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Salvador, Bahia, January 1835. After more than a decade of hard work, Guilhermina, 27, a slave of Muslim origin, finally gets the resources to buy her manumission, as well as that of Teresa, 11, her teenage daughter. But, contrary to an old promise, his “lord”, farmer Souza Velho, refuses to sell the girl's letter. When Pacific Licutan, Salvador's most esteemed Islamic leadership, is arrested by the Bahian authorities, the Muslim community goes into a boiling state and begins to articulate a jihad. In desperation, Guilhermina sees in the uprising the only way to win her daughter's freedom.

The young protagonist, satisfied by hedonistic needs, demonstrates the anguish of a country at the center of a social metamorphosis, torn between traditional values and the sirens of an American dream of its own. Involved in a toxic relationship on an empty night, Fabiana decides to bet on new friendships...

During a therapy session, Lucio, a disturbed man, discusses a presence that has come to stalk him. Since then, Lucius began to deal with his constant desire to commit violent acts in a different way.

Alma is at home, on the line with her girlfriend, when suddenly the light bulb in the hallway burns out, forcing her to face a certain dark corridor in her life.

Ana who lost her mother, works as a dog walker in the south of Rio de Janeiro and lives on the outskirts of the city. Her brother is discovering the drag queen universe, creating tensions with the homophobic neighborhood. Ana has a group of activist friends who try to support her, including mental health support. The arrival of an old boyfriend stirs up personal tensions and draws the attention of armed groups that dominate the region.

Efeito Tácito accompanies IFPB students and staff, addressing the ineffective system of punishments for infractions committed by teachers and staff against students on a daily basis.

Questions about celebrating 200 years of independence from Brazil with 300 years of slavery.

For years, together with his partners from the production company O Quadro, he has been betting on cinema as a tool to explore the typical issues of youth. In this film, Evandro Scorsin turns the cameras on himself as he deals with the dilemmas of the passing of time and the imposition of adulthood. In an exercise in autofiction where cinema and life merge, the film is also a cinematic love letter to the beloved masters (especially Nicholas Ray). Coming and going between two countries and times, it records the vertigo of displacement and the reinventions inherent to an immigrant experience.

A film about love, also a memoir, about the trip made in the 1970s to Morocco by Jarda Ícone, an artist, sexologist, and octogenarian rocker, as she defines herself, and Lírio Terron, a human rights activist. In fact, a journey that is not over in their lives. Jarda Icon teaches classes on how women can obtain their own orgasm. With her group of disciples and friends Ana Brasil, Sheyla Fernanda, Caroline Sylvie and Lakshmi she develops self-sustainable feminist and artistic projects. The film is political, but not at all politicized in the traditional sense. It is an ode to the underground and counterculture movements, it is a hymn to freedom, and its title is also a tribute to Oswald d Andrade, one of the main names in Brazilian modernism.

The documentary Black Rio! Black Power! looks at the influence of the Black Rio movement on culture, society and the struggle for racial justice in Rio de Janeiro and Brazil between the 1970s and 1980s. The film shows the movement's impact on music and on the direction of politics and the black movement during the period of re-democratization, influencing genres such as hip-hop and funk, and the affirmative stance of the younger generations, who perpetuate the black pride and aesthetic appreciation spread by Black Rio 50 years ago.

To whom does love belong? I, the petulant creature who dwells through the streets of a flesh laden city, cannot imagine it in my life as well? At times I breathe, at times I shout, I can even grunt. Everything is mud, everything is pasture, and, amidst sighs of depravation, I've found her...

A group of young people go to do a school assignment and end up being killed by a mysterious killer.

Many laugh with the clown, but who makes the clown laugh? Maybe the clowns laugh to themselves. Maybe they'll just drink the clown juice and have fun clowning around all night. What is clown juice made of?

Inspired by moments of the Brazilian writer Gabriel Yared’s life and mixing storytelling and poetic declamations by the author himself, the film presents us the love overgrowing between two young man, Alex and Luís, their comfortable couple routine, and explores which limits that love can support when, like dry flowers, it faces the hard and cold earth of deceptions and expectation breaches, with the city of Macapá, in ther Northern Brazilian State of Amapá, as background.

23 years in the making, “Pereio, Eu Te Odeio!” is a documentary on legendary Brazilian actor Paulo Cesar Pereio, an irreverent and controversial artist and public figure, as told by the testimonies of friends, family, and society members who hate him.

With a box filled with unsold poetry books and the relationship with her parents deteriorating, Vanessa is losing hope. An unexpected visit rekindle new feelings.

Countries in the Global North are the biggest polluters on the planet. Thus, they created the carbon credit system, which pretends to protect forests in the Global South, which are already protected by their original peoples. A typical scam of financial capitalism known as “hot air”. The beings from those forests, through their perforMAGIC activATIONS, came to reveal this great farce and invite everyone to do environmental justice with their own hands, united in a great cosmic spiral.

