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They came by bike, on foot, by bus, in trailers... They crossed deserts, crossed the continent, slept on the streets, in hotels and in the favelas. Armed with their cameras, thousands of travelers traveled around Rio de Janeiro without spending much money and experienced the World Cup as a big party. Constructed entirely from images taken by the tourists themselves, the short film shows the Rio de Janeiro they discovered and the adventures of experiencing the other side of the World Cup.

Álvaro Ramos, an incorrigible bohemian, thrown out of the boarding house where he lived for lack of payment, finds fifty thousand réis on the street. He buys a lottery ticket number 013 and wins a big prize.

A desperate young man starts selling peanut brittle on the streets to survive. He then embarks on a transhumanist journey to try to get rich. A postmodern tragedy.

Maria Eugênia builds up courage to confess her love to Clarinha through a letter of "correio elegante" at festa junina festival

After his self-esteem is "upgraded" in a neurolinguistic session, shy Gabriel is finally able to put into practice his dream of becoming a successful youtuber and perhaps win over Bianca, his childhood sweetheart.

The African deity that brought in Brazil Together with the blacks, Exu is known as the orixá of communication, the guard of the streets and the human behavior. The short film of black culture and its assimilation by Brazilian art. In its subtext, the film honors one of the greatest activists of the black cause - the actor, the poet, the playwright and the politician - Abdias do Nascimento. The positioning of the documentary seeks to incorporate the fighting spirit, expressive and restless of Abdias: present link between characters, images and children of the film.

A group of UFSCar students find themselves involved in a mysterious plot, full of challenges and time travel. While investigating top-secret research into the enigmatic Tachyons, they uncover clues about the disappearance of a colleague. Now, they need to solve this puzzle before time runs out.

Ana, Ingrid and Milla spend an afternoon chatting about trivial matters. While they play games and have fun, deep secrets begin to emerge and may lead them to a path of no return.

A critique of the culture of transparency and excessive exposure. The spectacularization of the body empties intimacy and destroys the depth of relationships. Based on the book The Transparency Society by Byung-Chul Han.

As Ariel arrives at school, he notices that his friend Dudu is absent. The reason? He’s come down with a cold. In the mind of a child whose main task is going to school, being absent can signal full permission for playtime. And who doesn’t want to play all day? Getting a cold may be commonplace for some children, but not for Ariel.

Dóris is a widow and keeps a small restaurant in Belo Horizonte, Brazil. Two of her customers, the old friends Freitas and Otávio, fall in love with her, and start competing for her affection.

After a chance encounter on the elevator, the lives of Mary Ann, a widowed English teacher, and Pedro, a recently divorced man, intersect against the hot backdrop of Rio de Janeiro.

A dedicated ceramist wants to succeed in her work, but art challenges her. She believes she is experiencing fully each step of the process in the best way she can since she wants to prove and reaffirm herself as artist, but she doesn’t understand what art wants to tell her. But in the end, what is art?

Brazil's love motels are a sexual haven where fantasy becomes reality. When the filmmaker's own date never shows up, she gets a fresh idea for a film instead. The result is a kaleidoscopic insight into a parallel world of human desire.

Middle-class girl gets involved with a jealous drug dealer, who wants to kill all of her previous boyfriends.

Away from home, living alone in an old and gloomy apartment, Pérola feels the effects of the time passing, being increasingly taken by nostalgia and fear to a point where dream, fantasy and reality lose its borders.

Brás Cubas tell his amazing stories to the spectator, but in short form.

For the people of São Paulo, in the early 1930s, Getúlio Vargas's Provisional Government had become a dictatorship. The civil war lasted three months. The conflict resulted in approximately 800 fatalities.

A docufiction that reveals the obstacles faced by AIDS victims during its worst period when it was a new and deadly disease. Interviews with famous Brazilian personalities and anonymous people about the disease’s pandemic all over the world, their opinions, and hopes for a future cure.

Solitudes goes from laugh to drama, from musical to documentary, from romantic comedy to mean satire, keeping loneliness focused in all its aspects at all times, in many stories that are linked to each other.

The political activity of students in the 60s.

