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A photographer, a championship, a passion. Black and white documentary that synthesizes, through sounds and images, the trajectory of Zanata, a man who dedicates his life to recording moments of football games. The narrative consists of fragments in which the character photographs games from a championship in the countryside in the interior of Bahia.

Denise, Hannah and Leticia are three ordinary women with extraordinary stories to tell. As transgender people, they talk about the challenges of finding their true identities within an intolerant and prejudiced society.

Two girls run away from the police after the Women's March. In the midst of violence, they find a way to live their desire.

Who is Marcelo Benites?

Eugênia is a young black woman who appears to have a normal life but on the inside she struggles to accept the way she looks. Going about with her daily beauty routine, adverse circumstances and a dear friend help her see things from a different point of view.

A fascinating trip to Buddhist temples in South Korea. Three nuns share ancient knowledge about the truths of the contemporary world and teach that the balance of eating habits is the key to our health body, mind and the preservation of the planet.

Rubber strikes again, when everything is being rebuilt, but not just the city, the forests and the world.

A man, at a desert and in a cell, doesn't seem to have a face.

When you're dead weight, embracing the literal sense may be the only way out.

In a small island convulsed by the 1959 revolution, Santiago Álvarez used the Seventh Art as a political weapon and created an aesthetic that became a reference in the documentary field. Santiago, who called himself a permanent traveler through history, registered the most significant facts of his time, from the Cuban Revolution to the disintegration of the Soviet Block. He took to spectators from all continents a counterpoint to the history narrated by the United States Information Service, USIS. Through his works, we dive into the Cuban political and cultural scene, the tensions of Latin America, the Vietnam War, the countless conflicts for African independence, always with a peripheral look that is characteristic of his cinema, currently converted into a memory of a world in transformation.

The Brazilian police go on strike and so the crime takes over the city. People have to do everything to survive this day of crimes without laws. It'a "Brazilian Purge", based on true events.

Recorded during a show in Allianz Parque, in São Paulo, to a 50,000 crowd on December 18th, 2018, the project celebrates 25 years of Ivete's career.

It's a 5-minute animation that addresses the issue of climate change, presenting a proposal for how to balance our relationship with the environment. The short film also shows the importance of agroforestry in the lives of people in both rural and urban areas.

A sensitive look over multiple sclerosis.

A foreign filmmaker is invited to visit China with the task of producing a documentary about tea production in the province of Fujian. A year later, having returned to Brazil, she revisits her images and what was seen in Chinese territory.

From the makers of "FantastiCozzi", a new documentary about the life and career of controversial Italian director Ruggero Deodato.

The striking and sinuous shadow that intertwines with the conceptual imaginary moment reproduced on screen, runs over without mercy to everyone who is attached to old concepts and prejudices conceived in the residual decadent imagination of society in a globalized world.

For a while, I doubted about what I felt, but the psychiatrist said I din't need any medicine. So, I decided to make a movie from it. I invited my mother and a great actress to participate. It was a ritual of turning into film what I didn't want to be just real life, or anymore. Mixing memory and invention, women and the cinema.

César Benjamin was arrested in August 1971 during student protests against the Brazilian military dictatorship. Although he was a juvenile, he was tried as an adult and sentenced to 13 years in prison. Thanks to the ardent campaigning of his mother Iramaya, working closely together with the Swedish branch of Amnesty International, he was released five years later.

Back then they ate my eyes and I can't tell what happened.

This monologue is the last film by Brazilian underground filmmaker Luiz Rosemberg Filho.

Faced with Pedro's paternal overprotection, the young Diana sees in the exchange outside the country the chance to carry out her project of independence. Unbeknownst to her father, Diana and her brother Adriano plan to leave home and start a new life.

Since 2016, Trap consumption on Spotify has grown by an average of 61% per year. This past year, only Recayd Mob plays have gone up almost 1000%. Every month, over 1 million fans hear the sound of artists like Matuê, Raffa Moreira, Ebony, FBC and Sidoka. And so on. Have a doubt if the trap is pumping?

Six indigenous myths of the Kuikuro, Javaé and Kadiwéu tribes. Amongst the stories: The Emu, The Fish-Boy, The Faceless Women, The Milky Way, The Serpent-Girl and the Vulture-King.

There are three friends in their fifties who, unable to have conventional relations with women, always call girls to call them to keep them company. They are the subjects who were born in the 60s, with all the explosions of rebellion and the search for freedom.

A day in the life of our everyday mistakes.

There is only one way Claudeciro can reach Marciliane's heart: by discovering her most intimate secrets. On his journey, Claudeciro relies on Norberto, his eternal, dedicated friend.

