately pan through scores of trees and empty air behind." - Vinson Cunningham

Operation Peter Pan or Operación Pedro Pan was a clandestine mass exodus of over 14,000 unaccompanied Cuban minors ages 6 to 18 to the United States over a two-year span from 1960 to 1962.

At the end of the 1980s, the first generation of Brazilian punk rock lived a cycle of violence and self-destruction. In the opposite direction, the beginning of the next decade sees the emergence of a powerful and tuned in generation that amplifies the echoes of punk, coming up with new subgenres. More politicized, united and socially conscious, the 1990s crop came along to put an end to the conflicts of the "old-timers" and bring new life to an engaged and active scene, ushering in new talent to the Brazilian music landscape, with important names such as No Violence, Agrotóxico, Ação Direta, Garage Fuzz, Dominatrix, among others.

A car running in an empty street, three songs play. Experimental short that explores how some images can guide the viewers eyes to certain places of the screen.