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This documentary illustrates how the participation of women in open urban spaces is marked by insecurity and harassment, explores the public space as a place of violence and analyzes how campaigns promoted by activists and feminists have changed power relationships between men and women in Brazil.
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.
Spanning 10 years and 10,000 miles, One Day We Arrived in Japan shows the stories of three Brazilian families who set off to Japan in search of a better future – a mother and daughter, a young couple, and a family of four with a small child. The film captures the passage of time, forming layers of memory and revealing how the families’ dreams and expectations stand up to a grueling new reality on the other side of the world. Since 1990, hundreds of thousands of Brazilians of Japanese descent have gone to Japan to work. This unique documentary brings to light the gripping personal stories behind a major transnational phenomenon.
The film follows a few days in the life of a young actress who has lost her sight, but who tries to be independent, also addressing the tension and trust between the protagonist and a student hired to help her.
On a Sunday, two photographers walk around São Paulo trying to connect with the city, and slowly fall in love with each other.
It's night and a woman needs to get to the airport, but there are many obstacles in her path.
When witnessing a hit, Arandir, a newly married banker, tries to succor the victim, but the man, almost dead, has only time to make one last request: a kiss. Arandir kisses the man, but his act is spotted by his father-in-law Aprígio and photographed by Amado Ribeiro, a tabloid reporter.
Guilherme gathers his friends for a group video call. He has a proposal to make money on the internet. But the deal went down the drain when they realized the demon is using technology to act.
Lonely, frustrated, and unable to do anything that gives meaning to their lives, Vladimir, Clivia, Regina and Primo trace an absurd plan: to kidnap a millionaire. Yet, they have no experience with crime or any notion of what this kind operation entails. As they take practical steps forward, their fears and ambitions are revealed.
Documentary about the poet, writer and playwright Hilda Hilst, considered by critics as one of the most important voices of the Portuguese language of the twentieth century. Through the use of personal sound and image files, interviews, meetings and fictional interventions, we will seek the memory and the presence of Hilda Hilst in her daily life at Casa do Sol, the farm where she lived in Campinas.
Nossa Chape tracks the rebuilding of the Chapecoense football club in Brazil after an airplane carrying the team crashed on November 28th, 2016, and left all but three of the players dead.
A look at the historic match between Corinthian Casuals and Corinthians São Paulo
Maria is a shortfilm about a woman who was fooled to the western world while she was young and naiv, found what she dreamt of, but lost where she came from. Maria is the return to whatever's left of childhoods pastures.
Neglected by the world, the Western Sahara's fight for independence is one of the longest in recent history. The documentary tells the history of resistence of the saharawi people, who have been waiting for a referendum on self-determination for 26 years, and explores their insatisfaction with the UN's peacekeeping missions in refugee camps, liberated zones and occupied territories by Morocco for over 40 years. The documentary also questions Brazil's neutrality on the matter, one of the few countries in Latin America that still haven't recognized the independence of Western Sahara, contributing to the normalization of sistematic violence against the saharawis and the illegal extraction of their natural resources.
Bruno is a depressive and lonely guy who cannot sleep, in the meantime, he became a PVV volunteer, to help people with some kind of problem, in one of the calls, he falls in love by a woman and sees a new light in your life.
Uberlândia, Minas Gerais, Brazil, February 24th 2011. Isabel Burlan da Silva, the director’s mother, is brutally murdered by her partner. “Elegy of a Crime” is the final chapter of Cristiano Burlan’s “Mourning Trilogy, about the tragic family history. Faced with impunity, the film plunges into a dizzying journey to rebuild Isabel's image and life.
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.
A documentary about an intinerant amusement park that travels through the poor Brazilian Northeast and the hardships faced by the people around it.
Film adaptation of the TV Show in 1994, based on the novel of the same name by Érico Veríssimo. During a general strike in the city of Antares, gravediggers refuse to carry out burials, to increase pressure on employers. During the night, however, the dead claim the right to be buried.
An elegant dinner, which takes place in real time, brings together a group of intellectuals in the early 90s in São Paulo, Brazil: the hosts are the editor of the country's top news magazine and her husband, the company's lawyer, and the occasion is the wedding anniversary of the magazine publisher and his wife, a famous theater actress. The publisher has written an open letter to the president of the country, with serious denunciations, which will run in the upcoming issue. He risks being arrested this very evening. As tensions increase with the imminence of prison, secrets come to light revealing the conflict between the ethics sought in public life and the ethics practiced in private life.