Arlete Juruna lives in the Paquiçamba indigenous land, Aldeia Paquiçamba, in Volta Grande do Xingu-PA. She films her father Manuel Juruna, in a beautiful account of the transformations he experienced in the rubber plantation on the banks of the Xingu river.

The documentary goes through works composed by the Bahian musician between 1968 and 1987. Brazilian musician Gilberto Gil, one of the most well-known members of the Tropicália generations, revisits some of his most famous works on this documentary.

“The Little Dominos Jingle Bells” was made to celebrate the centennial of the work “Children’s Carnival” of one of Latin America’s most celebrated composer, Heitor Villa-Lobos. His musical play consisted in explore the folklore behind this brazilian festivity and capture the essence of carnival´s most common costume archetypes. The short explores the figure of the little dominos, one of the many carnival costume archetypes that Villa-Lobos represented in his musical play. In this short film, the little dominos dance together and compete over who gets in possession of the Jingle Bells, while doing an outstanding music performance.

“VIVA” is the sixth DVD of the Brazilian singer Luan Santana. It was released on August 23, 2019 exclusively on Globoplay. This is the first music content to be part of the platform's catalog through a partnership with Som Livre. Luan was the artist who inaugurated the "Music" category within the service. The show was recorded in May 2019, in Salvador, Bahia, to an audience of over 20 thousand people. In addition to the presentation, with a setlist formed with hits and new songs, the project features backstage scenes where details of the project are shown, as well as curiosities and interviews.

When the father sacrifices the sick dog of the family, the relationship with the eldest daughter becomes unsustainable. Fearing that he may do the same with the youngest daughter, who is also sick, the sisters come together to try to escape the threat of their father.

A virtual stroll between the cultural center Casa do Povo and the ruins of Art Palácio -- a cinema theater designed by Rino Levi in the 1930s -- located at Largo do Paissandú (São Paulo, Brazil).

MPB - MÚSICA PELO BRASIL is a Spotify documentary series that explores the coolest things going on in Brazilian music. In this episode, we visited Recife and São Paulo and spoke with Dadá Boladão, Shevchenko & Elloco, MC Loma e as Gêmeas Lacração, MC Troia, A Tropa, MC Lia e Magnatas do Passinho to learn about the origins and evolution of brega funk...

Barbara Ohana's song "Chains" is dubbed by a man who performs the song while the music video also presents him as the main character in a story where he feels broken-hearted, possibly because he still has feelings for his ex-boyfriend. As for the memories left, a masculine mannequin is what makes him company, which helps a little but not for too long.

It addresses the theme of modern slave labor in Brazil - the last country to abolish slavery - under its various facets (social, economic, political, etc.). The documentary sheds light on the practices of enticement and trafficking in human beings and exposes the precarious working conditions in the countryside and in the city resulting from the migratory dynamics driven by false promises of life improvement. Slave-like work, although illegal, now generates billions of $ 150 billion annually in the world, losing only to that of trafficking in drugs and arms, and is three times more profitable than in the period of legal traffic .

Alice (Carolina Zanella) is an award-winning screenwriter, but her job demands much more from her than she imagines. Frustrated at not being able to come up with an innovative story, she asks for help from two friends who are actors, Jorge (Guttho Lekan) and Júlia (Rebeca Knopf). However, their strong personalities result in more problems. With existential crisis and depression, she needs to consult with her psychologist Gustavo (Vinicius Daza), who advises her to have more experiences than she has already had. With the great problems that this advice brings her, she discovers that the greatest story was right in front of her.

The indigenous woman Mãtãnãg follows the spirit of her husband, dead bitten by a snake, to the village of the dead. Together they overcome the obstacles that separate the earthly world from the spiritual world. Once in the land of the spirits, things are different: other ways govern the supernatural. But Mãtãnãg is not dead, and his soul must return to living with the living. Back in his village and reunited with his relatives, new vicissitudes during a ritual will provide the opportunity for them to once again be alive and dead. Mãtãnãg is based on a traditional history of the Maxakali people. The illustrations for the film were made in a workshop in Aldeia Verde, in the municipality of Ladainha (Minas Gerais).

In Brazil, in the State of Mato Grosso do Sul, in the region of the Rio Taquari, the increasing and continuous silting of the rivers has led to the overflow of waters and the flooding of lands over the years, causing significant changes in the lives of its inhabitants. This has made it impossible to cultivate the soil and raise livestock, a form of livelihood for local families. Member of one of these families, Ruivaldo Nery Andrade, our guide character, struggles to save his farm, through the construction of a manual system of dikes to contain and alter the course of invading waters and, thus, resume his activities and guarantee the survival of the land.

Flavia Ribeiro meets 8 female ex-offenders with whom she helped as a volunteer in the Women's Chain, city of Santos. Together, in a inhospitable and precarious space, they transformed anguish into art, rebellions into dialogue, despair into hope.