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Experimental biblical short film retelling the crucifixion of Jesus Christ.

Countries in the Global North are the biggest polluters on the planet. Thus, they created the carbon credit system, which pretends to protect forests in the Global South, which are already protected by their original peoples. A typical scam of financial capitalism known as “hot air”. The beings from those forests, through their perforMAGIC activATIONS, came to reveal this great farce and invite everyone to do environmental justice with their own hands, united in a great cosmic spiral.

The film shows the resistance movement of the residents of Favela do Vidigal against the removal order, an important chapter in the history of Rio de Janeiro in the 1970s.

A walk through the land of nymphs.

A new group of heroes rises to face the chaos: the "Clube da Fimose", formed by Sigma, Homem-Semen, and Josué, joins forces with the mighty "The Incredible Alpha" to take on their greatest threat yet — the "Psicopata Cearense" and his army of henchwomen known as the Betas. An epic (and completely insane) battle is about to begin.

Day to day life of motorcycle couriers from the Quitungo community in Brás de Pina.

Two men argue over a shady business deal.

Eugenia and Fausto watch a film based on Nelson Rodrigues.

While recording a video tribute to his family, Leo (Rafael Gevú) unravels special moments lived with his beloved uncle Raul to free himself from the emotions of such a recent loss.

An elderly man in the countryside sees a painting of his wife that makes him have fragments of memory of an old flame, and needs help of his wife to remember.

After attending to a client with wound marks on her face, a lash designer realizes that there is something very wrong with the girl's home life.

Young people gather to have a party before going into lockdown because of Coronavirus. They talk about music, arts, work and the uncertain future, not knowing when they will be able to meet again.

Prevented from attending the service of her choice, Mel doesn't give up professing her faith. Every night she prepares posters and takes them to the church door, waiting for the day when she can enter again. Throughout years marked by the rise of an ultra-conservative government and the difficulties brought on by an unexpected pandemic, the documentary follows the transsexual hairdresser's struggle to assert her constitutional right to religious freedom.

Egili Oliveira is preparing for Carnival 2022 in Rio de Janeiro. She participates in the second division competition of the Rio Carnival (Gold series). It's a long and arduous road until the samba singer becomes a stunning queen: the drum queen of the Acadêmicos de Vigário Geral samba school. The story of a powerful black woman, who, at 42 years old, still fights for her place in Brazilian society and at Carnival.

While musicians proceed to construct parts that will only come together as pieces in the editing room, Xavier Braun captures this process which takes registration as material in a mimetic fashion - a documentary that turns to the generation of junks that constantly dissipate their crystallization into a whole, bringing forth a combinatorial logic, an eternal game of divisions, sums, and repositionings. Musical composition being guided by the principle of montage and editing centralized in the amplification and systematization of the gesture, QUIPROCÓ has at its core the thread that traverses both the making of both cinema and music: the space of memory formed through the succession and juxtaposition of things in time.

The trajectory of the writer, journalist and chronicler from Rio de Janeiro, Afonso Henriques de Lima Barreto (1881-1922), one of the central figures of Brazilian literature in the 20th century, author of works such as the novels Memories of the Clerk Isaías Caminha (1909), Sad End of Policarpo Quaresma (1911), Clara dos Anjos (1922/1948).

The documentary Black Rio! Black Power! looks at the influence of the Black Rio movement on culture, society and the struggle for racial justice in Rio de Janeiro and Brazil between the 1970s and 1980s. The film shows the movement's impact on music and on the direction of politics and the black movement during the period of re-democratization, influencing genres such as hip-hop and funk, and the affirmative stance of the younger generations, who perpetuate the black pride and aesthetic appreciation spread by Black Rio 50 years ago.

"Tereza" takes a look at the career, personal stories and cinema of Tereza Trautman, director of the first fiction feature in modern Brazilian cinema, which was censored during Brazil's military dictatorship. The work discusses the importance of female representation and looks at how the military dictatorship affected Tereza's life and cinema.

This courageous documentary follows Brazilian investigative journalist Daniel Camargos as he retraces the last known steps of his colleague Dom Phillips, who was murdered because of his accurate coverage of Amazon deforestation and violations of indigenous community rights. Canargos’ journey through Amazonia, and the inspiration which he draws from the indigenous activists who he meets, prompts him to reflect on the dangers and importance of critical journalism in an era where politicians openly embrace misinformation.

Morte™ is a business building like any other. The receptionists, Mari and Pam, are responsible for guiding the dead spirits to their most suitable Afterlife. Today, however, they discovered that Vivi, the colleague with whom Mari has a secret crush, is the next name on the list to boot.

The Mentuwajê Guardians of Culture (a group of young Krahô filmmakers) invite the Beture Collective (Mebêngôkre-Kayapó) to visit their village and attend the Kêtwajê festival – an important initiation ritual that has not taken place for ten years. Over the course of several days, children and adolescents undergo various “tests” to transform into adult warriors, under the watchful and shared gaze of the local filmmakers and the Mebêngôkre-Kayapó guests.

Apparitions, mystical presences and lost stories from São Paulo and Rangoon are discovered over the course of a summer in the future. São Paulo spots are visited by people from the same family in 1991 and then around 30 or 40 years later. Meanwhile, family archives and memories in Tropical America and in Magical Asia are revealed.

Beyond the loudness of silence... there lies the individual.

A Whey Protein was stolen inside a fraternity of boys. An investigation begins to discover the real person responsible for the theft.

Agustinho, a young rural worker, meets Jaciara, a beautiful 25-year-old woman, and immediately falls in love with her. Agustinho discovers that she has just suffered a great family loss, due to an attack by the popular figure Curacanga: a flying flaming head, which scares and kills people at night.

A little pigeon finds a strange substance and decides to take a chance by trying the new treat—after all, why not? Pigeons are already odd, so what harm could it do?

Gary is a boy who quietly drifted away from Jesus. Hurt by doubts, pain, and choices that left him feeling empty, he believed he was too far gone to return. But God never stopped calling him. Through his friends, with acts of love, honesty, and patience, Gary slowly began to see the light again. The Repentance is a short film about reconnection, forgiveness, and the grace that transforms even when all seems lost.

Ailton Krenak, indigenous leader and thinker, talks about the pain of the Watú (or Rio Doce in the Krenak language). Sick with the biggest environmental disaster in Brazilian history, the Mariana Dam disaster, the river asks for help. From the impacts on his village on the banks of the river, he makes an overview of the current Anthropocene period and invites all human beings to a journey of reflection and self-criticism, aiming at urgent but necessary paradigm shifts.

Only someone like Fábio Rabin can make us see the funny side of so many crazy things happening today. From the dilemmas of the middle class to escapism, how do we deal with all this? Because, really, today everything is 'Blurred'!

The music video, and short film, by singer Slipmami for her track Malvatrem.

Helena wants to propose to Leticia, until tragedy strikes in their lives: they both have a car accident and end up dying. Now they both need to rest, but Helena suffers from wanting to propose while her beloved tries to convince her to move on to the other plane without revealing what has happened. Leticia, having already accepted death, understands what is happening and subtly tries to make Helena understand that it is necessary to leave. In the course of the story, while each of them deals with their own internal conflicts, the apartment they used to live in begins to be emptied so that new people can move in.