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Vania Rosa lived on the Rio de Janeiro streets for fourteen years. Today she returns to the very same streets in order to rescue other homeless people.

Three siblings devise a plan to get their divorced parents to spend Christmas together.

Two years without smoking. But now, maybe, Lúcia will spend her whole life smoking.

Caio is 40 years old and lives in the Rio de Janeiro's countryside, where he owns a scrap-metal yard. On Christmas' Eve, he goes to the capital to visit his family and friends. Finally he will be able to meet a man he has not seen for a long time: himself.

In a drought-ravaged town, Judith has the mysterious gift of finding water underground. One day, a strange force draws her to an old well, where she senses a presence, pushing her into a social struggle to uncover the truth.

In a current and pandemic Salvador, the feminine crosses time in the streets of commerce and calls for the urgency of preserving female "bodies" in history. Through the adaptation of the first scene of the play Antigona by Sophocles for Pajubá, Malayka SN and Abigail Marianno relive the details of the relationship between the characters Antigona and Ismenia and relationships with the current feminine.

In Southern Bahia, seven indigenous women invite to reflection, sharing their mythology, ancestry and paths to living well.

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.

The documentary explores Clarice Niskier’s process of adaptation of the bestselling book, “A Alma Imoral”, by Rabbi Nilton Bonder to the hit play that’s been onstage for over 15 years.

In December 1965, at the height of the Cold War, Che Guevara mysteriously disappeared. Using a false identity, he is escorted by former agents of the Cuban Intelligence Service who are now revealing unprecedented details of the operation.

Two teenagers make good use of their cell phones in class. To receive this type of call you don't need an MP3 player or video camera, just put your cell phone on vibrate mode...

In the middle of Carnival, a masked madman searches for a victim in the crowd.

Celebrating the 50th anniversary of the most beloved Brazilian stadium: Canindé.

Lucia, pregnant with her first child, prepares herself to be a single mother

Documentary that celebrates 100 years of cinema in Latin America and talks about the origins and the development of cinema in this subcontinent. Its structure is based in 12 short films directed by various Latin American directors. These are: 1) "Los inicios", Iván Trujillo 2) "Cuando comenzamos a hablar", María Novaro 3) "Jugando en serio", Jacobo Morales 4) "De cuerpo presente [Las espirales perpetuas del placer y el poder] Cine Mexicano [1931- 1997]", Marcela Fernández Violante 5) "Cuando quisimos ser adultos", Edmundo Aray and David Rodríguez 6) "Cinema Novo", Orlando Senna 7) "Memorias de una isla, Juan Carlos Tabío 8) "Un grito, 24 cuadros por segundo", Julio García-Espinosa 9) "El día de la independencia", Federico García 10) "¿Sólo las formas permanecen?", Fernando Birri and Pablo Rodríguez Gauregui 11) "Todo final es un principio", Andrés Marriquín.

He watched his world crumble when Pluto sent an attack in the form of toys to devastate our planet, now he wanders the broken streets alone, but an unexpected accident will be his chance for revenge and a fresh start.

A little girl, Quinha, and her mother, Rosa, head out through the Northeast region of Brazil to go to Quinha's baptism. During this journey, both women search for their own miracles: Quinha looks for signs of magic, while Rosa hopes for her estranged husband's return.

Supported by the works of poet/musician Claude Miller, the film portraits a snippet of brazilian reality.

Barbara and Vitor deal with the feeling of loneliness that settles in an excessively digital world.

Maos Sangrentas translates to Bloody Hands in English, and that's just what this gruesome Brazilian melodrama delivers. The story begins when a gang of dangerous convicts escape from a penal colony. With the police in hot pursuit, the escapees cut a gory swath through the countryside. As his comrades are killed off one by one, the leader of the group descends into gibbering madness. In contrast to this, a subplot develops involving the least dangerous of the escapees, who murdered his wife in a peak of self-righteous rage and is now seriously in doubt about the wisdom of his deed. Principal scenes reworked in 1962 to make the film The Violent and the Damned (q.v.).

Poor and beautiful girl is hired by a sales promoter to advertise a new brand of soap. The success is immediate, but the need for a new face hinders her way to stardom.

In Curitiba, a university professor begins researching the Spanish flu. As he gathers photographs, testimonies, and fragments of memory, the investigation starts to slip out of control. Amid immigrant voices, archival images, and echoes of a haunted city, the past returns as an enigma that refuses to fade.

