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There are 85 million cows in the Brazilian Amazon, which means three cows for each human dweller grazing today and area that was once forest. Less than fifty years ago, in the 1970s, the rainforest was intact. Since then, a portion the size of France has disappeared, 66% of which transformed into pastures. Much of this change is a consequence of government incentives that attracted thousands of farmers from southern lands. Cattle ranching became an economic and cultural banner of the Amazon, forging powerful politicians to defend it. In 2009, there was a game changer: the Public Prosecutor's Office sued large slaughterhouses, forcing them to supervise cattle supplying farms.

On February 22, 1998, the Palace II building collapsed unexpectedly, resulting in 8 deaths and nearly 200 families homeless. Considered one of the biggest disasters in the history of Brazilian civil engineering, to this day some of the culprits have yet to be punished for their neglect. The people involved in the accident still remember the crucial moments before, during and after the collapse.

A religious and traditionalist man, defeated by an incurable degenerative disease, decides to end with his own suffering. He entrusts his son Omar, with whom he has a difficult relationship, with the task of finding someone to end his pain.

A documentary about resilience and the fight against suicide among trans people, the film portrays the characters’ relationships with their bodies, life and all that is sacred. It dives into the hearts of Aretha, Yago, Deniell and Ariel in an attempt to promote inner healing.

An off-color joke nearly cost him everything. Brazilian comic Rafinha Bastos talks about that and much more, from his divorce to finding love again.

Railander is the cashier at a supermarket who has to daily deal with bullying and his abusive boss.

Documentary about the epidemic of fires in favelas in the city of Sao Paulo and its relationship with real estate speculation. Includes testimonies of former mayor Fernando Haddad, journalist Leonardo Sakamoto, and urban planners such as Nabil Bonduki, Ermínia Maricato and Ana Paula Bruno. In addition to these, there are also compelling testimonies from victims of the fires, as well as from other authorities, such as city councillors who composed the controversial Parliamentary Inquiry Commission investigating the fires in 2012 and the Civil Defence.

Morro do Castelo was chosen by the Portuguese to found Rio de Janeiro city. It was an important historical and architectural reference. Despite its relevance, the hill was destroyed by urban reforms aimed to promote real state speculation.

Vera Holtz is an actress who, through cinema, decided to rescue the memory of her family with her sisters Teresa, Rosa and Regina. Facing memory lapses, the actress tries to reinvent her own life in film.

A man suffers from writer's block while facing a deadline.

Caio receives a birthday "gift" from his friends -- a night with call boy Fernando. During the three hours of their meeting, the two will go from an initial aversion to a mutual and almost improbable attraction, slowly discovering and confronting the reality of both.

In the heart of the Amazon, Tauary (Brazil) inhabitants invite us to listen to the sounds of the jungle, the birds, and animals. However, there are also some weird sounds: a creature prowling around the trees. Some of them have heard it, very few have ever seen it, and those who did find it never came back. Curupira, creature of the wood takes us in search of this being: a reflection about myths and their place in the contemporary world. It’s a sound thriller in the midst of the jungle.

During the end of the world, a composer decides to fulfill his promise to show the sea for the first time to the love of his life. Along the way, they relive their entire relationship and how they ended up where they are now.

This documentary shows a country that has lifted 36 million people out of extreme poverty in 12 years.

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.

Five artists - a deaf person, two people with low vision, a person in a wheelchair and a limping person - are faced with a lot of questions, sent by the public, that reveal a whole imaginary around their bodies.

For one night, a man tries to return to his home, a place he believed was suddenly replaced by a pharmacy.

A retired old man experiences strange surreal events at his apartment.

Jammed in a job they loathe and exhausted by all the social impositions that surround them, Bárbara and Luiz, in their twenties, decide to leave together for a friend's house seeking for emotional refuge. Inside the place, always full with extravagant parties, both externalize all their cravings and repressed desires.

Art unmutes the silenced, questions, accepts, erases borders, brings people together and also, makes us humans.

A priest spends his days praying masses and listening to the confessions of the few remaining faithful. One day a devil is sent to the city to torment the parish, but he asks the priest for help because he no longer wants to do evil.

