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On a journey through a distant desert, we explore our deepest desires and fears in search of an answer. However, life always has a surprise in store for us. Do you let yourself go when the opportunity arises?

Antonio wanders the streets of Buenos Aires in search of money and sex. The magnetism he exerts on the people who cross his path allows him to steal and cheat them. Only his mother, with whom he has a confictual relationship, will get over his feeling of impunity and will push him to leave for a trip to the south of Argentina.

Lucha libre is part of Mexican culture, but how did something that was shown in circuses and fairs become a cinematic genre? Join us to learn about this trajectory.

Brazilian documentary short about the life of Edna — actress of Iracema.

Lucas and Diego, facing the pressures of academic life, put aside their studies for a session of mutual discovery. As the evening progresses, their playful game of "Truth or Dare" becomes a medium for unveiling hidden desires. Amidst laughter and tension, desire steers their journey, transforming an ordinary night into a surreal exploration of their deepest truths.

The documentary reconstructs the history of Graúna, one of the most famous comic characters in Brazil during the '70s. Analyzing creator Henfil's usage of this poor, little, female blackbird to criticize the social inequities and censorship in Brazil of the time, testimonies from family and fellow cartoonists shed light into why "Reading Again Graúna" is still relevant today.

Luciano Candisani, award-winning Brazilian photographer, returns to the Pantanal, the world’s largest floodplain, to document its biodiversity and raise awareness about severe environmental threats. The region faces drastic water flow changes and unprecedented fires, yet Candisani finds hope and resilience amidst the challenges.

A botanical expedition in Ecuador's Amazon becomes a medium for an indigenous Huaorani community to remember the genocidal colonization it suffered in the 1960s. Meanwhile, a group of ecologists from the capital tries to stop oil exploitation in the last remaining forests where the isolated Huaoranis still live, who to this day refuse to come into contact with civilization.

Maria Onardina Bariani spends her days indoors, with windows and curtains closed. At 83 years old, he doesn't read, doesn't watch television and doesn't like music. She regrets not having been a nun and tells her grandson that she plans to die soon.

Terror Mandelão addresses sound, technology, and the job market in the universe of baile funk in São Paulo's favelas. The film follows the journey of DJ K, one of the main DJs of Baile do Helipa, the street party of Heliópolis favela, and his friend Zero K, who got his first hit after 10 years as MC. Combining documentary, fictional elements, and visual experimentation, it portrays the ups and downs faced by young artists on the outskirts.

A black actress receives very peculiar treatment on a film set made up of a white crew.

Lelê deals with the loss of someone close, navigating through pain and grief until finding new meaning and peace.

The film portrays the trajectory and life of the “Agudá” people today. This is a group of descendants of Africans enslaved in Brazil, who returned to their homeland with the end of slavery, and also descendants, Brazilian and Portuguese, of slave traffickers, who settled in that region of Africa in the 18th and XIX. Present in Benin and Togo, the “agudás” assimilated the surname and part of the culture of their masters.

Faísca is a little adopted dog that now lives next to a samba school. His dream is to participate on the parade. To make this dream come true, he auditions to sing, play drums, and tamborine. In this saga searching for his place in the world, he realizes his path opens up when he walks.

Three friends who live in Resende, in the interior of Rio de Janeiro, and plan a trip in Babette's Beetle convertible to celebrate their 15 years of friendship and attend the closing show of the tour of a great pop star, who studied with them as a teenager. and today he is the most famous young singer in Brazil.

A young woman revisits memories of her fiancé while silently coping with the distance that separates them. Amid routines that now feel different, she confronts the emptiness left behind and tries to understand what remains when everything around her seems to have changed.

Melina and Bianca haven't really been sisters. When Melina comes to visit, the two half sisters uncover secrets from the past that may shake their newly found proximity.

Mônica is an actress in a crisis triggered by the overexposure of her life as a celebrity. Young Kelly is not aware of that when she unsuccessfully tries to speak to Mônica as she is leaving a film shooting, in Brazil's countryside. Kelly will not give up and decides to try to meet her muse again.

A decadent middle class family. The house becomes a character. Little by little, the rooms are being closed. The characters are expelled and forced to live in common spaces. The mysterious homosexual butler and the family matriarch subvert the incomprehensible relationships there.

"Yõg ãtak: My Father, Kaiowá" tells the story of Sueli Maxakali's search for her father, Luis Kaiowá, from whom she was separated during the military dictatorship in Brazil. The film follows the filmmaker's journey to find her father again, as well as the struggles faced by the Tikmũ'ũn and Kaiowá indigenous peoples in defense of their territories and ways of life.

A coroner reunites with a great love from the past, realizing that the memories are more vivid than ever.

The storms we go through help us deconstruct to rebuild.

Memories tells the story of Alex, a 19 year old boy who lives his life peacefully. Until one fateful day, his future could be compromised.

Each person is a Carnival and Marina knows which one she is. On the slopes of Olinda she seeks the ecstasy of carnival revelry, the music, the shouting, the heat, the joy, the love. Her journey is seen through the eyes of ten different characters, and for each of them a director lends their artistic view. But in the midst of so many people, marching bands, encounters and misencounters, how can we find Carnival?

In a huge and empty neoclassical mansion surrounded by an indefinite war, the daughter of a bourgeois family returns from Europe bringing a Kafkaesque toy. Because of this object without specific usefulness, everyone in the family begins to discuss life and discover their own weaknesses and follies. This process of self-discovery will lead them to meet phobias, hypocrisies and prejudices, but also their most intimate truth.

In the midst of a pandemic, government arbitrariness and the precariousness of Brazilian artists, the documentary shows how these four rappers resisted the difficulties of this period using only one weapon... music. Using plurality, creativity and cleverness, how did they produce music? What role did music play in this period? What did they have to do to stay alive as rappers?

The movie unfolds the chapters of Aïsha's life. From her upbringing as a young Haitian girl in Montreal-Nord to her journeys in Brazil, the film reveals her encounters with her chosen family and the discovery of her identity as a woman and musician. A new sense of belonging emerges from these experiences, nurturing her inspiration.

Luíza goes to her classroom, but she is not alone this time.

The forró musical genre from Northeastern Brazil is a male-dominated industry. Some of the few female musicians who managed to fight prejudice and misogyny in order to succeed offer their perspectives on the matter.

The film focuses on unpublished texts that deal with the signs of physical fragility, cinematographic preferences, evocations of ancestors, mentions of childhood and memories of Gilda de Mello e Souza.

After witnessing a tragic hit and run car accident involving a pregnant woman, Mikaela, a young woman with Down syndrome, decides to set in motion her life’s goal of having a baby. After falling pregnant with Eric Charles, a fellow resident at her group home, fate intervenes and sets a course for the future of their child.

In the summer of 1970, Janis Joplin went to Brazil to get away from heroin. During her meteoric and nearly anonymous stay, the singer was thrown out of the Copacabana Palace, drank heavily, and met the love of her life.

Kabuki resides in a male body they don't recognize. In search of identity, they awaken their soul. They are nourished by the world. In the impermanence of the material body, they transcend.