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Since the 12-year-old Francisco make sky photographs. One day, something different appears in one of your photos changing his routine.

Before the streaming era, the video stores were the key for the beginning of home video experience in Brazil. The documentary narrates the history of São Paulo's mom-and-pop video stores from its appearance to the vanishing of this platform. Owners, employees, customers and critics talk about the experience of renting a movie.

A short film omnibus featuring the work of five directors representing five countries involved in the 2017 BRICS summit, an annual international relations conference held between Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa. The collection—taking the concept of time as a unifying theme—depicts the economic, political, and social alienations and contradictions that create, compound, and structure issues as wide-ranging as poverty, class stratification, and homeless; familial distress; spousal abuse; and natural disaster.

Chico is tired of the relationship and his wife Nena's complaints. After spending 15 years together Chico has zero corauge to ask for a divorce. He decides to follow his friend's advice and hire a lover for his wife, in hopes that she gets involved with him and ends their marriage.

Hereros Angola is a documentary film on the ethnic group of the same name. Originated from Bantu peoples, they maintain their millennial culture which gains new senses through the camera.

Before humans inhabited Planet Earth, it was inhabited by small and blue beings. Bru (protagonist) tries to conquer at all cost the love of Brua (protagonist), and ends up getting into an great confusion.

A slow and resounding dive into the punk movement, crossed by the experience of three bands from Curitiba in the manifestation of their culture, philosophy, expression, politics and, above all, a form of resistance.

You can't live someone else's life. Four Seasons. Four stories. Four couples. Four wishes entangled. A bathroom flirtation consumes itself in its own homophobia. A hooker surrenders to her lover. Blackmail and queer romance walk together For a dangerous trail. Madness dominates a woman's libido.

This a fable about fallen angels, forgotten dreams and a boy.

A dialogue between the auteur's memories and the images he shot and kept during his long film career - sketches of live that were never shown, never seen, never edited.

In Campina Grande, in Paraíba, a hamster named Borges lives with his owner, Napoleão (Everaldo Pontes). Blind, he is a fan of the Argentine writer Jorge Luis Borges – origin of the name of the pet – and depends on acquaintances to survive. Yara (Verônica Cavalcanti), a girl who cleans the house, Romão (Fabiano Raposo), a boy who does little service, and Vladimir (Paulo Philippe) are his helpers and plan the robbery of a rare and unpublished work by Borges, which Napoleon says save.

The 1990s marked the success of the boy-band Chocante. Twenty years later, the group has disbanded and the members took different paths in life. The old colleagues gather for an unexpected event, the death of one of the group members.

With a broken heart thanks to the end of a relashionship, Giba wanders around. All of a sudden he meets his friend Conrado, who introduces him Bia.

Dálvaro José de Oliveira survived the German attack that sank two Brazilian ships in 1942.

A documentary about Joao Guimaraes Rosa's stay in Nazi Germany. The film captures the experience of the Brazilian vice-consul in Hamburg between 1938 and 1942, at the height of the Nazi regime and during the first years of the World War II. Using his writings from that time, as well as archive pictures, documents, survivors testimonies, and an unpublished interview with him, the film reveals new biographical aspects of one of the greatest writers in Brazilian history.

It is often that more than memories arise when we run into old objects, old habits, old houses

Heitor is a bachelor who shoots fancy weddings for a living, but gets in trouble when he meets Penélope, a woman desperate to stop her lover's wedding.

A KISS FOR GABRIELA tells the story of a remarkable woman named Gabriela Leite. An activist for sex workers’ rights for over 30 years, Gabriela was the first sex worker to run for Brazilian Congress. The documentary presents an intimate portrait of her 2010 campaign when she faced 822 opponents and challenged a male dominated political system. Combining an observational style with unrestricted access, it explores what it means to be a prostitute, to be a wife, and most importantly, what it means for a woman representing one of the most stigmatized populations in the world to run for office. Gabriela’s charisma and amazing history of activism engages audiences and encourages them to reflect critically on laws and policies that restrict the rights and possibilities of women like Gabriela globally. For women like Gabriela who make history and challenge stereotypes with their campaigns, it is not whether they win or lose, or even how they play. It’s that they’re in the game at all.

Three people wake up together in an apartment in São Paulo. A photo shoot. An accepted proposal. A place in ruins. He, She and Ana.

The film portrays the life and work of the composer and samba gaucho Túlio Piva. A native of Santiago do Boqueirão, Túlio consolidated his musical career in Porto Alegre. Owner of a very own beat on the guitar, lived more than 50 years of samba, owned the bar "Gente da Noite", where he composed much of his work and recorded four LPs.

Aninha, future poet and candy maker Cora Coralina, is a fragile and clumsy girl. She finds in the game of hopscotch a way to overcome her own limits and, in her imagination, an escape from the environment in which she lives. His childhood, marked by rejection, is remembered in his adult life for his affective and tragic connection with the blue pigeon dish, the last of a ninety-two-piece collection, by his great-grandmother Antônia.

