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A man is obliged to celebrate his birthday alone. Through the emptiness of routine, he tries to look for small moments of joy.

Messer in the mountains Separated by destiny, apart, the companions try in their day jobs to make different paths to get to the same place. And after the journey, from the reunion, comes the return of the music, which packs the preparations for what would be the end for them. Third video of the series "Messer In Concert", recorded between the years 2017 and 2019.

Renato Albani presents his second stand-up comedy solo show. In "Alguém me Explica o Mundo" (Someone Explain the World to Me), the comedian presents his unique and humorous perspective on the evolution of life and its consequences. The difficulties and advantages of living alone, how people change over the years, and the hypocrisy of laughing at others but not at oneself.

Pequeno Colibri starts a bloody revenge to honor the memory of his teacher, Mestra Kioji, after she meets her fate at the hands of Sassino, the killer of masters.

Mike Johnnatan is one of many black and peripheral youths experiencing social isolation along with anxiety and mental confusion. The search for escapes in its two rooms is portrayed in its letter, escape for survival.

The film tells the story of 93 boys who were arrested in São Paulo and taken to Minas Gerais during the Military Dictatorship.

A sort-of found-footage film. Tetsuya Maruyama uses a super 8 film of a Jewish wedding from 1980 found in a downtown Rio flea market as its starting point. Bleached, scratched and rendered beyond recognition, the film forms an alternative love song that is more focused on cinephilia than marital bliss.

A near-alchemical process: made with local plants and flowers collected during the 2020 Port-au-Prince carnival. The film was then developed with vitamin C/sodium carbonate and fixed in a salt water bath for four days. The fix was never washed away, allowing salt crystals to form on the print from which this digital transfer was made.

Between April and July 2020, filmmakers Davi Mello and Deborah Perrotta exchanged video letters. He lives in São Paulo. She lives in Turin.

On a VHS tape, thoughts on Fatherland, nationalism and power are narrated.

Invocation to the ancestors through nature and magic chants native from Brazil.

A work in honor of Davi Galdino for his art in films and series

A vase falls. A woman struggles to survive. Someone has a bad dream. Brazil will start.

In Cuiabá, one of the hottest capitals in Brazil, at the Joana school she hears that it is possible to fry an egg on the asphalt, the floor is so hot. Forbidden by her mother to test with house eggs, the girl will do anything, but in this search dilemmas arise and challenge Joana to make a decision.

On a farm, in the interior of Brazil, which houses an old Casa Grande and a cachaça factory, three sisters live in a ciranda of destiny: they ask the Virgin Mary for the grace for a wish that, ironically, is the other that fulfills.

An immersive look at the life of Maíra, a woman who lives in a small seaside town where she works as a masseuse in a resort. She pends her days in a routine without great enthusiasm and prospects, dividing herself between a bland job, a distant husband and long walks around the neighborhood. One afternoon, she is faced with an event that reverberates inside Maíra as an impulse to review her life as a whole.

A woman receives a letter and goes to the shore. While the storm is getting stronger, she lets the letter to the wind and another journey begins that changes everything… An unusual story of very common people.

The Mangrove Zone of Rio de Janeiro was a well-known area of prostitution that faced several persecutions throughout the 20th century. Between 1954 and 1974, the Mangue Republic was established in the region, a representative regime, which under medical control and police surveillance, women decided who should take over the administration of the houses of prostitution. Based on surviving images, the film proposes another look at this memory of dispute and resistance.

Two friends communicate via skype during a worldwide pandemic, showing how their lives change over time.

After her father's death, Lari and her mother go for a trip to the family beach house. They decide to cook some crabs. And the animals, gradually, become luminous beings.

Existential agony consuming a man, whose own abyss stares back at him. What will your price be?

Tucum’s hammocks, the first contact with white people. The Parakanã women weave the strings of their history.

A young screenwriter does not have more creativity to write movies. Everything changes when he meets Aline, an extroverted woman, that helps him to find inspiration for a story.

Everyday situations happen in front of a street lamp.

A gay and xenophobic man works at a travel agency in Curitiba, where he routinely judges people by their accent or origin. Impulsive and arrogant, he never imagines that a call transferring him to Recife will completely change the course of his life. From then on, unexpected events challenge his prejudices—and may even open the door to love.

Thirteen women, one photo. And a search for women who, in 1983, in a drought in the Pajeú hinterland of Pernambuco, fought for the right to survival, in a context where being a woman was limited to the function of managing misery.

In Julia Kater’s That Which Watches Us, a group of people builds a scaffold in a field – a construction that reaches for the sky in support of no other structure, asking questions about urbanity and the utopia of collective action.

The worsening health of a centenarian grandfather generates a deep reflection on the way we accept the final moments of life and the difficulty of dealing with death.

An young man faces his own solitude after losing his family on a tragedy.

Amidst the period of social isolation, we interviewed writers, philosophers and political scientists who brought pertinent and urgent reflections on possible scenarios for a post-2020 world.

Pyroclastic flows (also known as a pyroclastic cloud or pyroclastic wave) are the devastating result of some volcanic eruptions. They are fluid bodies, composed of hot gas and pyroclasts (gray and stone) that can travel at speeds of up to 160 km per hour. In this case, the eruption is Cinema Marginal and the pyroclastic flows are called Ozualdo R. Candeias.

In 2019 the Brazilian government released 290 new pesticides on the market, 18 of these pesticides are extremely toxic. "290 Venenos" is a short film that makes an exercise in critical reading about the excessive use of poisonous substances in our foods. It seeks to show the dangers and damages of pesticides.