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Documentary on an elderly nursing home in Rio de Janeiro.

Four boys, Eduardo, Rui, Júlio and Carlos meet in bars to plot scams and tricks. Among them is Teresa, with whom Rui is in love, even knowing about her pregnancy. The boy does everything to know who the child's father is, but uselessly. Eduardo is a day employee and a car thief at night. Júlio and Carlos use marijuana and do not hesitate to use violent methods in their designs. One night they follow Edna (student and bride) to her house.

A wife dissatisfied with her husband's vagrancy asks her father, who lives in Paraíba, for help. He then sends two henchmen to Rio to make his daughter a widow, but she reconciles with her husband and needs to prevent the tragedy. Based on the play by João Bethencourt.

A common robber is turned into a killer when he discovers that his sister was sexually assaulted by a policeman. After his act of vengeance, the police force begins a man hunt which corners the man into the building of a district attorney of whom he takes hostage.

The legend of Tristan and Isolde is one of the most beautiful love epics ever conceived. Richard Wagner, in a famous opera, had already tarnished its purity. The modern transposition of the legend is set in Brazil, in a village of poor fishermen on Guanabara Bay, framed by mountains not far from Rio de Janeiro. Two young cousins, Marcos and Jeronimo, get together to fish successfully - the arrastao is a large fishing net - and to resist the ugly local landowner, who sets the rules and the prices. This owner has a niece: Emaïsa, who loves Marcos and is loved by him.

Wealthy banker Antônio witnesses the murder of a journalist, who got killed for exposing the activities of a gang of smugglers. After they find out about him, Antônio and his wife are both targeted and pursued by the criminals.

In rural Brazil, villagers battle wealthy land barons for the sake of their own survival.

The troubled life of two idols of the Jovem Guarda amidst the pleasant rhythm of the contagious iê-iê-iê.

Couple whose marriage is at stake delve into the past, with the help of a diary and some home movies. In these movies, Helena, the woman's suicidal friend, has an important role.

Love, sex and death get mixed in a love story between two desperate boys in a big city.

The documentary depicts the everyday of illiterate rural workers in Northeast Brazil, living under extreme misery. Although incapable of writing, they are aware of their condition and qualified to proposing solutions they hope for to their problems.

Luis, a paralyzed elderly man, tells his son the story of his life and how he ended up in this situation after the return of an old flame, Lili. The woman, outraged to see her ex-boyfriend happily married, tried to win him back at any cost, which led to drastic consequences that affected him forever.

The relationship of a woman with three men - her husband, her lover and a man who fell in love with her -, told in a single night, through flashbacks

In the hinterland of Paraíba, the small wooden mills powered by animal traction, called “bolandeiras”, are doomed to disappear.

When a young boy from a shanty town near Rio de Janeiro gets a coveted pair of white trousers for Christmas his joy knows no bounds. Not getting them dirty, however, presents certain difficulties for a lively slum kid.

A debate about the agrarian reform in Brazil, in free and poetic form, showing the countrymen's struggles and hardships, and rural unionism issues after the military coup, kind of a nonlinear interpretation of Mário Chamie's poem "Lavra-Lavra".

Western spoof. Depicts the conflict between the leader of a gang of country bandits and his former protégé, now a police officer.

Image of a cinematic camera, described off by a female voice. Two students talk about film school. In a classroom, students stand up, one by one, attack and murder a classmate; the wallets fill up with corpses. A boy dances naked in front of a screen on which different images are projected. At the top of a platform, a man in a suit speaks to two naked young men who crawl across the floor. Two boys with clown makeup shed tears looking at the camera. Then they get in a car. Red spots explode and spread slowly across the screen.

An unemployed couple, Chico and Maria, wander around the countryside. They settle in a simple house, Chico falls ill and, after recovering, seems possessed by a "strange force".

A film regarding the works, the studios and the performances of Abrahan Palatnik, Antonio Dias, Carlos Vergara, Glauco Rodrigues, Helio Oiticica, Ligia Pape, Lygia Clark, Pedro Escosteguy, Rubens Gerchman, Tomoshige Kusuno, Wesley Duke Lee, and the São Paulo 9th Bienal of Art.

Invited by his brother, physician Luis Alvarado, filmmaker Ramon Alavardo records two unpublished surgeries carried out at the Hospital das Clínicas (Clinical Hospital), in Vitória.

A brief tribute to Brazilian painter Cândido Portinari relating to his humble beginnings as a citizen born in the town of Brodósqui, located on the countryside of São Paulo. Some of his paintings and poems are presented along with some archive images.

The short film "L'Ottimista Sorridente" was Luis Sergio Person's graduation work when he was studying directing between 1961 and 1963 at the Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia in Rome, Italy.

Works on Rua Farani, reception of the Cuban ambassador and Dom Jaime Câmara, day of scouting, nakedness of the employees of the Guanabara Palace. Film 16mm, PB, silent. Directed by Esdras Baptista, 1961. LUPA-UFF collection.

Annual pilgrimage of pilgrims to the ruins of Nossa Senhora da Guia, on the north coast of Paraíba. After visiting the temple, the faithful indulge in the coco de roda dance.

The big city. A man lost in the middle of it. Buildings, isolated people, no conflicts. Newspaper headlines report tragic events: suicides, homicides. Movement, agitation, and entanglement define the city once again. The man reappears in his room. There will be a romantic encounter, but with it comes farewell. The empty city reappears.

The importance of cashews in daily life in the northeast.

Documentary that uses metaphors to deal with industrial development in Brazil. From the attempt to build a national industry to the almost immediate invasion of foreign capital.

A short film commemorating the 400th anniversary of the city of Rio de Janeiro. The short film was sponsored by the Barsa Encyclopedia (launched in 1964) and the Jornal do Brasil newspaper. The text, narrated by Paulo Mendes Campos, was written by Machado de Assis himself.

A portrait of Afro-Brazilian resistance traditions in Bahia and their confrontations with persecution and intolerance. The history of capoeira, which came from Angola, was persecuted and criminalized for decades, and later transformed into a national sport and spectacle. The maculelê, a warrior dance brought from Mozambique, accompanied by loud chanting. Finally, the candomblé terreiros - a mystical cry of rebellion.

A film by Orlando Bomfim Netto, member of the Capixaba Collection.

The documentary follows a caravan of acrobats through the suburbs of Rio de Janeiro, presenting the situation of circuses in Brazil through testimonies from several circus artists.

Tired of the constant abuse he suffers in his household, a boy runs away from home and goes on a series of sad and dramatic adventures, in which he finds the opportunity to show the power of his own voice.