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The film's reflection, which at first glance may seem like a lament for lost nature, is actually about the city, its fierce process of urbanization that overlaps people, nature and history.

In A Day in the Village, Waimiri and Atroari filmmakers document the day-to-day life of their relatives in the Cacau village, located in the Amazon region. We watch as women prepare the midday meal and do laundry in the river. Men hunt for alligators, paca and tapir in the forest as well as make handcrafts during a rainstorm. Children play and help with chores such as fruit-gathering and fishing, with adults showing them the right way to do things. Through intimate, interwoven images, the video gives us a vivid sense of the daily pattern in this village.

MONTAGE 11 FAST FORWARD REWIND is a palindrome video. The streets of the city of São Paulo mix with the streets of Rome and the past of my ancestors: Italians immigrants in Brazil. The camera goes around the ancient "House of the Immigrants" in the borough of Bras and mix with photos, memories, people, suggestions of the past and the present reality of São Paulo. The peculiar thing about this video was that the music was composed at the same time that the editing was made seeking for a perfect balance between sound and image. It has not been released in public yet.

Experimental film by Arthur Tuoto.

A couple of centennials, their house, their bodies and their waiting.

A wall in the street tells stories.

In pursuit of perfection we lose ourselves.

An experimental essay about violence.

A blind man walks the streets, and some men laugh at him. So, he gets angry and kills them. However, they don’t die, but transform into zombies.

An ex-convict and evangelical, Mário has set up his home atop a tree in Brasília, with a view of the Palácio do Planalto and several ministries. There, he strives to prove his innocence while surviving by collecting cans from the embassy trash bins.

Cedar of Lebanon presents the spectacle of a unique daily life that withstands life's hardships with natural grace and majesty.

The romantic story of a young designer who, lost in the midst of his creativity, ends up falling in love with one of his works.

Tells the story of a growing number of people in the North Eastern part of Brazil, on a quest for identity and faith. People born into Catholicism who are claiming they are a part of Judaism. They congregate and create a community that is becoming a sub culture of Judaism. A Jewish community that follows traditional Jewish religion and rites, practices Jewish family and communal life, but is not recognized by the Jewish establishment worldwide.

A documentary that benefits from the direct participation of STD/AIDS prevention agents from the Rainbow Citizenship project, of the Municipal Health Secretariat, who work with their peers, the gay public, in various regions of São Paulo. By providing a greater knowledge of the gay universe in the city, the documentary favors the debate, the reflection on the situation of vulnerability of men who have sex with men, enables a greater understanding of reality and contributes to a better confrontation of the HIV/AIDS epidemic in the city of São Paulo.

A man discovers that love can come at unexpected times and places. The greater the "surprise", the greater the love.

The children's fable adapted to the Brazilian reality. Who's Afraid of the Big Bad Wolf?

Nearly devoid of editing resources, the videos feature single shots of anonymous people in daily life, subtly revealed/highlighted through zooming. Instead of uncovering reality, though, the videos end up turning it into pure invention. The “videorhizomes” are not limited to production and screening in regular, traditional circuits. The process includes sending the videos to a person that is randomly chosen from the phone book.