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Jana is a waitress that hates Christmas. While getting home after her shift, a man chases her, and in an act of self-defense she accidentally kills him. Later she finds out that man is Santa Claus and that his powers got transferred into her.

A woman wakes up in the middle of the night and notices the presence of a stranger inside her house. This unusual meeting between people from completely different worlds will have surprising consequences for both.

All of this was once sea, that's what our stones say. A sea that gradually went away, along with the sweat and tears of my people who were one day forced to leave their land.

The research conducted in Bahia in the early 1940s by the African-American linguist Lorenzo Turner, in Candomblé terreiros in Salvador and Recôncavo Baiano, left as a legacy precious audio records of religious personalities such as Mãe Menininha do Gantois, Joãozinho da Goméia and Manoel Falefá. The documentary addresses the importance of making music in these communities, providing an overview of the material recorded in Bahia by Turner and the oral tradition still sung and played both in the terreiros and in the popular music of Bahia.

Sofia and Victória meet again at a party after not seeing each other for years. After the party is over, Sofia stays to help Victória clean up.

Luíza documents the relocation of the collection of film documents at the Cinemateca do MAM (RJ). However, things start to get strange when the staff show mysterious behaviour.

In an attempt to understand what lies behind someone wanting to be a pilot in the Amazon, a poorly paid and often fatal activity, the author decides to return to the tiny airport where her uncle used to fly, 30 years after his death. As the airstrip seems to slide into obscurity, the pilots tell us about the precariousness, prejudice, and criminality in the skies that cover the rainforest.

Two sides of the same story.

Recalling his childhood and relationship with his mother, a film student tries to understand the origin of his love for cinema and tragedies.

The second-biggest nuclear accident in the world happened in Goiânia, capital of Goiás, Brazil. In September 1987, two scrap collectors looking through an abandoned clinic (Goiânia Radiotherapy Institute) found an old radiotherapy device. Moved by curiosity with the machine, they took it to a junkyard, where they disassembled it and extracted a capsule containing a blue powder that glowed in the dark. From that night onwards, the radiation spread unseen throughout the city, contaminating more than a hundred people, leaving deep marks and traumas. From a collage of contaminated images, radioactive ghosts emerge, embedded in the history of that place.

Two competing bakeries come into conflict when the secret of two employees is revealed.

"Com Meus Olhos de Cão" (With My Dog-Eyes), is a "friction" film that mixes documentary elements from the life and work of the erudite composer Gilberto Mendes with fictional elements from the book Com Meus Olhos de Cão, by Hilda Hilst.

Sleepless all night, Kobra remembers his life, from the poor childhood in the outskirts of São Paulo to the international recognition of his work. The events unfold between reality and dream. In an intimate journey, we get to know a rebellious, self-taught youngster doing graffiti illegally on the streets of São Paulo's suburbs, up to worldwide fame as a muralist and peace activist.

A crazy family of a rabbit and his possum wife with children who spend all the time, from the mother's womb, looking at gadgets, and also put the house upside down and endlessly quarrel. It is not easy for working parents to cope with them. From the outside it seems that such a life is impossible, but, oddly enough, this is a happy family.

Brankura is an experimental short that crosses collages, archival images and performance with the desire to place white people on stage as an object of analysis of black people.

A place to be at night in São Paulo.

An electropop remix about places, loneliness, and the color blue.

Fabio is a young trans man mourning the end of a love affair. Louise is ill and away from her family. Amid a polarized and bigoted society, he is her caregiver while she becomes his rock. Now they have each other to learn to say goodbye.

A London journalist returns to Brazil to face one of the demons of his adolescence: the Flour Test. This ridiculous experiment was conducted during the military dictatorship to determine whether army recruits were homosexuals. It consisted of having the men sit naked on flour to measure the circumference of their anus and the integrity of their morals. Unfortunately, this procedure is not limited to the past. Bolsonaro's ultra-homophobic government has attempted to introduce legislation similar to the infamous test.

André has a sudden life changing experience and his meeting with Bento is the origin of all that. From that moment on, even doors start showing him new realities.

Joel is part of the avid audience of police shows. Punitive content surrounds him and the boundaries of this relationship are becoming less and less clear: does he consume violence or does violence consume him?

Iara, a girl who is about to come of age, dreams of seeing the ocean, but lives in Rio Grande do Norte's countryside with her mother, a woman who's dreams were swallowed by the waves and who fears of losing her daughter.

Audiovisual recording of the 2017 album Tribalistas.

In 2021, hundreds of thousands of people took over the streets in Brazil, in the midst of a pandemic, to protest against the Bolsonaro government. Inspired by Joyce Wieland's 1973 film of the same name, “Solidarity” portrays these manifestations by focusing on the expressiveness of human hands rather than Wieland's feet. Gestures of affection, resistance, protection, joy or repression are revealed in these images made in super 8mm ektachrome.

Esu is a popular African deity for thousands of years and we may never know its exact origin. But it is possible to understand how Esu went from God in Africa to Devil in Brazil. This tragic story, which goes through colonization and slavery, is not over yet. “EXU and the Universe” follows the complex path of a culture transformed into resistance over several centuries.

A single mother finds her son who has been missing for years while fighting for her right to housing in an occupied community. While mean an old figure from Brazilian folklore enters the scene.

A documentary that investigates the reasons why people in the 21st century take the vows of Conversion of Customs (Poverty and Chastity), Obedience, and Stability, and choose to spend their lives in a cloister when they enter monastic life. In today's world, where human relationships are increasingly disposable, religious vows, on the other hand, are a lifelong commitment. The documentary reveals a reality that most people don't have access to, inside monasteries and abbeys.

Two waitresses suffering from financial problems are convinced to participate in a robbery at the home of a famous writer without knowing that they are about to walk into a cruel trap.

On Christmas Eve, Nando meets an old lover and has to deal with conflicting feelings.

After a series of blackouts in the neighborhood, Joyce and Gigante, a couple of seamstresses, lose their refrigerator. They go looking for a new appliance.

After losing his memory, Artur returns to a place of his past where he makes discoveries about himself.

Luiz Antonio Guinski's airplanes pervade the boundaries between image and word, composing a body of work that destabilizes matter to explore drawing, chance, symmetry - the body and the machine.