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A girl and a boy are introduced to each other by a friend and are encouraged to start a relationship.

A philosophy teacher assigns a class to make a short film, but one of the groups has difficuty finding the ideal theme.

Intersections between nature, painting, photography and cinema in search of a poetic that expresses the passage of time that sculpturally immobilizes in the petrification of the human as landscape.

Recognized in Rio Grande do Sul (RS) for his career in theatre, Flávio Dornelles built and consolidated his artistic career in Pelotas since the early 1980s, a period in which he began his work as an actor on the local stages, later going on to perform as actor in several cities of RS and in many states of Brazil.

Grandson of India Regina, the only remnant of the "hunting of Indians" in the in search of rubber, Osmildo fights for ransom of the Kuntanawa origins, as well as the mother tongue, the differentiated indigenous school, the sacred rituals, of traditional medicine and his demarcated land.

In Itapetim’s countryside, deep inside Sertão do Pajeú in the Pernambuco backlands lives Leonardo Bastião in a rammed earth housing, a poet who, even without knowing how to read or write, built through his improvised metrical poetry and his relationship with the local environment an overwhelming cultural universe. After a lifetime of anonymity, videos of Leonardo declaiming authorial verses surfaced online and reached millions of views and even gave birth to a book transcribed by fans. In 2019, at the age of 74, the illiterate poet reflects on life, nature and homesickness, while scholars of popular culture try to explain the media and linguistic phenomenon that is his life and work.

Helena went to the cinema and met Tainá. Everything that happened afterwards almost did and, for some reason, it didn't. Or maybe it did.

A detective is hired to solve the mysterious case of a businessman's murder. Now, after leaving the police for having failed in a case involving the wife of said businessman, he will be forced to confront his past, and solve, what may be, his last mystery.

From the end of the Years of Lead, cultural movements that were previously stifled by censorship began to swarm across Brazil. Between the last dictatorial term and the Sarney government, musicians, actors, visual artists and all kinds of people emerged wanting to express themselves through art. Contradictorily, one of Sarney's first acts in power is to censor a work by filmmaker Jean-Luc Godard, a pioneer of the Nouvelle Vague.

The film tells the story of a generous, engaged and provided woman who, with the help of other teachers, focuses on culture, art and the appreciation of black beauty, accompanying young Afro-descendant teenagers from Trancoso in the reconquest and value of their cultural identity.

The liquid that bathes the newborn is the same that washes the lifeless body before the wake. Excess water causes death by drowning and scarcity causes the body to fail due to dehydration. In those bodies that have already had more relationships with nature, the liquid represents the heritage, ancestry and the human side that we are forgetting.

The film addresses the environmental impact of mining and steel production, presenting a dystopian vision of the future. It serves as a warning about the consequences of uncontrolled pollutant emissions and the urgent need for sustainable practices to protect the planet.

Heartwood tells the story of Agostino, a farmer’s son who is on a mission to save his region’s olive trees from a natural disaster. Xylella Fastidiosa is the most deadly pathogen known to mankind that has already infected and killed 20 millions of trees in Southern Italy. When Agostino learns that science is still searching for a cure, he decides to follow the disease back to its roots in Latin America. From the savannas of Brazil, the highlands of the Mayan Peninsula and the deserts of Colombia, Agostino chronicles the efforts of indigenous people to save their traditions and persevere in the face of climate change, while searching for a cure.

Archaeology, that is what whites call the study of the remote past. What they call prehistory. As if history only begins when writing appears. As if oral tradition has no history. Who has no history, has a future? What will be the future of munduruku, after the hydroelectric plants? What will the hydroelectric dams be a thousand years from now?

A documentary about being a female cinematographer in Brazil: the difficulties faced by women in order to get into the market and maintain a carreer, and their fight strategies for a more plural and democratic audiovisual industry.

In a dystopian Brasília, the totalitarian government creates a system that restricts access to basic rights to a good part of the population. Kata is a professor at the Democratic Summit, the only institution allowed to teach, until her ideals and her origins lead her to oppose the system.

Rain, like the circus, travels a long way to its destination. When the two are gone, the memories remain.

The poet Chacal, invited by Harvard University, spends a week in the United States, where he showcased his poetry and performance art.

She knew the solitude of the streets of São Paulo, but her faith and determination would change the course of her history.

Two girls start getting hunted by a peculiar clown who changes his shape to their worst nightmare

It rained on Monday night (17/09/2018) in Rio de Janeiro. Rodrigo Alexandre da Silva Serrano, 26, down the slope Ary Barroso to wait his wife and children with a black umbrella. Suddenly three shots.

This documentary features “Poetas Vivos”, a Porto Alegre-based Poetry Slam Collective and its members. Slam poetry performed by Cristal, Agnes and Felipe Deds. It also addresses Black resistance in poetry and the lives of these poets.

Documentary about Caravaggio

The performance here is a device for creating counter-narratives, projectile bullets, decolonizing the image of the black woman. They are violent images, they are precarious actions, they are postgraduate research, they are articles in magazines and newspapers, they are contradictory, they are destructible. I will point out sounds and words of invisible people from institutional space, I propose a guerrilla of knowledge, in an attempt to reactivate ancestral memories and knowledge, to produce dissensions in bodies marked by coloniality.

Images appropriated from an amateur porn video are reworked through reframing, distortion and other processes.

“With blurred vision it is difficult to see anything around. My eyes have grown tired of this artificial light. My lungs pull the air in a spasm even though I don't remember holding my breath. Just another craze. Adrenaline fills me. The air is always the same, I need to get out. My legs hurt, crack. If in the last 24 hours I got out of bed, it is a source of personal pride. I'm wasting time. I need to get out. Get out of that room, get out of the scenario I created myself. Get out of me.”

The best of two Bon Jovi concerts in one DVD.

Amigos

Inspired by real events, Santa tells the story of a transsexual woman who lives in a rural community in Minas Gerais. She was born and grew up among the festivities of the small church of the place, with a burning desire to crown the image of Our Lady. Santa raises the flag against the mining company that explores the site and that in addition to deforesting, threatens with its residues the spring and the waterfall of the place. But she meets Cícero, the mining company's new supervisor and falls in love with him. In “Santa” there is no violence for the sake of gender and sexual difference, because Santa is completely inserted in the social life of the community and is known, respected and loved by everyone.

A tale about love, friendship, happiness and fulfilling your dreams, or the dreams of your loved ones, even if that means giving up on your own.

Between dreams and trips to the beach, a woman makes clay dolls.

At Agatha's tent, the "monas" (an endearing expression that transgender women in Brazil use to call each other) are in search of sex, crack cocaine and someone who will listen to them. They perform to the camera and have an unique relationship with the city that they live in. But the instability of a marginal life puts at risk the street corner that is their home.