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A revolutionary trans HIV+ sex worker manifesto.

Live performance of the album "PRISCILLA" (2024) shown in theaters. Act that concludes a remarkable era for the artist, inspiring her to have the courage and pride to be who she wants to be. Album interpreted, written and produced by PRISCILLA herself.

Making art involves several difficulties, even more so when you are an artist in Brazil. We will follow the couple from Street Theater, Paula and Daniel, seeing how their love for art allows them to overcome adversity and take what they love to places where culture is relegated.

At beginning of cinema, people were documented in their daily lives, a train arriving at the station, peoples having fun or workers leaving their jobs. This experimental, psychedelic and surrealist mockumentary is no different, two young people go to a place to have fun exploding bombs and realize that youth is the best time of their lives.

Jão's show in São Paulo is divided into four acts that explore the elements of nature: earth, air, water and fire.

In a vortex of images, words, and songs, a film-essay is assembled to try to understand the longings, frustrations, and fear of not being noticed when art is the only possible path.

An independent documentary about the world's most mysterious band, The Residents. The film covers stories, concerts, interviews, and rare clips that trace the trajectory of the American group over more than half a century. Awarded by the band itself, this production is the first and only one in Portuguese that dared to delve deep into the cryptic archives of the world's most anonymous group.

In the heart of the Peruvian Amazon, Saor, a young androgynous Indian, carries a coffin. He is taking Valentina, his lover, back to her native village to bury her. When Valentina left this village years ago, before becoming a transgender singer in a faraway city, people here knew her as Pol. Valentina's past and death remain an enigma. Yet bit by bit, through his encounters with the people of the village, Saor begins to perceive what connected them to Pol. Sensitive to the world around him, Saor, like a Shaman, enters their memories. Saor starts to understand that, like all homosexuals persecuted by Shining Path terrorists, Pol lived in terror. In the village cemetery, between rage and bitterness, Saor attends the burial of Valentina's body. A ceremony that is both a burial and an exhumation.

An intimate and revelatory portrait of one of the world’s most influential political figures, Lula explores the rise, fall and triumphant return of beloved Brazilian leader Luiz Inácio “Lula” da Silva, chronicling his extraordinary journey in 2022 to regain the Brazilian presidency after spending nineteen months in prison.

A voice recycles paintings, films, quotes and archives and guides the viewer into a reflection about the cultural and artistic crises in the world.

While reliving memories and images, downhill skateboarder Melissa endeavors to create a tribute to her friend Pastrana. As she retrieves the past, with the assistance of her friends, Pastrana's inherent presence helps her fill the silence left behind and gain a deeper understanding of time.

Sharing is a documentary that will show the process of building a video dance performed by four female artists who have a connection not only with blood, but also with dance.

A beautifully told story using archival footage to explore the life of Grande Otelo, a groundbreaking Black Brazilian actor. Overcoming poverty and racism, he built a stellar career, facing controversy yet using it to challenge prejudice.

Luis Fernando Verissimo watches the world around him bristle as he approaches his 80th birthday.

The documentary narrates the life of Toquinho, one of the greatest Brazilian artists, a musician who transcends the barriers of time and language with his sensitivity. A story that shapes Brazilian popular music.

It is a hot night in Cuba. Elizabeth de Victória, aged 22, is about to make her long-awaited debut on the stage of the biggest drag show in the entire province of Artemisa. But before she gives a live performance, she must confront all the difficulties preceding the show. A ruthless clock counts the minutes to the start of the show and the preparations of other drag queens reveal all the shortcomings of the debutant. Comments about the unknown girl can be heard whispered around the dressing room. The atmosphere is becoming denser as the successive drag queens finish their performances and everyone is awaiting the visiting debutant.

Narrated by her granddaughter, Marisa Schiaparelli Berenson, this documentary delves into the extraordinary life and legacy of fashion visionary Elsa Schiaparelli. Featuring never-before-seen images from the family’s private archives, it offers an intimate portrait of one of couture’s most daring innovators. Inspired by the book of the same name by Marisa Schiaparelli Berenson, published by Double-Barrelled Books (UK).

Martelo is a 70-year-old fisherman who has not yet been able to retire. He is the lighthouse man, points his light towards the island of Superagüi and illuminates earthly desires: better working conditions, retiring with dignity, returning to the way things used to be.

Marias is a road movie that travels through Brazil and Russia in search of a woman that took part in great moments of the last century and had been made invisible by machismo and political persecution.

Inspired by Eduardo Coutinho's films, debutant director Davi Kinski proposes the documentary Poemaria, assembled from conversations with 24 personalities. The subject: poetry.

A body drifts with the current through a submerged capital.

Six kids get together to make a movie. To bring their world of princesses, heroes and villains to life they must face every production's biggest monster: working as a group.

Born with a silver spoon, Jonathan Shaw chose, at the height of his career as a tattoo artist, to give up on his celebrity lifestyle in order to escape from his own vicious cycle.

The Museu da Pessoa challenged filmmakers to create films based on the many interviews that are part of the site's collection, and the result is an essay based on the interview with Francisco Edmisio da Silva, who migrated to São Paulo full of dreams and found a new reality.

A journey through the memories of Brazilian filmmaker Afranio Vital. Between dreams and ruins, a life in cinema doesn’t end like this.

In the 1950s, in Rio de Janeiro, Lota Macedo Soares married the American poet Elizabeth Bishop. A few years later, Carlos Lacerda, a friend of Lota's, became governor of Guanabara and invited her to create a park where a 7-kilometer landfill had been built. Flamengo Park would become the second largest urban park in the world.

On the border between Brazil and Argentina, a family lives by the Uruguay River and works with chibo - the clandestine crossing of goods for subsistence, trade, and people. Dani, the eldest daughter, is about to finish high school and face the decisions of this stage of life.