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In the First Republic (1889-1930) as well as in the Vargas Era (1930-1945) the traditional terreiro communities were criminalized, their religious leaders were persecuted and their sacred objects were seized. In Rio de Janeiro, more than 200 objects were seized by the police, and after the end of the official criminalization, they became part of the collection in the Museum of Civil Police. The documentary The Sacred within us deals with the past of persecution towards traditional terreiro communities, the "Black Magic" collection found in the Police Museum, the difficulty of access to the collection by religious, researchers and the population in general, as well as the struggle for to release the sacred objects that have been in the possession of the Civil Police of the State of Rio de Janeiro for 100 years.

"Pela Fresta" is an audiovisual documentary accompanying Brazilian rock musician Pitty during the creation and recording of her 2014 album SETEVIDAS.

At 80, Polidoro decides to demolish the stability of his comfortable life as a retired judge and become owner of a strip club.

A body with different temporalities resizes the movements of the same choreography.

In 1987, Brazil was goin through a serious economic crisis. In this context, the Brazilian Football Confederation announces that it doesn’t have the resources to finance that year's Championship. The main clubs in the country then decide to organize an independent competition. It was the beginning of a war that still echoes today.

Andres and Elias get together one evening for their last summer joint. On his way home, Elias finds a hidden case containing 5 different types of drugs. The next morning, Elias calls Andres to catch up on his discovery. He tells him he wants to gather round with some friends to perform an experiment: each should take a different drug and see what happens. The experiment takes a sudden turn when Andres girlfriend calls him to say her grandma has died.

What is left to say between Lucas and Arthur, as they learn to navigate the space left in a relationship that is no more.

A young indigenous rapper tries to find his identity amidst the genocide of his people.

Apnea presents a week in the life of Chris and her friends. Chris does not want to sleep. Afraid of her sleep apnea and her own unconsciousness, Chris stays up several nights in search of some sort of sense to her life that she did not see during the day, always living on the edge of her own body, and of existence itself, and dragging everything around with her.

Recorded live at the Ibirapuera Auditorium (São Paulo, Brazil) on June 14th 2013.

At the age of twelve, Carol feels as if the world around her is all the same: Aunts and cousins, friends at School, women in stores, singers on the internet, everybody has straight hair. Except for her.

Documentary about the life and work of conductor Jorge Antunes, made by filmmaker Carlos Del Pino in 2005. The film won an award and was financed by the Ministry of Culture, in the DocTV 2 project. The saga of the composer, teacher and conductor Jorge Antunes is shown in this 51-minute documentary. Jorge Antunes, a pioneer of electronic music in Brazil, emerged in this musical genre in 1961. Today he is considered one of the most important composers of experimental classical music in Brazil, and is considered by international critics to be the "leader of avant-garde music in Brazil". Many of his works are politically engaged: the composer is a political activist, member and leader of the PSOL (Socialism and Freedom Party). Among his main works in this line, the opera Olga, the Elegia Violeta para Monsenhor Romero and the Sinfonia das Diretas (Sinfonia das Buzinas) stand out, the production of which is reported in detail in the film.

Thousands of people from every corner of the world go to India every year for a spiritual experience that provides self-knowledge and healing of past trauma.

Jonas is 13 years old and his life's dream is to maintain the circus that he created in his backyard. While he faces this challenge, he will live the adventure of growing up.

The intense life of Ferreira Gullar, one of the most influential poets in Brazil, is revisited by his personal friend Silvio Tendler, based on his most acclaimed work: Poema Sujo. In addition to addressing other poems by Gullar, the documentary also includes the testimony of people who lived directly with the artist's work.

Final project for Latin American Film Institute's T60.

A woman goes alone through the streets of Moscow, getting on and off subway trains and underground passages on her way to a meeting that includes a screening of a film about a cat. And that's it; or so it is for those who believe the plot is the best part of cinema. The Jahn-Dullius duet makes an enigmatic film between abstraction and trance. Because as they search for that visual purity that's historically connected to experimental cinema--equally far from theatrical as from the written word-- they leave one thing clear: cinema is all about images.

For more than 50 years, Durvinha and Moreno hid their real identity even to their own children, who grew up thinking their parents' names were Jovina Maria and Jose Antonio Souto. They had belonged to the gang of the most famous Brazilian bandit's leader. The truth was revealed when Moreno, at the age of 95, decided to share the weight of memories with his children and meet alive relatives, including his first child. The 'cangaceirismo' was a form of 'social banditry' born in northeastern Brazil in the early XX century in a scenario of extreme poverty, violence and anarchy.

