In the context of a parliamentary coup in Brazil, a historic peasant movement begins to occupy lands owned by powerful …
In a building in Sao Paulo, Brazil, all the inhabitants are part of a program to overcome crack addiction. In every cor…
Irreverent, iconoclastic and beautifully free. Linn da Quebrada, a black and transsexual artist, displays all her truth…
Marcelo is a dandy, a homosexual, a voracious reader and, in one of his past lives, a German poet obsessed with a blue …
A small town in northeastern Brazil is at the center of a political firestorm during a polarizing local mayoral campaig…
Ivan cannot move without his electronic anklet. After years in prison, he is on probation and trying to get back to nor…
The debut feature of risk-taking filmmaker Gustavo Vinagre takes place in a single location and in a single, compelling…
With their golden years behind them, two fifty-something boxers from the north of Brazil decide to invoke their histori…
The traces of the first people who occupied the territory of Brazil detonate this documentary essay premiered in Rotter…
Isabel, a Brazilian woman, dreamed that someone strangled her three days before she was murdered. Years later, her son,…
In the southeast of Brazil, in the Goiás region, there are two rural towns where only adults and old people remain. But…
In an indigenous territory in the north of the Amazon, a filmmaker and Abraim, a local villager, will have a short and …
This gem from the Rotterdam Film Festival is a chronicle-essay ... or rather a kind of diary, as philosophical as it is…
Filmmaker Otavio Cury documents the Yanomami, in the Brazilian Amazon. Seen from otherness, the film reflects on the Ya…
Brazilian filmmaker Octavio Cury travels to Syria and obtains a book written by his great-grandfather, an icon of Arab …
In only 11 minutes, this short film documents how, on the eve of Fidel Castro's death, reporters and passers-by take ad…
Miguel has heard that he looks a lot like his father, whom he has never met. In this story we accompany him in a poetic…
This film transports us to the jungle heart of Brazil, where the Ãwa indigenous people tell us their story of forced mi…
Marcos, a young Brazilian living in Argentina, faces a dilemma in his family's WhatsApp group that involves the impeach…
Through beautifully crafted puppets made of beach sand, this animated short film tells us an endearing story of childho…
Filmmaker Caio Baú makes an intimate portrait of his sister Luiza, a special young girl who navigates her life between …
This documentary brings to the canvas a unique point of view, based on the turnaround in the life of visual artist Vera…
13-year-old Jonas tries to recreate the traveling circus life where he grew up in the backyard of his new house in a vi…
Through interviews with experts and people involved in the gender issue, this documentary sheds light on the representa…
Through old family footage, a filmmaker digs in her personal relationship with his father, an engineer who had her glor…
An indigenous man left his tribe at the age of 15. Several years later, he crosses the heart of Brazil, following the f…
Without dialogues or didactic pretensions, this documentary makes an observation of forgotten spaces in Brasilia. In th…
Breathtaking black and white postcards of the world of football in the city of Salgueiro make the perfect background to…
Through a rich photographic, videographic and epistolary legacy, the director Ana Galizia makes a portrait of an uncle …
Mother and daughter embark on a trip to Brazil in search of the healer “Joh of God”. But not everything goes as planned…
The access to precious archival footage and vibrant musical clips gives us the opportunity to witness an evocative port…
The film follows four young Brazilians around their humble neighborhood where they live between work and fun, crime and…
Through an observational exercise, this short film documents the only hour of freedom for prisoners in a Brazilian jail.
After a massacre perpetrated by Landowners in Corumbiara, a municipality in western Brazil, the indigenist and filmmake…
For many years, the mountain has been moved between two countries, Brazil and China. Romulo, an ex-mineworker, heads in…
Mixing animation and documentary techniques, this short film presents only an extract from the daily life of street art…
Hans and his female double Agnes wander around the streets of Lisbon looking for a man named Arief, who was their first…
Two sisters talk over the internet after the recent death of their father. As one of them remains in Brasil and the oth…
A musical stands as the best cinematic genre to express the historical conflict that vibrates beneath the epidermis of …
A portrait of Paulo, a flight attendant who in the after-hours world is internationally known for personifying Gazelle,…
Rodrigo is a young deaf man living on the outskirts of Recife in Brazil. This short film follows him as he goes about h…
Petra heads to New York in search of her older sister after a long time of being separated. They are both movie actress…
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