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After a terrible accident, a patient is admitted to the hospital. The patient is questioned by police, claiming to have been marked by the devil after acquiring a picture of a crying child.

Marcha Cega portrays violent police repression at demonstrations in São Paulo that turned the city's streets into real battlefields, leaving blind journalists, students wounded and dozens of political prisoners. This violent march follows without seeing the deep roots hidden by the dense fog of the tear gas.

Money, fear, and boy-girl things told by some children in a cute, weird way.

A deep and sincere investigation into the close connection between Brazilian football and our country's society, to show that the 7-1 defeat we took from Germany in 2014 is just “the visible defeat” of all the others that Brazil has suffered, not only on the field, but off it as well.

What is the influence of Jazz on Brazilian music and the influence of Brazilian music on Jazz? The documentary Zuza Homem de Jazz draws a parallel between the two universes, featuring the renowned Brazilian musicologist Zuza Homem de Mello as the protagonist. It offers an intimate look at the writer and music journalist and highlights his long connection with Jazz, that dates back to the 1950’s, when Zuza was a student at the Julliard School of Music. The film was also shot in New York, where Zuza meets old friends in the jazz circuit and revisits memorable stories.

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.

The time machine works by superimposing puzzles, materializing the past and projecting the future. All previous and future images will be forever impressed on the stills of a film reel.

Denise, Dilma and Teresinha are three women with visual impairment who live in Teresina. Each one with a type of impairment, they share their experiences, challenges and hopes as women who feel the world beyond what their eyes can see.

Ciana and Zefinha have always lived for each other. Surviving is a daily challenge and knowing how to forgive without remembering the past will be essential to moving forward.

Through testimonies and almost dreamlike sensory images, this film aims to make people aware of the importance of giving voice to their feelings. It is well known that between the ages of 15 and 29, suicide is the second leading cause of death. 90% of these could be avoided. Contrary to the veiled silence in the Brazilian press, many opinion leaders reinforce the thesis of communication to save lives. Art and culture are important means of reaching people's conscience.

During summer vacation, Alice spends her days playing with her friends. But she’s hiding a secret — and with the inauguration of the new pool in their condo, it will become harder to pretend everything is normal. Alice will have to make a difficult choice and discover a lot about herself in the process.

A visual metaphor about love, death and everyday life.

Historically, the queer community has not been portrayed in mainstream culture as being capable of protecting children and young people. Yet my uncle Ricardo, himself an openly gay man, was the ultimate guardian of my childhood.

Brazil, May 2018. Presidential elections are approaching as the economic and political crisis intensifies. Amid the chaos, the class of truck drivers, responsible for the supply of large cities, starts a blockade on the roads, aggravating tensions. However, amidst the demands for better working conditions, there is also a discourse for the military intervention that distorts.

"Quero Botar Meu Bloco na Rua" is an affective journey through the history of the street carnival blocks in Rio, telling the saga of this popular manifestation that spans the centuries adapting to all sorts of social, political, cultural or economic transformations in Brazil.

A poetic observational documentary that follows the lives of a community of “jangadeiros” —fishermen typical to the dune-lined Northeastern Coast of Brazil.

The life and work of the late samba singer-songwriter Candeia.

Tim and Tom occasionally watch fish and spend the whole day in front of the television.

Shot across three continents, in New York, São Paulo and Cape Town, this documentary chronicles the intergenerational experiences of spatial violence and its correlation to apartheid spatial planning and its modern incarnation, gentrification.

Julius discovers that one of the photos in his collection holds more than a mere record of past moments.

Katie, a digital influencer seeking more views, makes a daring decision: to break into her mysterious neighbor's house, someone she's never seen in public but whose bizarre sounds echo throughout the neighborhood. With her friends by her side and a camera in hand, Katie is determined to unravel the mystery. However, she's about to plunge into an endless nightmare where the unknown becomes terrifying.