José Renato, a 35-year-old geologist, is sent out on a solitary expedition to the hinterlands of northeastern Brazil. The purpose of the trip is to assess possible routes for a canal that will connect the area with the only major river in the region. As the field trip progresses, it becomes clear that Renato shares with those places the same emptiness, sense of abandonment and isolation.

The heroes of Golden Oldies 1— Juca, PR, and Montanha — are back, following different routes. Montanha lives in an old mansion and gets ready to reunite with his friends. Once together again, the three friends get into hilarious situations.

Favela Olímpica unfolds in Rio de Janeiro on both sides of the wall separating the new Olympic Stadium and the favéla Vila Autódromo. Nothing prevents the co-existence of these two worlds but some judge them "incompatible" including Rio's mayor. His wish to reclaim these area reserved for Rio's poor since the 1990 sets off a lopsided power struggle as people with little means fight to keep their home. Meanwhile, the Opening Ceremony approaches . . .

Pedro de Almeida leads the funeral of João Batista, who died with 120 years old.

A dreamer boy tries to convince his father to venture out to explor the top of a rock, in Vidigal, which he believes is close to the sky, to communicate with his grandmother, whom he misses.

Matheus is a student who recently lost his parents in a plane crash and his boyfriend in a car accident. Alone and vulnerable he is teleported by an Alien who seeks to steal the humans identities while pretends to be his dead boyfriend.

The cartoonist Laerte goes a long way through São Paulo searching for a certificate.

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Dear Mom centers on the conflictive relationship between Heloisa, a recently divorced doctor, and her mother Ruth. Heloisa blames Ruth for her bad relationship with her own daughter, her failed marriage, and even her unsuccessful career. It’s a conflict that worsens when Ruth, after being diagnosed with cancer, finds out that Heloisa has fallen in love with Leda, a painter she met at the hospital where she works. The new relationship is not well accepted by her family, let alone by Ruth, which worsens the friction between them.

David discovers that his boyfriend Allen is suffering from depression and, on the course of a day, makes him see the beauty and pleasure of the most mundane things.

Poetic reconstruction of the unfinished film, directed by writer Lúcio Cardoso, from Minas Gerais, in 1949, in the fishing village of Itaipu / Niterói, based on recovered scenes and excerpts from the film diary. The documentary shows the process of a writer struggling with the desire to make a film.

Short film created for the 2012 anthology 'Mundo Invisível' (Invisible World).

Dona Sônia seeks revenge for the death of her only son.

Since the ban on use of animals in circus shows, the Great Sumatra Circus faces a major financial crisis. Baron, who owns the circus, accepts unseemly proposals from the mayor to hold cattle auctions, rallies and other alternative events at the circus. Unhappy with the news, circus artists come together to plan a new show and re-attract the audience, led by Didi, Dedé and Karina.

Submerged in a tragicomic atmosphere, the film tells about a special event in the life of Oswaldo, who suffers from compulsive disorders and is consumed by his failed marriage. On a timely night, he hires the services of the beautiful Elisângela, and, protected by the gloom, the strangers become intimate through the most unusual situations.

Recently divorced Adriana tries to get revenge on the woman who took her husband away from her by going on a European cruze along with them.

The memories of the trip made by the couple of artists Cavi Borges and Patrícia Niedermeier are transformed into an essay film. The scenery consists of landscapes located in Brazil, the United States, Germany, Syria, France and Hungary, where a series of choreographies and other performances created by the two are recorded.

Documentary that portrays a day of activities by Osesp's lead conductor and music director, Marin Alsop.

Addresses the relationship of Fernando and Caio, starting with a strong physical attraction but ends up bumping into in the absence of dialogue.

After losing his job and the end of his marriage, Júnior returns to his father's house. But that is not his childhood house anymore. His old room has been rented by a young woman and the place feels unwelcome and oppressive. Júnior develops and obsession for his family history, as strange things start happening in the house.

The life of a Lebanese immigrant through 50 years in Brazil.

North American journalist Rachel Clark uncovers a terrorist plot aimed at overthrowing the current president of Haiti. As a result, the UN mission to stabilize the country is forced to intervene.

In the heart of the Amazon, Tauary (Brazil) inhabitants invite us to listen to the sounds of the jungle, the birds, and animals. However, there are also some weird sounds: a creature prowling around the trees. Some of them have heard it, very few have ever seen it, and those who did find it never came back. Curupira, creature of the wood takes us in search of this being: a reflection about myths and their place in the contemporary world. It’s a sound thriller in the midst of the jungle.

A city in turmoil with the arrival of many monkeys. Based on the eponymous short story by famous Brazilian writer Fernando Sabino.

A non-existent frontier between digital, movies and reality: a screen inside a screen inside a screen. A teenage dream; a teenage life in the bush of ghosts.

A young man without a name, identity, direction, or choices, possessing a habit that defies societal norms, begins a process of self-affirmation, questioning his role in the world and that of everyone around him, starting from his rustic and grotesque appearance.