The documentary “Vozes de Paracatu e Bento” shows how the cities of Paracatu de Baixo and Bento Rodrigues live after the collapse of the Samarco dam, in Minas Gerais. A story of belonging, passion and resistance is drawn on screen through the testimony of its residents. At the same time, a panel of abandonment in which Brazil finds itself is being shown in the documentary.

AVE is on their way back from a party and, while trying to rest in the train car home, ends up crossing paths with a very peculiar figure: their own unconscious.

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.

Dela lives on the island of Itaparica with her father, Agenor. At the new school, classmates find his name strange and his hair weird. The girl questions her father, and the story he tells changes the way she sees herself!

Too hot! The spawning fish do not come at the right time and the pepper plants end up dying in this heat. "This is a very different weather that not even the spirits can understand." From their gardens, homes, and backyards, the indigenous women of the Amazon involve us in their vast universe of knowledge while they observe the impacts of climate change in their ways of life.

Danilo Gentili's stand-up sequel about brazilian 2018 elections

When Ana wakes up with an inexplicable speech problem, her family begins a search to bring her back to who she once was.

This a documentary film on Afghanistan and the effects of wars of the last 38 years. Malalai Joya, Afghan activist for human rights, democracy and women's rights, speaks to the atrocities committed against Afghans by Soviets, local Warlords, Taliban, and now USA and NATO presence in the country. Many victims of these atrocious wars tell their stories. A film by Pronesis Institute of Audiovisual and Social Change and Cine Cinematográfica of Brazil.

After the tragic loss of their child, a couple must prepare to witness their last day of light before the world fades into ever winter and darkness.

A detailed retrospective of an emblematic moment in Brazilian history, the abolition of slavery, presented from another perspective. Contrary to what was preached by textbooks and other aspects of official history for a long time, it was not merely the signature of Princess Elizabeth in the Golden Law on May 13, 1888, that freed the slaves, and neither was such a gift a gift or a step in the direction of mythological racial democracy.

Prior to the Brazilian 2018 presidential elections, a film crew went down on the streets of Rio de Janeiro in order to listen to people's opinion on candidate Jair Bolsonaro.

Lost in a huge, isolated playground, a girl is forced to play a game she doesn't understand.

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?

For the centenary of the Fortaleza Esporte Clube, experts, players and fans remember the Brazilian football club's triumphs, trials and cultural legacy.

The exchange of looks, the relationship and the uncontrolled need for trust a first kiss to a stranger. What's the worst that could happen?

Amidst the crisis in the Porto Alegre real estate market, a college student, struggling with a recent break up and her upcoming graduation, start looking for a new apartment to live in, only to find herself victim of an urban curse that follows people who live alone in the city.

Homosexuality, abortion, moral depravity, UFOs and extraterrestrials.

Love in a Brazilian town on the edge of the jungle: he loves her, and she says she loves him too. She deserves a gift, one that makes an impression. He wants to marry her and can’t wait any longer. So he heads out into the jungle armed with a pickaxe, since there is no app to find what he has in mind for her: gemstones. Gemstones are the path to freedom, his way out of the dreary small town – with her at his side.

Two university friends, from the outskirts of Fortaleza, make a meeting in a chic Café in the city. The meeting changes agenda when one of them is mistaken for burglar.

At the horizon just the top of a tree and the chimney of a factory. In the heavens, the clouds blend with the smoke that flows incessantly. This is the start and also the end point for this visual essay, exploring the rhythmic, associative and sensory potentialities of glitch and digital imagery to address the dichotomies between aesthetics and politics, abstraction and figuration, contemplation and thought. At the limit, the film questions how easly the abstract landscapes of the intellect make us lose touch with the concrete reality and our senses of action.

An overview of the Brazilian vinyl market and its main players to understand the dimension of a universe that mixes sounds, money and passion. New factories, labels, stores, rarity-hunting mercenaries, collectors, DJs and a whole complex ecosystem revolve at 33 rpm around this renewed and beloved industry.

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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.

Satire on everyday life. A reflection on the value and personal relationships between individuals. How to act in front of current reality?