Gabriel is installed next to a tree in a noble neighborhood of the city of São Paulo. Clarisse accompanies astonished and inert the treatment given to Gabriel, at the same time that leads a stagnant life and dependent of the mother.

Marked by its ethnic diversity, today Rio Grande do Sul is home to thousands of Palestinian immigrants, expelled after the UN shared its territory in 1947, allowing the founding of the State of Israel. As a result, the Palestinian diaspora emerges, reaching six million people living in different countries. In Brazil, the discrete Palestinian community seeks to survive, grow and gain social recognition for its economic and social contribution.

An excerpt from Neville D'Almeida's debut feature "Jardim de Guerra" (1968), focusing on the Black Power speech made by a character played by Antonio Pitanga.

Silvia and Alex go back to live together. Life in motion.

In Slavic mythology, Rusalki are believed to be the spirits of young women who drowned in rivers or lakes. Their characteristics are similar to those of water nymphs, mermaids, and succubi. Rusalki tells the story of Leon, a historian who travels to remote cities to finish his thesis on historical places. Leon meets Liz, a widow who is struggling to cope with the recent disappearance of her only son. Liz allows Leon to spend a few nights at her house. However, unusual things begin to happen.

Paulo Cesar Pereio is an unique figure in the history of Brazilian cinema. Winner of a number of awards and with a career that spans from legendary Cinema Novo features to erotic comedies and many other kinds of projects, Pereio remembers the roles of his life in a number of interviews.

Love, Possession, Betrayal, Jealousy, Selfishness. And it is a reinterpretation of the traditional Stories of treasures buried during the War of the Triple Alliance, which deeply marked Brazil – especially the Pantanal people – since 1864. It is based on Alvarenga's manuscripts from when he lived among the Kadiwéu, Kinikinanau, in the village São João, between 2002 and 2004.

Felix, oppressed by his daily life with Caio, discovers a place to escape, where he meets Naim.

When borderlines were not limits for pioneers, the far north of Brazil became the destination for men and women seeking to build their lives, facing new challenges, new dreams. While for some, conquest came through hard and honest work, others achieved it through brute force and violence.

The First Stone exposes the terrible face of intolerance, where angry lynch mobs take justice into their own hands. The documentary tells the story of lynching victims and investigates the shocking growth of this crime in Brazil where one lynching is registered everyday - the highest rate worldwide. A narrative with engaging characters and dramatic stories of lives that have been devastated by this violent trend in mob rule.

The documentary's narrative is constructed from the testimony and the protagonism of mothers and family members who are victims of the violence of the State at Baixada Fluminense

Life in one of Belo Horizonte's outlying neighbourhoods is never easy, though it can be exciting. Pablo's mother asks him to go out and sell his precious canary, which takes him on an adventure, in which he discovers something of what it means to grow up in such a violent but beautiful place.

In a dystopic world where all things happen in reverse, a man leaves a message to his beloved.

The daily lives of three young students in São Paulo. They symbolize the first generation of black students that, thanks to new education policies, attend the best public universities - places traditionally reserved for the white elite.

Silvia is a middle-aged filmmaker in crisis with her life. The same night that she is surprised by the visit of the ex-wife, who left her a few years ago, meets another woman who fascinates her.

Rise and fall movement.

Messi and Johnny are invited to a party at Barra da Tijuca. When they get trapped outside, they have the entire night to explore the streets, and to discover that this place wasn't made for them.

In 2018, the fiftieth anniversary of the first workers' strike during the military dictatorship (1964 - 1985) was completed. Through the testimonies of historians, researchers and workers who participated in that historic strike in the Industrial City of Contagem, in the metropolitan region of Belo Horizonte, the documentary reconstructs this episode that lasted that same year, in July, in the famous strike in Osasco, in São Paulo. Intensifying the confrontation with the bourgeoisie in the military period and sowing the seeds of the new unionism that would emerge a decade later.