A group of friends, who resisted the military dictatorship, and their children will face the conflict between the daily life of today and the past when one of them is dying.

My meeting with the end of the world.

Memory has drawers that hide our past, but fear and longing prevent us from accessing them.

The lawyer Roberto leaves his career and his fiancée behind to chase the criminals who killed his entire family in a brutal massacre.

Four people with different values and standards meet in the urban chaos of Copacabana. Rita and Waldick come from the country, and befriend two Rio de Janeiro native guys, upon arrival: the playboy and surfer Paulo Roberto and a pimp called Tim.

Between pushing, sweating and the suffocating heat of a crowded bus in Belém do Pará, Fulana realizes that this is not just another ordinary day in the life of a person from Pará.

A documentary about "female ejaculation". Moving away from the two main types of discourse on the subject, scientific and pornographic, the film is interested in the experience of women who ejaculate. Demystifying the idea that female ejaculation is something rare and eccentric, the interviewees speak freely and naturally about their squirts.

After being fired from his job and have his unemployment insurance money robbed, a young man decides to become a robber himself. While escaping authorities, he meets a female teacher of whom he takes hostage. Things get complicated when they fall in love with each other.

Murilo, a Black graffiti artist from São Paulo, Brazil, shares his memories in an animated diary blending 2D, 3D, and live-action about his best friend, childhood, and the Brazilian hip-hop scene.

Struggling with the loss of her fiancée, Ana Julia hires a company called Blank Slate to erase her existence, so she can have a fresh start in life. The story unfold through a series of found-footage style recordings of Ana Júlia undergoing her Erasure Process within the Blank Slate facilities. Trusting Blank Slate to give her a new life once the whole worlds forgets who she is might have been her greatest mistake.

Eduarda is a successful orthopedist, married to event producer Marcos for 10 years. Due to the strain on their relationship, they decide to go to couples therapy, but during the sessions they decide to break up. That's when Eduarda meets Leo.

Teenage swimmer Olivia's main goal is to enter and win the Brazilian National Swimming Championship: an already-difficult task, made harder by her struggle with anorexia and the daily pressures of family and friends. However, her friend Ana seems to approve of her idea of persisting in illness.

In Stanislaw Lem's book of the same title, a paper-destroying blight obliterated much of Earth's written history—except for what's in the book. In this film, we look at a similar but unmarked future, perhaps one less distant than Lem's 3140s. Amid the rubble of an uncertain setting, the narrated soundtrack reads from the last surviving parts of some bound pages, perhaps a reporter's notebook, a dream diary, or a book manuscript.

One evening, two hungover friends drink wine while discussing their fascination with the song "Mama" by Valesca Popozuda.

After taking part in a satanic orgy at a beach in 1850, Macário meets Exú-Lebara, a female pagan entity. She decides to go along in his trip but tricks him into going to 2008 São Paulo.

A late-1960s interview with Brazilian filmmaker Glauber Rocha, mixed in avant-garde style with scenes from his films and clips from fellow filmmaker José Mojica Marins and visual artist Hélio Oiticica.

Porto Alegre, 2041. The negligence of the mining company Flora Rica results in the imminent breaking of their dam and puts people in danger. Amidst this announced catastrophe, six youngsters get together for a last moment of celebration.

A man whose name is constantly changed by the other people.

The story of a legendary figure in Brazilian culture, the multifaceted Carlos Imperial. He was a convinced womanizer and cafajeste, he was a director and actor, created TV shows, composed songs like “Vem Quente que Eu Estou Fervendo” and “Mamãe Passou Açúcar em Mim”. In addition, he is responsible for launching big names in Brazilian music, such as Roberto Carlos, Elis Regina and Tim Maia.

Sound Letter is an experimental documentary that investigates the sensory identity of the city of São Paulo. Far from following a conventional linear narrative, the film proposes a kind of sonic correspondence in search of the hidden music of the metropolis. Through the perspectives of Arthur Nestrovski and Eduardo Santos Mendes, the work explores the idea that inhabiting the city means superimposing distinct times, where the contemporary noise of traffic and urban chaos coexist with echoes of centuries-old traditions, such as old street vendors' cries. The medium-length film challenges the traditional documentary form by privileging the sound element as the protagonist and openly presenting its own recording apparatus, transforming the journey of a motorcycle courier into a true ballet of forms and sounds that translate the complexity and vibrancy of the São Paulo capital.

A film student goes to sleep and wakes up in a world similar to German expressionism, but the beings in that world have similarities with the girl.