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"So who never thought about the Evil / saw herself in criminal nature" - the film portrays, through an analog cutout and collage stopmotion, the surreal in the loss of innocence and the seduction by the forbidden.

Inspired by Paul Nash’s art and a Wilfred Owen’s poem, the short is based on a true story of a young boy who joins the army but regrets it and writes to his mother asking her to tell the commander he was only seventeen years old.

Maria, a young black woman born in a quilombo in the interior of the state, is a quota holder at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro. His mother, Francisca, lives his life cutting sugar cane near the quilombo. The two exchange messages to kill the homesick and reflect on the end of a social and economic era.

Documentary about dreams and desires of ordinary people, about fuels that move us daily: happiness, recognition, financial stability, marriage, health, fun, a few pounds less, enjoyment, overcoming or even a simple and humble kite.

Documentary on the view, testimonies and times of Darcy Ribeiro, since military dictatorship.

The "short film" tell the story of Leonardo, a young man who goes through difficult times as he tries to overcome great losses in his life.

An oral record with a little history of the Kaingang Nation told by the Kófas of the Guarita indigenous tribe.

At a big banquet, 3 Arab friends who live in a refuge in Rio de Janeiro tell us their stories.

Documentary about the preparation of a popular celebration of "Dia do Preto Velho", one of the most important rituals from the Umbanda in Brazil.

Zhu Songling is a retired paleontologist who worked at the Chongqing Natural History Museum for 40 years. He tells us his story while the dinosaur fossils he repaired are exhibited to the public every day.

During the production of his album “Sobre Crianças, Quadris, Pesadelos e Lições de Casa”, rapper and activist Emicida visited several communities to create an overview of the reality of young people who live outside the standards of the upper classes.

What is the influence of Jazz on Brazilian music and the influence of Brazilian music on Jazz? The documentary Zuza Homem de Jazz draws a parallel between the two universes, featuring the renowned Brazilian musicologist Zuza Homem de Mello as the protagonist. It offers an intimate look at the writer and music journalist and highlights his long connection with Jazz, that dates back to the 1950’s, when Zuza was a student at the Julliard School of Music. The film was also shot in New York, where Zuza meets old friends in the jazz circuit and revisits memorable stories.

Nei D'Ogum is African religion, is sex and is racial causes. He is love and contradiction. He is a fighter for civil rights for black people, gays and transsexuals. He is the very cause. He describes himself as 'Poor, n*gger, fagot'.

Jonas supervises the energy towers at the Serra do Mar. A fire occurs in the forest.

In the heart of the neighborhood of Pina, in Recife, a quiet supermarket sees its daily life changed by an inexplicable phenomenon of nature, "Multicor Sky Flashing". Among Superpina's shelves and stocks, customers and employees experience "Amor Primo".

From 3 years of research around Brazil, HÍBRIDOS, THE SPIRITS OF BRAZIL dives into the sacred culture of the largest country in South America through a very poetic and sensorial approach. As an exploration of trance-cinema, the film breaks down the distance between the viewer and the subject, guiding them trough a realm of movements, of non-stop dances, of music pulsating at high rhythms, creating in its core a new perspective about what might be the invisible and how to we deal with it in a creative way.

Ayani films her grandmother, Ayani, in her daily activities.

The work is inspired by Shakespeare's play "Twelfth Night", and the whole narrative is built around the festivities of the Folia de Reis and an unexpected love born of this tradition.

Francisco, a retired driver, remembers his moments on Brazilian roads.

You walk into the fridge fo eat something. Innocent as you are, you think nobody's watching. Forty one years later, your midnight snack becomes a movie and it can be seen by the whole world via internet.

Emotional memory, past memory. Digital memory, RAM memory. Short memory.

Unlike other days, today the "iron mouth radio" Voz Praiana began its activities with an unusual program in the Orla de Manaus. Instead of announcements, the heiress of the radio, Ana Maria, decided to call relatives, friends and acquaintances to tell about the history of its founder, Dom Kimura, the voice most known in the great area of Manaus Moderna and was cheered by crowds in the ring of the capital where he shone like the indomitable "Golden Head"

Animated documentary about the daily lives of street jugglers who add color to the monotonous routine of big cities.

Around 1827, Hercule Florence described in his logbook “Viagem Fluvial do Tietê ao Amazonas”, a region of abrupt rock formations nearby São Geronimo Mountain. During a hard trip up and down waterfalls, Hercule took a moment to observe and draw the amazing landscape. Probably, the most magical moment in his journey. The film “THE BLUE NIGHT” reconstructs the stellar, cloud movement and shadows behind the emblematic Chapada Diamantina stones. Influenced by the “tableaux transparent” and the “stereopinture”, the film talks about an imaginary lost night in time and space.

Luiza is a young woman who embarks on a journey of change amid the emotional turmoil caused by a past relationship. The film intertwines the present and the past in an attempt to portray a process of overcoming trauma shrouded in memories.

Through the eyes of a cat, the audience meets Bruno, Fabricio, Silvio and Lucio, their fears, guilt, ego and delicacy.

A doctor is invited to dinner at the home of her favorite writer, Paula Clossidy, however, the author turns out to be stranger than the stories she publishes. Based on a short story by R. F. Lucchetti.

What does your hair say about you? With this question, we approached more than forty people in Salvador, Belém do Pará, Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo and the answers reveal stories of resistance, conquest, affirmation and overcoming. Based on ethnic, age, socioeconomic and gender diversity, we can draw an original portrait of contemporary Brazil from the hair of Brazilians.

Making use of archive images and official speeches, the film is freely inspired by the text "Freudian Theory and the Pattern of Fascist Propaganda" by Theodor Adorno.

An employee comes to work in Brazil, but finds some difficulties.

The dream of the life of an erguided man, stone by stone, in the high sertan of Ceará.

With doubts about whether she must leave or not her country, young Cuban makes a trip around the island of Cuba to deeply know her homeland.

On the night before the LGBT + Parade, Gabriel is faced with unexpected visits to his apartment, leading him to confront his own role in his home, family, and country.

Based on four experiences—Francisca in the Aymara Network of ERBOL Bolivia, Almir in the Amazon incorporating the Internet, Matías in the Mapuche Radio of Patagonia, and Ariel working with video in the villages of Brazil—the documentary seeks to represent the way in which indigenous peoples use their own means of communication to resist the invasion of their territories, the plundering of their resources, legal persecution, cultural discrimination, the lack of official recognition of their institutions, the denunciation of their inequalities, and the vindication of their differences.