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During the bloody dictatorship in Argentina, the military regime kidnapped pregnant women, forced them to give birth, murdered them, and took the babies. Thirty-five years later, a single trial for "Baby Theft, State Crime, and Crime Against Humanity" begins in Buenos Aires, the fruit of a 30-year struggle by the grandmothers of Paz de Mayo to find the 500 stolen babies, their grandchildren.

Two brothers are reunited in Lisbon to throw their father's ashes in three places in Portugal. This journey opens up affective issues between the brothers, where the past and the present refer to each other.

Afrânio is a retired voice actor. Lonely and tormented by memories of his childhood. In her small apartment, looking for a way to re-integrate into society.

Man and Woman are reunited after a long time. Sorrow and desire cannot break the silence. But that's okay: when words don't come, it's the body that speaks.

Follows the daily life and memories of Elza Show, a drag queen from Recife dedicated to singing the great Brazilian radio divas.

This short drama follows a woman after she suddenly runs away from a promising date, and asks the pertinent question: what would you want to tell your younger self?

João Ernesto Ribamar is a corrupt politician running for the presidency. He is in the runoff election, ahead on the polls, when he receives a "mandinga" (curse) from his grandmother, which makes him unable to lie. Now the problem begins: How to win an election by telling only the truth?

In Nada É, everything was or will be.

In this film, a world-renowned journalist gets the opportunity to face the enemy of souls. During their talk, the journalist discovers that everything he knew about the power of the supernatural is wrong and that he, just like all of us, has a important power in the cosmic battle between good and evil.

Journalist Geneton Moraes Neto interviews Brazilian international players who lost to Uruguayan national team in the finals of the World Cup 1950 in Maracanã stadium.

The Favela Pacification Program was launched in 2008 to reduce crime and drug trafficking in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. In April 2015 however, police shot and killed 10-year old Eduardo in Complexo do Alemão, causing uproar in that community. Alemão and other pacified communities began to realise that the program had become the very thing it was designed to destroy. Taking place in the build to the 2016 Olympic Games, this is the side of Rio that you have never seen before.

The immature and cheap douche bag Fábio Clóvis marries the pseudo-intellectual Miá and they travel in a cruise to Europe on board of a fancy passenger vessel. Fabio and Miá are invited to have dinner with the wealthy Beto Assunção and his gorgeous wife Laura in a VIP restaurant on the vessel. Soon Fábio discovers that Beto was Miá's boyfriend and Miá learns that Fábio had a crush on Laura that was his classmate. Meanwhile the cynical chamber maid Suzana Mello and her estranged husband, the entertainer Wilson, make a bet that Fábio and Miá will split before the end of the trip and poison their relationship. When the ship arrives in Casablanca, Fábio meets his bothersome childhood friend Cabeça that affects their honeymoon.

In the Kalapalo cosmogony (an ethnic group that lives in the Xingú Indigenous Park), water is as old as humans and is the source of life. That is where all their sustenance comes from, their food, their drink, their joy. The idea of using water as a dumpster, of poisoning water is a dystopia. In this documentary Chief Faremá —from Caramujo village on the banks of the Kuluene River— tells us about the birth of water and warns us about the consequences of disrespecting it.

Josefina, a radical homemaker, committed a crime of passion that led her to self-exile at a coastal town. She tries to find peace in solitude, immersed in the house routine, while coexisting with a past of lovers and Molotov cocktails. Her body suffers the metamorphosis of aging, and she must undergo cataract surgery.

Limeville, the city of lime, fears it's legacy might be destroyed when the heirs of the land show up to claim the town and replace the lime with oranges. But there's only place for one fruit in this town...

Three young people circulate in different mobility categories. The newly emancipated city goes through its everyday experiences.

In Rio de Janeiro, close to the mythical Maracana stadium, venue for the grand final of the World Cup 2014, we find an ordinary football field in the Sampaio neighborhood. There, football happens as a genuine expression of Brazilian culture. With the games on Sundays, the annual slum football league has 14 teams. Each represents the colors and rituals of their community. Geração x Juventude contest the final.

During the Second World War, a cooperation agreement between the Brazilian and US governments led to the transportation of around 60,000 men from the Northeast of Brazil to the Amazon Region to work on the extraction of latex destined for the American arms industry. Half of these men died before they could return home and many others are still awaiting recognition as "national heroes" and the pensions equal to those of servicemen they had been promised.

A language study on cultural production in the interior of Brazil. Three friends forever waiting for the solution of problems involving cultural policy in the inner cities of the country. Wait, armed with empty speeches, political naivety, watching their dreams being eaten away by political, commercial and public neglect.

