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Afraid her husband will fall back with his ex girlfriend after they're assigned to work together, Adriana and her sister set sail to the U.S. to go after him to stop this from happening.

Ary Barroso was one of the greatest composers of Brazilian music with his successes for the whole planet. Know its history, reconstructed through Ary's own audio files, interspersed with reports from friends and family.

A mixture of corporate film, archive footage, documentary and making of, the film is an attempt of the scientists from the 'Brazilian Institute of Alternative and Secondary Importance Research' to fight the lack of funding, the closure of the institute and to keep their dreams alive.

After losing a baby in the third trimester, Joana decides to go on vacation in Peruibe, a small seaside town, known for UFO's sightings. After a one night stand, Joana runs over a man and kills him. Joana then ignites a strange relationship with Maria, the wife of the man she killed and finds herself immersed in a peculiar story of alien abductions.

They live, they act, they love. Today they remember, they relive, they live through cinema and life.

Cangaceiros arrive in the city of Sussuapara to rob their inhabitants. Who can stop them?

Giuseppe Garibaldi (Gabriel Braga Nunes), 32 years old, commander of the republican rebels that invade Laguna, Santa Catarina, during the Farrapos War (1835 - 1845), finds his soul mate in Anita (Ana Paula Arósio), 18 years old, wife of local shoemaker. Between passion and battles, they will define the course of their lives and influence the course of the revolution.

Resorting on a vast archive material of newsreels, photographs, letters, family videos, fiction movies, diary and popular songs excerpts, the documentary reassesses the legacy of the dictatorial period of Getúlio Vargas (1937-1945). Through the comparison and analysis of these heterogeneous records, produced for different purposes, from political propaganda to family celebration, the film explores the several layers of the political web of the Estado Novo, exposing its external inspirational sources, functionality and contradictions.

Walking along Av. Oswaldo Aranha, a man decides to be the first to arrive and the last to leave the Lancheria do Parque. Based on this experience, this man observes the functioning and the patrons of one of the most classic establishments in Porto Alegre. A documentary journey through the daily lives of thousands of characters from Porto Alegre takes place.

Nalu lives with Ruben, her father, in a small country town near the Brazilian border with Uruguay. When Ruben realizes that his daughter is becoming a woman, an ambiguous closeness begins to develop between them.

After his mother's sudden death, Socrates, a 15-year-old living on the margins of São Paulo's coast, must survive on his own while coming to terms with his grief.

A voyage into the far west of Brazil leads us to a monumental structure - petrified at the centre of the savannah. Inspired by the epic construction of the city of Brasília, the film uses this history to imagine it otherwise. "I look at Brasília the way I look at Rome : Brasília began with a final simplification of ruins". Through the geological traces that lead us to this fictive monument, the film unearths a history of exploration, prophecy and myth.

Armada is a Brazilian short movie about the dictatorship times that laid its iron fist over the country. When a journalist is taken to the basement where the torture claim its victims, the truth is no more than a detail.

Through a young man's eyes, we see how life in our modern society is increasingly lonely, increasingly connected and increasingly selfish.

Two girls, of Paraguayan origin, go on a little adventure into the wildlife of their small town in south-east Sao Paulo.

An exhausting ping-pong match in the back of an old studio offers profound lessons.

Dirceu, 30 years old, has origins that go back to the aristocracy of Northeast Brazilian backlands. Settled in a kind of subjective amnesia, Dirceu tries to bury his family's past. He is a demolition man in Recife, an urban landscape undergoing an uncontrolled process of transformation. Maria shares the same country origins, but she uses the city for a different purpose. She is a carefree and joyful music student. If Dirceu aspires to a world that is stable and present, Maria lives in discord with the present. To her, nothing is as it should be. Maria's apparition unleashes in Dirceu an urge for being somebody else. On a route of escape through the desert of the backlands, a unique encounter is set to happen. Boa sorte, meu amor (Good luck, sweetheart) is an anti-romance of the impact between music and silence.

40 years after fighting for what he thought was new and revolutionary, a former anonymous militant against the now fallen Brazilian dictatorship is accused of being conservative, antiquated and anachronistic by his own son.

