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The impact of Ney Matogrosso's performances on his audience and the reverberation of that impact on Brazilian culture, from the second half of the 20th century to the present. An audiovisual anthology, all composed of archival images. The best way to get to know Ney is to be with him on stage.
The series features exclusive images of the club, as well as testimonials from players, coaches, fans and idols.
On the eve of Círio de Nazaré, one of the largest Catholic festivities in the world, four prisoners - two men and two women - await a pardon specially granted to those who wish to accompany the procession of Nossa Senhora de Nazaré, patron saint of the city of Belém do Pará While making plans for the four days of freedom that pardons guarantee, they revisit their past and reflect on topics such as justice, family and faith.
Nara’s (35) marriage has become boring and so has her attitude towards life. One day, instead of going to work she decides to walk around the city and ends up at her childhood neighborhood. She meets Lucia (56), and they spend the day together having delightful conversations that will mess around with both of their desires and shake things up.
Claudete likes to bake cakes, but she gets upset when people eat too many of them.
The largest off road race in the Americas crosses the country of Brazil en route to Fortaleza. An epic battle between men and machines in breathtaking landscapes. Get to know the stories of those who are part of the event that is much bigger than just a rally.
For the past 14 years, the Ilú Obá de Min - Educação Cultura e Arte Negra promotes parades on the streets of São Paulo with its afro feminine band that celebrates themed carnivals. There’s always an homage to a black woman, embracing our history, fight and productions. In 2019, we sang “Black Voices” and spread “Alakan Time” - word that means alliances in Yoruba.
Five young people. Five minds. Five private universes. An intersex person, a young man living with HIV, a university student, a young woman marked by sexual violence, and a participant in the Blue Whale game. The violent hour: 4:48 a.m., when lucidity and desolation converge. These are intense nights in which they cry out within their painful entanglements with delirium, unrestrained pleasure, and tragic desire, in an attempt to reach a figure who is always unavailable.
A person locked in the room.
The Keshvar khale, a lonely old woman, is the only one living in an ancient village called Chasham in Northern Iran. She earns her living by picking medicinal plants and livestock her only cattle. Keshvar khale is one of the few living people weaving an amazing weave called gelij. A weave that is being forgotten and only remains in this village. Her house overlooks the hill, next to which she dug a vestibule to create a karchali (a traditional weaving room), where she weaves gelijs. Keshvar khale believes that Gelijs is a very old and a legendary fairy who lived in a cave near her village and taught the handicraft to the people living there.
The documentary presents relics of the Riot Girrrl scene in Brazil that landed in São Paulo through cassette tape coming from the US state of Washington, where the movement was born.
During the Covid-19 pandemic, Laura refuses to answer the phone. What is she trying to hide?
A doctor mistaken for a thief. A cleaning lady treated as a slave. A mother who lost her son murdered by the police. A Trans employee who is never promoted. What do these people have in common? Their skin color. A human and poetic documentary sewn together with various narrative threads – characters, music, slams and black intellectual thinking – that unveil the racism rooted in Brazilian society.
The documentary shows how the Brazilian men's basketball team in the 1980s revolutionized the game with the newly incorporated three-point shot.
Vidigal composer, singer and performer, lived among the streets of the lower Belorizontine center, where he died after a convulsive crisis and the lack of care. Filming interrupted by geographical distance, intended to portray him only in sober conditions, valuing his creative intelligence.
A mirror of Brazilian society and the way they improvise as a form of creative process and survival in the current social-political structure.
The documentary traces a social-political panorama to explore the changes in Uruguayan society since the legalization of cannabis, taking into account cultural, political, economic, medicinal and industrial scenarios. With interviews with professionals from different fields, such as lawyers and pharmacists, the film uses a game of chess to portray the power game in the world of drugs and how each social actor plans his move.
A duo, a mission and an ill-fated kidnapping. Far East Of The Americas, Year Of Grace 2042.
A dance group rehearses for their latest performance Inabitáveis about black homosexuality. While the choreographer conducts research and gives guided tours, he meets Pedro, a young trans girl looking for her own means of expression. She desperately wants to be taught by him.
