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“The state of exception and enmity have become the normative basis for the right to kill. In these situations, power (which is not necessarily a state power) makes continuous reference and invokes exception, urgency and a fictionalized version of the enemy ”. Achille Mbembe

​Jéssika is a trans woman. Years after leaving the Northeast countryside, she returns to her hometown. On this journey, she finds a way back to her own story and herself.​

Castillo, a young stevedore, divides his time between the carpets he has to carry, his family, and a fishing rod. One windy night, he encounters his own brutality on the fishing line.

Bruno is a young university student dealing with loneliness after moving to study in another town. He deposited his insecurities in Caio, another student he met online that can only occasionally travel for them to meet, since they live far away from each other.

Fields of newborn flowers, small gatherings of surviving bees, resistant plant species and new types of eggs lay upon our shore, engaging us to dig and search for the meaning of such unexpected life...

In the story, this northeastern woman is personified by Xanxa, chubby and friendly, who without having much hope that her life will improve, will try her luck in the big city. It is in the urban environment that she meets Bob, aspiring actor, only child, rich boy, handsome, spoiled and loved by his father Cachorrão. These two characters Xanxa and Bob, with completely different lives and expectations, live a great love.

A film of a sloth, using three-colour separation to show sloth time.

Welcome To This House, a feature documentary film on the homes and loves of poet Elizabeth Bishop, is about life in the shadows, and the anxiety of art making without full lesbian disclosure. Hammer filmed in Bishop's best loved homes in the U.S., Canada, and Brazil, believing that buildings and landscapes bear cultural memories. Interviews with poets, friends,and scholars provide missing documents of numerous female lovers. Bishop's intimate poems and the creative music composition by Joan La Barbara bring the poet into our lives with new facts and unexpected details.

A tender homage to singer Elza Soares, a symbol of the struggle of black women in Brazil since the early 1960s. In an intimate atmosphere, Elza is interviewed together with different friends, like Maria Bethânia and Paulinho da Viola, with whom she performs songs about love, religion and social inequality. Be prepared for one of the most striking voices you have ever heard.

Among the many victims of the military dictatorship that raged in Brazil from 1964 to 1985, a small group of guerilla fighters – Chael, Roberto, Reinaldo and Dora – got arrested, tortured, some of them killed or forced into exile. Before and after their arrest, during their torture sessions, the police photographed them. Together with the official reports, these photos are the material Anita Leandro worked on from the inside to bring these four people’s fate out of oblivion.

An empty area is covered, in a few moments, by currents of water coming from all sides, suggesting the beginning of a flood. Gradually, the volume and rhythm of the tides become more aggressive, in a movement that seems to drag everything towards the center.

Directed by journalist Ricardo Alexandre, the documentary tells the story of the Napalm nightclub, responsible for the new wave and post-punk generation in Sao Paulo. Mixing live shows, cutting-edge DJing and videos in its "modern" internal television system, the venue quickly became a meeting point for young people who shaped the grayer side of Brazilian rock in the 80s.

An astronaut floats lost in the vastness of space awaiting help

A documentary that proposes a conversation about the way children are praised. While girls are often praised solely for their appearance, boys can receive compliments by highlighting their skills. "Rethink the Praise" reflects on the power of words and culture that has brought an imbalance in the way we commend our boys and girls.

Two teenagers with dysfunctional families decide to run away from a conservative Christmas party in order to live a night of their own.

In the mid-1990s, the Brazilian government handed over control of its railroads to the private sector. There was then a reduction of passenger train lines to almost zero and shrinkage of the rail freight network. The machinists, who once traveled with an assistant, began to work completely on their own in their long journeys. The film presents a subjective view on the daily life of these professionals and their solitary routine in the midst of a grandiose, tedious, desolate and at the same time passionate universe.

Two girls share an intimate moment during the summer.

An analysis of a female participation in the Colombian guerrilla. The documentary gives voice to the victims who ended up joining the FARC after being abducted and generally have a family murdered.

Based on Stephen King's short story of the same name, “All That You Love Will Be Taken Away” introduces us to Alfie Zimmer, a sales representative on one of the most important days of his life (perhaps his last).

A film director faces a complex situation in the production of his new film: Laerte, the protagonist of the story, begins to renegade her former characters, the Pirates of the Tietê. Lost in this situation and determined to be faithful to his whims after seeing the approach of death, the director decides to tell his drama mixing his persona with the story, creating a chaotic labyrinth between fiction and real life.

Despite being invisible, Tommy Brilho has an impeccable style. Will it be enough to get noticed by his crush?

Documentary that chronicles the trajectory of the journalist, federal deputy, secretary of state, minister of state, governor and ambassador José Aparecido de Oliveira, who lived with the greatest authorities and personalities from the political, business and cultural circles in Brazil and the world.

Elias, in transit.

6km away, 34 years old. Male with manner, voice and attitude of a man. Looking for another male to enjoy a good time. I don't like effeminate, fat, bald, black. Nothing against, just a matter of taste.

No measure of hellfire preaching can quell the boisterous and bawdy passions of Maracatu, an Afro-Brazilian burlesque carnival tradition with roots in slavery that takes place in the northeast state of Pernambuco. As the Falstaffian character Tiao, Valmir do Coco leads a nonprofessional cast of authentic Maracatu practitioners in a tale told through dance, music, and the supernatural, set in the sugarcane fields outside Recife.

São Paulo, Brazil. One of the biggest cities in the world. Actually, the largest metropolis in cultural crossings and color blending in a huge compositions and social experiences, especially in its musical soundscapes. São Paulo Jazz Symphonic, a single Ship in world's performances, represents a sound metaphor to this cultural phenomenon, combining popular culture and scholar arrangement. In a magic point of view and atmosphere, cinema and music get together as a symphonic picture, a syncromic film language. Light and sound projected in rhythms and line to reveal 90 musicians, among them Cyro Pereira, to create a fabulous method to play and produce world mainstream arts. This trip reveals the meaningful strength from popular culture in Latin America history, by aesthetics emotion and thrilling images through five years shooting endurance.

Cleaning campaign for the Carioca River carried out by residents of Guararapes and the surrounding areas exposes the fragility of urban rivers in the city of Rio de Janeiro.

We question the most unquestionable period in our history. The result was an international investigation with part of secret attempts, discovery of Soviet documents and a lot of investigation by the Brazilian media. It was all under our eyes.

Fourth chapter of the "Atlas", "The Crystallization of Brasília" explores the ideia of the future as a petrified past. In an accelerated geological time, centuries crystallize in a few months in the form of a city. This process is driven by the force of mystical rationalism, who has the power to embalm ideas and social structures so that they last forever.

Welcome back

The film is an adaptation of the play of the same name staged by the theater group Os Satyros. More than 200 characters from the central region of São Paulo, including residents, prostitutes, drug dealers, businessmen, transsexuals, prostitutes, actors and musicians were interviewed. These testimonials were the starting point to build the trajectory of eleven characters that intersect during a night on the town.

Anna, Russell and Bernardo, 3 middle class brazilians involved in a game of passions between the autorship of a succesful book.

Memoirs of a Sunday.

Will he be able to survive the verb to-be?

Bastu's grandchildren and friends help her pick up the strands of her life after her husband dies.

Infinito Periódico revolves around Marcelo's obsession with a famous vintage electronic game.

A new school year begins; students are invited to the first music competition, but only one band can win.