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Documentary in two parts about Brazilian writer, journalist and sociologist Sérgio Buarque de Holanda. The first part describes how the author used to pass his days with family and friends, while the second offers a historical panorama of the times, including his reaction to Nazism and the years of Vargas’ dictatorship, and the arrival of the modernist movement in Brazil.

Rescue of the work and the image of Mario Rocha, pop musician from the time of tropicalists. Owner of a visceral work, his compositions disclosed in alternative circuits through "happenings" on the street largely filmed in super 8 by his friend Hélvio Bastos. The artist is remembered by the critic Carlos Callado, the singer, Wanderléa - who guards his very rare unique album, "The Lates' -, friends and family. His originality inspired the creation of a living museum and a fan club, made up of many young people who discuss the importance of this legendary musician.

Welcome to a cruel world! Extreme life-and-death situations that happen every day around the world, captured by journalists and amateur videographers with great courage and nerves of steel! Watch it if you dare!

During the raid of a Cosa Nostra villa in 2007, Italian police discovered a secret Mafia code of conduct. Now, former mobsters reveal what those rules are, how they work and what happens when anyone begins to question the mob's own Ten Commandments.

Experimental projects carried out during scientific initiation - 2002 / UFRJ

Documentary by students Beatriz Camargo, Eduardo Tardin, Guilherme Amoroso and Thais Gurgel from the Department of Journalism and Publishing (CJE) of the School of Communications and Arts (ECA) at USP about the musical group Cansei de Ser Sexy.

Radical experimentalism of anti-cinema metalanguage that wants to experience sensations. It was filmed with a bunch of people who wanted to have a party, but that we at Canibal Filmes tested them to see who was good at interpreting.

A key starts up the engine of a complex mechanical structure where chain reactions, be they planned or random, are combined to cooperate. The movement represents pure energy, which may evolve towards synchronicity, chaos, or something in between.

A short documentary film built with Super 8 images. A lyric journey through the images and sensations revealed by the memories and dreams of blind people.

A train gets out from the station in Amazon.

Documentary about the artist Celeida Tostes.

Helena Ignez's first film as a director is a homage to American architect and contemporary artist Vito Acconti, who made an urban intervention over a bridge in São Paulo, transforming that space for it to be used as shelter by nearby homeless people.

3 young people performed a mystical ritual and were possessed by professional actors, with their bodies already taken over by possession, they opened discord and shared their screen, pouring out hatred and resentment and anger and smegma and sadness for all human beings on planet earth. After 24 hours, they realized that this was all for nothing, as it was a lie. La ele.

Brazilian short film

The pages of the artist Judith Malina's diary, imprisoned by the military dictatorship during the season of the Living Theater group in Brazil. The documentary chronicles the visit of the actress and her theatrical company to the country.

A road trip through gay spaces in small town South Africa, Graeme Reid's documentary introduces viewers to hairstylists, preachers, traditional healers, and beauty queens. This moving film provides an alternative vision of acceptance and celebration, in contrast to the wave of homophobia that is sweeping across sub-Saharan Africa.

The film presents Stella Of Oxossi, Iyalorisha of lle Axe OPo Afonja (a Camdomble temple founded in 1910), who tells the stories of Camdomble and her life in an exclusive and brilliant interview about matriarchal societies, the cult of Shango, syncretism and the future of Camdomble.

A film that exposes the reality of young homosexuals who live in the outskirts of Rio de Janeiro, suffer the effects of poverty and misery, but do not lose their identity, dignity and creativity. They are homosexuals, transformers, butterflies of Brazilian real life.... They experience the possibilities and the limits of gender and sexuality, face discrimination with their heads held high, with courage, and determination... They fight for the right to be different and demand, in many ways, that their difference be respected.

The unlikely – yet authentic – story of the dwarf who became a giant.

Short stop motion animation with finger nails.

A man meets up with a young woman he met earlier in the day. When he gets to her place, she has a special surprise in store for him.

I love you. I need to love you.

Blood dyes red the corridors of a house. A man is haunted by strange hallucinations, alone and weak. His memories are fragmented images of a recurrent past. The pain of guilt and remorse afflict his existence. The thirst has become unbearable. Redemption is in the sea.

A man and a movie camera, untill the money ends. Never two nights in the same city.

Fragments of passengers readings on the subways and trains in France. Consuelo Lins' video, shot with a cell phone camera.

A documentary about the permanence of brazilian native rituals in nomadic and rural communities among the pervading capitalism.

Chronological profile of Brazil's student activism, from the 30s to the occupation of UNE's headquarters in Rio de Janeiro, 2007.

Science fiction based on real facts.

On May 31, 2007, hundreds of armed men, from the Federal Police, in a true war operation, pulled out of the factories, the members of the Factory Commission elected by the workers, swearing in a federal intervener. The workers and their leaders talk about their struggles, day to day in the occupied factories, the reduction of working hours from 44 to 30 hours per week, the agreement with the Chavez government of Venezuela to build a house factory, Petrocasa . They also narrate the terror during the intervention, all kinds of humiliation to which they were exposed, anguish and perspectives.

Sadness is just a smile away.