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The history of Partido-Alto, a musical subgenre derived from Samba, with roots in the batucada of Bahia.

What is most valuable to a football club? Your titles, your tradition, your stars? 90 minutes are enough for us to realize that for the fans of America Football Club its greatest asset is its fans, who are passionate and loyal!

Name given to a specific day on which a series of arson fires are promoted in the Amazon region.

A film about human relationships and the passage of time, about memory, and family archives.

The feature film “Anti-Heróis do Udigrudi Baiano” focuses on experimental works produced in the marginal cinema movement in Bahia, including works such as “Meteorango Kid”, “Caveira My Friend”, “Anjo Negro” and “Superoutro”, among others, which explore the trajectory of disruptive characters, on the margins of society, with irreverent movements guiding the narratives and concepts that this generation proposed.

Life and its moments go by too fast, imagine what it would be like to be able to regress to your mother's womb and be able to reflect everything that happened.

An independent crew organizes sound system-style events for their community in the far north of São Paulo, using reggae music as a central form of cultural expression and resistance. Through pulsating bass, street parties, and collective gatherings, they transform public space into a vibrant platform for the identity, memory, and voice of the urban periphery.

The award winner Brazilian photographer Luciano Candisani embarks in a new journey, interested by the story of a group of women who take their living from the sea. He will cross the world to portrait the story of the daily work of these heroines and bring awareness to a vital necessity of modern times: sustainability. Candisani leaves to an island in South Korea called Jeju, where he meets the Haenyeos, the women from the sea. These brave women follow a century tradition: they dive in the sea in order to harvest marine goods.

asking people on the street to take a seat in front of his camera in a big white tent. He offers them three real (about one euro) for three minutes of their solitude. The tent is located on a square in Recife, a large Brazilian city. people smile stiffly, wave, make the sign of the horns, defiantly lick their lips, or shed their tears.

Documentary that addresses the arrival of slams poetry in Brazil, changes in performance of poetry. Born in the 80s in Chicago, slams have spread all over the world as spaces dedicated to meeting, people of all ages, professions and social classes, where a game of competition is just a pretext to hear and speak poetry in the exercise of free expression , stimulating listening, writing, reading and self-representation.

"Ocupadas" is a documentary that reveals, with urgency and sensitivity, the daily lives of women activists who transformed an old urban house into Casa Rose Nunes, a space of refuge, struggle, and resistance against gender violence. Over several days, the film follows the growing tension in the face of police threats, until the brutal moment when the space is dismantled. However, the house goes beyond its walls: it survives in the bodies, voices, and alliances between women. Even torn from its physical location, Casa Rose Nunes continues to exist, reinventing freedom, protecting stories, and saving lives.

"Alábóòjútó Ilé: Festa de Ogum" accompanies the festivities of the Orixá Ogum, which took place between April 21st and 23rd, 2023, at the Mina Ilê Ashé Ogum Sogbô terreiro, in the territory of Liberdade, the largest Urban Quilombo in Brazil, located in the city of São Luís - MA. Among the daily preparations for the festival, the 39th anniversary of the terreiro is also celebrated.

The Baía de Guanabara is not just any bay: the metropolitan area of Rio de Janeiro has sprawled around it. Its waste water threatens the rich ecosystem, planes roar along the approach corridors above. These filmic explorations on the margins of the megacity portray various environments that are all connected to the bay in a specific way. The people here are micro-wage earners making a modest living.

The documentary shows the cultural resistance in the peripheries of Brazil, where people fight for visibility with the means of art. They occupy cities and raise their voice against discrimination, police violence, racism and homophobia. For three years, the filmmakers worked and lived with the collectives and activists, accompanying them in the Amazon rainforest, at protests in the capital and in the subcultures of Brazilian metropolises. With their own films, music and performances, the protagonists fight for attention —in the midst of an uncompromising and highly accelerated social reality.

The documentary records the celebrations for the celebration of the fourth centenary of the city of São Paulo, in 1954. In charge of the party, Pixinguinha, Donga, João da Baiana and other representatives of the Old Guard.

