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During the carnival in Rio, the depressed César meets Silva, a man in full vigor of life and passionate about carnival.

The impeachment and removal from office of Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff in 2016 was triggered by a corruption scandal involving, among others, her then vice-president Michel Temer. Director Maria Augusta Ramos follows the trial against Rousseff from the point of view of her defence team. This is a courtroom drama that unfolds slowly: the appearances of the various parties gradually turn the proceedings into something akin to theatre. Inside the courtroom, grand emotions are played to full effect whilst, on the other side of the doors, lobbyists and supporters pace the corridors. Meanwhile, outside, in front of Brasília’s modernist government buildings, demonstrators are chanting like a Greek chorus. Only the main character, Rousseff herself, remains professional and aloof.

Documentary about the universe of independent comics in Brazil.

Euller Miller is a young native Brazilian of kaiwá ethnicity who leaves his small village just outside of Dourados (MS) to study dentistry at a public university in the crowded capital city of the state of Paraná. The film follows the complex transition between two very different worlds and the search for new horizons without abandoning his indigenous roots.

The visual documentary "Negritudes Brasileiras" was a way found by Nataly Neri to continue the Brazilian racial debate, locating it in the present time with the rise of new concepts such as representativeness and the increasing popularisation of the internet. The documentary was sponsored by the Youtube project Creators For Change, which provides a framework for creators to produce content engaged in the platform to combat hate speech, racism, xenophobia, etc.

Elisabete was born in Mexico, but spent her childhood with her parents on the idyllic beach of Tabatinga, in northeastern Brazil. Far from contact with other children, Daniela was her only friend. Due to a mysterious trauma, Elisabete abandons her home and never stays in one place again. A choice with obvious consequences, and at thirty, Elisabete longs for an identity. She does not feel comfortable in her own skin, a stranger in her own world. In search of an answer, Elisabete revisits her memories of that place, but times have changed and the expectation of a reunion with her old confidante may bring with it some disappointments.

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

In the countryside of Rio Grande do Sul in Brazil, live two brothers desperate about the situation they live in, desolated by the misery and in a cursed land, they search for help of a mysterious being around the place.

A documentary about Berlin's former airport Tempelhof. A film about Departures and Arrivals. And about those Berliners who come here to escape from their daily lives and those refugees who came here to finally arrive somewhere.

Russa returns to Bairro do Aleixo, in Oporto, visiting her sister and friends with whom she celebrates her son's birthday. In this short encounter, Russa returns to her neighbourhood's collective memory, where three of the five towers still exist.

The short shows how children are at the mercy of social surveillance to follow standards that have been historically built in society.

Literature in times of brazilian ditactorship.

A middle-aged man has just moved in to his new apartment. Everything is doing great, until his upper floor neighbor starts to say "hi".

Maria lives in Manaus and is 19 years old. She is a student of education and a transvestite. She likes people and the city where she lives, but walks with her eyes downcast. She feels ignored. What kind of woman is she? Based on these feelings and questions, the film paints a portrait of the complexity of the trans experience in a country like Brazil.

Cat-loving veterinarian Francisco finds a curious way to deal with homophobia in his town.

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...

Hans is addressing his first love, Arief, as if he could hear him despite the distance and time. This heart-breaking love letter guides his steps in search of Arief, while Agnès, Hans’ feminine double, reappears like a ghost. The Hans/Agnès duo roam the streets of Lisbon in a phantasmagorical and desperate quest, to remind us that it is impossible to escape one’s past.

Visual landscapes originated from a creative process involving performers interested in video art and body art that explores their truths, traumas, desires, and particularities from their experiences to respond to the provocation: what goes through your skin?

Jessica has to face everyday prejudice. She finds in art a way of expressing himself and overcoming his insecurities.

Luis, a former goalkeeper and Sara, a Braille teacher, are about to make love for the first time ... Although the only thing they have in common is the fact that they are blind.

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.’

Get ready for a feast. In 1993, four of the greatest Brazilian cultural personalities, four Antônios, were brought together by Rodolfo Brandão and Bebeto Abrantes for a recording in Rio, around a lunch table at Chácara do Céu. None other than the critic Antonio Candido, the writer Antônio Callado, the composer Antônio Carlos Jobim and the philologist Antônio Houaiss.

NOIRBLUE opens space to fiction and an atlantic navigation of some peripheral bodies. This exercise interrogates presence, absence, speeches and time to produce an extemporary dance aligned to two specific colors: the blackness of the skin and the ultramarine blue pigment.

Short film about racism.

No one messes with the kids of Vila Ideal.

In early summer, a group of students in Rio das Ostras decide to collectively produce an arts festival. Between work and parties, live the bullshit and delights of university life in a small town. However, the mistaken repercussion of a university event causes a great controversy in social media and directly affects their lives.

A story of Ana and Gisele's reunion and the transformations that time generates.

The story of a photograph: A single mother, an absent father and a child.

Abrindo o Armário dives into the process of liberation and conquests of the gay movement in Brazil. Through interviews, archival images and artistic performances, the film shows how homosexuals from different generations faced resistance, conquered spaces and fought for the right to construct a political, social and collective identity.

In 1992, during a meeting held at the family estate in the interior of Minas Gerais, all young heirs of the Baumann family mysteriously disappeared. The event is revisited by filming and old photographs, hoping to reconstitute his last days and solve the case.

In the shadows ours lights shows the way (or, the night is time to struggle).

The story of Elio, a young heir to his father's company, with whom he has a strained relationship, that receives his first big task in the business: to pay his father's debts to a loan shark. This night a revealed secret will change the lives of these three men in violent ways.

It tells the story of the musicians who revitalized Lapa, from the end of the 90s, in meetings on the small stage of "Bar Semente". The documentary is a historical record of a stronghold of cultural effervescence that remained in the affective memory of Rio de Janeiro.

Majur is a native and gay spokesperson from the village of Pobore, on the countryside of Mato Grosso. His main activity is to be the main common link between the village people and the big town where they fight for their culture and claim for their rights.

Two secretaries share the balcony of a curious company where plants are born from the floor.

In the Mafrak desert, located on the border between Syria and Jordan, one of the largest refugee camps in the world is developing, where a new cartography is being established. Thousands of families risk their lives every day to reach the site, seeking shelter amid the chaos of a civil war that has already killed more than 400,000 people.

A couple of rural workers receives a box with 3 magic eggs from a mysterious wanderer. Each egg grants a wish triggering a sequence of great misfortune.

Who are the chicks that make up the funk movement, and where are they? Funk has always been a form of protest, just as being a woman is. BEAT IS PROTEST: FUNK FROM A FEMALE PERSPECTIVE depicts the last decade underground scene of the funk women protesters in São Paulo. The testimonies come from transgender and cisgender women who navigate this universe in different roles, such as singers, DJs, beat-makers, producers, entrepreneurs, rappers, and dancers, and also from drag queens.

Brazil, 1981. Rodolfo sees his private and social life clashing when young Alberto is employed at the office of his little town.

Favela resident Ursinho, an overweight mixed race 30 year old introvert, fantasizes about his dream Adonis: one of Copacabana's high end male prostitutes.

A beautiful bride commits suicide in the waters of the Turvo River after having her honor stained with blood. Over the next few years, the small farmers of Linha Baixo Lajeado Azul, in the interior of Rio Grande do Sul, began to encounter fantastic appearances of a Bride in search of lost love. In A Noiva do Turvo, Canibal Filmes portrays the beauty and mystery of this unknown legend that stirs the popular imagination of the simple people who live on the banks of the dark Turvo River, stage of dense romances.

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?