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Passionate about the magic of cinema and historically imposed on a place of invisibility, prejudices and stereotypes, how can women challenge, break with oppression, look after precious archives, play remarkable characters, produce and direct successful films? The documentary illuminates the trajectories of dreams, challenges and victories of talented Brazilian women in our audiovisual sector.
How would it be possible for human beings to enjoy loving relationships with machines? A big revelation surprises the customers of a major technology company. Directed and performed by a trans woman. The entire film crew and cast was made up of trans people.
Isabel ritually invokes dark forces to keep herself the prettiest and disfigure anyone who threatens her superiority. A date becomes a bloody feast. Moved by, Isabel poisons a friend and makes her whole body burn. These are just some of Isabel's victims on this self-centered journey.
The dancers Cassia, Lia and Neusa are fired from a popular auditorium program after completing thirty years of age. Months later, they arrange a meeting to make plans for the future and make an assessment of their careers, doubts and uncertainties that involve like three black artists, of solid formation. From then on, mismatches and new encounters will define trajectories. An Afro-Brazilian melodrama that deals with possibilities of existence and resistance.
Women who run with each other.
During a rainy day, inside a cavern in the middle of the woods, the Boogeyman prepares a potion, but finds out an ingredient missing.
Vespasiano, in the interior of Minas Gerais, is home to one of the few national penitentiaries specifically for pregnant women and mothers with young children. Guided by these women, we entered fragments of the daily life of the prison unit: evangelical services, conversations, confessions, doodles, vanity, fear, censorship, punishment, longing, memory and the constant struggle for the experience of motherhood.
On Christmas Eve, two women engage in a conversation in a boat, as it glides over the waters of a dark, cold pond. An unexpected event will leave its mark at the end of this crossing. Based on a short story by Lygia Fagundes Telles.
A boy goes to sleep, but there's a monster under his bed.
"The Blue Butterflies Path" is a contemporary fable in which a maned wolf cub awakens to life in the Brazilian wild plains and goes into a contemplative journey to find the true meaning of love. Among the brutality of a doomed world, a symbolic battle between altruism and selfishness is waged by animals at risk of extinction.
The short documentary ‘Complexos‘ features intimate and emotional views on how residents of favelas in Rio de Janeiro use media and arts to raise their voices and act for justice, dignity and respect. ‘Complexos’ is part of a collaborative process between the Finland-based Anti-Racism Media activism Alliance (ARMA Alliance) and the favela-based audiovisual collective Cafuné na Laje.
In the covid-19 quarantine a man begins to record his days of social isolation. (An experimental fake documentary)
Pamela meets a misterious man, something her agent is not at all happy about.
2020. A crab in the middle of the rocks. Someone watches. https://youtu.be/OqT_cq09aQg
Null Island is located at 0°N 0°E, where the prime meridian and the equator cross. The location is marked by a buoy in the Atlantic. This hypothetical place exists only in mathematics and cartography: it was created so that other places could be indexed on a map. At a weather station in Antarctica, a scientist and a robot talk to each other. We follow the scientist’s perception of a strange phenomenon that appears in the polar landscape: a metallic sphere that cannot be captured by cameras and is visible only to the organic eyes of humans and animals. The robot – a form of artificial intelligence that controls the cameras and has been living there for a long time – cannot detect the sphere and this disagreement about what is being seen triggers more subjective and existential conversations between scientist and robot.
The sweet story of a confused gay man and his best friend after an unusual night where he comes out to his friend and regrets such act feeling real bad. However, what he wasn't counting was that his friend is very helpful, understanding and is very supportive of him. A story about loyalty and true special relations.
An animation that is pure 'juice of Brazil'.
"Vidas Cruzadas" tells the story of young people whose lives are transformed when they meet new people!
An autobiographical documentary made by a mother who follows the gender transition of her adolescent son: between 2016 and 2019 she interviews him addressing the conflicts, certainties and uncertainties that pervade him in a deep search for his identity. At the same time, the mother, revealed through a firstperson narration and by her voice behind the camera that talks to her son, also goes through a process of transformation required by the situation that life presents her with by breaking old paradigms, facing fears and dismantling prejudices.
Chico Rei was an enslaved Congolese king who freed himself and his subjects during the Gold Cycle in Minas Gerais. His story is the starting point to explore the various echoes of Brazilian slavery in the lives of black people today, understanding their movement of self-affirmation and freedom from a collective perspective.
It is another rainy day in Pyongyang and the long boulevards of utilitarian buildings have taken on a misty shade of grey. School children do daily exercises before saluting a portrait of Kim Jong-un and adults don lapel pins depicting their leader before a day’s work at the farm or factory. Tracing a form of cultural uniformity that is unfamiliar to many in the West, this is a portrait of life behind the world’s last iron curtain.
Have you ever imagined what it is like to support a team that hasn't won a title in 94 years? São Cristóvão de Futebol e Regatas, the birthplace of superstars like Ronaldo Fenômeno, resists against all expectations. More than football, this is a film about love.
