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Sergio and his father, Simão, haven’t seen each other for over 20 years. On the eve of the 2014 World Cup, Sergio returns to his hometown, São Paulo, hoping to watch the games with Simão, as they used to when he was a kid. It seems to be a perfect plan for a father-son reunion: a whole month together, their schedule based on the World Cup calendar. But as the days go by, their relationship starts to wander into unknown territory and their pact to watch the entire tournament together turns into a dangerous ritual…

Brazil. Historically Pernambuco state in the country’s northeast was characterised agriculturally by the sugarcane industry. Today there is a new sector in the economy: various evangelical Christian groups are on the rise. The mantra of the evangelicals, who have gained an ever-increasing influence in Brazilian society over the past years, is the attainment of improvements in one’s personal and economic situations through adherence to an extreme religious practice. In Brazil the evangelicals have established themselves as a growing political power over the past years. They control segments of the media and preach hate and intolerance towards homosexuality and other creeds. HOLY TREMOR focuses on a young generation of priests, producers and singers who hail from a rural area and make gospel music. Wagner and de Burca take into account the environment of the protagonists in order to make ethics, morality and life visible in an aesthetic agglomeration.

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

The short film tells the story of Negro Facundo Sombra, a Farroupilha hero who is visited by his former commander, General Netto, who asks him to fight in the Paraguayan War. After five years, Sombra returns from the war and tries to return home, which turns out not to be easy.

Within a society that reviews its values ​​and paradigms, where power relations are put in check, the feminine and the masculine gain new meanings.

Mission 115 was the name given by DOI-CODI (an army repression body during the military dictatorship) to a supposed "vigilance" operation in Rio de Janeiro during a musical show at Riocentro on May 1, 1981. In fact, was a bomb attack, the final frustrated, aimed at sabotaging the country's re-democratization. For the first time one of the members of that team of terrorists, former police officer Claudio Guerra, tells in detail how the operation was planned and executed. The recent work of the National Truth Commission also sheds new light on the episode and its successive attempts at scrutiny over more than three decades.

Fifteen years after their split, a man and woman reconnect during a chance encounter and reconsider their new loves and lives.

Mário Sbardelotto is a middle-aged man who lives alone with a collection of bottles. Each of them, he guarantees, contains a different saci. When the oldest of them falls and breaks, Mário is sure that the little devil is loose in the house and will do everything to capture him again – including asking Negrinho do Pastoreio for help.

A lonely and frustrated old woman offers a young student a deal that is difficult to fulfill: a house and food in exchange for a fluid daily conversation.

A couple goes to a restaurant for lunch. The short film — finalist at the SWC Film Festival — expresses a sharp socio-ecological critique of microplastic pollution.

On the eve of an important ruling, the Taiwan Supreme Court Judge receives an unexpected letter.

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

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.

The documentary tells the resilience story of native people Krenak from the arrival of Portuguese royal family in 1808 until the mining dam disaster in Mariana town in 2015.

The “Kappa Crucis” star cluster, nicknamed the “Jewel Box” (in reference to the multi-coloured flashes of the stars comparable to a collection of precious stones), is visible to the naked eye in the Southern Hemisphere and, for example, from the anonymous hangar where Bernardo Riedel, a legend of Brazilian astronomy, works in the Belo Horizonte suburb. This discreet man begins his day by listening to the messages left on his answering machine (“Bernardo, have you seen the latest images of Pluto?”), to birdsongs, or to Beethoven. He makes telescopes, polishes lenses, gets annoyed with administrative hassles or sits on the terrace in order to “float in space” with the help of his binoculars.

I saw leaves that were moving. I thought: "It's a bird in its nest". I separated the leaves and looked; but there was no bird. The leaves continued to move. As I ran, faster and faster, I screamed. What moved the leaves? What moves my heart, my legs?

In a forest based in the heart of Brazil, a girl sees her life – and everyone’s around her – change terribly, when she finds the Lost Book of Cypriano, whose Dark Magic, besides bestowing power and wealth on its possessor, is also able to deliver a terrible evil upon the Earth.

Mariane is an actress who auditions to make a TV movie for a frozen food brand. Everything goes well until she loses her temper.

The life of Reno, an artist who lives and works in an old building in the Recife neighborhood that is rapidly transforming. His inspiration and tools have been found in the beautiful Capibaribe River which is filled with pollution and death.

A red table and the words of 23 former political prisoners. In this film, young subversive gentlemen comment on the coexistence in male prisons in Pernambuco during the military period. From the arrival to the prison, from the affection, from the hunger strike, from the role of collectives within the jail. The feeling of belonging is what moves this documentary. To the characters, belonging to a generation. To the technical team, the feeling of belonging to a country that seeks its memory, that seeks its truth.

