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A young graffiti artist faces past traumas in one last action.

Adenilson and Zeca are employees of Vila Formosa, the São Paulo cemetery that most bury Covid-19 victims in Brazil. After the chief is infected, the pair faces the huge task of digging endless graves and avoiding contagion in the Brazilian city with more victims of the Coronavirus. They will cling more to God than to protective measures.

Who are the vaccine volunteers? What motivated them? Were they not afraid? For 9 months they opened their lives to us, recording such a difficult period in our history.

A sequel to my first montage-based film.

After leaving an abusive relationship, Maria relies on a ritualistic dance as a process of liberation, searching for a cure for her anguish, pain and guilt.

This is the opening sequence for the 2021 edition of the Mix Brasil Festival, an annual cultural event with a focus on films related to sexuality in its various forms of expression.

In São Paulo, Mariza divides her time between her home office and coloring mandalas. Marcia paints the ceiling with the color of the sky. And Antônio, or Juninho, wants to stop working as an app driver and make a movie.

Natália is a college student who still lives with her parents, in her childhood home. Her estranged older sister arrives for a visit, bringing along infancy memories Natália doesn't recall. Her sleepless nights digging through her archives seem to trigger strange phenomena that might threaten Natália's safety.

Arising out of a noxious scientific experiment, three victims are sent to different decades where they intensely live their day - what they don't know is that one of them keeps a deadly secret.

In Fernando do Noronha, offshore Brazil, lemon sharks have mastered the art of catching sardines in the surf zone… with the help of unexpected allies!

A documentary that captures 24 hours in Downtown Rio de Janeiro, in September 2019.

Experimental film

Lithipokoroda is an Indigenous performance manifesto from São Gabriel da Cachoeira in the Amazon. It portrays an ancestral woman walking from the forest to the maloca, while white men destroy the forest. Despite this destruction, ancestral knowledge lives on. Young Indigenous people use technology to denounce violence and defend their culture, demanding an end to genocide, violence and discrimination.

In the light of political debates, the film seeks to reflect on the historical paths of the seven Brazilian constitutions. Through fragments of films and archives, it proposes to anthropologically analyze some particularities of each constitution and its relations with nationalism, the state, democracy and power.

A couple defends opposite sides of a debate concerning what is natural.

Guilherme is happily married with Marcelo. But things get a little weird when he arrives home after work and find him with a younger man. His partner says he's a childhood friend new in town of whom he invited to dinner with them. Some surprises might come everybody's way.

Invisible Water Layers discusses and questions the origins of Teresina and its urbanization over the years. The film deals with the move from the capital of Piauí to Oeiras in 1852, the ideas of modernity at the time and the problems that resulted from this process in people and in the city. Along with the idea of ​​progress of the railway, factories and steamboats, many families and workers were relocated from the central areas of the city to more distant parts. The traditional ways of life of these people coexisted, not free from conflict, with the will of civility of the local elites. With 4 interviewees, including architects, historians and researchers, the film also brings a rich set of images from different places in the city, such as the Center, the Parnaíba riverbank and the Poty Velho neighborhood.

In Rio de Janeiro, in the city’s north side, a group of friends turn to making comedy and self-mutilation videos as a necessary escape from the harsh reality of their everyday lives and uncertain futures. From 2006 to 2021, fifteen years of images narrate the (mis)directions of a profoundly unfair city/country as much as the formation of a filmmaker’s gaze.

Santa Cruz, West Zone, Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. The "carioca" suburb streets find themselves empty and light poles watch every spot. Isolated, a person triest to report whatever it is that's happening around there.

A eukaryotic film immersed in multispecies relationships. Loosely adapted from "A Cosmopolítica dos Animais" [The Cosmopolitcs of Animals] (Juliana Fausto, n-1 edições, 2020).

Bárbara Balaclava is a metanarrative based on existing stories in the work of Thiago Martins de Melo and read in the tarot. Cosmogonic, baroque, hybrid and cyclical, it tells the trajectory of an anonymous martyr, from the expropriation and massacre of her village and her death under police torture to her experience as an "enchanted" finding herself in a previous incarnation and culminating in her baptism in the heart of Pindorama.

A free adaptation of the Greek myth of the Moiras, specifically Cloto, which weaves the thread of life. Frightened every day and every night, a cloud hovers over each movement. Innocence was lost in the face of a worthless collection of ancient hopes and desires. In the wake of reason, a voice calls.

Behind-the-scenes moments from the recording of Fernanda Abreu's album, released in 2021, featuring tracks remixed by today's biggest DJs and collaborations with amazing artists from the Brazilian scene.

"Standoff Kuleshov" is a short film re-enacting exploring two "effects" of cinematic language, the Kuleshov Effect and Einstein's interruption of time. "Standoff Kuleshov" takes these elements and creates a comedic twist on the iconic climactic scene in Sergio Leone's "The Good, the Bad and the Ugly" (1966).

Living in a feminine body is an experimentation, the refusal of a linearity not identified with the progress that alienates the woman from nature. Cycle is an ode to the movement, to the colors and textures of the vital fluid, an experiment to recognize that maybe the life isn't only accumulayion, but overflow and restart.

A documentary that presents some of the history of homosexuals who are reaching or have reached the third age, and who lived their childhood and youth in an authoritarian regime. It addresses issues such as sexual orientation, relationships, career paths, personal experiences, and what it's like to go through the covid-19 pandemic.

"Morada" is an experimental documentary that shows a little about the city of Acari, located in Seridó Potiguar. It has the main participation of Eilson Amarildo, better known as Negão Azul, who unloads fruits, vegetables and groceries in the municipality of Acari and neighboring regions.

A cinematic poem that expands on a key scene in Carlos Hugo Christensen's masterpiece, O Menino de O Vento (1967). Katsuo's film addresses a truly impressive meditation on the suggestion of nudity, or lack thereof, in one of the most important works of Brazilian LGBTQ+ cinema.

Through different languages, this experimental work uses sound and visual poetry, presenting images with a non-linear flow of words in a context of exponential equations, making integrated use of the word, the meaning of the word, and the sound of the word.