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The Cambridge Squatter tells the story of refugees, recently arrived in Brazil who, together with a group of low-income workers, occupy an old abandoned building in downtown São Paulo. Daily dramas, comical situations and different views on the world commingle with the threat of impending eviction.

Living in a temporary autonomous zone, the residents spend their days dealing with small lunatic plots, quixotesque farces and rimbaudian delusions.

Through virtual conversations, the film reveals a diverse panel of experiences of Brazilians living abroad. They are students who have moved in search of academic knowledge and professional training, and now have to deal with issues such as being a foreigner, the distance from Brazil and the impact of their choices. Made from the research material for “Bildungsroman”.

Jorge, bastard child of the infamous Red Light Bandit, decides himself to pursuit a life of crime after meeting with his father, who has been incarcerated for the last 30 years.

Young gravedigger apprentice Deodato's job is at risk. The other gravediggers doubt his ability to do the work. His uncle Jaca tries to make him appreciate the job, but it's useless: the work distresses Deodato, who has artistic aspirations. He prefers to play the church organ in secret and wander around the cemetery writing poems. After fainting during one of the burials, he is called to the office, where he is confronted by Aloizio, the cemetery administrator...

Flavio Danillo is a personal trainer whose students attend him at the gym. At home, Flavio works his body into a state of decay. Suddenly, his body no longer responds his mind taking over control.

Musical documentary with a bit of fiction, explores the importance of the brega music in a brazilian radio station.

A faux documentary about the ongoing social, political and economical crisis in Brazil, where the government cuts the colors of Rio de Janeiro, turning the city black and white.

Favela Gay tells the story of eleven individuals in their own words. Living in eight slums (favelas) in Rio de Janeiro, these members of the LGBTQ community – two transgender women, a crossdressing man, a travesti prostitute, a famous carnival dancer, two community activists, and even a young man who used to be transgender, but transitioned back – have fought prejudice and seen some of the most unsavoury sides of the city.

Small great events of a family summer in the countryside.

As teenagers, Mari and Caio were great friends. Seven years later, they meet again for an important event in Caio's life and he has a surprising proposal for her, which could change both of their lives.

In the shadows ours lights shows the way (or, the night is time to struggle).

Being sixteen it´s easy. Being sixteen and have to go to school every day, it´s not. It’s even harder being sixteen and have to go to school and fall in love with Fernando, the boy from the other class. It’s easy to be Jaqueline. But it sucks being Jaqueline and know Fernando doesn’t care at all.

“The state of exception and enmity have become the normative basis for the right to kill. In these situations, power (which is not necessarily a state power) makes continuous reference and invokes exception, urgency and a fictionalized version of the enemy ”. Achille Mbembe

Lasiurus is about a guy who’s so lost in his routine—and, unfortunately, has also forgotten to charge his phone—that he doesn’t notice that doomsday is happening all around him.

Silvia is a ballerina completely consumed with dance. She locks herself in her apartment, determined to rehearse until she achieves perfection. Her compulsion makes her enter a state of growing delirium, to the point of not sleeping and hardly eating. Her rehearsals are only interrupted when she notices a dirt stain on the carpet. Silvia tries to clean it in vain. Tormented, she tears off the carpet trying to discover the origin of the stain but the stain relentlessly continues to grow and invades the apartment little by little.

Based on Guimarães Rosa's (classic Brazilian author) short story, the movie tells the story of Augusto Matraga, a bankrupt and violent farmer who lives above the Law in Minas Gerais' hinterland. During a difficult time, he finds himself in the middle of a trap that nearly kills him. Born again, Matraga resorts to faith and hard work in the pursuit of redemption. Years later, he arrives at the village reigned by the hinterland's ruler and his thugs. This new friendship will challenge his destiny. Inside Matraga, the Saint and the Warrior will duel until his time comes.

Francisco Brennand is an eighty-five year odl, painter, sculptor and ceramist from Brazil. He lives and works isolated in an open-air museum set in an old ceramic roofing tile factory that belonged to his father. Based on his diaries, written over the past 60 years, the film narrates the artist's journey from the moment he moved into the factory until today.

A strange animal under the dictatorship: men without wings, birds without feet.

Tales of Death is a project that has united 12 directors of Independent Cinema from various parts of Brazil, in the challenge of creating short films of the most varied genres and styles, where death is the main theme.

An intimate meeting between two women filming each other. An exploration of the relationship of two artists: an indigenous filmmaker and a non-indigenous visual artist and anthropologist.

Ari tries to fill the void left by the wife's absence by performing the tasks of everyday life.

The failed actor Rui inherits a millionaire apartment from his father and decides to put the sale on to realize his dream. Rui wants to star in a remake of a famous film by Chuck Norris fighting in Vietnam. At the same time he must try to sell the apartment, negotiate the rights to produce the film and still deal with his love life.

Realized from the encounter of differences between the counselor governor from the indigenous reserve Sikuani El Merey-La Veradicta Margarita Rodriguez Weweli-Lukana and the urban-indigenous in a cultural recovery process, Juma Gitirana Tapuya Marruá. This video was an attempt of healing the colonial pain from those open wounds that hurt in us all, hum@n and non hum@n, nature from Abya Yala.

