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Lily longs to have curly hair to affirm her identity as a black girl. She will count with the help of her friend, the wheelchair-bound Caio, who creates fantastic possibilities in this saga to help her. Directed by Raphael Gustavo da Silva, 'Lily's Hair' rebuilds diversity in a mix of reality and fantasy.
A documentary that follows Rogéria's life and artistic trajectory from the duality between artist and character, between Rogéria and Astolfo.
To break with the logic of a historicist and positivist narrative, from the delirium, the mystical and the daydream. To search in the same cinematic experimentalism adventure, a time space image where the Angelus Novus is a call to risk and break with the linear logic of overwhelming conving story-telling. "For the incredible!" - Shouts the Angelus Novus. Performance instead of acting and digital images enlarged and experimentally shot and edited.
After missing out on his co-workers winning lottery pool, the lonely Jairo embarks on an extraordinary Christmas adventure as a helper to none other than Santa Claus himself.
Three friends go to an unsual party.
To start again, one has to destroy.
Vicente attends his mother's birthday dinner after a long time away. He reunites with Renato, with whom he is no longer close, but they attempt to connect amidst the chaos and noise of the dinner.
What seemed to be a young couple's trivial uneasiness is redefined as a result of important news: Jéssica is pregnant and reveals it to Zói. While she seeks warmth and dialogue, he turns to a reflective state of mind further enhanced by the uncertainties of job hunting. Nonetheless, the women around him become decisive in the task of making him see the root cause of the problem: the cycle of paternal absence that he himself went through in the past but now is in a position to change.
An angsty, introspective short with unorthodox visual style, Predestination takes us on a journey of self-awareness as a disillusioned philanderer deconstructs his life. Haunting and cerebral, Predestination will leave you wondering if we as human beings are really as free as we think.
Documentary-research on the global audiovisual industry and its effects on local cultures. Produced with a homemade digital camera in the best do-it-yourself style, without any production apparatus, director Leonardo Brant uses excerpts from films that discuss the hegemonic condition of the cultural industry and promotes dialogue with great thinkers.
According to scholars , sleep paralysis happens during the stage of sleep known as rapid eye movement ( REM). In this situation, the person wakes up and sees a menacing figure in your room or have the feeling that your chest is being pressed.
In Nada É, everything was or will be.
Based on the life of the inmate and Brazilian muay thai champion Fabio Leão. Born in Vila Kennedy, a suburb in Rio de Janeiro, Fabio was involved in drug trafficking and banditry since the age of 14. In prison, his redeeming passion as a teenager for the ring led him to teach sports to fellow inmates. Everything blends in with his love story for Luciana, a lifelong partner.
A recently separated couple decides to hire “doubles” through an app in order to settle the terms of their divorce.
A documentary on Brazilian artist Siron Franco.
By interviewing ex-guerrilla soldiers and political activists, the film seeks to recover memories from the time of the political process that led to the brazilian coup d'etat in 1964.
At 19, Antonio fled his Portuguese farm family for life on the other side of the globe. Five decades later, his decision still leaves an irrevocably sour taste.
'The Private from Odessa' is a portrait of Boris Schnaiderman, Brazil's most important translator and essayist on Russian literature and culture. Using different cinematic approaches, the film depicts Boris as he reflects on his personal experiences —his childhood in the 1920's Odessa, his experience as a Brazilian soldier during World War Two— and on his still evolving work as a translator and essayist.
Bup is the absence of silence. A tragicomedy in a frantic rhythm about the presence of anguish, uncomfortable insecurity and constant anxiety. Too bad I left the womb.
In a school on the outskirts of São Paulo, four students try to unravel a mystery that circles the walls and hides between padlocks and gates. Querô, Baleia, Diadorim, and Pedro Bala face the rules and risk an adventure.
Dr. K is an old man who loves hiking, always curious and looking for new knowledge. At some point along the way, strange and mysterious objects appear on your way. Little by little, Dr. K realizes that the objects will actually help him unravel a much bigger mystery: the right techniques for creating an animation.
Juan (Arthus Focchi) and Djari (Welket Bungué) are foreigners who met in Rio de Janeiro and became best friends. Juan has a bad feeling, something is wrong, the wind whispers. In a conversation with Djari, Juan warns him that he will leave. Something sudden happens before he travels. Djari will have to deal with this.
Strange noises happen in the next door neighbor , care for the curiosity kills.
In the midst of a political crisis, Joao Carlos decides to make the most important decision in his life.
The story of a human colony on an unknown planet, where an ancient grain silo has been built. Natural phenomena and climate change cause the silo to break down and a strange plantation begins to grow. Project entirely realised with models and manipulation of microscopic archive images in a studio model.
Bazuka, a collector of recyclable materials, dreams of flying. To realize your dream the only alternative is to build your own wings.
The real-life story of Zeneida, a girl who moves to a farm with her mother and finds herself having an unusual connection with a forest spirit.
In 1980, the first march of gays, lesbians and transvestites took place in Brazil in protest against the constant police operations that took place in São Paulo, which aimed to repress these groups. Based on Renan Quinalha's doctoral thesis, “Against morality and good customs: the sexual politics of the Brazilian dictatorship (1964-1988)”, carried out by the Institute of International Relations, a series of four 5 minute videos about the birth of the LGBT movement during the Military Regime.
Silvia is a middle-aged filmmaker in crisis with her life. The same night that she is surprised by the visit of the ex-wife, who left her a few years ago, meets another woman who fascinates her.
A boy watches a dvd he's found at home, the one marked #03
The film shows the creative process of a land art artist Jean Paul Ganem through his path over the last 20 years. The documentary touches everbody by its transformative power of the art and by revealing recreated landscape in agricutural fields in France and Canada, in the suburbs of Paris and Montreal, and now, also in the heart of São Paulo.
The First Stone exposes the terrible face of intolerance, where angry lynch mobs take justice into their own hands. The documentary tells the story of lynching victims and investigates the shocking growth of this crime in Brazil where one lynching is registered everyday - the highest rate worldwide. A narrative with engaging characters and dramatic stories of lives that have been devastated by this violent trend in mob rule.
The long afternoons mark the last stage of a relationship. Like a doll she always wanted to have, Josy takes care of her mother. Her sleek body and her features, which blend into the masculine and feminine, mark her personality. Her mother, a lady debilitated by a degenerative disease, which confuses the real and the imaginary, has never had a relationship as close to that son as now, which depends on him.
Follow the story of Roxx, once again walking in the desert of Gueramba. He arrives to his favorite place and as usual, starts playing a song. The music attracts Bud, the monster, an old fellow.
After the relationship ends, the two boys involved try to understand what really happened between the sides in the various stories they lived together. Between sorrows and resentments the truth given between the sides emerges and there is nothing left but for each one to go their own way.