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Two pickpockets live in a world where they dream of social elevation.

Anthropological documentary about the brothels located in the Pelourinho area. A community formed by prostitutes, homosexuals, thieves, drug dealers and groups of families in the center of the city of Salvador. They occupy an architecture that once belonged to the elite.

in the waters of Arembepe, a woman, sometimes pregnant, sometimes not, a child, and a man, together in an elliptical temporality, harmonize and integrate into the space of nature with an emphatic rhythm. A biographical record of a hippie thesis from one of the popes of tropicalismo.

An exploration of the work of a painter widely regarded as one of Brazil's most important artists. Through cinema, the film offers a critical and insightful study of the creative process.

The infamous Hospital Colonia de Barbacena (Barbacena Colony Hospital), biggest mental institution of Brazil, once compared to concentration camps of Auschwitz ,opens its gates to a production crew during the country's dictatorship period. This short documentary depicts how mental patients were treated inside the institution and how anyone could end up an intern there for no plausible reason.

This four-episode Swedish documentary series by Arne Sucksdorff draws on footage shot over four years in Brazil—especially in the Pantanal wetlands—and is narrated from Sucksdorff’s personal diary. It combines images of plants, animals, landscapes, and daily camp life with moments of tension (e.g. threats to wildlife) and reflection on humanity’s relationship with nature.

Popular manifestation in extinction, presented with its local musicians and their handmade instruments.

Documentary short focusing on the people of a poor São Paulo neighborhood, whose lives are made difficult by a large hole on the ground that the government won't fix.

Documentary about the artist, cartoonist and pioneer of Brazilian animation Luiz Sá.

This time, Teixeirinha faces great challenges, having to complete 7 tests, including jumping off the Guaíba Bridge in search of a lost treasure and winning the heart of a beautiful young woman. Music, romance and lots of humor, accentuated by the performance of Chilean comedian Jimmy Pipiolo. The setting is the city of Porto Alegre.

Liberdade, located in the center of São Paulo, is better known as "the Japanese neighborhood". The film shows immigration, the first Japanese settlements, the daily life of the community and the relationship between tradition and cultural assimilation.

Allegorical animation about the imposition of American culture and the popular resistance to this process.

Documentary about Guinea-Bissau, African soccer, and the colonial emancipation movement.

Filmed between March and August 1970, the film presents the Catholic festival from its performative dimension. Residents of the region reveal a certain nostalgia for the spectacle, which, according to them, have been lost over time. It is in the search for a theatrical revival that the film operates, reactivating the historic city as a large open-air stage.

The course of Brazil's discovery by Pedro Álvares Cabral. After a troubled journey, the Portuguese sailors spot a new land. On landing, happy and expecting to expand their empire, they face themselves with a disappointment...

Budapest, 19th century: Nosferatu is killed by a prince. Now in colour and on holiday in Brazil, he saps several natives.

The first Brazilian movie adaptation of a national super-hero comic.

A short film made from photos of Boca do Lixo, a bohemian and marginal neighborhood, and its people.

A documentary short that speaks on the hierarchical organization and the contents of an Afro-Brazilian nagô temple.

This film denounces the exploitation of natural resources by certain industries of extraction and transformation. This documentary is considered as the first Brazilian film on this theme.

A film from Espirito Santo

Short film by Brazilian filmmaker Ozualdo Ribeiro Candeias.

Exu, Uma Tragédia Sertaneja, aired on January 16, 1979, portrayed the fight between the Sampaio and Alencar families, in the Pernambuco city of Exu, which had dragged on since 1949 with violent deaths side by side. Shown as a Globo Repórter Documento, directed by Eduardo Coutinho, it featured testimonies by singer and composer Luiz Gonzaga, born in Exu, and members of both families. Even a federal intervention was suggested to end the conflict.

A Brazilian avant-garde film matching the image of John Wayne on horseback to incongruous discourse in Portuguese.