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The documentary is structured as a video letter from a black man denouncing the persistence of racism in Brazilian society and media, a century after the official end of slavery. Thus, it presents the contradictions between two images of racial relations in Brazil: the image disseminated abroad, which spreads the myth of racial democracy, and the internal image, presented in textbooks and on television, in which negative stereotypes are perpetuated against the black population.

Documentary about the prophet Gentileza, a "madman of God" who lived in Rio de Janeiro and preached throughout Brazil his anti-capitalist, ecological, social and religious message, whose starting point is the maxim "Gentleness breeds kindness". Gentileza's testimony, his performance on the streets of Rio de Janeiro and the record of his pictorial work are the great attractions of the film.

The film investigates how allegations of racism are handled by the Brazilian justice, reporting the unprecedented story of persistence and dignity of a black man: Vicente do Espírito Santo became an exceptional case for being the first victim of racism to break the siege and arriving victoriously at the Superior Labor Court and at Rede Globo's prime time.

At the end of the busy year of 1997, we ended up filming a documentary produced by Jorge Timm. Jorjão's restaurant was very close to the Uruguay River, on Ilha Redonda, and there was a river flood, which rose about eleven meters above the normal level - two meters less than the record high of 1983 - and displaced many people. Claudio Baiestorf, Carli and I went there to record the damage, interview homeless people and invent delusions. We arrived at the place and realized that Jorge had greatly exaggerated, via telephone, the size of the flood damage. There were not even homeless people. Thanks to warnings from the civil defense, all residents had taken precautions. We opened a whiskey and started filming anyway.

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 Edition of the duo Baiestorf-Bortolanza with unpublished / excluded scenes from the movie "Gore Gore Gays".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.

There is a silent and not officially declared war. A minefield where there is a battle of unequal forces. A combat without causes, disputes or conquests, where the combatants do not even distinguish their enemies.

An elderly woman's memories mix with the discoveries of a little girl in love with a scarecrow.

In rural northeastern Brazil, a man finds a mysterious net full of money in the middle of the street. However, when paying what he owes to a farmer, a series of problems begin to arise for him and his wife Sofia.

A film photo-montage about an old house that belonged to a traditional local family that was later demolished.

Poet Cruz e Souza was a black man, born in the State of Santa Catarina, Brazil, where the majority of the population are blonde. He was also poor and fell a prey to the racism of his time. Died young, at 37, and dragged the great love of his life, Gavíria, into a path of great suffering.

A compilation of comedy/horror short films from Brazilian avant-garde Super 8 filmmaker Ivan Cardoso

A fascinating and poetical collage of countless images from the 20th century with the purpose of revealing matters of life and death during the era and its many social, cultural and political transformations, with the director making several statements on several issues, combining fact and fiction to compose his powerful mosaic of images along with the magnificent music of Wim Mertens. A true work of art that dares to make several questions about the human condition, its contradictions and ironies.

Documentary about Swedish emigration to Argentina via Brazil.

Theater director asks his actors for a research on human cruelty and misery in Brazil, while trying to raise funds for his next production, a play based on a story by Machado de Assis, "A Causa Secreta" (The Secret Cause). The troupe oblige and go around town witnessing long lines in National Health Services, inhuman conditions in public hospitals and poor people being constantly humiliated. They find people are becoming indifferent to human suffering.

A twenty-year-old Brazilian man flees his country by hiding in the luggage hold of a plane where he freezes to death. His last memory is interwoven with the diary notes of a traveller through Northern Brazil.

Documentary about the Brazilian capital

Lost in a beachhouse, Rodrigo searches in his memory for the romance he lived the previousnight with a woman, and how to find her.

Inspired by the life of the french-born photographer and ethnographer, Pierre Verger, the movie follows his journey between Bahia, Brazil and Benin, Oriental Africa, showing places and people he met and his life study project: the Candomblé culture.

A husband and wife talk about buying a grave.

The surviving 14 minutes of the original documentary about the Villas Boas expedition to the Amazonian tribes in Brazil.

A friendly couple from Porto Alegre. They enjoy traveling, old records, and gastronomy. They invent games... strange games.

Our homage to the stupid idea of God.

A mysterious and sensual woman gets ready to go out with her boyfriend. Who will she go out with? Who will be the lucky one? The film is a tribute to the seventh art with more than fifty references to famous films and characters from cinema.

Scliar, a painter of the world, immersed in the time of his silence. All that the artist sought to bring to the skin and heart of his painting is the inner vibration of every inhabitant of the world. The chromatic vibration does not come from the paints but from the land he harvests from each place he visits. Scliar used earth to give colour to his canvases.

An overlook at some urban characters in the city of Recife through their passages in a hotel.

The existence of racial discrimination did not prevent the affirmation of the black community in the urban space of São Paulo. Members of the black community, in intimate accounts, tell their origins, life trajectory, dreams, anxieties and how they see the situation of blacks, 102 years after the supposed abolition of slavery. Black women and men continue to have to fight for minimum rights and recognition of existence. Black resistance is an example of the struggle of oppressed peoples.

A boy who steals cooking pot lids from his home and from a neighbor's flees through alleys, staircases and dead-ends in São Paulo's Paraisópolis favela.

The most famous popular composer in Rio Grande do Sul, Lupicínio Rodrigues (1914-1974) has his life remembered through his songs and testimonies from friends.