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Passage of time in a diary written and filmed during 2021.

The film tells the story of a 30-year-old adult who, after a frustrated stay abroad, decides to return to Brazil, his old work and friendships.

In the film adaptation of the show “Abominável”, created from texts by different dead authors, a body crossed by war and passion breaks free from a violin case.

Gore Positive is a film that explores different forms of love, both those related to our inner self-care (literally) and those linked to marital love to the extreme. The short film tells the story (without establishing any dialogue) of a woman (Cannibal) who, one day, waking up, finds her husband (Corpse) dead, probably after trying to eat some piece of his own body. Compassionate with the living intentions of his spouse, Cannibal decides to show his love in the only way possible at that moment.

Meteorango Kid – O Herói Integalático, by André Luiz Oliveira, is a cult movie made in Bahia, awarded at the 1969 Brasília Festival and censored by the dictatorship. Meteorango Kid: alive or dead is a documentary about the film and its effects on the lives of other artists. André Luiz and musician Tuzé de Abreu, in the company of friends from the generation who used to go crazy, guide us in this search and reveal the mysteries of the invention of this iconic character of countercultural youth.

Adapted from the theatrical play "A festa" by Italian playwright Spiro Scimone, the short film portrays the misconnections and unsatisfied affections of an ordinary, less affluent family consisting of a father, a mother, and a son, isolated within a kitchen. The dramatic situation revolves around the preparations for the parents' wedding anniversary. In an atmosphere that blends comedy, melancholy, suggestive silences, and mundane phrases filled with double meanings, they react in various ways to the celebration of the marriage.

Joana, a curious 7-year-old, wants to find out how she came into the world from two bellies.

At the beginning of the 20th century, in the interior of the municipality of Imaruí, in the state of Santa Catarina, a Christian soul was born that persists in believing in human goodness, despite the iniquities of this world. She is Albertina, the daughter of colonists of Catholic German descent. Even at an early age, she finds serenity and spiritual comfort in faith. His life is a response and undeniable proposal to the misfortunes and challenges of society at all times. His charisma and testimony attract the best in human beings, but also the worst that can be.

Within the walls of a middle-class condo, three stray cats seek shelter, food and joy. Meanwhile, the daily lives of the residents become a mixture of affections and disagreements.

The exchange of messages in notes left in the clothes with Camila, a frequent client, brings the possibility of escaping from the noisy world of washing machines operating 24 hours a day for a moment of peace and silence.

Luisa faces her fears on every waning moon.

There are countless stories of Cubans reaching their dream destination of Florida as boat refugees. A lesser known route to the United States starts with a flight in a ramshackle plane to Guyana. Then the refugees travel to Colombia where they cross the jungle to arrive in Central America, from where they hope to reach the promised land of America—a hard and dangerous journey. Cuban filmmaker Marcel Beltrán visits them in a refugee camp in Panama, where one of the residents gives him an idea. Many people here have filmed their journey, she says, and these videos tell their real story. These jerky, shocking videos are interspersed with Beltrán’s footage of the camp, tangibly illustrating the difference between the hectic pace of the journey and the insecure life at the reception center.

A bumbling new detective is hired by a billionaire lobbyist to investigate the theft of a prized ox. To unravel the peculiar case, he forms an unbeatable team with his assistant Uóston, the waitress and psychic Marcela, the detective accessories store clerk Larissa and the hacker Zuleide. Together, they embark on a fun investigation.

Then he wakes up thinking he's woken up from a dream and thinks he's fallen asleep... He wakes up late and realizes that it's already dark and feels very sleepy.

Inez receives a visit from Iansã.

A structuralist slow-burn investigation thriller. In a high-class neighbourhood in Rio De Janeiro a young woman is murdered. Detectives are contacted but the killer continues around.

Thirty-five years after their first meeting, which would change their lives, Argentine guitarist Lucio Yanel and his Brazilian pupil Yamandu Costa reunited to redo, on a trip, the paths that originally led Yanel to the interior of Rio Grande do Sul. Aboard a motor home, with his guitars and memories, master and disciple cross the border of Brazil towards Corrientes, the Argentine's homeland, reflecting on the transformations brought about by the inexorable passage of time.

