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What tools can we use to question our identities and moral stands? Would art be one of the ways to make that happen? In what ways can we put ourselves in someone else's shoes? In the end, who's speaking when we say something? This film presents four dialogues that address complex themes about human coexistence.

Morada das Ixtranhas is a documentary experiment that contains a story of the multi-artistic collective Casixtranha. Through closings, transArtivisms, performances and interviews we tell our story in Araraqueer - São Paulo.

In the countryside of Sao Paulo, in a little town called Icém, a man wakes up to take revenge.

The concept of work is understood as the human activity carried out with the aim of producing a way of obtaining subsistence connected to the passage of time. The question that arises is how work can be the surrender of one's life (Make a deliberate incision in one's flesh, as a symptom of psychological or emotional distress.) In this vídeo, Silvio Eduardo Crisostomo exposes workers in activity alluding to bodies as ready-to-cut meat. Work as such activity sounds like repetition: the act of demolishing, building, living, and dying make up the simultaneous quadrilogy on a polyethylene cutting board.

Two stories that will enchant you! You will be enchanted by the way the two stories are led by the little ants.

A runaway runs out of time to save his life. But it depends on the butchers...

Histories of Hunger in Brazil is a documentary that sets a timeline of hunger in the country. From Colonial Brazil, where the seeds of social inequalities were planted, to the recent public policies that culminated with Brazil finally exiting UN official World Map of Hunger, we portray how the confrontation of this evil on the part of the society and of the government took place.

"It's very difficult to write a letter in a foreign language."

A documentary that follows the life of Serguei - flight-commissioner-turned-rockstar, hippie guru, rockstar and Janis Joplin's lover - chronicling his life from the early 60s until present day.

In an imprecise time, a continuous walk and a constant threat. Traces in the sand reveal memories that they seem to be unaware of, but not entirely.

Rodrigo is a college student who has a relationship with one of his teachers. Torn between his family and his lover, the teacher decides to end his relationship with Rodrigo. Rodrigo tries his best to keep his forbidden relationship with his teacher going, but it all ends in vain. After announcing the distance, the teacher blocks the student from all their social networks.

I Don't Like The Boys is a project inspired by the international campaign "It Gets Better" that brought together people from all different backgrounds and life stories to shine a light on same-sex relationships. It is a brilliant initiative that represents a growing effort in Brazilian cinema to demystify and de-stigmatize homosexuality in that country.

Performance of the Band at the Rock in Rio Festival 2011

Depressed, Amelia can not leave home, so she tries to be someone on the internet and she fails in the worst way possible.

BLINDER consists of 6386 photographs representing all the objects and characters featured in the English translation of José Saramago’s 1995 novel Ensaio sobre a Cegueira. In conceptual parallel with these images, the film’s soundtrack is comprised of 6386 audio samples extracted from Blindness, Fernando Meirelles’s 2008 feature film based upon Saramago’s novel.

Adventure starts here

Porto Alegre, Brazil. While his boyfriend joins the crowd for a big demonstration, Marcio is isolated in his apartment. From the porch, he hears the sound of bombs, cavalry, shouting and singing. On the street, a military policeman makes a call. Marcio's phone rings.

Narratives are tales that unintentionally define our personality. In the case of women, being beautiful is the only way. The film shows how we learn to be obsessed by the visual itself, and how the highest compliment to a woman is always beauty.

Rio de Janeiro. Suburbs. Karaoke. Dawn. Smell of beer and piss.

The spirit of the time. I accompany my dear young friend and neighbor Mia until the May 1, 2016 demonstration. On the way, Mia reflects how the times have hit her.

12 confined actors in a house dispute a reality show that aims to find the next great artist. In order to stand out to this reality, actors will have to go deep inside the game into unethical techniques used by producers to reach audience.

A psychologist faces the case that will challenge his foolproof technique: the patient needs to forget something that he cannot remember. In this mental challenge, every step towards healing is a step beyond the edges of reason.

clowns !!!!!!!

The Brazilian poem 'Morte e Vida Severina', a masterpiece of João Cabral de Melo Neto, comes to life in an animated version directed by Afonso Serpa.

In a messy room, a slap knocks a woman to the floor. The attacker appears deranged, bathed in anger and tears. The reason that leads the two, apparently old acquaintances, to this state is not immediately revealed. We are quickly transported to another time, the 70s: violence, repression, dictatorship, the hippie generation, the counterculture. We met these two women, now friends, in a movie theater. Here begins a puzzle to be put together, where present, past and illusion mix and become confused.

In an inhospitable place, a boy and his family struggle for survival.

Ailson Eraclito Da Silva is the best rower in Brazilian history, the Michael Phelps of his sport. Growing up in a leper colony on the banks of the Amazon river, he's constantly discriminated against. But his dream to win Gold for Brazil at the Olympics is within his grasp.

This short documentary presents the singular movie theater of the historic city of Ouro Preto, in Brazil, the Cine Vila Rica. Throug the looks of five characters that represents different ages and different reasons for the existence of the movie room, the directors put on screen a sentimentalist view of cinema itself and of seeing yourself as a part of one special theater.

The Pássaros Juninos are folkloric groups that clebrate teatrical acts in belém, northern Brazil.

More than 25 years after the song "A Dois Passos do Paraíso", from "Banda Blitz", hit radio stations all over the country, the film recreates the story of "Mariposa Apaixonada de Guadalupe" and the truck driver Arlindo Orlando.

The story of a maid who sees herself as a supporting character in her own life.

The liquid that bathes the newborn is the same that washes the lifeless body before the wake. Excess water causes death by drowning and scarcity causes the body to fail due to dehydration. In those bodies that have already had more relationships with nature, the liquid represents the heritage, ancestry and the human side that we are forgetting.

Heartwood tells the story of Agostino, a farmer’s son who is on a mission to save his region’s olive trees from a natural disaster. Xylella Fastidiosa is the most deadly pathogen known to mankind that has already infected and killed 20 millions of trees in Southern Italy. When Agostino learns that science is still searching for a cure, he decides to follow the disease back to its roots in Latin America. From the savannas of Brazil, the highlands of the Mayan Peninsula and the deserts of Colombia, Agostino chronicles the efforts of indigenous people to save their traditions and persevere in the face of climate change, while searching for a cure.