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The sordid, the putrid and the fetid. The bizarre, the eschatological and the grotesque. Peas, urine and chickens.

"A Day with Jerusa" follows Silvia, a young, mediumic market researcher facing the hardships of underemployment while awaiting the result of a public exam, and Jerusa, a gracious 77-year-old lady, eyewitness to the daily life on Bixiga, a neighborhood filled with ancestral memories. On Jerusa's birthday, while she waits for her family's arrival, the encounter between her deepest memories and Silvia's mediumship allows them to travel through time and realities common to their ancestry.

Movie director visits a set on a studio about to be closed. For his next film, he wants his faithful favorite actress, but she is now tempted by a profitable TV deal.

An audiovisual experiment showing female power in its various possibilities. It evolves through three narrative moments: the prologue, the central narrative, and the epilogue. The first materializes and at the same time rebels against the cultural construction of the "cult of the Phallus". In the second moment, we can see the formation of a network of protection and mutual help among women, exalting their bodies and their powers. And the last moment is practically a making off, with real scenes of all the women in the cast recording the video.

Documentary short with a clipping of Jorge Timm's performances for Canibal between 1995 and 1998.

Powerful magician goes to jail for creating illusion of affluence in Brazilian town.

A guy tries to play his piano.

A german adventurer leads an expedition to the Serra dos Martírios, in search of gold.

The DVD Isso É Calypso Tour Brasil: Ao Vivo em Recife features Joelma reviving a vibrant energy with her greatest hits live, recorded at Classic Hall in December 2022 and released in 2024.

An experiment between film noir and digital footage of a road trip

The tragic love story of two passionate teenagers, Emma and Rick. Featuring “Bleachless”, composed and performed by Elizabeth Grace.

A documentary film about the Candomblé spiritual culture in Bahia, Brazil. Grounded in strong community and Earth-based wisdom, this vibrant tradition evolved from the ways of enslaved Africans. The film explores Candomblé's history, social challenges and triumphs through the voices of extraordinary women leaders.

Paranoia, guilt, misery, and technology in the developing country. A fragmented narrative, distorted frames, shouts, and noises. The Nazis take over São Paulo: prison and torture of revolutionaries, a samurai lost in chaos, locked lovers, a dictator and his bunch. Considered one of the most influential films of the marginal period.

Between sambas and memories, composers, performers and "Velha Guarda do Samba" instrumentalists from Belo Horizonte

The unlucky in love writer Bandaged searches for a moral of the story that explains why his romantic experiences never end in "happily ever after." The conflict worsens when... Ops, better not give any spoilers!

A recently divorced father, who cannot reconnect with his 10-year-old daughter, is forced to travel with her to the countryside to meet his own father, who abandoned him as a child and now is an old man who wants to die. The forced intimacy with the father he hates and the immediate connection between daughter and grandfather test all his limits, but might also be the chance to get closer to his daughter again.

A sound operator needs to show that she is capable to get the opportunity to work at a shoot to finally start her career in the film industry.

Aladdin and Dracolim sell a miraculous elixir with help from Marina by Aladdin who is passionate. Bandits come disguised in Aladdin's house and try to take the ring since Aladdin has the power to run a magic lamp.

A man tries to escape from an unexpected threat that might be only in his mind: a bottle of water.

After fulfilling a congressman's fetish for being zipped into a suitcase, two male scorts plot to rob his house and run through the streets of Rio.

Angie, a young Brazilian artist, abandons her old life and embarks on a journey around the country. Running from her past, and searching for her foundation in life, Angie finds not only herself but love in its many forms.

Meant principally for a sympathetic audience, whether Catholic or not, this routine story about a priest's receiving the call to the cloth may be a bit slow and theatrical for some viewers. Directed by Lima Barreto, the tale is told in a series of flashbacks as the priest remembers how he was transformed as a child into a person willing to give his life in service of the church and his God. Barreto also scripted the story, which in the end, may be too filled with religious platitudes and preachy overtones to effectively convey its message.

A lonely sailor sails through tumultuous oceans and storms, searching for a reunion with his beloved. Follow a rigid routine of tasks until unexpected changes in the route alter the destination.

Upon moving into a new apartment, a young woman finds herself surrounded by strange events. Curious about the reasons behind the occurrences, the young woman is sucked into memories and daydreams, remembrances and forgetfulness, places and non-places.

Aldo Baldin was one of the greatest, if not the greatest, names in Brazilian lyrical singing. Born in a small town in Santa Catarina, his talent was present in the main operatic temples in the world. He died prematurely, and now his life and career are told by friends, relatives, widow and daughters.

Rodrigo and Beatriz are a couple who, after going through a traumatic event, invite their friend, Ana, to stay isolated at their home during the pandemic. Everything goes smoothly for the first few days, with an uncomfortable atmosphere of seduction between the three of them, but nothing out of the ordinary. Then, one morning, Rodrigo sees Ana's name on the list of deaths from covid-19. Everyone thinks it's weird and believes it was just a mistake in the publication, but strange events start to happen around the house. Rodrigo is intrigued and starts a personal investigation to find out if Ana is really alive.

Unable to endure the idea that he would go without punishment, a criminal's victim chases him the length and breadth of Brazil for a showdown.

"For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation." Rainer Maria Rilke.

The true story of a working class boy who moves to the nation's financial capital at a young age and becomes one the most influential politicians in Brazilian history.

ABYSSAL FISH is a creative film in the border between fiction, real and performance through the artistic work of Luís Capucho. A singular artist who survived the time when the HIV represented the death stigma. Building an amazing work of poetic power post­disease, Capucho surpasses the physical sequels that have left him mute and without part of his body movements for a while, until the current partial recovery.