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Harrison suffers from Cotard's syndrome and walks between life and death. (Short film made in team together with college colleagues)

Takumã Kuikuro leaves his village located in Alto-Xingu, Mato Grosso, with his wife, Kisuagu Regina Kuikuro, and sons Kelly Kaitsu, Ahuseti Larissa and Mayupi Bernardo Kuikuro to live in Rio de Janeiro. The film shows 2-year-old Bernardo Mayupi Kuikuro discovering the beach and other places in the big city. They do many things, everything is new and, while they live this experience, the part of the family that stays in the village is afraid because the news from Rio de Janeiro are not always good, which causes concern and restlessness. A portrait of the Brazilian contrasts between the imaginary of the tribe and the reality of a metropolis.

Joris, a haitian immigrant, arrives in São Paulo to look for his brother. At the bus station, he has his things stolen and ends up getting into a misunderstanding with the police. A Bolivian immigrant will helps him on his journey through the city.

Mother and daughter watch the news on the TV on New Year's Eve.

"Mulheres que Transformam a Ilha" is a narrative about the fusion between Woman and social impact, is the portrait of the doubts, opportunities, accesses, sweat, victories and conquests of spaces lived by them.

A past of sexual harassment transforms the life of Renê who seeks to accept himself and find his place in the world seeking true love.

Two shots from the movie "Le diable probablement" (1977), by Robert Bresson, are repeated in a loop, creating a cyclic and endless raccord.

During the breaks of the shooting of "The Secret of the Mummy", Wilson Grey dreams. He dreams of great loves, breathtaking women and a great party with all the film's cast.

Based on a montage of mandatory political propaganda for the 2014 presidential election, the film presents a debate on the political direction of the country through a reflection on the speeches of the main candidates and the role of image in the construction of these speeches.

Homage to the great guarani spiritual leader, Wera Mirim.

Historically, the queer community has not been portrayed in mainstream culture as being capable of protecting children and young people. Yet my uncle Ricardo, himself an openly gay man, was the ultimate guardian of my childhood.

In the future, after an unknown syndrome, about 80% of the world's population has lost touch, taste, smell and upper limb movements.

Days seem calm on Socorro’s apartment, where TV’s the only friend.

An action sports documentary about empowering street kids and amputees, strengthening communities and creating a growing tribe of people to make the world a cooler place.

A poetic observational documentary that follows the lives of a community of “jangadeiros” —fishermen typical to the dune-lined Northeastern Coast of Brazil.

The history of Brazilian school CCPA (Colégio de Ciências Pura e Aplicada), located in Aracaju, Sergipe.

World Cup, garden, ritual. In the midst of an intense - and common - day in the village of the indigenous people Enawenê-Nawê, in Mato Grosso, Kularenê tells us how, when they left the same stone, Indians and whites took different paths: the first guided by Wadari, his ancestor, and the others by Lareokotô, grandfather of whites and father of technology.

New forms of insurgency and unrest on the fragments of the actions of some artists and activists. The recording of confrontation has its strongest expression in the performance. We see echoing clashes in a series of images. The cry begins before the other ends.

The award winner Brazilian photographer Luciano Candisani embarks in a new journey, interested by the story of a group of women who take their living from the sea. He will cross the world to portrait the story of the daily work of these heroines and bring awareness to a vital necessity of modern times: sustainability. Candisani leaves to an island in South Korea called Jeju, where he meets the Haenyeos, the women from the sea. These brave women follow a century tradition: they dive in the sea in order to harvest marine goods.

This short film portrays a group of gay teens in Sao Paulo, Brazil, and their worldviews. The testimonies of 10 young people between 16 and 18 call attention to important issues and other issues that are just fun. Through the statements of this group, the documentary gives voice to the new generation and finds out what they think about identity, sexuality and prejudice.

It is said that there is a lost manuscript by Fradique Mendes in a monastery in Cairu, a small city located south of Salvador.

Documentary about the dictatorship and the politician Bolsonaro.

A couple and the return of Saturn. Everything is terrible, everything is going wrong.

'Whole Man' follows the journey of Marcelo, a 25 year-old gay guy, through Sao Paulo's nightlife, in an obsessive search to fulfill his desires. Some love affairs after, he can't feel satisfied. Along his night journey, Marcelo realizes he doesn't even know what he is looking for, therefore revealing his loneliness. Before the night gets over, Marcelo invites a close friend to sleep over and feel less alone.

3 ex-presidents of Brazil, 12 ex-ministers of State, 7 ex-governors of the Central Bank, bank owners and finance specialists tell the Brazilian economic history and speculate about the present and the future of the country. 125 years ago Brazil was a poor country with slavery. 60 years ago 50% of Brazilians were illiterate. 25 years ago inflation rate reached 84% a month and 35% of the population was extremely poor. In 2013, Brazil ranks the seventh world's largest economy, inflation reached 5,4% a year, poverty was reduced to 12% and the country is looking forward to be wealthy. Will it happen? Agile cutting, simple language and smart graphic arts allow the answer to this and other questions to be interesting and available to all audiences.

Boy meets girl. Boy meets girl again. An ashtray in-between.

Raquel has been dripping for six months, but it seems that today everything will melt.

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 .

In the city of São Paulo, two women visit the places where the pernambucano writer Osman Lins lived. Current residents do not allow them to enter these places. Excerpts from two of the author's main novels written in São Paulo - Avalovara e A rainha dos cárceres da Grécia - are mixed with the images of the city that transpire as one of the characters in the film.

"Life, love and death among beings made of remains"

Alanis Morissette live performance in Philadelphia.

Barbara Ohana's song "Chains" is dubbed by a man who performs the song while the music video also presents him as the main character in a story where he feels broken-hearted, possibly because he still has feelings for his ex-boyfriend. As for the memories left, a masculine mannequin is what makes him company, which helps a little but not for too long.

About complicity, connection and discoveries. Some feelings can hurt and others can't disappear.

The final Sonic Youth concert

After impacting Brazil by showing the perverse consequences of the use of pesticides in O Veneno está na Mesa, director Sílvio Tendler presents the second film from a new perspective. Poison Is On The Table 2 updates and advances the approach to the current national agricultural model and its consequences for public health. The film presents agroecological experiments undertaken throughout Brazil, showing the existence of viable alternatives for the production of healthy foods, which respect nature, rural workers and consumers. With this documentary, comes the certainty that the country needs to take a stand in the face of the dilemma that presents itself: In which world do we want to live? The poisoned world of agribusiness or of freedom and agroecological diversity?