Follows the story of Opinião, a theatre group created in 1964 during the early Brazilian dictatorship period to oppose the government through artistic performances. Considered the first left-wing response to the dictatorship, the group gathered now famous Brazilian artists such as Nara Leão, Maria Bethânia, João do Vale and Millôr Fernandes.

Investigation of the life of ex-guerrilla Iara Iavelberg (1944-1971), a cultured and beautiful woman who left behind a comfortable family life opting to engage in an armed struggle against the Brazilian military dictatorship.

In a musical mood shifted and carried by the figure of Bob Estrela, a city and a girl blend into solitude in urban areas.

Cat-loving veterinarian Francisco finds a curious way to deal with homophobia in his town.

The story of William da Silva Lima, the last survivor of the group that founded the Comando Vermelho at the end of the 1970s. It shows him living together with the political prisoners incurred under the same National Security Law and his leadership in the Ilha Grande Prison creating a type of unheard of conduct and solidarity in the Brazilian prisons. The film goes on to tell of the group's actions on the streets of Rio de Janeiro during the beginning of the 80s when they irritated the police with their daring robberies, as well as portraying the surprising love story between William and Tereza. The narrative weaves its way between the intimate conflict and the spectacular assaults and escapes.

Documentary on ethnic relations in Brazil.

Vera and Gabriel, an elderly couple, navigate through past and present, telling their own life story. Their remembering, rendered in images from family archives that confound themselves with images of the present, suggests a personal diary on love and death.

A sensory journey in the city of Rio de Janeiro with street vendors and street artists as characters in this urban cartography in which past and present are crossed.

The story of the pursuit of a dream. It's a trip into the mind of a journalist and photographer in a challenge at the Mont-Blanc, France. The documentary reveals how he tried to reach out for his potential and understand the passion for climbing and the love for the mountains. It shows that it's is not about going higher, but reaching further.

A documentary that rescues the memories of those who built Santa Rosa dos Dourados, a small rural community in Brazil where cinema lives only in stories told, never seen. People who had never set foot in a movie theater now watch their own stories come to life on the big screen.

An examination of the relationship between the life and art of Maria Martins, now recognized as one of the greatest Brazilian sculptors, in addition to her engravings and texts. The film reveals the greatness of her work and her boldness when dealing directly with the feminine perspective of sexuality, a transgression that led to attacks by Brazilian critics. In parallel, her life as the wife of an important diplomat and her connection to Marcel Duchamp, in a relationship of mutual collaboration between the two artists.

A woman is hired to clean a barber shop, but soon suspects more is being cut there than just hair.

Luccas Neto is planning a big Children's Day celebration at a school but an unexpected threat puts the party and his friends at risk.

Bia just turned eighteen. The end of the year is coming and also the ACTs. People at school and Bia’s parents are pressuring her to decide which graduation she will apply for. Bia doesn’t want to do anything.

Over the years, the traditional culture of the Flour Houses in the region of the Serra do Machado, Serrinha, Esteios, Fazendinha and João Ferreira villages has become less and less popular with young people, allied with the devaluation of Flour announces the end of this custom .

How do we get along with the things we take with us? "Te Sufoco, Me Asfixio" is an experimental videodance which purposes a reflection about what do we think and how we react to ourselves.

Follows the struggles of a small theatre company attempting to adapt a Shakespeare play.

Leticia is lost in time. Her nightly, melancholic routine reveals her wild, dark and bloody state of mind. When she meets Gabriela at a party and brings her to her house, strange things begin to take place in her old manor. One of the two will never leave that apartment. This is a film about tensions, memories and social dominations.

In Brazil, in 1978, under the dictatorship, the country lives the euphoria of disco fever and the fantasy life of Dancin' Days, a prime time soap. After a fatal incident, Amanda, a high-class prostitute addicted to TV, and her maid Dora, are forced to flee São Paulo to Rio. While Amanda dreams of visiting the Dancin' Days disco, Dora prepares to confront her secret past. Their destinies will eventually intersect with those of João Paulo, a diplomat who feels like a foreigner in his own country, the revolutionary Vicente and his brother Pedro, and the teenager Caio, raised by his grandparents and relying on the support of his friend Mônica as he struggles to be accepted as a gay man. Both youngsters are crazy about disco fever and fascinated by the soap Dancin' Days.

This documentary shows a country that has lifted 36 million people out of extreme poverty in 12 years.