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Homeless people from two major Brazilian cities talk about themselves, fabulous their lives and reinventing themselves before the camera. They recognize and reveal different dimensions to be considered when addressing the issue of street populations. They point out subjectivities and the place of harm reduction in society.
An encounter of novelist Lúcio Cardoso and poet Murilo Mendes haunting ghosts with their characters.
A young boy faces a terrible nightmare full of monsers. Short animated film by Flávio Del Carlo
The life and career history of singer and percussionist Jackson do Pandeiro, whose originality and unusual rhythmic quality influenced several prominent artists in Brazilian popular music. With unpublished testimonies from professional colleagues and family members, as well as archival footage of their participation in cinema and radio, the documentary traces their journey between troubled relationships, dramas, controversies, stardom, ostracism, the return to the artistic milieu, even his death in 1982.
A young sorceress with polymorphic capacities joins the Magisterium of ‘Pataphysics.
Ruan is a doctor who has always been very shy since he was a child. But when he witnesses his mother's death, everything changes and makes his life take a different course.
Léo goes on vacation at his cousin's, in a fishing village. There, he meets a girl who goes by the nickname Heartless.
A man receives a message from a friend telling him to check out his friend Lucy's Instagram Stories. A loose adaptation of Bram Stoker's novel "Dracula."
A documentary about Barão Vermelho, one of Brazil's most famous rock bands during the 1980s, following its steps through archive footage and interviews with all of its remaining members and associated parties.
Produced by students of the Animation Cinema and Digital Arts course, the film was shot under the coordination of Russian animator Svetlana Filippova. In the plot, based on the homonymous tale by Carlos Drummond de Andrade, the prejudices of a society are exposed.
It addresses the theme of modern slave labor in Brazil - the last country to abolish slavery - under its various facets (social, economic, political, etc.). The documentary sheds light on the practices of enticement and trafficking in human beings and exposes the precarious working conditions in the countryside and in the city resulting from the migratory dynamics driven by false promises of life improvement. Slave-like work, although illegal, now generates billions of $ 150 billion annually in the world, losing only to that of trafficking in drugs and arms, and is three times more profitable than in the period of legal traffic .
Come dance, sing and play with Kadu and Malu and their animal friends in the forest, on the farm and even on the moon!
Every day, a young student is watched by Eleonora, a mysterious woman with a cold, piercing gaze. The brief encounter between the two causes a sinister change in the girl's destiny, like a spell of predestination.
Denise, Dilma and Teresinha are three women with visual impairment who live in Teresina. Each one with a type of impairment, they share their experiences, challenges and hopes as women who feel the world beyond what their eyes can see.
There is hope, but not for us.
Unofficial sequel to Takena Nagao's original two part animation.
The story of a family who has their lives crushed by the tragedy of the floods in Mariana (Minas Gerais, Brazil)
The short shows how children are at the mercy of social surveillance to follow standards that have been historically built in society.
When we give something a name, does it lose or make sense? A female body proposes an apparently simple game - it asks women from diverse generations the definition of something that in theory unifies them. Part of a transmedia project, the film is the main entrance to a narrative that has many points of view and no right answer.
The impact of the dialogue with a 102-year-old lady causes a principal to revisit fragments of his memories.
Young people with family problems find themselves involved in manipulation through a social network, where life itself is at stake.
Willian sells rings on TV. One night, while he waits for the bus at the stop, Willian falls into his deepest pleasures...Willian is in great danger.
A documentary on prolific underground Brazilian filmmaker Rogério Sganzerla.
The return of an absent daughter to the city where she was born -absent for fear of a crisis from her bipolar mother- is the trigger for a family reunion.
In Mãe Luiza, on the outskirts of the city of Natal, the sounds of everyday life are mixed with the beats of funk, leading us to immerse ourselves in a universe of dreams, recognition and prejudice experienced by local youth.
The life and work of director Luiz Rosemberg Filho.
In Brazil, in the State of Mato Grosso do Sul, in the region of the Rio Taquari, the increasing and continuous silting of the rivers has led to the overflow of waters and the flooding of lands over the years, causing significant changes in the lives of its inhabitants. This has made it impossible to cultivate the soil and raise livestock, a form of livelihood for local families. Member of one of these families, Ruivaldo Nery Andrade, our guide character, struggles to save his farm, through the construction of a manual system of dikes to contain and alter the course of invading waters and, thus, resume his activities and guarantee the survival of the land.
Flavia Ribeiro meets 8 female ex-offenders with whom she helped as a volunteer in the Women's Chain, city of Santos. Together, in a inhospitable and precarious space, they transformed anguish into art, rebellions into dialogue, despair into hope.
Police officers have as their primary task the investigation of misconduct by those who once swore to uphold the law. In this team, Lieutenant Wilson is the most inflexible when the law is broken – and, at home, conflicts with his girlfriend end up being inevitable.
The boys of an Tikmu'un - Maxakali village are initiated by the spirits that live on the ground. From now on they will be able to attend the kuxex (house of religion), socialize, feed and learn from the Yãmiyxop.
Inspired by Joseph Conrad's eponymous novel. The meteoric career of the Rio Police Chief, who forges an attempt on himself with the intention of accumulating powers over the city government.
Luzimar cycles each day to and from work at the local cotton mill in his hometown of Cataguases, Minas Gerais, Brazil. He is a hard-working man, trying to make the most of what he has. One day, his childhood friend Gildo reappears, driving a fancy car and boasting of his successful life in São Bernardo do Campo, São Paulo. As the two sit down for a beer, memories, regrets and old resentments slowly resurface.
In 1956, the artist Candido Portinari donated a large work of art called "Guerra e Paz" to the United Nations building to be displayed at its headquarters.
Short animation about a 3D model fighting with the mouse cursor.
Reminiscences (1909-26), family film by Ouro Preto filmmaker Aristides Junqueira, collection of the MAM-Rio Cinematheque and Brazilian Cinemateca, is unveiled in his stories and points of view in the form of a filmic essay with archive footage, family scenes, interviews and voiceover to tell the unknown biography of a Brazilian film pioneer.