The film invites you to venture on an exciting expedition drawn up by the documentary filmmaker, who traveled for 7 months with his team through important archaeological sites in three regions of the state of Ceará: Sertão Central, Região Norte e Litoral Oeste. The 70-minute feature highlights the unprecedented value of discoveries made by bushmen and researchers in the more than 5000 cataloged archaeological sites, spread across the state, still timidly explored. A passionate and investigative dive into the origins of these ancestors, stimulating the belonging and awareness of the populations that inhabit or visit the regions - for the preservation and conservation of the historical and cultural heritage.
A documentary that tells the story of doctor Paulo Cesar Fructuoso who carried out his work as an oncological surgeon in parallel to the materialization sessions and spiritual surgeries held at the famous Lar de Frei Luiz.
Chapter 4 of Cosmopolitics of Animals.
The combination of COVID-19 and the far right in power could spell the end of human life on Earth. Short film made for the IMS Convida program.
After being born Georgina in the outback of Bahia, she became known as Diva Rios in São Paulo’s Boca do Lixo and Rio de Janeiro’s Lapa, as well as Suzy King in the nights of Copacabana, but died as Jacuí Japurá on the border of the United States and Mexico. Four names for just one woman: fascinating, moody and very creative. Singer, songwriter, actress, ballet, folk, burlesque and exotic dancer, snake charmer and fakir were only some of the artistic endeavors she tackled during her life. Found dead on the trailer where she lived in August of 1985, in California, she left behind stories without conclusion, lost remainings of her troubled trajectory and a trail of mystery. Three decades later, two historians gather fragments of her tale with the goal of piecing together the complex puzzle that was her life. Actresses, singers, musicians and performers join them to rescue the poetic aspects of her unique personality. A question resounds throughout the entire movie: Suzy King, who are you?
A reflection on the works and thinking of the last years of production by Torquato. Such as the magazine "Navilouca", the film "Terror da Vermelha", the column "Geleia Geral" and the controversial Cinema Novo X Marginal, among other passages important aspects of Brazilian culture in the 60s and 70s.
Rio de Janeiro, 2020. The city has been engulfed in flames and its waters are either dried up or contaminated. From the depths of the Earth and from the sky disoriented extra-human beings appears.
November 23rd, 2018. I'm sitting in front of the Louvre waiting for Chris, and he is late as usual.
After years imprisoned and being part of a intriguing prison break, ex-policeman Mumbaca and bandit Alfinete join forces to face a spiral of situations that come upon highwaymen looking for vengeance from all over Brazil’s Northeast, where everyone is doomed to fall for a trap set by a new enemy: the notorious Goteiro.
A documentary that follows the participation of members of the LGBTQI+ community in the 2nd of July 2019 Parade, sometimes focusing their lenses on the performance of the beacons, or with the public that honors the moment.
20 years ago, Vila Verde found the path to community autonomy in lowland football. Through Carlinhos' passion, we see the trajectory of the Vila Verde Football Championship.
He was a boy forgotten in the backyard from his own childhood.
Based on letters from 20 lesbian and bisexual women written during the pandemic, a single quarantine letter is made up. An interrupted love story, a shattered country, a persistent living body.
Grandfather, scientist, professor, playwright, writer, environmentalist and zoologist, scholar of dragonflies and butterflies. A intimate and multifaceted portrait of Ângelo Machado; directed by his granddaugher.
This experimental short film proposes a lyrical plunge into the sacred words of the shaman Valdomiro Flores about the original territory and the traditional way of being Kaiowá indigenous people (Mato Grosso do Sul/Brazil) elaborated from a set of images of the phenomenon of kuarahy jeguaka (head ornament of the Sun).
Poem movie based on letters adressed to all kind of artists who still believe in madness as a key for freedom.
A successful professional, Manuela must deal with the changes in her body when she finds out she is pregnant. Ahead, when the baby is born, she also needs to learn to be a mother.
In the context of constituting a Superficial World Atlas, Guerreiro do Divino Amor investigates how fictions of different natures, whether geographic, social, media, political or religious, interfere in the construction of territory and the collective imagination. Fifth chapter of the Superficial Atlas, The Mineral World is a fantasy of harmony and forgiveness, the surface of the miraculous balance between peoples, north and south, overdevelopment and supertradition.