The passion for trucks follows Antonio since the day he was born. His mother tells that he was born inside the cabin of his fathers truck, a red 1518 Mercedes Benz. Antonio is 10 years old and lives in a small village located in the roadside of Minas Gerais. As any other place of passage, the village is full of uncertainties.While Antonio imagines his father s life as a truck driver, he searches for clues and different routes on the map that can help him to fulfill his dream of meeting his father. One day, Antonio sees his father s truck on the village and runs after it in order to find the man he always dreamed with.

In Co-production with Hora Mágica. At the opening ceremony of the 2014 World Cup, a young man broke protocol and opened a banner in the center of the lawn asking for the demarcation of indigenous lands. Werá or MC Kunumi, son of the Guarani ethnic group, is a teenager, writer, composer and rap singer from the Krukutu village, in São Paulo.

The sea taken by footages from XIX century (produced in 1891, 1895 ,1897 and 1900, in Brazil, United States, France and England) and listened from a song(in French, English, Spanish, Dutch and Italian). From the series “notes for a Self Biopic (in Regress)”.

The documentary portrays the confrontation of students with agents of the military regime, which became known as "The Battle of Maria Antônia". The event took place at Maria Antônia Street, which housed the Faculty of Philosophy of USP and the Mackenzie Presbiterian University, ended with the death of the student José Guimarães and the arson of the Faculty of Philosophy.

In a spectacular performance that finds SEPULTURA accompanied throughout by the French industrial percussion group Les Tambours du Bronx, notorious for beating 225-liter barrels with beech wood bats or even axe handles, the show was recorded from the band’s main stage appearance at the legendary Rock In Rio gala in 2013. Featuring SEPULTURA’s most revered tunes including “Refuse/Resist,” “Territory” and “Roots Bloody Roots,” which sees the audience chanting the entire cut from beginning to end, the sheer volume of sound, percussive enormity and powerful presentation sets this release apart from any previous SEPULTURA concert offering to date. In addition, the DVD includes an exclusive documentary of behind-the-scenes preparation with interviews, rehearsal and sound-check footage and clips of the band just seconds before they hit the stage. - Nuclear Blast

Provocative and averse to traditionalism, Nelson Leirner's work is one of the highest expressions of contemporary art in Brazil. Following the artist through streets, popular stores and the setting up of an exhibition, the film reveals the ideas and path of a questioner.

Teenager Joana feeds her soul with literature and rock. In 1979, when amnesty is granted in Brazil, she's forced to move with her family from Paris back to the country she barely remembers. Back in the city she was born in, and where her father was forcedly disappeared, she recovers pieces of memory from a fragmented childhood in Rio de Janeiro. Not everything is real, not everything is imagination. And as she remembers, Joana must write her own story in the present tense.

The artist replicated the experiment proposed by the philosopher in one of his essays about the natural disaster in Lisbon. Ramos used boxes lled with soil built according to the following instructions: ‘It is now time to say something about the causes of earthquakes. It is easy for a natural philosopher to reproduce their manifestations. One takes twenty- ve pounds of iron llings, an equal amount of sulphur, and mixes it with ordinary water, buries this paste one or one-and-a-half feet underground and compresses the earth firmly above it. After several hours, a dense vapour is seen rising; the earth trembles, and ames break forth from the soil.’

UFO experts claim that after the explosion of the bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, there was an increase in the number of sightings of UFO'S (Unidentified Flying Objects) worldwide. Just over two decades later, the Brazilian medium Chico Xavier confided to close friends that when man reached the moon on July 20, 1969, happened a meeting with the celestial beings of our solar system to check the progress of humanity. They decided to grant a period of 50 years for humanity to evolve morally and live in peace, without provoking a third world war. If we live in peace until the Deadline, humanity would be ready to enter a new era of its existence, and magnificent feats would be checked everywhere, including our brothers from other planets would be expressly authorized to present themselves publicly and officially to Earth's residents.

"Denied Legacy: Slavery in Brazil in an Incorrect Guide" is a professional analysis of the work "Guia Politicamente Incorreto da História do Brasil", written by journalist Leandro Narloch in 2009, which brings not only factual errors, but problematic interpretations about aspects of the history of Brazil.

An intimate and sensitive look at the reunion of the 'owners of the secret' of the nation of Candomble Jeje Mahi, an Afro-Brazilian religious tradition under threat of social death. The film invites the matriarchs of the cult of Vodun in Bahia for their first encounter with Africa.