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Would have one of the masters of Brazilian cinema always made the same film? From an encounter with documentarian Eduardo Coutinho recorded in 2012 and a vast amount of archive footage, this film offers a general look at Coutinho's work and testifies how the filmmaker’s thinking still stand the test of time to this day and age.

When a Labor Department inspector shows up at his factory, a foreman must keep the business in order while protecting his workers. But she soon realizes that she may not be able to do both.

A guest will spend a day at an inn where a dangerous former patient from a well-known asylum has recently been released and is staying in a nearby room.

Unlike the other children, Sophie discovers in the midst of her abilities to paint the gift of being able to cure illnesses. The news spreads and reaches the hands of a tabloid journalist. To protect the girl, her separated parents need to unite.

After losing her mother, a child discovers a magical way of seeing the world. A fantasy story about love and self-acceptance of a father, from the whimsical and innocent perspective of his daughter on life.

After the jail, Isaura tries to reconnect with the world. In prison he participated in a literary initiative and through the reunion with comrades of the project, he talks about his anguish. The difficulty of reconfiguring herself as mother, woman and human is constant.

The documentary reveals the creative process of theater director Amir Haddad and his group, Tá Na Rua, showing how the culture of Rio de Janeiro and collective work mix in the company's rehearsals and shows.

A short film about the urgent need to breathe. In a building where the neighbors never see each other, a young athlete and a shy boy decide to help each other when they find out they have to save a fish.

A man works in Rio de Janeiro, while living in Niterói, a nearby city known as Rio's "dormitory city". Leaving work late at night, his journey back home is faced by fatigue and sleepiness.

Made from interviews with young Brazilian students by filmmaker Eduardo Coutinho before his death (in February 2014), the film seeks to understand how teenagers think, live and dream nowadays. The footage was edited by Coutinho’s longtime partner, film editor Jordana Berg, and the final cut is signed by João Moreira Salles.

School is not yet prepared to welcome differences. For this reason, the elementary and high school period is often challenging for LGBTQIA+ people - lesbian, gay, bisexual, transvestite, transgender and diverse. It is during the educational journey that issues such as body, sexuality, and affectivity begin to surface, generating a series of conflicts. What is the space in school for those who do not fit into the heterosexual and cisgender pattern?

Wagner Tiso is one of the leading arrangers of Brazilian music, also working as a conductor, composer, and pianist.

The film explores the real and imaginary narratives of the quilombola communities of Alcântara / MA who have lived in conflict for more than thirty years with the intrusion of the Brazilian Space Project.

Film about the life of the doctor and poet Martins Fontes.

A cinematic dive into the life of Brazil’s most famous theater critic, the professor and translator Barbara Heliodora. An unprecedented portrait, woven from testimonials by Barbara herself, close friends, and prominent figures from the arts and communication industries.

Short documentary about a woman known from a film by Eduardo Coutinho.

An experimental film collectively produced in 16mm at Maumau - Recife.

Larissa, Morgana, Carol, Amanda, Talia and Juli. Who live on the island of Amparo, which lies across from Port, in Southern Brazil. They go for walks along two different river beaches, away from the constraints, these girls chat about mutual desires, trade secrets and talk about love.

The film presents the encounter of two young Christians during the festivities of Círio de Nazaré in Belém do Pará, the largest catholic procession in Latin America. The intention was to try to displace and question the idea of sacrifice, which etymologically means sacred work and is perpetuated as a purifying act. In addition, we think about how the construction of hegemonic masculinity is not intrinsically linked to a colonizing inheritance.

The pianist Carla Ruaro and her team embarked on a 40 days expedition which involved hoisting a piano onto a boat and traversing the Brazilian Amazon. In collaboration with local composers, the aim of this independent project was to take contemporary Amazonian music to remote riverside communities and an instrument they've never seen before. Through the acquisition and transportation of the instrument to the workshops and musical presentations for the communities along the river margins, the project also strengthens the bonds with hold together the riverside communities, an appreciation of the value of communities and artists.

"Lobão - Não Há Estilo Sem Fracasso" investigates the artistic career of Lobão, one of the most famous musicians of brazilian rock in the 80s. From some interviews with people such as Edgard Scandurra, Liminha and Marcelo Sussekind, this short movie shows various points of view about music industry and it presents hits of Lobão such as "Das Tripas Coração" and "Mal de Amor".

A super 8 camera observes the city of Rio de Janeiro followed by a poem.

A ride through the underground of São Paulo is also a ride through one's memories.

Walachai is a rural German colony located just 70 km from Porto Alegre. In Old German it means “far away, lost in time”. There are other villages with unique names in the country, such as Jamerthal, Batatenthal, Padre Eterno and Frankenthal. These are communities that have their own dynamics and still live far from the globalized world. Many of its inhabitants never learned to speak Portuguese and communicate in a German dialect transmitted by generations of descendants. However, they know nothing of their original Germany. They are all Brazilian and identify themselves as such.

The short film deals with the character of Henry Dorn, who tries to write a script for a commercial movie after a major failure, the character will have to deal with his demons and his constant indecision in trying to find an approach that is pleasing to his eyes. Based on the tale "The Simplest Thing in the World" by Ayn Rand (available in The Romantic Manifesto)

An unmotivated street caricaturist finds his artistic inspiration when he comes across a child with a rare and cruel disease. A dependency between the two is manifested by the communication in the drawings; what will be revealed to the artist in anguish and, for the boy, in a way of saying goodbye.

NEGRUM3 proposes a dip in the march of black LGBT people in São Paulo. An art film about blackness and queerness.

The end of the world takes place in the TV Morrinho community in Rio de Janeiro. Workshop video.

Fields of newborn flowers, small gatherings of surviving bees, resistant plant species and new types of eggs lay upon our shore, engaging us to dig and search for the meaning of such unexpected life...

The film tells the trajectory of a peasant, spiritist, socialist and vegetarian leader during the first half of the 20th century.

Amplified voices of those affected and affected directly and indirectly by the collapse of the Vale dam in Brumadinho in Minas Gerais at the beginning of 2019.