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It rained on Monday night (17/09/2018) in Rio de Janeiro. Rodrigo Alexandre da Silva Serrano, 26, down the slope Ary Barroso to wait his wife and children with a black umbrella. Suddenly three shots.

“Girls in pink and boys in blue!” They said. And they still say.

Through the accounts of the settlers, we will show the daily lives of these women, how they live, work, articulate within a movement marginalized and excluded by society.

At a big banquet, 3 Arab friends who live in a refuge in Rio de Janeiro tell us their stories.

Inspired by real events, Santa tells the story of a transsexual woman who lives in a rural community in Minas Gerais. She was born and grew up among the festivities of the small church of the place, with a burning desire to crown the image of Our Lady. Santa raises the flag against the mining company that explores the site and that in addition to deforesting, threatens with its residues the spring and the waterfall of the place. But she meets Cícero, the mining company's new supervisor and falls in love with him. In “Santa” there is no violence for the sake of gender and sexual difference, because Santa is completely inserted in the social life of the community and is known, respected and loved by everyone.

Gloria is taken by a man to a phobia treatment institute. However, after breaking the institute's rules and being judged for her actions, she meets Pepe: a man who falls in love and creates an obsession with the girl, embarking on a limitless journey.

Bucolic, delicate and sensitive, the short film Poética de Barro, animated in stop motion with clays from the Valley of the Widows of Live Husbands (Jequitinhonha), based on the work of ceramists from Minas Gerais and with an original track composed of ceramic instruments, depicts the saga of a small creature, which needs to survive the vicissitudes of life. If all barriers will be overcome, just watch to find out.

At Agatha's tent, the "monas" (an endearing expression that transgender women in Brazil use to call each other) are in search of sex, crack cocaine and someone who will listen to them. They perform to the camera and have an unique relationship with the city that they live in. But the instability of a marginal life puts at risk the street corner that is their home.

Documentary on stage performance and all the metaphors behind it.

Short film about Asperger's disease and how it can affect the life of a carrier and the people around him.

Documentary about the black roots of capoeira.

A son seeks to understand his history and that of his mother through the reports of his family.

On a beach, people live their reflections, frustrations and fantasies about regrets in life. A visual journey of redemption.

Short film about a father who needs to take care of his daughter alone.

Short film about technology addiction and absurdities that surround it.

FAKE NEWS, short documentary produced during the Guerrilha DOC workshops. The work consists of captures made in the Women Against Bolsonaro act of September 29, 2018 in Santos / SP and research work.

Dipped in memories in the form of images and texts, I try to find you.

Animation made from more than a thousand drawings in stop motion, inspired by the owl “Suindara” – a well-known folktale in Northern Brazil – to address the socio-political urgencies of the country.

The starting point for this colourful film is a letter from human rights activist W.E.B. Du Bois to the American embassy in Brazil. The fact that in 1927 it was impossible for African Americans to travel to Brazil reminds us of the inequality still faced by that country’s black inhabitants.

João da Silva is a Brazilian who goes abroad without knowing English very well.

Grandson of India Regina, the only remnant of the "hunting of Indians" in the in search of rubber, Osmildo fights for ransom of the Kuntanawa origins, as well as the mother tongue, the differentiated indigenous school, the sacred rituals, of traditional medicine and his demarcated land.

Born on June 13, 1868, in Vila do Parazinho, today Paracuru, the poet and novelist Antonio Sales was also a theatrical, chronicler, lecturer, journalist, memorialist and creator of the literary movement Padaria Espiritual that brought together writers, painters and musicians. Antonio Sales died in Fortaleza, on November 14, 1940. The documentary “O poeta, Antonio Sales” has testimonials from names in the literature of Ceará, such as professors Sânzio Azevedo, Batista de Lima, Rodrigo Marques, Cecília Cunha, Aíla Sampaio and José Leite Junior; the production company Maira Sales; the master in Literature Regina Fiúza; and researcher Francisco José Júnior.

The Yarang are a group of 65 women from the Ikpeng people who collect native seeds in the Indigenous Territory of Xingu (Brazil). Mothers, daughters, grandmothers, and granddaughters who together, over the course of a decade, have collected 3.2 tons of forest seeds. This little ants' work made it possible to plant about 1 million trees in degraded areas of the Xingu and Araguaia river basins. These are the seeds that will form the forests of the future.

A tram track is found in archaeological excavations for the construction of the Faria Lima subway, in Largo da Batata, the main region in the west of São Paulo. Taking the symbolic concepts of archeology on loan, the documentary goes in search of the “horizons” of history, memory and now, which portray narratives of the residents, shopkeepers and neighborhood goers. As in an excavation, the short investigates the history of Pinheiros from the indigenous village to the occupations of today, going through layers of time to understand urban processes and imagine future for the city.

Heartwood tells the story of Agostino, a farmer’s son who is on a mission to save his region’s olive trees from a natural disaster. Xylella Fastidiosa is the most deadly pathogen known to mankind that has already infected and killed 20 millions of trees in Southern Italy. When Agostino learns that science is still searching for a cure, he decides to follow the disease back to its roots in Latin America. From the savannas of Brazil, the highlands of the Mayan Peninsula and the deserts of Colombia, Agostino chronicles the efforts of indigenous people to save their traditions and persevere in the face of climate change, while searching for a cure.

Paths and deviations of a degraded profession. Workers seeking to flourish in institutional ruins.

Little Mone lives alone, isolated in a housing unit, in a timeless future. His only companion is a video game robotic dog.

A city of 8,000 inhabitants in the middle of the Amazon rainforest transforms a religious festival into an event for diversity.

At the edge of Araçá Bay and in the middle of the urban and industrial-port context of São Sebastião-SP (Brazil), a group of people lives in close relationship with the sea and its cycles, a place where they produce and reproduce socially. Recognized for their typical caiçara culture, they have lived since the 1980s with recurrent environmental problems and with the constant threat of port expansion over their territory. Pulsating: a film about the Araçá Bay reverberates through facts and testimonies the various voices that seek to translate the desire of the Araçá Bay and the life that pulsates there.

Documentary about anchieta avenue and houses around.

The Chico Mendes III Settlement is located 7 km from Recife, in the municipalities of São Lourenço da Mata and Paudalho, the margins of BR 408. There are 55 families who live there, arising from the conflicts that occur during the camping period between 2004 and 2008, in areas formerly belonging to Engenho São João. The MST assisted and guided the occupation, as did UFRPE guiding the Agroecological transition. The difficulties are many, from growing Organic products, such as the lack of rain in a punished soil, but these women of fire exemplify the female leaders in the settlement and bravely support the loneliness. With faith and the certainty that their return to earth is not in vain, bearing fruit for sustainable posterity.