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After the end of the Brazilian military dictatorship, Joel, a retired military man, faces his own conscience within the walls of his apartment. “Anger” is a symbolic and metaphorical analysis of a dark period and how a lack of understanding of the past can lead to consequences in the future.

A blind man witnesses a homicide and is followed to his house by the murderer

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.

The famous rock song by Legião Urbana tells the lovely and fun story of a couple that had everything against them. Eduardo's too young, immature and with limited interests while Monica is more experienced, a little but confused and with a world full of many different interests. But they complete each other. The years in the lives of an odd couple who conquered many different generations.

The director makes an emotional portrait of the life of his cousin Erika who had one of her two children, Theylor, 16, recently murdered in a police approach and is concerned about the other, Nicolas, 17, who continues to live in the same neighborhood. Erika is pregnant. Fear, pain and happiness mix too much on the outskirts of São Paulo.

The travel of the ambientalist Ernesto Galiotto throught the São Francisco River in Brazil, with his monomotor plane.

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.

A documentary about resilience and the fight against suicide among trans people, the film portrays the characters’ relationships with their bodies, life and all that is sacred. It dives into the hearts of Aretha, Yago, Deniell and Ariel in an attempt to promote inner healing.

President Barack Obama visited Cuba on 2016, the first trip of a US president since the 1950s. In 2017, Donald Trump was elected signaling changes in relations with Cuban government. How to survive being who Cubans are?

The scars on the bodies of four women mark a past difficult to forget. When one of the rooms of the house where they live is taken over by something unknown on the eve of a great party, their safety is put to risk. They are no longer alone.

Whindersson Nunes in Marminino

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.

"Levante" won Canal Futura's annual documentary competition in 2014 and was filmed in Brazil, Mexico, Japan, Gaza and Hong Kong. It first aired at 22pm on the 25th June on Canal Futura. The film is about inspiring people around the world who use technology to speak out against injustice such as Filipe Peçanha from Midia Ninja who used the Japanese Twitcasting app to broadcast the Brazilian protests of 2013 from his smartphone, Noor Harazeen from Palestine who created the first English-speaking youtube news channel in Gaza, and Howard Kong from the Apple Daily newspaper in Hong Kong who used a drone to film the conflicts between police and protesters in 2014.

I love you! Says the wind to everything he touches. I love you and you are part of me.

During the carnival in Rio, the depressed César meets Silva, a man in full vigor of life and passionate about carnival.

Memories of the year 1997.

This heartfelt comedy about 2 reunited 1/2 brothers. Handsome but underemployed actor Júlio finds himself in need of a job & place to stay. Neurotic & lonely Beto is a successful soap opera writer who hasn't left his house in 8 years. When Júlio winds up on Beto's doorstep, they find themselves capable of reigniting old resentments, but also with the possibility to fulfill the other's dreams.

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?

This intimate look at a São Paulo birth center features interviews with mothers, activists, doctors and midwives. Third in a series of films.

Will the end of the world be televised? Electricity pervades the air and unearthly sounds open up strange dimensions. An elderly single woman stays in her room, checks the TV guide, hums a tune and strokes her cat in splendid resignation.

A look of the 21st century for one of the most important cultural movements in Brazilian history. The production brings a mix of interviews, concerts, artistic interventions and actors in small sketches. An intersection of the social and artistic contexts of 68 with the current one.

Who is Gurcius Gewdner?

The future of the largest rainforest in the world will be decided in the region of the highway BR-163 where land grabbers are stealing immense areas of public forests. In response to the failure of the Brazilian government to defend these forests, the traditional populations are on the front line against land grabbers to save the Amazon.

Brazil, 18th century. The colony of Portugal endures a decline in gold production. A Portuguese minority rules over a corrupt and autocratic society. Joaquim is an efficient soldier, famous for capturing gold smugglers. While waiting for his promotion to Lieutenant, he leaves for a risky mission in search of new gold mines - the only way to buy the freedom of Blackie, a slave he is in love with. Inspired by the true story of Tiradentes, the first leader of the Brazilian revolutionary movement.

Harám tells the story of Salwa, a Muslim inmigrant who flees the Palestine war and finds shelter in Salvador with her husband Farid. Just arrived, Salwa meets Felicia, a ten-year-old girl who lives a few meters away from her place, soon, some sort of cultural exchange will begin to take place between them

In the underworld of sexual dissidents, gangsters, transvestites, ballet shoes and all marginalized bodies come up with a plan to destroy the cisheteronorma.

Through scenes of a repeating and limited daily routine, we get to know upfront the reality of marginalized women way before they were emprisioned. Saudade Mundão is a movie about human beings that takes place on the public jail of Franca, São Paulo.

The goal is the culmination of any football match that prevails: the moment of maximum euphoria expected by any team. And the team of Santos is known for being the Brazilian record holder who has rocked the networks to this day. In this essay, idols like Pelé, Robinho and Serginho Chulapa tell how their sensations blended into the Club's own history in its most important moments on and off the field.

Aimed at generating a revolution in perceptual habits, Semente Exterminadora approaches Indigenous knowledge as a radical means of reconceiving the relationship between humans and their environment in the twenty-first century.

For thirty years, Carlos Escayola was the main politician of the small town of Tacuarembó, Uruguay. This farmer was known both for his political and cultural achievements (including the construction of a theater), and for the reputation of seducer, which earned him one of the greatest family polemics in the history of the region.

Journal de Bord d'un Bateau fantôme is a silent science-fiction movie. Traveling to discover a new planet, a new world. It's like if for the first time a (human?) being makes the first footstep on a new orb. The new planet is The Earth, Amazonian Region. Their inhabitants appear to us in their daily life, without any possibility for us to really understand what they are doing, because they look like aliens.

The movie follows the journey of a gorgeous transgender, from her troubled childhood in Porto Velho, Rondonia, to her body hormonal transformation process and her initiation in the prostitution underworld of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

Life and work of brazilian actor, poet and songwriter Mário Lago.

Serginho has a hard time finding his place in the world as he works with his uncle at the market, supports his depressed mother, and takes care of his little brother.

Simple, emotionally compelling documentary that delves into the songs that hold meaning in people's lives. It is composed of 18 sessions where the director engages his subjects in conversation about the song they picked. The end product is deeply personal stories about music and its intimate connection to memory, love, loss, self-discovery, regret, death, and life.

A short documentary on how the films "Libertários" and "Chapeleiros" are connected to the "Projeto Imagens e Histórias da Industrialização no Brasil" created by the Campinas State University.

Bruno is a young men from São Paulo who is proud of his growing beard. When his grandfather can no longer go to his usual barber, Bruno has to learn to shave with a straight razor in order to help his grandfather stay 'sharp'.

A chase story

When Rafael sees old videotapes from his family, he goes back to his past to understand his present.

João Carlos Martins was a child with serious health problems. Because of this, he had a reclusive childhood. But one day, the piano came into his life. He arises as a stubborn boy who, in a few years turns into one of the biggest promises of the world classical music.

Carlos finds himself troubled by a powerful restlessness. At the same time his analyst is obsessed with the idea that he should delete Carlos in order to save his island. An island is, by excellence, a troubled territory. Piece of land separated off the mainland or territory emerging and arising from the center of the world shocks : re- integrate into the sea is the ghost that haunts all the islands. There is in this tense relationship between sea and island, an opposition between civilization and destruction, shape and inform, culture and chaos united in a loving and eschatological tribute to Carlos Reichenbach, Lucio Fulci and Andrzej Zulawski.