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Seventy critics and filmmakers discuss cinema around the conflict between the artist and the observer, the creator and the critic. Between 1998 and 2007, Kléber Mendonça Filho recorded testimonies about this relationship in Brazil, the United States and Europe, based on his experience as a critic.

Couple making love in a park in Rio de Janeiro face perverts in search of sex.

Stopping in search of help, Luna meets Marcos, two very different people, but with many paths in life in common. A moment of conversation can change your destinations.

To invade or to be invaded is a matter of point of view.

Leo celebrates his tenth birthday. From one grandmother, he receives socks, from the other, underwear. From his Grandfather, Leo gets an old Super-8 camera and with it he tells us of his attempts to change the gifts. While doing that, he finds out that Monica Lewinsky is Jewish, that Clinton is the president of America, that the numbers in his grandparents arms are responsible for him being chubby and that this old camera is worthless.

Out of the names of twenty cities from Minas Gerais, Brazil, the impulse towards the visual record of the things and lives that are found there. Images that do not intend to represent places, but rather to capture the following of a time specific for certain situations of coexistence between landscapes and people.

Super 8 film made in a single take as homage to Arlindo Machado with Patricia Moran, José Roberto Aguilar, Gabriel Borba and Lucila Meirelles.

Vange, a lonely biker, is enchanted by the relationship and freedom of four girls, with whom she spends a weekend where exchanges about lesbian experiences and culture are present, accompanied by a mutual affection that gradually establishes itself.

A horror short film and a brazilian production. A story based on a Guy de Maupassant tale, “La Mère aux Monstres”. It`s a movie that aims to reference and homenageate horror classics.

Zózimo Bulbul’s film is dedicated to Zumbi dos Palmares and to all Maroons dead and alive. It portrays the life of Aniceto, who was 72 years old at the time: a union leader, a stevedore at the Rio de Janeiro port and founder of Escola de Samba Império Serrano

Bill wakes up one morning to discover - he's a girl!

A cigarette factory decides to launch a new brand of cigarettes on the market, the Relax 3000. A team of publicists takes action. Thousands of dollars involved, thousands of meetings, thousands of scoldings and a smell of shit in the air.

A man wakes up from a deep sleep and starts running.

"Além do Muro" is a short documentary that provides a glimpse into the culture of pixo in the city of Curitiba, Brazil.

A boy despairs when he finishes his coffee.

When Alex and Eva choose to exchange vows at the very spot they first crossed paths, a series of hilarious missteps derails their journey to the altar.

A documentary following five actresses through Santa Catarina roads as they perform the play of the title.

Portugal, Brazil and Cape Verde. Countries linked by the sea and the culture of nostalgia. The film travels across three continents and finds characters marked by absences produced by events that transform the history of these countries. Like fascism, colonization, slavery, dictatorships and leaving never to return. The culture of saudade is the thread that connects conversations by the sea.

An eight years old girl writes, on a little pink notebook, her sexual experiences with several men – presented to her by her mother.

Downtown Recife’s classic movie palaces from the 20th century are mostly gone. That city area is now an archaeological site of sorts that reveals aspects of life in society which have been lost. And that’s just part of the story.

A short documentary of macaws

Pirola is a poor guy who lives with his son Ze in a hovel on his boss's farm. One day, Pirola is surprised by the visit of an old friend who, feeling that the hour of his death approaches, decides to present him with a bag full of money.

The administrator of an abandoned coffee farm and inveterate gambler saves money to buy the property, even knowing of the loving connections between his wife and the boss.

Guilherme seeks affection and company for the night on a gay hook-up app. Aren, who lives intensely in the sexual flow of the city, agrees to meet him. Without exchanging a single word, Guilherme is disappointed by the coldness of the encounter and Aren begins to question whether the search for unbridled sex really satisfies the feeling of loneliness that he never stops feeling. The silence of the words that are not spoken generates a war in the minds and feelings of the young boys.

The documentary portrays five people trying to recover from alcoholism or substance abuse. The different narratives present different aspects of addiction: there is an artist who stopped drinking without the help of Alcoholics Anonymous; a sober man for 23 years who helps anyone trying to overcome drug addiction; a woman who has been hospitalized; a retiree who has yet to overcome his addiction; and a recovered man who lives on the outskirts of Rio de Janeiro.

Alice dos Anjos is a smart girl who lives in the northeastern hinterland, and who, after running after a running black goat, is transported to a magical place, full of crazy characters. She finds herself, then, in the middle of a war against an influential colonel who wants to discard as traditional communities' land to build a hydroelectric plant. As Alice joins her friends to fight an oppression, she finds herself on a journey of self-knowledge and social awareness.

Alexandre and Dario's relationship is distant, surrounded by lies and omissions. When a mysterious package is delivered to their home, things start to change... turning the last remnant of that relationship into a profound nightmare.

Edgar is a young upper-middle class man, close to completing 30 years old, he lives a full life crisis and is in a position common to the vast majority of Brazilians. On the one hand the power, represented by a corrupt state, abusive and absent in their taxes before their obligations. On the other, crime increasingly organized violence became a constant in the lives of citizens in large cities. Edgar responds to all this as a modern vigilante. With the help of ingredients such as technology, counter-information and manipulation, Edgar concocts a brilliant plan, using the greed of their opponents as the reason for its destruction. As the plot unfolds, we know more about the dark past of each character as Edgar fit the pieces together in an intriguing puzzle that makes up the film's plot.

A droll Brazilian short on the theme of an incriminating earring.

A stripper is arrested for killing her gigolo who exploited her as a prostitute under the name of Karina. Her despair turns to ardent passion when she meets a lady lawyer who promises her that she will be able to get her out of jail very quickly. But both ladies will have to fight an outlaw who will do whatever he can to possess Karina.

On a lonely night, a girl searching for her missing dog is transported to a magical world, where she reunites with her friend in an unexpected form. As she explores this whimsical realm, she confronts memories from her life.

Ted Boy and Renato, two clumsy mechanics from the countryside, are dating two young women who live in a luxurious mansion near their workshop. Ted Boy gets into a fight with some catch fighters, and their coach, thrilled with his performance, invites him to train. Ted Boy trains diligently and, in a dizzying career, becomes a serious contender for the ultimate title. Criminals try to buy him into losing the final fight, but when they fail, they kidnap his girlfriend and threaten him with blackmail.

A road movie inside a film set starring four fake blondes on the run.