In the cerrado they inhabit wolves-guarás and bandeirantes.
The film warns us about the world's water crisis and the international greed for the Amazon Forest, the largest fresh water reservoir on the planet. In addition to concentrating 20% of the world's drinking water, the Amazon is the region with the greatest chance of maintaining its water sources in the next decades, thanks to the humidity of its forest.
Set in the future, where Brazil is ruled by a dictatorship capable of infiltrating and invading people's minds, bending their thoughts and controlling their dreams. A worker from the Censorship Department is forced to join forces with a group of rebels that seek to free the people throught dreams that recall a distant and lost art: the movies.
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.
It rains; but still, it sings. Under the symbolic motto of the meteorological metaphor, a poetic constellation of edited "found footage" with excerpts of 99 films and 8 versions of a song. From the series "Notes for a Self-Biopic (in Regress)".
An intimist look at an unusual character present in our routine.
Jacqueline has what some people would call a strong personality. The teenage girl lives with her aunt and faces some problems at school. Her daily company is a bicycle with which she wanders through the neighborhood. One day, Jacqueline and her aunt hit the road, but things don’t go as expected
Two teenagers with dysfunctional families decide to run away from a conservative Christmas party in order to live a night of their own.
Eva's veins are getting darker. After a strange doctor's appointment, she sees herself caught in a spiral of frenzy and paranoia, only to turn into something other than human.
Mario and his father live isolated in a small place in Brazi's countryside.
In December 1965, at the height of the Cold War, Che Guevara mysteriously disappeared. Using a false identity, he is escorted by former agents of the Cuban Intelligence Service who are now revealing unprecedented details of the operation.
Realized from the encounter of differences between the counselor governor from the indigenous reserve Sikuani El Merey-La Veradicta Margarita Rodriguez Weweli-Lukana and the urban-indigenous in a cultural recovery process, Juma Gitirana Tapuya Marruá. This video was an attempt of healing the colonial pain from those open wounds that hurt in us all, hum@n and non hum@n, nature from Abya Yala.
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.
Two crazy scientists invent a plan to help all men on Earth.
"O Esquema" (The Scheme) shows the reunion of two colleagues, one who hasn't lived in his hometown called Goiana-Brazil for many years and is coming to visit, and the other who has never stopped living in the city. Worlds colliding.
Former vigilant decide to come back to his old duty, meanwhile he must confront his alcoolism and try to return to his son's life.
In 1918, Maria José Rebello from the state of Bahia applied for the national admission exam for the diplomatic career, a fact that left much of society astonished. Setting a precedent as the first woman to join the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Maria began a 100-year journey for Brazilian women in diplomacy.
Dorival Caymmi was one of the inventors of the Bahian imagination. In his 94 years of life, Caymmi composed, sang, wrote, illustrated and thought about his Bahia, even far from it. His family, partners, friends and fans remember his history, which made him one of the pillars of Brazilian culture.
A history of vendetta and redemption occurs in the vicinity of a road, when the trajectory of a young policeman from the Capital intersects with a sergeant.
Corporal Rosinha is accused of killing a boy during a police roundup in a local high school and the population is outraged. Rosinha's wife, Heloísa of the bakery, tries to find out the truth about what happened.
A man caught in the verge of freedom. He penetrates a city where the boundaries between reality and dream disappear. He crosses the landscape without belonging to it anymore. A farewell before departing.
In 2014, Andrea Beltrão, Malu Galli and Mariana Lima decide to make a theatrical spectacle. Maria Flor asks to attend the rehearsals and register with her camera the process of creating the piece. While observing the actresses on the scene and accompanying the construction of the work, the girl ends up identifying in the assembly the representation of the course of her own life and her profession
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.
In a lost corner of the world, just another village isolated from all the recurring rumors of any era. The trees take over leaving the loneliness evidenced as the darkness likes and appreciates.
Unknown Language is an investigation into our unconscious and all the social vulnerability it brings. The documentary features 15 interviewees, including musicians Marcelo Yuka and Otto, actor and comedian Gregório Duvivier, artist Eduardo Marinho, writer and cartoonist Lourenço Mutarelli, psychologist and hypnologist Gilda Moura, and psychoanalyst Pedro de Santi.