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Protagonist faces emotional dichotomy, after a recent relationship breakdown, about to record a film project

In the heart of the Brazilian backlands, Agreste tells the story of Etevaldo, a nomadic and reserved rural worker who carries a dark secret. When he meets Maria, a free-spirited young woman promised in marriage to an influential man from the neighborhood, the two fall deeply in love. Forced to flee due to the imminent wedding and the threats they face, they are taken in by Valda, a religious woman who sees Maria as her own daughter. While they try to find refuge, the arrival of Ribamar, the local sheriff's nephew, intensifies the tension. He is investigating an alleged theft, and his investigations begin to reveal Etevaldo's past, which fuels the hatred of the local community. Amid chaos, love and the struggle for survival challenge Etevaldo and Maria, testing secrets, betrayals, and a growing pressure from a society that does not accept their union.

The film explores the ancient artistic tradition of the indigenous peoples of Brazil, focusing on the manual creation of wooden benches carved from tree trunks and decorated with natural pigments. These pieces of art, which blend functionality and beauty, carry deep religious and symbolic significance.

A car running in an empty street, three songs play. Experimental short that explores how some images can guide the viewers eyes to certain places of the screen.

It’s 1968, the military dictatorship is established in Brazil. After murdering a soldier, Alice flees to her hometown, a place she left as a teenager, and hasn’t come back since then. At the bucolic house, she finds her sister Carmem and her first love, Helena. As they organize their late mother's belongings, these women's relationship is put to the test. Alice hides the real reason for her return, Carmem dreams of reuniting with the son she hasn't seen for years and Helena, who became a nun, suffers trying to hide the love she feels for Alice. Powerless in the face of life's circumstances and censored in different social and personal layers, all that remains is to confront each other and themselves.

Sleep demons, crazy crows and terrific friends embark an adventure into the subconscious. In this compilation of three videos, originally posted on the "Victor Marp" youtube channel, three concepts about sleep are explained. They are sleep paralysis, somnambulism and common quotes?

On the 5th anniversary of the bo band Magic Island, reporter Luma follows the behind-the-scenes process of their new single, "Déjà Vu." The interview subtly reveals that the band doesn't fully reflect the reality behind their image. Amid unexpected and casual moments, the production increasingly exposes the identity of the boyband beyond the cameras because, nothing says 'authentic' like scripted chaos.

In the past, a man falls in love with a woman.

Apartheid, cinema, eyes, blood, resistence and revolution.

The documentary investigates the challenges and practices of animal welfare in the Rio de Janeiro Biopark, addressing how different species are cared for outside their natural habitats. The production reveals the work of specialized Biologists and Veterinarians, highlighting essential aspects such as the population plan and environmental enrichment.

Youth must confront the anxieties created by something hiding inside their closet.

After the painful elimination of the Brazilian team from the 2023 World Cup, fans of a saddened country give new meaning to the defeat, promoting reflections that transform frustration into celebration and sadness into joy. Samba, cachaça and football paint the landscape of an essentially Brazilian cultural moment.

In the city of Campo Grande/MS, a boy refuses to go to school because, after all, the game on his cell phone is much cooler than any class. At that moment, her grandmother intervenes and, based on her stories as a girl, demonstrates to this child what life was like in her time. Going to school was a challenge to be overcome. So wait! Was it an adventure? In Miguel's view, yes. From there, the gaze of an imaginative and adventurous child shapes the previously inhabited spaces of a city.

A hunter named Bento, who always hides under a rabbit mask, enjoys stuffing deer heads as a kind of reward. His little social interaction occurs with a woman named Vanessa, where there is a strange feeling. On a new hunt, when he returns to his cabin and adds a new head to his wall, we realize that Bento hides a big secret about who he really is.

Curitiba is a maze of ideas, people and contradictions. This short-film shows that perspective of the city, with its statues, ghost buses, brokens sidewalks and capybaras.

A call in the middle of the night can change all paths. In search of Triz, a missing friend, Kila and Mauna find themselves on a rescue journey. To get where they want they will have to cross the deserts that time has sedimented between them.

an experimental film about the technological and existential progression and evolution of cinema.

Bisagras is a film that triangulates the journey of African slaves to America and draws a line that goes through my brown skin.

Immersed in her thoughts, the young Jessika Yakecan, daughter of the Shaman Cicero Potyguara and political activist, alternates her time learning the ancestral knowledge of her father, campaigning for gender and sexuality causes with her “Coletivo Indígena LGBTI+ Caboclas” and fighting to defend the territory of her village.

turíbio projects their memories onto the remains of images

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.

João and Vitor used to be paramours but haven't spoken to each other for 30 years. At 70, they reunite and reconcile past, present, and a possible future after the passing of Vitor's wife, at a moment when so much of their lives seem to have reached an end.

In a setting of natural plenitude, a mystical figure, embodiment of the feminine origin, encounters a wild horse with which she embarks on an ancestral journey of union with nature. An ode to purity, to harmony with the natural, to the pursuit of unbridled freedom, celebrating love in its most natural and raw form.

Everyday life on the beach, filming a short film, the sea as the horizon.

The history of the Black Brazilian population can be revisited from many perspectives, one of them being that of a Black woman. In this documentary, Inaldete Pinheiro de Andrade, one of the founders of the Black Movement in Pernambuco, reveals through her memories a sense of belonging “to an Africa on the other side and an Africa on this side”. As an older sister, she expresses her ancestral affections.

Through a telephone conversation with a policie officer, a mother revisits memories about her daughter's father.

‘How are women doing in Brazil?’. It is this intriguing question, posed by an Italian journalist, that Helena Solberg tries to answer through elements of her films, from the 1960s to the present day. Along the way, encounters with figures such as Heloisa Teixeira, Rita von Hunty and Helena Vieira illuminate some of the cracks in this broad debate.