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Documentation of the preparations and expeditions of the Frente de Atração Arara da Funai, in the state of Pará, Brazil. With the construction of the Transamazônica, the Arara territory (without contact with the white man) is cut in half, and the Indians react by attacking the workers. Aware that all contact is a creation of dependency, the sertanista Sydney Possuelo, who also reflexively narrates the documentary, leads the expeditions that aim to identify the groups, how many individuals there are, establishing territorial limits to protect the area against invaders and loggers in the region.

A day in the life of singer and songwriter Tim Maia. The Brazilian musical icon discusses themes such as his childhood, love, his musical influences, and life outside of Earth.

At Catumbi neighborhood in Rio de Janeiro, the urban planning and constant transformation affect the daily life of the inhabitants.

In a card game, Manelão loses his horse. Suffering from a venereal disease he looks for a pharmacist who colluded with a colonel. The pharmacist heals him in exchange for an execution. Then, he quickly becomes a hitman.

During Carnival in Rio de Janeiro a group of men follows the tradition of dressing up as a woman. Only some of them started timidly, a few members of a circle, but the custom has been expanding year by year to become legion. Their wives help them to get the costume, but husbands usually prefer to go to the parade without them.

Record of the 1989 elections, when Brazil was divided between Lula and Fernando Collor. It brings together material gathered from the streets of São Paulo, television broadcasts, and support from artists like Djavan, Chico Buarque, Gilberto Gil, Lobão, and Leci Brandão. Additionally, it features footage of the marches and Lula's first interview after his electoral defeat. A work that recounts fragments of the struggle for democracy in the country.

Rio de Janeiro is a city of very well defined contrast between the seafront, narrow, where the rich live and very close, the hills with their slums, where life changes very quickly in the short space of time.

Experimental film made with television images out of the air.

An exercise in gentle voyeurism revealing glimpses of the secret side of Salvador, the capital city of the Brazilian state of Bahia, filming a derelict prostitution zone.

The legendary singer-songwriter Alceu Valença through the lenses of directors Jomard Muniz de Britto and Rucker Vieira.

Documentary about the daily life and struggle of workers from the 1930s generation in Brazil. Told through the memories of a feminist and four union members, the film shows the different faces of the workers' organization experience at that time, from Vargas' influence to communism, culminating in the common trait of their relationship with the workers' bases.

Documentary about the resumption of popular participation, with the country's redemocratization, in public city planning policies. It gives examples of community councils and Neighborhood Friendly Societies in the health sector in Franco da Rocha, transport in Osasco and Santo André, community kitchens in communities and councils of employee representatives in companies such as Metrô and Emplasa, which still carried out training in auxiliary inspection system, with the presence of civil society, in the inspection of water sources and public transport areas.

Much confusion in the absurd dialogue between a TV presenter and a housewife occupied with tragic aspects of her existence.

Documentary about Mário de Andrade's research on Brazilian folklore music.

A montage of photographs (from police archives and newspapers) of tortured and murdered victims from the slums of Rio de Janeiro. The strange positions of the slaughtered bodies give a critical meaning to two traditional religious hymns that sing praise to the glory of God and the Virgin Mary. The strange postures of the mutilated bodies establish an ironical meaning to the traditional verses, while the voices of singers Agnaldo Timóteo and Ângela Maria add a pathos of deliriously popular, in an atmosphere of joy and triumph of the Virgin Mary. Film-shock. Basically an investigation about the force of gravity upon dead bodies. A small hymn of love to the mannerist art of sixteenth century.

An institutional documentary short, produced by EMPLASA, on the fast and messy urban development of the city of São Paulo over the course of the twentieth century, and the problems faced by the city and its inhabitants.

A film about the consumption of crab in Paraíba.

Earth, 1997. An evil alien threatens our planet. The only one who can stop it is Captain Electron.

Cebolinha, having read a book on dog training, decides to train Floquinho to protect him by attacking Monica when she poses a threat. However, when Monica approaches to confront Cebolinha about tying knots in Samsão's ear, Floquinho mistakenly attacks a scarecrow instead of Monica. Consequently, Cebolinha ends up getting punished once again.

Short film by Brazilian photographer and filmmaker Eduardo Clark.

A young man learns to how to be a thief from a more experienced one.

The documentary portrays all the evident contradictions, mainly within the Assembly in a heavy environment, where deputy Lúcia Arruda, pregnant, was a single voice in the middle of an almost exclusively male legislative house - the aggressiveness, including physical, of this bunch of men claiming to care for life.

The story of Baltazar, a man convicted of sodomy by the Inquisition in colonial Brazil.

A documentary about the life of the greatest Brazilian boxer ever, Eder Jofre, who has been Bantamweight and Featherweight world champion. The film mixes footage of his fights and testimonies.