Delve into the life of Antônio José Santana Martins, known as Tom Zé. Born in Bahia, this scholar of Brazilian music heads to São Paulo to propel a career filled with unusual and hilarious stories. The tropicalist artist revisits memories of his childhood in Irará, shares stories about his fellow tropicalismo movement colleagues, and reveals how his album "Estudando o Samba" won over David Byrne and launched him onto the global stage.

The shooting of “Rio e Luar” is about to begin. What the crew doesn't know is that Max, the film's director, is in a secret relationship with Hugo, his photography trainee. The situation becomes even more complicated when Hugo decides that it's time to tell the world how they feel about each other, even if it jeopardizes their careers in the prejudiced film industry of the 60's.

Angela is a teenager who, despite being certain about her sexuality, doesn't feel confident about showing her feelings to people or even to herself. Until she is challenged to expose herself when she becomes attracted to a new student in her class. At this point, Angela finds herself at a crossroads, either stepping out of her comfort zone to try to win her first love, or remaining trapped in her own closet.

Old man Cipriano is dead. His body, however, remains among the living due to a pact with Death. The pact has come to an end. In this film, it is Cipriano's soul that narrates the last events, and this narrative establishes an arc constructed in the director's own study with the raw material filmed in S-16mm, after more than 20 years of filming. Life and death. Tales, dreams and religions. A journey into the Latin American imagination through a long pilgrimage through the backlands of Piauí.

A girl downloads an app and weird things starts to happen.

Egili Oliveira is preparing for Carnival 2022 in Rio de Janeiro. She participates in the second division competition of the Rio Carnival (Gold series). It's a long and arduous road until the samba singer becomes a stunning queen: the drum queen of the Acadêmicos de Vigário Geral samba school. The story of a powerful black woman, who, at 42 years old, still fights for her place in Brazilian society and at Carnival.

Rezadeira, lady of the forest, prepares a ritual to bless the people of the woods. Her hands travel, with mastery, through the green trails surrounded by plants and herbs from the sacred grove. Her profane side shows at the end of her divine duty, making her yearn for the flesh's needs.

The documentary film offers a very special look at Reverbo's visit to São Paulo in July 2022, featuring scenes and testimonials from the 28 singer-songwriters from Pernambuco who embarked on the tour.

This documentary portrays the imaginary of poor children about their daily experiences. Between the street, the school and family, they build a safe place, despite the violence.

Made entirely as stopmotion, this experimental short compiled over 900 images of pure strangeness, with frightening visuals and disturbing sounds.

A woman meets men through an app and welcomes them into her home, but something mysterious happens to her guests...

The film shows the resistance movement of the residents of Favela do Vidigal against the removal order, an important chapter in the history of Rio de Janeiro in the 1970s.

A lonely artist tries to complete a model, while facing the structural problems of her own house. In a tense morning, Jaci is tormented by the breath of a crack. As the ratio between reality and representation begins to crumble, she is taken on a journey of inner reconstruction.

December 2th, 2023, a group of drunk friends get together after watching a football match to discuss the recent performance of the team that just played.

Everyone would like to understand how someone like MURILO COUTO became a comedian. In the comedy special it will become clear that a fool can be someone in life.

Wandering alone in an empty universe, a man encounters unexpected presences along the vastness of his path, needing to overcome them for his journey to continue.

Samuel lives in Ponta Negra, a small village on the coast of Paraty, Brazil. At first the idyllic daily life following the rhythm of nature and the development of the kid's identity set the tone of the film. We go along with the boy and his family for six years. Little by little emerges a more complex reality and its contradictions, between modernity and tradition, nature and technology. The arrival of electricity and tourism in the village crystallizes the deconstruction of an idealized paradise, drawing a portrait of contemporary Brazil.

Maroon 5 performed at "The Town" festival in São Paulo, Brazil, in September 2023. The band was one of the headliners for the inaugural edition of the festival, which also featured artists like Foo Fighters, Post Malone, and Bruno Mars.

Sara, a theater aficionado, begins to experience episodes of mental confusion. At this difficult stage in her life, she resorts to memories of the plays she has seen.

About to turn 100 years old, Santo Amaro School closed its doors in 2020, amid the pandemic, leaving former students in deep sorrow. The story of the school is now told by different generations of students, teachers, nuns and employees, who return to the school building to remember their time over there: an unreachable past, which, through memories, becomes present once again.

On the day of the ENEM test, a young man realizes he forgot to study. In a panic, he tries to learn everything in minutes, but time doesn't seem to cooperate. Rushed and confused, he fights to understand the impossible before the exam.

A documentary about a doorman at his workplace, observing, through a television, different views of a residential building.

Nora is filming a short film at college with her group until she argues with her friend and decides to take the stairs to meet them on the next floor. When she sees that the floors are not changing, she starts to go down the stairs in despair until a vision of her grandfather comforts her and directs her the way back.