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A city of 8,000 inhabitants in the middle of the Amazon rainforest transforms a religious festival into an event for diversity.

The city of Belém and its cultural transformation in the 80s.

At the edge of Araçá Bay and in the middle of the urban and industrial-port context of São Sebastião-SP (Brazil), a group of people lives in close relationship with the sea and its cycles, a place where they produce and reproduce socially. Recognized for their typical caiçara culture, they have lived since the 1980s with recurrent environmental problems and with the constant threat of port expansion over their territory. Pulsating: a film about the Araçá Bay reverberates through facts and testimonies the various voices that seek to translate the desire of the Araçá Bay and the life that pulsates there.

Documentary about anchieta avenue and houses around.

The Chico Mendes III Settlement is located 7 km from Recife, in the municipalities of São Lourenço da Mata and Paudalho, the margins of BR 408. There are 55 families who live there, arising from the conflicts that occur during the camping period between 2004 and 2008, in areas formerly belonging to Engenho São João. The MST assisted and guided the occupation, as did UFRPE guiding the Agroecological transition. The difficulties are many, from growing Organic products, such as the lack of rain in a punished soil, but these women of fire exemplify the female leaders in the settlement and bravely support the loneliness. With faith and the certainty that their return to earth is not in vain, bearing fruit for sustainable posterity.

During a storm, Nimbus ventures into the forest to capture huge fierce clouds.

We are invited to immerse ourselves in this documentary about the trajectory of Elaine Patricia, a young black woman of 20 years who has experienced various challenges, especially racial prejudice. The protagonist still inspires us with a history of overcoming, by breaking with paradigms rooted in the social context and at the conclusion of the dreamed high school.

The Pig Man is chased by assassins who want to stop him from changing a cruel reality.

Filmed around Brazil’s Itaparica Island, this oneiric documentary evokes the rich, complicated ancestry of Bahia—considered the African heart of Brazil—through the dreams of its present-day inhabitants.

Beta is left by her mother to sleep at her grandmother's house. The girl will find out that an ordinary night at Grandma's house can turn into a creepy nightmare.

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Short film about the "daisies" female employees who clean the streets every day.

Short film about a teacher who begins to have a relationship with one of his students.

Short film about a boy who is always late.

The umutina indigenous people tries to save their culture; but the poorty and the rising influence of the evangelic christianism turn this dream to melancholy

How far can dream an artist with little chances?

Portrait of a new generation of drag queens that, coming from different social classes and guided by new technologies, seeks more visibility in society.

It dawned. The Sea was rough with a hangover. On the shore, a man watched the waves with anxiety and fear as if facing himself.

When all hope seems lost, we must always remember to keep a light on. Not even to stumble in the dark.

A Memory for the Light

A camera in hand, a script on paper, and violent coercion is all it takes to convince friends and produce a Gold Production.

Documentary about acting.

Renan, a corrupt politician about to be arrested, plans to kill Mario, a fisherman identical to him, and steal his identity, but after suffering a shipwreck he is rescued precisely by whom he planned to kill. From there, suspicions arise and not everything ends up as it seems.

Pescadores de Palavras" directs the focus to names that go back to marginal literature, from the "Mimeographer Generation" in the 1970s and 1980s, and to the resilience of current literature. how Grupo Picaré revolutionized the region's literature, how Revista Mirante remains the country's oldest independent literature magazine, and how the artisanal publisher Costas Felinas persists in its activist ideal of remaining faithful to the non-commercial and non-commercial ideal. mercantilist.

Documentary about music.

A short film about the experiences of Izah and Murilo as they go through their gender transition process.

Roberto hates his life as a lawyer and dreams of a new beginning in the area of film and visual audio. During one of her reflections, a young woman changes her life forever.

A poetic documentary that shows the connection between the music of the violinist Kalleby and the sounds of the street of Rio de Janeiro.

Pearls with a small mutation reappear on a South Atlantic coast, when a musician is attracted to the edge of the beach. They are the same pearls that would have led the pearl hunting profession in Japan to extinction. A young beatnik is called to take the pearls back to their place of origin. A reinterpretation of the myth of the siren song.

Just a business meeting, like any other business meeting.

Michelle Mattiuzi's ritual walk to the statue of slavery resistant leader Zumbi dos Palmares, downtown Rio de Janeiro.

Banal is a process of self-discovery of the silence that exists in each of us. Through a self-documentary, a filmmaker Bruna Pavesi purges all feelings loaded without any emptiness that inhabits.

Rua do Encanto 22, brings a small part of the history of a great Brazilian.

The anguish of an unemployed writer trying to cope with the loss of the beloved woman in the midst of an alien invasion.

The story of priest Landell, a visionary man who made great acts in science.

TV documentary about the historic fight of the brazilian women for the right to vote.

Two young men in Belém, northern Brazil, are arrested after commit a crime and remember how they got in that life.

"The Color of Tuesday" is a short fiction that addresses the relationship of empathy and mourning for a suicide.

Rosa has worked since girl to help at home, now begins the process to retire. In the same job for more than 45 years, she can not prove her length of service. Desperate Rose seeks nature in balance to fight and retire

In the Baixada Fluminense, independent cultural groups started a film movement that takes the cinema to the viewer. For more than ten years, these cineclubes have played a fundamental role in the social construction of peripheral regions and open the debate for the transformation of everyday life in these cities. The documentary shows the performance of six of Baixada Fluminense's main cineclubes: Cineclube Mate with Angu, from Caxias; Cineclube Getúlio hole, from Nova Iguaçu; Cineclube Donana, by Belford Roxo; Cineclube Cinema of Guerrilla, of São João de Meriti; Cinux Xuxu with Xis, from Austin; and Feminist Faction Cineclube, from Caxias. The movie clubs take the movies to the squares, bars, schools and wherever else you have room to display. To promote cineclubes is to preserve the possibility of meeting, identifying with others and the pleasure of sharing and motivating people.

Beto, a former resident of Beira, sees the feeling of insecurity in his neighborhood grow. A group of neighbors wants, in a meeting, to approve the installation of security cameras and gates, to avoid actions of criminals in the place. The images have an important role in the process of convincing, so Beto asks for help from Carneiro, a cameraman who owes him favors to defend his idea. The two make images by Beira, with the intention of presenting them at the next meeting when the installation will or will not be decided. The sense of insecurity continues to grow and Beto moves internal and external forces to avoid the installation of cameras and gates in the neighborhood. Although he hates to admit it, he knows in his heart that Beira has changed.

With the written word as the only visual element, Grada Kilomba gives a voice to an individual who has been historically silenced by colonial narratives. "In this experimental video," the artist states, "I explore how thoughts can be associated not only with theory, but especially with sounds, movement and emotions."

An animated short film, which tells the story of one man and those who follow others.