2064. Cora, a Danish woman, finds an unfinished documentary in which Benjamim, her Brazilian father, attempted - fifty years earlier - to investigate the story of his own parents: Teo, who, afflicted by insanity, died when he was still a child, and Elenir, a mysterious woman he’d barely heard of. In the course of his investigation, Benjamim discovers that both characters are part of a complex family puzzle, filled with traumas and taboos, and starts seeing himself as an important piece in the puzzle. The footage found in Benjamim’s documentary is reorganized by his daughter, Cora, in an attempt to understand her family’s lost past.

An unlikely friendship forms between an engineer on earth and a satellite venturing to the furthest reaches of space.

Joana, a young mother who works as a motogirl, accidentally discovers a factory where refugee women are exploited as slaves. She confronts the bad guys and sets the women free, but she brings a new problem to herself. The head of the security scheme that controlled the exploitation scheme needs to prove his effectiveness after this failure. For that, he decides that he will kill Joana and whoever else is with her, so that they can serve as an example. An ambush is set up for when Joana and her son, Nico, will be participating in a collective effort at the boy's school. Joana, who is an excellent fighter, will have to defend not only her son and herself, but everyone at school from a bunch of heavily armed criminals with orders to exterminate whoever is in front of them.

The Orbits of Water (Solid Version) is a fable about a family waiting for a return of a son and a brother. A revenge story with contours of tragedy and fantasy. This film version is a special cut for movie theatres only.

Dedicated to Robert Bresson, the short film focuses on a man on a wheelchair before TV images. In his mind, quotes from the book Notes on the Cinematographer reverberate.

Ficções Sõnicas #2 is a film-play made in downtown São Paulo, during the pandemic. In history, they occupy the Municipal Theater and rehearse a play without an audience, in a search path that awakens them from the inaction and automation of sensitivity. The film-play is part of the Sonic Fictions Project, idealized by Grace Passô, where a series of artistic creations are made to experience children and act on the basis of black lives in diaspora.

One party, two girls flirt. When sex happens, there is someone watching.

In The Meaning of Life we will take part on a journey throughout the world to question our existence through the inquiries of a young Brazilian, with a rare hereditary disease with no cure.

Parents and children are reunited after 13 years apart. This is the starting point of the film, which follows the process of affective reconstruction of director Marcos Yoshi's family, crossed by the flow of migrations between Brazil and Japan, known as the dekassegui phenomenon. The story of a family of Japanese descent torn between the need to make a living and the desire to stay together.

A young woman moves to another city after receiving a job promotion, but begins to be pursued by someone willing to end her life.

A film made in honor of the families of this world with great phrases from great people.

The documentary Migliaccio - O Brasileiro em Cena follows the path of those who take risks for the art, either as directors, as writers, as scenographers and even as costume designers. The Oscarito trophy received by Flávio Migliaccio in 2014 Gramado Film Festival crowns a career enmeshed by many threads. Since Migliaccio has performed in different fields of art - from cinema and theater to literature and drawing -, the documentary creates varied visual interventions to enchain the narrative, in addition to the interviews and archive pictures, such as a shadow play to represent his humble childhood, and to the cartoons the artist drew to portray his existential questions in his ranch in Rio Bonito (State of Rio de Janeiro). Images and stories that aim to show a professional and personal life pervaded by possibilities and attitudes, both artistic and political.

Installation depicting photographic portraits of indigenous Amazonian communities at Sebastião Salgado's Amazônia exhibition. Accompanied with music from Rodolfo Stroeter.

A shy cosplayer invents a superhero persona for himself based on the heroes from old Japanese tokusatsu television shows, but his confidence is threatened by the everyday villains of his life.

Accompanying activist Nardjes with his camera, Karim Aïnouz documents the youth culture, which is confidently taking to the streets for a democratic future in Algeria, whose independence their parents and grandparents have already fought.

Is time a sentence? Florêncio Guerra, a simple old pawn, goes over life in this essay on humanity when he receives the difficult mission of his boss: to kill his horse!

The musical special shows an intimate and casual version of Marisa Monte, which features some tracks from the album “Portas”, her latest release.

Brazil-Cuba pandemic letters.

After losing her father unexpectedly, the filmmaker grieves by diving into the photos and documents he left behind as souvenirs and makes a documentary that recalls his life and reflects on the wavering relationship between the two.

A mother discovers that her son has a disability that causes her breast milk to intoxicate him. But the discovery comes too late to prevent the loss of neurons.