The quick response of a body in social isolation. The dancer moves alone in the living room of her apartment and expresses her feelings in the face of quarantine. A solo choreography of the automatic desires of a body that needs movement.
The 'Vídeo nas Aldeias' performed with the Enawenê Nawê Indians, for fifteen years, extensive records of Yaõkwa, their longest ritual, in which the masters of ceremony pull, for seven months, a myriad of songs, in order to maintain the balance of the earthly world as a spiritual world. In this film, another fifteen years later, the Enawenê Nawê rediscover these images and, with them, deceased relatives, customs that have fallen into disuse and precious ritual songs.
The plot takes place in the city of Nova Friburgo, in the interior of Rio de Janeiro. Gael is shy and repressed because of his sexuality, an unacknowledged gay man. His father and mother don't accept the way he behaves and call him strange. Since he was a child, he has been bullied. In his teens, the attacks get worse and he ends up being the victim of an evil plan by his classmates Eline and Hugo, and from then on his life changes completely.
Jesus life and work goes through rumors, conspiracies, injuries, friendship and fanaticism. An emblematic figure of the 1st century, Jesus was a charismatic leader, but he faced many trials.
Fernanda, the woman who had never lost an argument with her girlfriend, one day is left without an answer. She then goes out in search of an argument.
After spending a few months in the Vila Verde Village, the yãmĩyhex (women-spirit) prepare to leave. The filmmakers Sueli and Isael Maxakali register the preparations and the great feast for their farewell. During the feast days, a legion of spirits crosses the village. The yãmĩyhex go away, but they always come back missing their fathers and mothers
Three women with completely different backgrounds have one thing in common: they loved and were connected to the same man. From the point of view of these women, through an intricate structure moving back and forth in time, Raul enters the story.
In a world on fire, a seven-month-old pregnant nurse deals with growing anxiety while gradually finding herself attracted to a member of the Pentecostal church and her community.
On a Christmas night, two children decide to play with an Ouija board. Christmas is time to celebrate life, spread love and sow hope. So it is good to be close to those we love, even if they are no longer with us.
Metalanguage and irony about what makes a film, film.
A Black Ops mission to kill a terrorist leader in Serbia, starts to have bad outcomes.
When late at night Paulo receives a visit from a stranger asking for help, a suspense begins with pain, suffering and a mark that can never be removed. The stranger enters the family and brings to light secrets that should never have been unearthed.
Sixteen young black people talk about the experience of going to university in Brazil after more than a decade of affirmative policies in education.
Sílvia's search for meaning leads her to the strange cult of the Abiding Body.
Gerd Wenzel was born in Berlin, and as a boy he arrived in Brazil as a refugee from East Germany. Here, he was a pastor, found himself a football commentator and, today, recovered social and political activism. At 75, after fleeing the Second World War, overcoming Nazism, being persecuted by the military dictatorship and never getting tired of the fight for freedom ... Gerd, a good friend, has a story to tell.
The charismatic Dinho talks about his extraordinary life story and how he defied the conventions of his fishing village in southern Brazil by becoming a crossdresser and starting to weave lace – a task traditionally performed by women.
Luccas and Gi are ready to spend the holidays with friends. But when thieves come calling, can the siblings work some Christmas magic and save everyone?
Manfredo seeks out a psychiatrist. The doctor insists on knowing his past, but there is something that Manfredo doesn't want to reveal and he abandons treatment. Dr. Pink starts to chase Manfredo and his life turns into hell.
Self-directed visual for Luedji Luna's new studio album. It verses about love and affection of black women.
From the heart of the Amazon comes this exclusive LGBTQ+ compilation from emerging Latin American directors from Brazil and Peru. These 5 thought-provoking shorts prove that universal social themes have no borders. They are: The Last Romantics [Os Últimos Românticos] (2019); Savage Fire [Fogo Selvagem] (2017); My Only Earth Is in the Moon [Minha Única Terra É Na Lua] (2017); Sandra Calling [Sandra Chamando] (2017); Carlito Leaves Forever [Carlito se va para siempre] (2018).
We came across traditional rituals of a mixed race of indigenous, black and white people, with their mystic practices, their shamans and healers that express a reality and a way of life that doesn’t belong to any kind of paradigm. This problem is extremely relevant in the current political situation of Brazil in face of the repeated environmental and social catastrophes that are being inflicted upon us.These people have a way of acting which favours a sustainable development, their knowledge should be respected.The world is divided in two categories, independent of any ideology:the rich world and the poor world.We related the religious rituals, the artistic and the mystic trances in a Brazil where poverty and hunger are invisible to a large part of the society. A country of people that has invisible myths and such a rich diversity is being transformed into a unison and melancholic chant. The Guardians Forest whose leader was murdered last Dec, tells us what motivates their fight.
A virus plagues the Earth in 2020.
Mother, wife and daughter talk about the reality of living with the absence of a relative imprisoned.
Trajectory of a landscape with a figure.
These days that never goes never end and never start.