Two young men share different points of view of the same sexual encounter in a public space.

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.

A son travels to fulfill his mother's request. A relationship marked by distance, resentment, rust. The sacrifice of a cat becomes the perfect excuse for getting closer. Before the day ends, one must reconcile with the past.

The documentary portrays the life of Bahian communist leader Giocondo Dias, the left-wing activist who lived two thirds of his life in hiding and led the PCB party as general secretary.

This film "is not capable of avenging deaths, redeeming suffering, turning the tables and changing the world. There is no salvation. This is a barricade! Not a bible."

Roberta gives a ride to an unknown girl pursued by a truck driver.

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.

The true story of Tancredo Neves, the first civilian president of Brazil after a 20-year military dictatorship, and the infamous hospitalization which led to his death before he ever managed to take office.

Xapiri is a Yanomami term that characterizes the shamans, male spirits (xapiri thëpë) and also auxiliary spirits (xapiri pë). Xapiri is an experimental film about Yanomami shamanism that was filmed during a meeting of 37 shamans at the Watoriki Reserve, Roraima, in March of 2011. The film was designed to take into account two different notions of image: those of the Yanomami and ours. Therefore, it does not set out to explain shamanism, its methods or procedures, but to allow different cultures to visualize and feel the way in which the shamans “embody” the spirits, their bodies and voices.

Small-town trickster Pedro Malasartes has to face two great enemies: Próspero, who will do anything to impede such a lazy, cowardly person like Malasartes from dating his sister, Áurea; and Death incarnated, who wants to take a vacation after two thousand years collecting lives and intends on tricking Malasartes into assuming his tedious job.

The documentary offers an intimate and sensitive portrait of the lives of prominent figures in Rio de Janeiro's drag scene, artists who enlivened and shaped the LGBTQIA+ nightlife of Rio de Janeiro.

Everyday family life as perfectly normal madness. “As Melhores Coisas do Mundo“ follows a few days in the life of the 15-year-old Mano, who is fighting on two fronts: his parents have just got divorced and he is going through puberty. Mano tries to make his way through life, with its first sexual experiences, his depressed brother and his self-centered parents. It’s a humorous homage to the pitfalls of daily life and the diversity of life.

Who said a couple must be made only of two? For Patrick, Naara e John Eugene, life is a perfect threesome. But, if relationships are already complicated for two, life with three can be a mess. They are pinkdolphinlovers: they love each other, they love life and they love the pink dolphins.

In the wake of a carnival parade the river washes a corpse onto the shore. A crime has been committed, a mystery blossoms to life, and the legend of mythical cursed diamond is tantalizingly revived.

Priscila thinks she is too uptight. When her mother goes on a trip she decides to use her temporary freedom to deal with her uptightness.

People experience different conflicts in their love relationships. Definitive moments in which ties are strengthened or broken. Everywhere there is death, the feeling of the imminence of something terrible, the impression of an end.

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

A itinerant cinema comes to Rita’s small town and she has the opportunity to go to the movies for the first time in a long time.

Every woman has been a victim of sexual harassment, regardless of her cultural, social or economic background. To support such statement, on Women's Week a studio-van was parked at different locations across both rich and poor neighbourhoods of São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro. The studio-van was made available to any woman who felt like sharing her story. Once inside, they were left to themselves and were free to give their testimonies to the camera without the influence of an interviewer. A total of 140 women, with ages ranging from 15 to 84, shared their stories: from strangers catcalling in streets, buses and subways, to rapes committed by relatives, in their own homes, when they were still children. The film, which is part of a transmedia project, is comprised of a significant number of testimonies, and reflects upon an important part of the filming process: how did these women feel when they were telling their stories?

A phenomenon of popularity in the 1960s, Wilson Simonal saw his meteoric career fall apart when he was accused of collaborating with the Brazilian military dictatorship.

The documentary follows the project "Vivendo o Trabalho Subalterno", which invited judges to experience a day of activities with invisible workers. In secret, judges exchange their robes for uniforms and live the day of street cleaners, waitresses and gardeners. In turn, manual workers are invited to discuss the role of judges in society. The initiative served as inspiration for the theme of otherness to be part of the initial training of labor judges in Brazil. The first two editions resulted in the publication of a book with the same name, the recording of a podcast and this documentary.

Delving into the world of funk from the outskirts of Belo Horizonte, Na Batida follows a participatory journey in which the filmmakers themselves become characters. The documentary seeks to capture the essence of funk, revealing the social, cultural and emotional impact of this musical movement.

Tiny film made for the "1-minute Film Festival". When the death comes, it is time to kiss her.