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The film's idea was inspired by Amos Tutuola's book, The palm wine drinkard and His Dead Palm-Wine Tapster in the Dead's Town. While this author describes the adventures of a character to find his palm wine tapster, I chose to show - in an experimental and sensorial way - who this very important person from the villages of West Africa is. The film is the result of an ethnographic research about the relationship of the Yoómbe with the oil palm in the Mayombe Forest, Democratic Republic of Congo. My main interlocutor, Defao, whom I accompanied daily during fieldwork, was a palm wine tapster.

In an age obsessed with visibility, Sofia lives connected, but feels increasingly empty. After a moment of reflection, she decides to break the digital pressure.

After seeing a post criticizing her city, Sophya proposes the idea of making a documentary with her friends to highlight the importance of local culture. However, problems arise with Beatriz's group, who devalue this culture.

Voices of Acauã is an ethnographic documentary about a quilombo that faced environmental racism in the struggle to reclaim its ancestral territory. The film celebrates the memory, struggles, and enchantment of the community, which expresses its strength through poetry, song, and dance.

A prestigious footage researcher; a record collector and student of Brazilian music; the fragility of memory in the age of digital abundance.

Tired of unrequited love, a man seeks to become the object of his beloved's desire.

In the midst of a breathtaking landscape of mountains and lakes in China lies a hidden Taoist temple dedicated to Xiwangmu, a deity capable of granting immortality to those who achieve complete harmony with nature.

Through a blend of captivating regional imagery, speakers’ accounts of their experiences with languages, and engaging real-life experiences, Vozes das Margens delivers a celebratory portrait of the Uruguayan Portuguese, a unique dialect, while exploring how language, place and society are interwoven in the border experience.

Friendship was everything to them, but one day it wasn’t.

A normal man is kidnapped and starts to mix reality with fantasy.

A student interviews his classmates about why there are so many jokes about 9/11 and none of them takes it seriously.

a compilation of recordings from various filmmakers and people about their unforgettable interests and passions over the years.

“Heated Passion” is a mesmerizing fusion of cultures and artistic expressions.

UNTITLED talks about the hardships of making a documentary of a topic as complex as sexuality, which is to this day a taboo in the society, approaching it in a comical way showing the steps that went wrong throughout the process.

Manga and Leco learn about the story Maria Sibylla Merian (1647 – 1717), an adventurous German illustrator and naturalist who used her art to study the fantastic world of insects.

Something changed? Thirteen years after the biggest flood ever recorded in Rio de Janeiro, director Diogo Vianna talks to Guilherme Meirelles, the "Angry Driver", about the viral excerpt from the documentary “Flood of Truth”. With never-before-seen images, they talk about the behind-the-scenes of what happened, the city's issues and the repercussions of their speech.

The precepts of functionality invade the spaces of memory, taking with them objects, details and what is left of a life.

Several birds inhabit a region bathed by waterfalls, but a new development could bring changes to the dynamics of this ecosystem.

Shaken by the recent loss of her father, Sofia welcomes a friend into her home to talk and try to ease the pain. What begins as an ordinary night soon turns unsettling, as strange events start to defy logic. When the truth comes to light, nothing is as it seems.

In 1944, Luciana, a sensitive young woman full of dreams, sees her life fall apart after the painful separation from her best friend. In a moment of despair, she tries to take her own life in the school bathroom, but fate gives her a second chance. However, a tragic event turns her into a ghost, trapped between the worlds of the living and the dead. Now, Luciana wanders the bathrooms, summoned by those who know the ritual that brings her back. As her story intertwines with the present, a group of teenagers decides to unravel the mysteries surrounding the legend of the Bathroom Blonde, facing not only the ghosts of the past, but also their own insecurities and fears. A moving journey about friendship, loss and the search for redemption.

The story of the first house/museum/school in the surburbs of Salvador: Acervo da Laje. Through interviews and photographic records of the Plataforma neighborhood, the short film proposes a reflection on the right to the city, especially the right to art in Salvador's favelas. As well as problematizing the lack of incentives for peripheral culture, it also explores the relationship between care and learning. With moving stories, Zé Eduardo and Vilma Santos will tell us a little about the construction of the collection they designed together. Acervo da Laje goes beyond being just a physical space; it is a daily practice that encourages art and knowledge for people with a voice who have never had the opportunity to be heard.

Maitê and Bia always had a healthy relantioship. But something has changed now. All around the house, Maitê's been detecting evidences of infidelity: she may not be the only one Bia's been dating. Guided by a witty narrator, the short film explores the ruin of a castle made of certainties.

The largest Indigenous mobilization in the country is also a place of encounter between the diverse knowledge and practices of Indigenous peoples in Brazil. Through the eyes of three Indigenous women filmmakers, the audience is invited to experience the daily life of the 20th Free Land Camp (ATL) and to discover how the different Indigenous ways of being are also expressed as unique ways of resisting.

Based on the book "A dor mais doída: relatos de violência obstétrica", this animated short film portrays gender-based violence through the testimony of the author Caira Lima, who shares the story of her aunt Gleide's first pregnancy experience.