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From the 60's, the neighborhood of Pedra de Guaratiba, in Rio de Janeiro, was invaded by a varied artistic community.

1983: O Ano dos Videogames no Brasil tells the story of how video games, as a new form of entertainment, officially arrived in the country in 1983, but it will also bring information about the before and something about the after. The focus is essentially on devices that preceded the cartridges, such as Casio's game watches, Game & Watch handhelds and PONGs/Telejogos, but mainly - and especially - the first national generation of video games itself, the Odyssey generation, the Atari 2600 and its clones, Intellivision and SpliceVision (ColecoVision).

A portrait about a Cuban family and Jenni, a professional 100 m sprinter…

In partnership with Kenner, one of the brands that sponsor BK ’, the artist released the mini documentary“ Gigantes ”, where he shows unpublished scenes of the rapper in the studio in the process of producing the album.

When you have a sore throat, imagine it could be worse.

Visual experience with genitalia in a political struggle. Written, Produced and Directed by Petter Baiestorf, with a tasty edition by Gurcius Gewdner and magical photography by Daniel "Australian" Yencken and the genitalia of barbarian Coffin Souza. Don't vote for anyone !!!

In this short, Willer’s poetic images and his voice dress the streets, the skies, the avenues. Here is Willer, the great poet and living legend of the sixties generation, in front of the camera, letting us into his universe, which Priscyla Bettim & Renato Coelho approach as a poetic encounter, in which experimental cinema becomes a powerful catalyst for his poetry. From an erotic and personal approach, the filmmakers give substance to what Willer states...or perhaps it’s the reverse: it is the images that coexist freely with the sound field of words and music.

Entering the virtual world of “Second Life”, Brazilian visual artist Paulo Bruscky meets film director Gabriel Mascaro. Mascaro, an ex-film film director from north-east Brazil currently lives and works making machinima (virtual short films) in the “Second Life”. Paulo hires Gabriel to make a machinima documentary of his adventures as a newcomer to the “Second Life”.

Documentary that presents an overview of the production of cartoons and comics in Brazil.

DVD recorded on 12/28/2013 at Festa da Uva (Grape Festival) in Caxias do Sul, Brazil.

In 2012, Rodrigo Piquet, from the Museu do Índio, showed Marcelo Zelic, from the group Tortura Nunca Mais, a film he had found called ‘Arara‘. The title did not refer to the animal, nor to the people known by that name. Zelic underline it as an important probative record on the teaching of torture during the military dictatorship. They were images of the graduation of the Guarda Rural Indígena, in Belo Horizonte, produced by the anthropologist Jesco Von Puttkamer (1919-1994) in 1970.

Documentary about the work of the Brazilian musician/songwriter Itamar Assumpção.

It's the year 50 b.C., in Ancient Egypt. The Roman army has just invaded the country and is now moving war prisoners across the desert. But a rebel boy will try to escape his captors.

Documentary about the heavy rock scene in Pernambuco.

NEUROSI5 is a short film animation about the dark future of the mankind, driven through violence and sex, and how the existence of androids has been reduced only to meet the basic and primitive needs of the society.

CINEMA CASINO is a film that looks at the aesthetics of traditional and pop dance forms experienced by young generations living on La Réunion, a French overseas department in the Indian Ocean. Concentrating on the expression of bodies in movement, the piece frames cultural manifestations historically linked to anti-colonial resistance alongside contemporary trends aligned with a consumer-based industry embraced by emerging economies today. The registered dance sessions involve individuals and groups that perform in a staged event at "Le Casino", a cinema and theatre hall built in the 30's that also served for meetings of the worker's union of the city's port.

In the city of Sao Paulo, a new meditation about the Tiete River.

São Paulo: Three Visual Essays redeems key characters of the city, with photographs taken in 1862, such as the ones by Militão Augusto de Azevedo, then onwards through the 20th century, with shots by Alice Brill, and finally through the 21st century, with pictures by Mauro Restiffe, among others. The visual communication of the city is presented since the painted walls of the 19th century to its neon lights and billboards by the 20th and 21st centuries. It also accompanies the grand transformations the city has gone through. Within the course of a hundred years, São Paulo, which started out as a village, transformed into one of the world's greatest metropolis.

In a quiet city in the interior of Bahia, a father transmits his longing for his son, while waiting to relive the times that never come back.

Susana Schnarndorf, a professional swimmer and mother of three, discovers a degenerative disease, which forces her to decide between the sportive career and the maternal role in the face of her last great battle: surviving.

Inspired by movie and pop world classics, the film tells the story of mikaela, a young transsexual recently arrived in Bethlehem who starts working with online strip tease to get money.

"Merchandise" is a short film produced by the Carne e Osso Collective that addresses stories of women living from prostitution from the sight of a newcomer.

Fourteen Beijing residents sing a song and tell the story of how it has marked their lives.

In 2057, the climatic chaos took over the planet. The richest are colonizing Mars, while the poorest remain in the same place. A woman returns to one of the favelas of the Tide in search of rediscovering what motivated her to join the rebellion.

In 2010 Marãiwatsede received the sad title of the most devastated area in the Amazon. The film tells the story of the Xavante people who had their land taken by the military in the beginning of the dictatorship, to create the Suiá Missu farm, considered the largest landowning in the world in the 1970s. The Indians are back and want to recover their territory. .

This short portrait of Victor Hugo, a young Black gay man, blurs fiction and documentary style to capture Black queer and trans life in the suburbs of a major Brazilian capital.

"I am extremely ambicious. I am ambicious in a way that no one else can see. Because money, confort, stability, luxury, is not enough for me, I want more. I want all I can take from this life". This Brazilian documentary chronicles the life of truck driver / artist Eduardo Marinho, following his daily routine, his lifestyle and his thoughts on life.

They are the queens of the night, divas of the gay world. With dazzling colors and endless joy, these artists fill nightclub stages with brilliance and capture society's imagination. Queens offers a glimpse into the lives of these warriors, where not everything is as it seems. The film also addresses issues such as gay rights and follows the drag queens at the LGBT Pride Parade in Copacabana, Rio de Janeiro.

A young woman travels to solve a matter of life or death. As she seeks to do what she needs, the city exposes itself with its curious characters.

Three mothers who lost their children violently tell their stories and in parallel we accompany two boys who break into a house to retrieve a flying kite.

Being a mother is not easy and, most of the time,women keep the responsibility of take care of their children.Clarice,Walkiria and Darlene talk about their challenges and their joy of being a single mother in contemporary society.

A mysterious substance is brought from Europe to Brazil. Accidentally spreads to the pumbling system of the building where the couple Laerte and Monica live. The unknown properties of the substance of the Old World are revealed when the couple find themselves like prey-predator.

A homeless man is looking for a safe place to spend the night and takes shelter in a seemingly abandoned house...

In 1988, brothers Flávio and Patrícia outline a plan to take Cassandra, the most popular girl in school, to bed. Thirty years later, separated by time, they still reside in the small town of Alvorada / RS, where their lives are interconnected by inhabitants of different social classes and obscure personalities.

A young man from the periphery recites poetry in the midst of a community shooting, where the police state kills blacks and the poor with war frequency.

All the photos, never printed, were lost due to a damaged memory card. What a funny name for such a card. I can remember those lost images more than most of the photos I took during that time.

Bees can go out in search of pollen and have to defend themselves, or live inside the beehive to death. If you defend yourself, it costs you the sting, worth your life, being locked, cost you freedom.

A special police team is ready for anything - or almost anything.

Follows Marcos Vinicius during four stages of his life (childhood, adolescence, youth and adulthood) and all the difficulties he goes through due to his color and upbringing.