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On March 16, 2020, in Brasília, an anonymous and unknown Haitian challenged the head of the nation: “Bolsonaro, it’s over. You are not president anymore.” This film poem counterpoints this situation with two military operations of Minustah (United Nations Stabilization Mission in Haiti), commanded by Brazil, on july 6, 2005, and december 22, 2006, in Cité Soleil.

Something unsuspected brings these people together. And now they are reunited.

Aspiring writer Camila searches for inspiration for her next novel. What she didn't imagine, is that her own story would be being written in the process.

As the Sars-Covid 19 pandemic increased, Rubiane Maia was in Folkestone, England, and Tom Nobrega in Tarapoto, in the Peruvian Amazon. Both were surprised by the sudden need to cancel planned trips to Brazil, their homeland. The closed borders brought unusual situations and an unknown feeling of exile. As news from Brazil reaches the distance like rocks breaking their computer screens, blurring the line between what is personal and what is collective, the pair of friends share their bewilderment and try to find some resonance amid the overwhelming amount of information that floats the virtual space.

Between 1920 and 1953, the government of São Paulo sponsored the construction of a massive nationalist monument created by the famous Brazilian sculptor Victor Brecheret in honor of the bandeirantes, 16th and 17th-century fortune hunters and enslavers of indigenous people. To this day, the statue’s granite faces hear echoes from the official discourse behind the monument.

A crazy fucking reporter goes to Palmitos to investigate the thoughts of Petter Baiestorf, the insane mind behind the legendary Cannibal Films.

Lost in the middle of nowhere, a pregnant Woman and a hopeful Man walk in search of Getting There, an unknown place where Hope reigns and the days are good. The Death, always lurking, tries to change the paths of the wanderers and transform their dreams into hopelessness. A seed given by Hope can change the course of the retreatants and take them to the long-awaited place of prosperity.

Inspired by the 18th article of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, which says that everyone has the right to freedom of thought, conscience and religion, the documentary shows how Agahü is traditionally made and used in the Upper Xingu by the Kuikuro people. Xingu salt feeds the spirit of nature, rituals and people, strengthening souls.

2050. The world as we know is about to be destroyed by a pink cloud. Away from the cities and lost on inhabited roads, Pedro and Miguel search for eternity.

A heart is a clock.

After a long period of absence, Maria returns to her mother's home. She is determined to get out of the whirlwind that made her come back.

Through boxing Jessica pursue to overcome old traumas.

The documentary tells the story of seven women with their fat bodies, from prejudice to acceptance and self-love. Despite their lives, their sizes and different gender contexts, they have in common the struggle for respect for their flesh in the face of a culture of beauty summarized in unattainable standards.

Gaia is an ornithologist documentary filmmaker who in the mid-1980s lost herself on an isolated road in the middle of a forest surrounded by dark mysteries.

An audiovisual "Self-portrait", the author's attempt to explore his own mind and reflect how he experiences his particular world.

Component of the vocal trio “Os Tincoãs”, the singer and composer Mateus Aleluia developed his musical career between Brazil and Angola. Back in Brazil around the 2000s he retakes his artistic production in an acclaimed solo career. Following the process of composition of his second album, the documentary “Aleluia, The Infinite Song” addresses in the construction of the imagery around the artist’s life and work.

Iraxão is the spirit of the Iny people (Karajá, Javaé and Ixibyòwa). Pigs are the main food. The Iraxao party is to cheer the Apyãwa together with the spirits, it is the pacification of the spirits during the parties, where the spirits sing, dance, paint their bodies and celebrate, that is why many foods are offered to the axyga (spirits). Spirits arrive and mingle among people. Thus, they protect us from disease, from death, otherwise, if people do not believe in spirits, they themselves can cause spiritual illnesses.

Documentary that denounces the damages caused by the use of land mines in Western Sahara and shows the lives of those affected.

Alvaro has been quarantined for 97 days without leaving home, and uses delivery apps to order everything he needs. When the delivery man arrives at the building with another meal, an unexpected situation imposes a difficult decision on Alvaro.

During the pandemic the famous haiku poet, Matsuo Bashô, returns to his homeland. However a new generation inhabits his home. In this experimental short film, made entirely with internet archival images and online surveillance cameras, we retrace Bashô's spectral wandering, listening to the echoes that his poetry produces in the present. Film inspired in Basho's travel diaries entitled "Oku No Hosomichi".

A day in the life of a girl literally addicted to her cellphone.

The life of Mestre Pastinha, king of capoeira, is the theme of this documentary.

On any given day, Brazil Democracy was walking through the dark streets in the Third World when it was shot by anybody who just wanted to be able to eat. In a coma fighting for survival, his life passes before his hope.

A heavy rain hits a dike, leaving it on the verge of a collapse. There is no safety and it is not possible to predict when it’s gonna end.

2018, Christmas Eve. Arround the world, families gather to celebrate. In Brazil, two young men meet.

IT'S NOT ENOUGH TO BE BLACK, IT HAS TO BECOME BLACK. THE FILM BRINGS A REFLECTION ON THE NEED FOR THE DECONSTRUCTION OF WHITE CULTURE AND DIVING IN OUR ORIGINS AND ANCESTRALITIES, SO THAT JUST MAKE A BLACK TRUE BLACK, TO ITS MAXIMUM ESSENCE AND POTENTIAL. NEVER BE A WHITE SOUL BLACK.

A projectionist at a porn cinema in downtown São Paulo, makes his first film in Super8, an essay about the failure of a lifetime. The scenes from the films you watched intersect with the new images they capture, fiction and reality blending together, weaving a bridge between the past and the present.

The creative process of the first crochet fashion collection fully developed by male prisoners in Brazil and presented at the country's main fashion event, The São Paulo Fashion Week.

Public health physician Noel Nutels' ideas and the footage he made of Brazilian indigenous peoples between 1940 and 1970 come together to denounce the historic massacre against native communities.

Two images by unknown authors and unknown times share the war.

In the 1970s, they were championing the fight against Brazil’s military dictatorship. Forty years later, what’s left of Libelu? What does adult life have in store for you after the revolutionary youth?

Brazil's third championship at the World Cup in 70 has a special place in history. In the 50 years of this title, we have placed the national team at the top of the greatest football memories.

“Te guardo no bolso da saudade” is an essay film that rescues through memories, narration and archival images the story of Neide, a black woman who died during the 2003 Carnival in Natal, Rio Grande do Norte. The work consists of the realization of this short film, from pre-production to post-production, phases that will be detailed through this process report.

One of the most respected names in national cinema, always remembered for his work as cinematographer in the classics of Cinema Novo, Mario Carneiro is honored in this film.