In the middle of the night, two friends return to their old school.

Two young men carry a couch through the city.

A vampire awakens thirsty for blood and attacks defenseless young women until he is drawn into a fun orgy with an analconda.

In 1970, Brazil was in the throes of a military dictatorship that lasted 20 years. Persecutions, arrests, killings, kidnappings. The film Seventy rejoins 18 characters of this story, forty years later. The film mixes the excitement of revisiting the past with a vision, sometimes even good humored of everything they lived. Many years afterwards they relive their experience of pain, violence and survival, of rebuilding their own story and continuing to believe in the possibility of improving the world.

A portrait of five people who were important to the filmmaker when he was a child. Apart from a few childhood photos, he himself remains out of the picture. He visits a teacher who used to take care of him, and a gay childhood friend. Their combined stories—about exclusion and terror, but also love—paint a portrait of a small, somewhat oppressive community and a boy who lost his sense of security within it, despite the help he was offered. In his wistful look at the past, Barreto transcends his personal experiences; anyone can identify with his bittersweet journey.

A boy is left alone in a Jewish neighborhood in the year of 1970, where both world cup and dictatorship happen in Brazil.

In 1993, amid financial turmoil and the looming threat of extinction, Botafogo, one of Brazil's most historic football clubs, was going through one of the darkest chapters in its history. Deprived of financial resources and with a dismantled roster, the club had no choice but to field inexperienced young players from its youth ranks, many of whom had barely played for the professional team. Leading this discredited team was a prominent figure in Brazilian football: Carlos Alberto Torres, the legendary captain of the 1970 World Cup-winning Brazilian national team. More than just a coach, Torres took on the mission of restoring dignity and fighting spirit to a club on the brink of collapse. His presence became a symbol of leadership, resilience, and confidence in the face of overwhelming uncertainty.

The Water Law is a Brazilian documentary that explains the relationship between the new Forest Code and the Brazilian water crisis.

Santamaria and Urtigo are two bandits on the run, one is white, the other black. Santamaria is a mystical visionary and believes in the imminent coming of a purifying angel. Urtiga, his inseparable companion, is a simple-minded and ingenious man who follows Santamaria around and participates in the crimes he commits. The two bandits take over a house after kidnapping its owner and his girlfriend.

When Nego discovers that a cocoa farm where he lives and works will be sold, he needs to face not only the loss of his home and his job, but also the daily contact he has with the land he loves so much.

A soldier coming home after the Paraguay War meets a theater group. A shock between war and art.

As filmmaker Maria Carolina Telles comes to terms with the death of her father, a man who regretted never making it to the frontlines of World War II, she focuses her lens on the life of another man who had his own unique experience as a civilian in the midst of combat: award-winning war photographer André Liohn.

Documentary about the great Brazilian photographers who helped develop Brazilian cinema and their opinions on their work, making movies in Brazil and in general, and other subjects. As a bonus, they all agreed to shoot the same scene following their individual concepts, and the result is shown for comparison.

A humble farmer aspiring for richness leaves his land to become a prospector. He finds a precious gem and hides it from his employer, for which he ends up beaten and tortured. After being released, he kills the perpetrators and flees to the big city. There he finds some criminals who will end up transforming him into the most powerful drug dealer and pimp of the underworld.

Music and black and white photos create the narrative of a woman's reflections on the passage of time and mortality.

The plot follows a couple isolated on a sort of farm. Without internet or television, they prepare a game of seduction, where the main weapon is gastronomy. Cooking for each other, the characters reveal their secrets.

Ana and Helen, two divorced women, were close friends as teenagers. Today, amidst the corona virus pandemic and in quarantine, they get in touch after 20 years via internet. Through video conference calls, memories, sensations and emotions reflourishes.

A$$untina of the Amerikas is a musical comedy of a prostitute that, in 24 hours, wakes up, fights her mother, puts her son in anarchy, has a date with Santa Claus, a blue bear and two girlfriends. Then she finally meets her old millionaire lover. They spend their time to talk about everyday life and make love. Based on the novels of Fernando Henrique Cardoso and Wilhelm Reich.