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★ 01/02/1978 - ✟ 06/06/2021

In a nostalgic and reflective tone, this 15-minute documentary revisits the decline of DVD rental stores in Brazil through the stories of three former store owners. Two of them share their experiences of closing their shops, while the third continues to run one that remains open to this day. A tribute to memories, technological transformations, and the enduring love for physical cinema.

Caetano doesn't know how to finish cycles, he keeps everything and everyone good that has happened in his life in his chest and negotiates even with gods to never forget what has already occupied his mind completely. He lives an eternal Bargain.

"É o Boi" is a documentary that narrates the origins, portrays the present and discusses the perspectives of carnival in the city of Porto Ferreira/SP. Celebrating a tradition that already is already 90 years old, the film is mainly made up of images taken during the Porto Ferreira's carnival and interviews with people who fight daily to keep this unique and at the same time typically Brazilian cultural manifestation alive. Made over almost a decade, "É o Boi" also portrays critical moments of this carnival in the countryside of São Paulo, including disagreements with public authorities that almost led to the carnival being banned and the impacts of the Covid-19 pandemic on the organization of celebrations.

There is always a choice, and choosing the right path can transform lives.

This dynamic video collage, described by its makers as a "popular symphony," captures the soul of Brazil and its inhabitants in words and visuals. The history of this South American country is marked by oppression and defiance, by resilience and solidarity. Music is the motor propelling this rhythmic, often ironic, and sometimes horrifying impressionistic blend of archive and new footage, interviews, voice-overs, commercials, scenes from television series and surveillance camera images.

Amid family arguments and unspoken tensions, Ângelo, a 20-year-old young man, faces prejudice at home while seeking his true identity. In the midst of chaos, a symbolic act transforms pain into rebirth.

Director Lincoln Péricles revisits memories recorded since he had access to cameras and microphones, putting together a film in the form of a rap mixtape, combining sounds and images from Brazilian cinema and denaturalising the images of work.

In the country with most Japanese descendants outside Japan, Haruko, 94, finds herself on the edge of living. While her japanese-brazilian daughter sumiko takes care of her, they inhabit a house surrounded by memories, dreams and nature. faced with the approach of death, they confront ghosts from the past and wander through the narrow path between the terrain and the transcendental.

From the preparation for Carnival 2020 until the resumption in 2022, including the suspension of parades during the pandemic, the documentary makes a historical inventory from the emergence of samba schools to the present day, showing the cultural strength and its political and social significance.

When a new talk show premieres, its release party sets off a chain of mysterious disappearances. Leading the investigation is Detective Willem “Midnight,” whose determination intensifies when Luna, the daughter of his best friend, is discovered lifeless in the place’s basement.

Ana spend the afternoon recording a mensage to someone. Someone who need to be forgotten and left behind.

A woman, played by Patricia Niedermeier, finds and revisits texts and objects by women who lived through the horrors of the Holocaust and re-invents these memories in her own body.

Bati da Vila is a short documentary that brings the wisdom of Dona Nicinha and the oldest families of Vila de Ponta Negra, showing the process and importance of making Bati olive oil, valuing the memory and ancestral wisdom of this important territory of the city of Natal, Rio Grande do Norte.

In 1979, Brazilian singer Sidney Magal is at the peak of his career. On a TV show, he meets Magali and, enchanted by the young woman, decides to win her over. But, in order to do that, he will have to overcome the resistance of his manager, Jean Pierre, and the distrust of her family, friends and even Magali herself.

Video clip for the song De corpore saturni, from the album Saci Solaris. U is a sound project by Petter Baiestorf.

Two musicians argue about their future as a duo and the originality of their work. Based on "Beats Digging Ditches", taken from Dave Kosts's "Book of Sides".

To fall asleep. Visions of grass and animals in the dark.

A heart transplant surgery is performed. What the doctors didn’t expect, however, was to find a furry heart.

A man returns to his former beloved's old home, carrying the groceries he used to bring for her. Upon arriving, he discovers that she no longer lives there, leaving him to confront the memories and the absence that has replaced her.

Flávio, an actor going through a marital crisis, returns to his mother’s home while preparing a theatrical recital inspired by Gaston Bachelard’s book “The Poetics of Reverie”. Desperate for a stage to perform on, he will present the work on the streets of Recife as a poetic manifesto. The year is 2016, and Brazil is sinking into a political crisis, while the artist immerses himself in his art as the only utopia he has left. During this journey, we witness the affectionate —yet sometimes strained— relationship between mother and son, and Flávio’s moments of deep sadness, compounded by the impeachment process of Dilma Rousseff, which de watches on TV and will have severe consequences for everyone’s lives. A metonymy of Brazil’s recent history.

Weeks after her sister's death, Tânia returns to Santa Maria to face a dilemma: is it possible to experience situations again?

Pulse is the heart of music. A series of uniform beats that are audible or implied and repeat themselves. It is the relationship between the beats and their silences. The pulse is also the artist's unique expression—their heart. And Murilo is getting ready to perform his drum solo. He practices. Repeats. Tries to find his own pulse.

Maurício Kubrusly no longer recognizes who he once was. Beatriz, his wife, is the only name that remains. She guides our meeting with a new Kubrusly, and together, they always pick something to play.

2021. I arrived in Havana and had to isolate myself before going to my final destination, ideas of Cuba were being made, remade and unmade through the windows I passed, trying to make a home.

Exotismos arises from Yoná's ambition to confront stereotypes associated with beauty and aesthetics, which explore the insecurities of self-esteem. With an artistic approach, she creates cuts and colors that transcend visual changes. In a vibrant and intimate setting, the film portrays dialogues and transformations that reveal not only the expression of hair, but also the individuality of dissident bodies in the cultural effervescence of the capital of Goiás.

Helena asks for her subprefecture's secretary to help her clean up the local beaches. The reason is that, a few days earlier, she went to the beach with her friends and polluted the environment with packaging (including glass bottles). Arriving home, she was so remorseful that she even dreamed of the consequences. The following day, she returns to the beach and finds a commotion around the bloody remains of an accident in which a child hurt himself by stepping on the glass bottle that she littered the beach with on the previous day.

Luccas takes part in a crazy competition to try and babysit for a weekend at the home of the biggest video game developer in the world. Everything to experience first-hand the newest game created by the entrepreneur. Luccas Neto is here to stay, just accept it

Three film students filmed the residents of the building Poetry Plaza for a week. The building is located in the richest zone of Rio de Janeiro. On the last day of filming, the building manager confiscated almost all of the memory cards used in the recordings. The film is an edit made from the remaining footage.

Called by a mirrored globe as extinct from the dance floors as the very nights of glory, feathers, and sequins, six veteran performers from Recife revisit their pasts and relive their most intimate memories in front of the cameras, and a present soaked in nostalgia. Pioneers of a revolution still in progress, they are and always will be Queens of the Night.

Mel, a young independent trans artist who uses her art as a refuge and escape valve in the midst of identity crises and dysphoria. She faces herself on her journey to self-knowledge when one of her self-portraits comes to life.