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A short film built around footage shot during ten Sundays, from February 12 to December 30 of 2012, in the city of São Paulo, creating a reference for time and space that helps build a narrative marked by temporality. A film in which the main characters are the city of São Paulo and the work of Danish artist Olafur Eliasson. A new look on the city, its spaces, occupations and habitants.

​An unprecedented collection of pictures, characters and historical facts about the city of Rio de Janeiro, rescued by tv networks, documentary filmmakers and foreign journalists over the course of the 20th Century. The film reveals how Rio, its inhabitants and its cultural and natural attributes have been seen by foreigners. This is an opportunity to relive, through the eyes of a foreigner, social, political, technological and mundane events which Brazilians either did not manage to document audiovisually or whose works were lost.​

A man and a woman live in an abandoned house in a forest. Their lives are shaken when someone visits them.

The fire of a lit candle. A bonfire burns beside a river. A young man and an old man are together in an old house, dark and surrounded by woods. Who are they: father and son, or past and present?

A corrupt senator, Maria Pilar sees a great opportunity to win in the bidding process for the Brasil Brasileiro project. After contacting Minister Ivone Feitosa in search of more information, Maria is told to talk to the ministry's executive secretary, Madalena, to set up a frame-up. Little does she know, however, that Madalena has her own plan to get along on her own...

A rare interview of Clarice Lispector, from 1977, to Julio Lerner, TV Cultura reporter. After its recording, Clarice asked for the interview to be aired only after her passing. It went on air ten months later. Clarice died in December 1977, aged 57. "Uma rara entrevista de Clarice Lispector, concedida em 1977, ao repórter Júlio Lerner, da TV Cultura. Depois de gravada, Clarice pediu que a entrevista só fosse divulgada após sua morte. Foi ao ar dez meses depois. Clarice morreu em dezembro de 1977, aos 57 anos."

The feature film ' The Birth Reborn' portrays the serious obstetric reality in the world, which is characterized by an alarming number of cesarean or deliveries with traumatic and unnecessary interventions, as opposed to what is known and recommended by science today. This situation has serious perinatal, psychological, social, anthropological and financial consequences. Through the reports of some of the leading experts in the area and the latest scientific discoveries, the film questions the current obstetric model, leads to a reflection on the new paradigm of the twenty-first century and the future of a civilization born without the so-called 'love hormones', released only under specific conditions of labor.

Hilário Pestana, the most famous, funniest and, ironically, saddest Brazilian actor, has died. He has passed through many stages of Brazilian cinema: the chanchadas, the Vera Cruz classics, the pornochanchadas, and even experimental movies. He was beloved by the public and had a gift for laughter, but he only desired to be a serious man.

Young congressman Miguel Horta represents a party that is directly opposed to the present government. He slyly switches parties in order to gain favor with those in power, seriously compromising his own ideals and ethics in the process.

A Whole Life is a love story set in Sao Paulo between two young adults in their thirties. The film portraits the concerns and aspirations of an entire generation of independent young adults, who are focused on their careers and lack affection. You could fit a lifetime between a couple's first night together and the premonition of an impending breakup.

City of God – 10 Years Later investigates what happened to the actors who took part in the award-winning film directed by Fernando Meirelles and Katia Lund. This documentary shows what City of God’s worldwide success meant to their lives. Were the actors prepared for the film’s success? Did the social background of some of them prove stronger than the opportunity that came their way?

A drama about double personality

Belinho, a poque (homosexual) boy who lives with his father and supports him, is a great lover of France and dreams of being an artist like the cabaret divas he admires. After a turning point in his life, a fatality happens and leads him to live his biggest dream.

The administrator of an abandoned coffee farm and inveterate gambler saves money to buy the property, even knowing of the loving connections between his wife and the boss.

In one of his voyeur photography sessions, Virgil, an introspective mortician, notices Eden, a young musician at the beginning of her career. From the lens to an obsession, Virgil must face old demons to get Éden not only in his photos.

Paulo has a strange relationship with his cousin Sônia, whom he loves since childhood. But she despises him and, being in love with another woman, causes a lot of humiliating situations to him.

Three metropolitan stories entwine in São Paulo. Would-be actress Marina arrives in the city looking for independence, falls madly in love with Justine, a bisexual rock singer, and is swept up into her wild, edgy lifestyle. Marina shares a flat on Avenida Paulista with Suzana, a mysterious lawyer who begins a relationship with a male colleague who is unaware that she's transsexual. Jay lives a few floors above them. He is a frustrated writer trying to give a meaning to his life by idealizing a stunningly beautiful prostitute, whom he transforms into a sort of muse. Following the frenetic pace of the city, the three "Paulista" characters will experience the euphoria of passion and its downside.

The documentary goes through the 23 years of MTV Brazil, taking stock from the avant-garde to the ostracism of the broadcaster that was the main guide for the musical, cultural and social formation of young people in the 90's and 2000's with interviews and testimonials from former VJ's and artists that emerged and became popular in the country because of the channel.

