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Ultimately, love is always greed. Narcissus and his love could not escape this. The night is dark and mirrors no longer have inverses or rights.

In order to escape repression in his country, Latin American political militant takes refuge in the coast of Paraná, where he lives in the constant expectation of being discovered and eliminated.

An adaptation of Marcos Vinicius Faustini's rendition of José Vicente's eponymous 1971 play, a story that deals with the five children of Pedro Fogueteiro, who all live in a small town in the state of Minas Gerais and decide to go on a journey to find about their own individual identities in a moment of change lived by their generation, heavily influenced by rock music.

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.

Prepared by the team of the Program for Training Black Researchers, The video brings together images and voices that talk about the reproductive health of black women, diseases taking into account the racial/ethnic background, habits, customs, the physical and social environment and the inhuman conditions imposed by racism.

A Kafka-esque satire about food, identity, and bureaucracy.

Documentary about the life of one of the greatest composers in the history of Brazilian music. Pianist, composer and conductor, Chiquinha Gonzaga was ahead of her time and revolutionized the customs of a sexist society.

Amazon Rainforest midwives advocate for state recognition in Brazil.

The film is close to the experiences of men and women forced to survive on the streets of São Paulo in the early 1990s, a time of deteriorating living conditions for workers, high unemployment and increasing urban poverty. Between approaching the problem as something structural and a sensitive look at the characters, the documentary portrays the lives of people who lost their work, distanced themselves from their affections and saw their identity disintegrate.

The documentary follows a truck of pilgrims on their pilgrimage from Fernandes, in the municipality of Arapiraca, in Alagoas, to Juazeiro - a journey of 700 km covered in 16 hours. Testimonies of former pilgrims and their descendants established in Juazeiro, today a commercial center with 180 thousand inhabitants, outline the historical and legendary profile of Father Cícero.

A village whose inhabitants carry out manual activities is invaded by a wizard, who kidnaps all the virgin girls and turns them into blue onions. This one, however, is a technological wizard, who uses a remote control instead of a wand and does not make his potions in a cauldron, but in a microwave.

"Mônico": A new boy shows up in the Limoeiro neighborhood and he looks just like Mônica! Mônico?! Who could he be? "Chico Bento at the Mall": Chopingui? Where I live, we don't have that kind of thing! Yikes! I can see I'm going to be in some trouble here in the big city! I don't know why I accepted my cousin's invitation to go on this "train." "How to Cross the Living Room": Mônica took a lovely bath, but forgot her clothes in her room. And to get there, she needs to cross the living room, where the naughty Cebolinha, Cascão, and her (oh, oh) kitten, Reinaldinho, are. How will she do it? "Frank Being a Child": Everyone was a child at some point, or still is. But... what about our friend Frank? Was he ever a child?

A family of outsiders is attacked by a possesed bowl of noodles.

Documentary by Leon Hirszman about the economic conditions of film production in Brazil, produced in 1975 with sponsorship from Embrafilme and kept unreleased since then.

A museum worker - the watchman - motivated by the homonymous painting by Giorgio De Chirico, is introduced, through everyday life, into the metaphysical universe of the Italian painter.

In a single shot, mysterious characters discuss about a cockroach problem.

Two outlaws install a pirate radio station using stolen equipment, and start interfering in other stations' broadcasts, becoming an immediate success.

Shot in Lapland and Brazil, this film is about Man’s relationship with Nature, from the indigenous people’s point of view. Listen to the oral culture of the Saamis from the Arctic and Fulni-ôs from Brazil. Beyond the ice fields, beyond the trees, the climates, the skins, the same intuition : the whole future is in their own hands.

Here lives happiness-here lives happiness, say old recordings found in the phalluses in the areas of prostitution in Pompeii. A tale of sexuality in colonialism. Mathias, a European traveler, passes through a coastal town below the equator and implodes the routine of those he encounters. In his own words: “their skin tone attracts me like an abyss.”

This video, directed at children, merges clay animation and real images to show the various dimensions involving urban waste: trash and sweeping the streets, and household waste, composting and recycling of materials. The gang formed by Vassourinha, Dr. Basket and Mr. Truck, stimulate correct habits for children and the responsibility of these issues.

A doctor, after ingesting human flesh to survive a plane crash in the jungle, mutates and turns into a creature that eats corpses in cemeteries.

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

Man vomits and feeds on his vomit with great joy.

Documentary about the discovery of a ditch in a cemetery located in São Paulo, in which were found the carcass of Brazilian political prisoners who fought against the military dictatorship.

Aroeiras is a fictional city in the northeastern interior of Brazil where Genésio lives. Old, widowed, retired and childless, he fills his loneliness drinking and dreaming of the nostalgic heroism of cangaceiros (northeastern outlaws) and the love of Rosália. His friend Baltazar, a peasant leader, does not believe in myths of the past. He believes that organized political struggle is the only possible way to change things and he is looking for new ways to fight the powerful.

Drunken poet declaims a surreal poem.

‘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).

Criticisms on TV and its bad influence over the urban man.

A dive into the universe of samba and black culture in São Paulo through the work of composer Geraldo Filme.

Pancho Villa, in a moment of delirium, “murders” a mannequin, thinking he is killing everyone.

This is Juliana Rojas and Marco Dutra's second school project. The short film features members of the school's class in the cast. They are credited as Ju Chiquitita Rojas and Marco Mamma Mia Aurélio. The short features an appearance (in drawings) by Casal Medo, characters the directors would use again in other works.

The Waiãpi indigenous people decide to meet and document the Zo’é people. after met, the Zo’é make the visitants know their ancestors' life style; the Waiãpi tell them about the dangers of the white world.

After the first step is set when climbing the stairs, the rest is simple: repeat the step until the top is reached.