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The disorderly growth of large urban centers in the country and the discussion about the development and existence of cultural spaces. Based on the example of the Teatro de Ópera in Campinas, a building that managed to consolidate construction and space for the existence of a square, theater and architecture are discussed, pointing out the future coexistence between men and cities. Using models, the film presents a new urban concept of the square, as a point of bringing people together for an encounter with cultural things, combining gardens, concert halls, compilation rooms and libraries. A theatrical rehearsal, held in an unfinished theater in Campinas / SP, designed by the architect Fábio Penteado.

What does Brazilian cinema tell us? What does Brazilian cinema tell us about black actresses and actors? ‘Pressed, Ripped Apart’ makes use of archival sources to retrieve the trajectory of black actresses and actors who, between absences and delimited presences, between the fallacy of a racial democracy – based on the harmony among Brazil’s diverse identities – and erasure of identity, strain the history of Brazilian audiovisual and above all, our own history.

Penthouse residents of Rio de Janeiro, São Paulo and Recife open up their homes to reveal their thoughts on social inequality, politics, and the world that surrounds them. As well as discussing more intimate subjects such as their desires, fears, insecurities, prejudices and personal histories. This is a film about height, status and power.

A boy and his faithful dog Meg face challenges of a post-apocalyptic world. Together, they explore desolate streets, face unexpected dangers and share a unique connection. When confronted by a group of hooded strangers, Meg shows courage and determination, saving the boy from a dark fate. In this exciting survival story, the bond between the boy and his faithful companion is strengthened, making them inseparable in a world that has changed dramatically.

Super Chacrinha and Glauber Rocha, two millionaires from the earthly plane of Varathrum, manipulate the people around them, including Deus and the Devil, so that their artistic industrial conglomerates grow.

Smilingüido and Piriá go out into the woods to do research for Mestre Formisã's class. What they do not know is the great discovery they would make: an invasion of the Sauvitas Ants in a large area of the forest. The two friends need to run to tell the queen what is happening, leaving the Formigamigas before an impasse: Did the Sauvites break the agreement? What if the Sauvites do not back down?

During Carnival, a woman wanders into a parade with ghostly, fantastical properties and falls in love with Laura, a reveler who seems to have been on the Phantom Parade for a little too long...

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?

Concert shoot at the last Brazilian concert of the Soy Rebelde Tour.

The documentary portrays five people trying to recover from alcoholism or substance abuse. The different narratives present different aspects of addiction: there is an artist who stopped drinking without the help of Alcoholics Anonymous; a sober man for 23 years who helps anyone trying to overcome drug addiction; a woman who has been hospitalized; a retiree who has yet to overcome his addiction; and a recovered man who lives on the outskirts of Rio de Janeiro.

Four directors tell stories related to the concept of happiness.

“Old age isn’t a battle, old age is a massacre.”

Passively facing the repression imposed by military dictatorship in 1960s Brazil, a journalist enters a personal crisis, aggravated by his affair with an industrialist's wife, who doesn't want to leave her home because of her son.

"One of the most curious and mysterious strengths of cinema is that it outlives us all. So sometimes, on camera, everything is a matter of life and death."

An unpublished painting, the meeting of two geniuses in a single painting arrives to the museum at a rainy night. The museum caretaker observes the work of art being brought to the lounge where it will be exhibited to the public. The wet box drips on the paint, the paint softens and releases the conjoined painters who walk around the museum intervening on the works of art in a Cubist and Surrealist manner. The caretaker "chases" our painters in a classic cartoon chasing, using the Renaissance mechanisms to restore the order.

A film director. A protest against the 6x1 work schedule. And there is always this guiding, meditative voice that controls the impulse to revolt, that isolates, atomizes the being. In this confusion, it's necessary to choose a side - or at least be aware of the side chosen. There is no not choosing.

Mocinha and Madalena, a lesbian couple, invite a couple of friends to a farewell dinner

A subtle morning, in the subtle life of Judite and the subtle Eduardo, marked by macabre and not at all subtle circumstances.

A film that addresses family influence in the construction of social concepts

Reeling from the death of her mother, Beatriz moves to Brazil where she begins an intense and toxic relationship with Rogério, an older musician struggling with his family's artistic legacy.

Documentary about the poet, writer and playwright Hilda Hilst, considered by critics as one of the most important voices of the Portuguese language of the twentieth century. Through the use of personal sound and image files, interviews, meetings and fictional interventions, we will seek the memory and the presence of Hilda Hilst in her daily life at Casa do Sol, the farm where she lived in Campinas.

Envisioned in the midst of the greatest political crisis in Brazil’s history, this documentary investigates the polarization that has unprecedentedly inflamed a country in which miscegenation and cordiality are considered to be founding myths and its parallel in the world. Edging the border of documentary, the film builds an urgent portrait of Brazil today.

The arrival of the West Indian Companies to Natal in the XVII century is just the beginning of this violent story that pushes Bernarda and her family to run away from the city and from the invasion. In the Potengi Mill she meets the foreman's son Rafael and they immediately discover a passionate love. It will give them the force to try to survive during those violent years triggered by Jacob Rabbí, a German assigned by Prince John Maurice of Nassau to command the conquest.

MATRACA reveals, in old urban spaces in the city center, a fortress of sounds and silences; urban presence and voids; vestiges of the enjoyment of the future, present and past times of this multifaceted society. Echoes of this past erupt in an unexpected ghostly visit, which appears to scare or to be scared? Vitor Colares strolls through the center of Fortaleza reflecting and recalling excerpts from the controversial book A Normalista by Adolfo Caminha, explaining the historical stays and ruptures that persist in wandering around the city.

A cinematographic interpretation of a Casimiro de Abreu poem.

João Gilberto receives Caetano Veloso, Gilberto Gil and Maria Bethânia during the recording of his album Brasil.

The love encounter of two people with different parameters of reality. Alexandra lives in an extreme way and looks for someone like that to love. The point is that when she finds it, things don't go exactly as planned.

Savella recalls an old story, an old knowledge, reads Buñuel and prepares his drink, Pinga Seca.

Documentary on famous Brazilian actresses, female directors and the role of women in Brazilian film history.

Franjinha, the inventor kid in Monica's gang, tired of reading the comics, invents a new device to read the stories: a kind of a story-processor, that swallows the printed pages and projects the scenes in movement, on the wall.

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.

Through artistic manifestations, a group of LGBTQIA+ people performs public stagings that raise debates on issues of gender, social inequality and prejudice in the streets of downtown São Paulo. Messing with the popular imagination and providing debates, the artists explain their daily struggles to anyone who is interested in acquiring a new perspective on the most subtle layers of intolerance.

Nossa Chape tracks the rebuilding of the Chapecoense football club in Brazil after an airplane carrying the team crashed on November 28th, 2016, and left all but three of the players dead.

A comedy divided in four episodes, set in different time periods, each starring a different couple, yet all facing the same issue: marital jealousy.

Ivan Cardoso is the inventor of the terrir, a subgenre that mixes comedy, Brazilian chanchadas and classic American horror. This film promotes a rescue of his work by mixing archival material, animations and fictional reconstructions.