1999: A Conquista da América is a documentary that traces the trajectory of the Palmeiras soccer team in the Copa Libertadores. Counting the 40 years of the club in the field, the feature features several interviews with football players and fans of the team, such as Cafu, Dudu, Ademir da Guia, Felipão and others. Going through important milestones in the history of the team: the defeats of 1961 and 1968; The thrashing of the powerful Boca Juniors, the clash against Grêmio in the quarterfinals in 1995 and the conquest of the Mercosur Cup, in 1998; the preparation of the squad by Scolari, the signings, the pressure from the crowd, Zapata's penalty kick at the Palestra Italia Stadium and much more. And it also has the mission of documenting not only the history of a champion, but of South American football in the first 40 years of Libertadores de América.

In Gama, a city on the outskirts of the Federal District, Caio, Andressa and Luís share their insecurities, joys and dreams as they struggle to find their place, between bars, work, parties and the day-to-day routine with its undeniable loneliness. The film talks about affection, how in peripheral environments, despite everything, it is still possible to fight for your dreams. Racism, sexism and homophobia end up being the driving force behind the characters building their own spaces and recognizing in each other the affection and support they need to change their worlds.

Who are the vaccine volunteers? What motivated them? Were they not afraid? For 9 months they opened their lives to us, recording such a difficult period in our history.

The Araribóia indigenous land in Maranhão is one of the most endangered in the Amazon. It is the territory of the Guajajara people and also of a group of isolated indigenous people, the Awá Guajá. The film is an alert and a cry for help from the Guajajara for the protection of forests and their Awá Guajá relatives. One of the last hunting and gathering peoples in the world, whose way of life depends essentially on the forest, has its days numbered if the destruction continues.

Mother and daughter watch the news on the TV on New Year's Eve.

"Mulheres que Transformam a Ilha" is a narrative about the fusion between Woman and social impact, is the portrait of the doubts, opportunities, accesses, sweat, victories and conquests of spaces lived by them.

An inside look at the gritty streets of Brazil.

The documentary depicts the everyday of illiterate rural workers in Northeast Brazil, living under extreme misery. Although incapable of writing, they are aware of their condition and qualified to proposing solutions they hope for to their problems.

The film focuses on skaters from Carazinho, Rio Grande do Sul, and their only skatepark. It exposes, through interviews and tracking shots, the DIY approach taken by them due to the local government's inability to provide decent parks.

The documentary addresses the project, which took 30 years to complete, about the recording of 44 songs created for each poem in Mensagem, one of Fernando Pessoa's most emblematic books.

The choreography repeated from generation to generation, the collective effort to lower and raise the rafts into the sea; the nautical gestures and respect for the right tide time; the knowledge passed down from father to son; a profession entangled with many others—roleiros, rafters, painters, sail makers, carpenters, and boat builders.

The trajectory of the writer, journalist and chronicler from Rio de Janeiro, Afonso Henriques de Lima Barreto (1881-1922), one of the central figures of Brazilian literature in the 20th century, author of works such as the novels Memories of the Clerk Isaías Caminha (1909), Sad End of Policarpo Quaresma (1911), Clara dos Anjos (1922/1948).

A couple of centennials, their house, their bodies and their waiting.

An experimental, visual, and poetic study about bodies, stitches, and repair. A sensory exploration of fragmentation and reconstruction. The body, real or symbolic, is treated as a surface to be opened, sutured, and reimagined. Using textures, objects, and silent rituals, the film contemplates the tension between vulnerability and resilience, between decay and the desire to mend. It is not about narrative, but about sensation. Not about answers, but about the act of touching what is broken.

The daily life of residents of the largest floodplain in the world, in the heart of South America, one of the most challenging places for human beings. Starting from the eyes of the characters, we will better understand the fragile balance between man and nature in a place where it is impossible not to understand that we are part of something much bigger, in which the movement of droughts and floods determines the way of life.