An obsessed nun is accused of setting fire to an orphanage and killing more than 50 children in the late 1960s. Some time later, the macabre past returns, bringing to light the last of the secrets.

It is a documentary about the trajectory of the liberation of the Brazilian woman's body and exposes the differences of this trajectory to white and black women. The film presents interviews, archive images that illustrate some of the factors that contributed to this liberation in Brazil - such as music, dance, fashion and the contraceptive pill - and proposes a discussion about feminism through the deconstruction of the masculine. The film incorporates fictional scenes where men do not realize their macho and racist behavior and full of class prejudices, rooted and accepted by society.

Despite being invisible, Tommy Brilho has an impeccable style. Will it be enough to get noticed by his crush?

The Soundtrack of a life. Cris ( Selton Mello) , a young artist still trying to find his place on the tough world of arts, gets from Brazilian Government special permit to stay a month in an isolated international research station surrounded by nothing but ice. His goal is to prepare an exhibition mixing music and photography. Cris will go against his own defined concepts and values, as he spends time with other researchers discovering PLANET EARTH on an never seen perspective. This shock will result on this young artist 's evolution changing his life forever.

A humorous story about a rooster who sang at the time he wanted.

Through testimonies from partners, workers, collaborators, artists, and people who followed the productions of Lira Paulistana, the film tells the story of this cultural phenomenon, a catalyst for the new musical trends of the time, which took place in São Paulo between 1979 and 1986. In addition to showcasing the undeniable importance of Lira Paulistana as a stage for avant-garde music in São Paulo, highlights its significant role in other areas, such as record production, journalism, editorial work, and the visual arts.

Carol (Beatriz Pessoa) and Alana (Giulia Micherian) attend a bar every Friday after work. One day they are surprised by Vicente (Thiago Falat), a known stranger who does everything changes.

Immersed in the lively night scene in the heart of São Paulo, Augusta Street, Daniela Glamour Garcia leads us in this queer chronic about the conflicts of whom decided to live on the margins of what is considered "normal". Could the rules, limits, classes and categories that are imposed on us make us feel confortable within ourselves?

Obesity is a global epidemic, and to better understand this phenomenon, participate in the dialogue between the different sectors that work on the topic. Biodiversity, and better eating habits, can be the path to longevity.

In the Kuikuro homeland of the Upper Xingu in central Brazil, the community is called upon to make preparations for the Jamurikumalu ritual: a traditional festival of singing and dancing that is performed only by women. However, complications arise when an elderly woman is seriously ill. With refreshing frankness and exuberance, this extraordinary documentary follows the Kuikuro people in a race against time to preserve the knowledge of their elders and the practice of their traditions before they are lost forever.

Two years after her arrival in São Paulo, Alice continues her relationship with Nicholas and has begun to look for a place where they can live together. She has also launched a business that produces children's shows, and a stable life seems to be taking shape. But as she goes about the apartment search and shares in the loves and uncertainties of old and new friends, what she observes leaves her far less certain of her decisions and her future.

Alagoas countryside. Laura misses a party to travel with her father. There, in the house where they grew up, she is left alone by him, who only returns to the house for dinner.

Experimental take on Bram Stoker's Dracula, set against a warm South American landscape, wherein the vampire Count preys on a number of young lovers, men and women alike.

The most mysterious object. The most concrete thing.

Jonas John is willing to do anything to seduce the popular guy in high school. Using magic from a cursed book he makes the love potion which will help him get the guy and get rid of the girl who stands in his way. But will the spell work?

Bon Jovi at Cidade do Rock, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil on September 20, 2013. Setlist: 01. That's What the Water Made Me / 02. You Give Love a Bad Name / 03. Raise Your Hands / 04. Runaway / 05. Lost Highway / 06. Whole Lot of Leavin' / 07. It's My Life / 08. Because We Can / 09. What About Now / 10. We Got It Goin' On / 11. Keep the Faith / 12. (You Want to) Make a Memory / 13. Captain Crash & the Beauty Queen From Mars / 14. We Weren't Born to Follow / 15. Who Says You Can't Go Home / 16. I'll Sleep When I'm Dead ('Start Me Up' by The Rolling Stones snippet) / 17. Bad Medicine (With a snippet of Shout by The Isley Brothers) / 18. Wanted Dead or Alive / 19. Have a Nice Day / 20. Livin' on a Prayer (With acoustic version as intro.) / 21. Always

A group of people float around the discussion of what really means to play a character.

Serra Pelada's discovery in 1979 precipitated one of the world's largest contemporary gold rushes. In a matter of days miners could make hundreds of thousands of dollars as chunks of gold kilos in weight were found.

After his death, infamous Rio de Janeiro mob boss Golden Mouth (named after his all-golden teeth) gets multiple accounts of his life told to the press by his former lover.

A disappearance brings up a couple's toxic relationship.