How Do You See Me? is a Brazilian documentary feature that entwines both experienced actors and beginners to explore the hardships and the happiness that are inherent to the job when detached from the glam and glitz of the gossip industry, creating a diverse and comprehensive mosaic of what it means to be an actor in Brazil, a country so full of contradictions. The film brings forward a reality that the masses usually don't get to know: the men and women moved by a deep passion for acting and touching people. With Julio Adrião, Matheus Nachtergaele, José Celso Martinez, Cássia Kis, Nanda Costa, Babu Santana, Luciano Vidigal and Letícia Sabatella, among others.

Flute player Carlos Malta searches for traditional pife players and the mutual dependencies they share with the contemporary music to which he belongs.

The movie "Augusto Boal and the Theatre of the Oppressed" shows the path of the dramaturgo Augusto Boal at the creation of a theatre that has as objective to transform those who participate it in a spiral of changes, in an oppressing society. Along the trajectory we see Boal's intellectual search and the transformations of the Brazilian society, from the 60s to nowadays. The spectator will meet the numerous uses of the Theatre of the Oppressed around the world (there are groups in 77 countries) and how they manifest in different situations, characterized by the relation between the oppressor and the oppressed, from the biggest to the smallest powers.

Jonas and David are best friends who spend their times watching soccer games on TV despite cheering for opposite teams. In one particular afternoon, as another game progresses, they discuss the girls they want to meet at a party they'll attend later on. However, with a strange tension in the air and some secrecy from one of them it all might change the course of their lives.

A film crew tracks a group of researchers and their breakthrough disease research. While battling through the rain-forest, things turn deadly leaving them fighting to survive.

A recently separated Argentinian man and woman, with their two teenage children, go on a family holiday to Florianópolis, Brazil, where they become delightfully and problematically involved with the family from whom they rent a house.

Memories of Fortaleza, brazilian city, filmed in super8.

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 pickpocket assumes various identities to steal from the aristocracy in early-20th-century Rio de Janeiro.

In this dog world, a hard-to-crack police officer tries to uncover a truth about Biscroc's theft.

An exemplary housewife who would do anything to please her husband. A movie with plenty of blood right at "lunchtime."

We see something about a man with potential, a man who should not exist in a city like this. It is a wolf with a man's mask, or a man with a secret?

The weather, the wind. The fish, the beach. Work and her.

A presentation of the writer, musician and artist Rodrigo de Souza Leão. The film uses unreleased archive material, video clips with Rodrigo’s music and video art material based on the unpublished poems written by the author. At 23, Rodrigo was diagnosed with schizophrenia and created all of his work indoors. The film also features the participation of interviewees who actually met the artist, like the poet Leonardo Gandolfi, the writer Suzana Vargas and the artist Julia Debasse.

The film tells the life story of Roman Romancini, one of the most important Brazilian mountaineers, in his endeavor to reach his greatest dream: climbing Mount Everest, the highest mountain on the planet. Directed by Rafael Duarte (Bambalaio Filmes) and produced by Leonardo Edde (URCA Filmes), the documentary shows how Roman reached, during his preparation years, 4 of the “7 summits” during winter, considered by many an almost impossible mission. Survivor of the avalanche that hit the Khumbu Falls in 2014, a few feet from Everest Base Camp, Roman returned to the Himalayas four years later with Rafael Duarte and Padawa Shepa, who together documented the most challenging expedition of his life.

Global travel with nothing but a bum bag. Sharing the realities of 'true minimalist travel' and a choice to live simply. A travel adventure with a difference, there’s no luggage!​ Experienced traveller and amateur filmmaker Benjamin Luke Mitchell (Lost Yet Free), explores the possibilities of freedom if one opens up their mind and leaves the backpack behind. No packing or carrying necessary, the philosophy here is to live simply, without restraints. Our curiosities spur the way, and an ultralight approach allow us to access places and global gifts beyond the reach of a big, heavy sack. This is a personal quest, an introspective story about a man learning how to confront that continual feeling of bewilderment.

Megg Rayara overcame obstacles that should not exist to get where she is. Get a Doctorate Degree is a very important victory not only for her, but also for the transvestite community. For the first time in Brazil, a black transvestite wins a Doctorate Degree. It is the margin that migrates to the center, taking all its history with her.

This short film follows the journey of Rosane Pires and Iara Viana, during the preparations for their wedding, as well as the civil and religious ceremonies.

On an Ash Wednesday, a group of revelers decides to enter an abandoned house, but they encounter the unexpected.

The way artists see their art, and how that makes them see the world.

While everyone seeks success, Benito Tilmann just wants to realize his next failure.

It examines the daily life of the residents and cops at a Rio de Janeiro favela one year after the arrival of a Pacifying Police Unit.