Christopher Clark was an eco-warrior, a remarkable Scotsman who created his own personal Outpost of progress in the heart of the Amazonian rainforest. It was the model for a utopian society based on the perfect balance between nature and technology, protected and run by the inhabitants of the forest. Unfortunately, the situation got worse year by year, and in the film, a new huge wildfire now threatens to destroy the Outpost. Chris takes a gamble and decides to pit an equally spectacular event against the destruction of the forest: a Pink Floyd concert inside the green inferno, as a way to convince the Brazilian government to set up a nature reserve. To a dreamer like him, anything is possible, and he may well be right: in a world careening towards the apocalypse, being a bit crazy is the only form of resistance there is. But can we really save the rainforest? We, the children of the same capitalist system that is destroying it?

In a dark room, fantastic beings appear like specters from an old cinema. Frightened, the insomniac is the only one to witness the cyclical nocturnal spectacle.

Province of São Paulo, 1870. An enslaved man flees through a dense forest in search of a supposed quilombo. On his heels are two "capitães-do-mato" with orders to capture him at all costs. But the forest, in its depths, harbors mysteries and ghosts capable of surrounding them in a trap.

Tells the stories of six national soccer titles won by São Paulo Futebol Clube, from the point of view of the fans.

Short inspired by the dramas of George Kuchar, it starred Elio Copini, Everson Schütz and Coffin Souza. Despite being an extremely homemade production and made with friends in a moment of supreme fun, it shows what director Petter Baiestorf thinks about religions and their fanatical followers.

Young Hermes, sheltered in his attic, dives in a whimsical spiral of emotions after he accidentally watches the suicide of his grandfather, from whom he inherited his name, his contradictions, and a weird obsession with everything that happened in the year of 1947.

The naive sailor Ron arrives in Bahia to visit the famous Água dos Meninos street market. There, however, he is passed behind by the prostitute Maria, lover of the bandit Chico Diabo, who stabs him. He, however, can't forget her.

A needy guy, an impatient waitress and a complicated pizza order.

Filmmaker Hare Brasil follows painter, public speaker and street artist Eduardo Marinho as they hit the road aboard Celestina, a worn-down and faulty Volkswagen van, for a trip across Brazil and Uruguay, where Marinho is set to give a lecture at a local University. They cross over 5000 kilometers and stop by numerous cities following an everything goes approach, with Marinho selling his work, talking to people and sharing his thoughts on life, society and everything else.

Documentary featuring contemporary interviews with 5 of the revolutionary activists who kidnapped US ambassador Charles Embrick in August 1969 in Rio de Janeiro and some of the political prisoners who were freed from prison in exchange of the ambassador's liberty and flown out of Brazil to Mexico in an army cargo airplane "Hércules 56".

In 1968, Orlando Lovecchio was made victim of a guerilla's bomb terrorist attack, which main objective was to fight against the Military Regime. Orlando lost one leg after the world-reckoned attack against the U.S. Consulate in Sao Paulo.

João is a 32-years-old musician that opts for the isolation of a farmhouse in the Brazilian countryside after Flora, his pregnant wife, breaks up with him. Three months pass and he’s finally ready to make amends with his wife and follow the birth of his son. But then João is surprised by the mysterious appearance of Max, his best friend, who’s been missing for years and was thought to be dead.

Thirty-eight years after the 1950 World Cup, a man went back in time to prevent the goal that defeated Brazil, destroyed his childhood dreams and ended goalkeeper Barbosa's career.

A Velha a Fiar illustrates a Brazilian folk song in which a being or entity is always predating another being, but is in its turn predated by some other animal, until the circle closes. It begins like this: an old woman is quietly weaving and a fly disturbs her; a spider eats the fly; a mouse eats the spider; a cat chases the mouse and so on...

The documentary talks about World Youth Day, held in Rio de Janeiro in 2013. The event was Pope Francis' first trip abroad and brought together more than 3 million young people from around the world. The film shows the confluence between Rio de Janeiro and the message transmitted through the Christian faith, listing similarities and specificities from the point of view of five aspects: the Church, the pilgrim, the city, the favela and other religions.

Years after a brain-infecting fungus has overrun the world, a young woman attempts to revisit a lost love, only to find that the apocalypse has ravaged any chance of calm and joy. Short Fan-film based on the "The Last of Us" franchise, all rights reserved to Naughty Dog & Sony

In 2011, during a blackout in an outskirt neighborhood’s street, a family – surrounded by candles that light conversations and thoughts – awaits the return of electricity. Now, ten years later, the light tries to impose its place towards the shadows of memory.

Professor Leônidas Jau is an enemy of football, and in conferences and articles he throws all his hatred against the sport. Friendenreich, his son, however, loves the sport. Leonidas then has a falling out with his son, which may be saved.

In the hunt for votes, two farmers do everything to be elected mayor in a interior town. The colonels, Liborio and Afonso have religious communities and use the spaces to influence the upcoming elections.