Hundreds of people migrate every year to a very special place in Brasilia in search of a spiritual change in their live…
Only documentary filmmaking can give us a frank and warm portrait like this one, the one that the director Marcelo Diaz…
Navigating between reality and fiction, this documentary unveils the characters and the particular atmosphere that oper…
Linked to a lesser or greater extent with religious organizations, in this documentary people from the LGBTI+ community…
In a remote rural Portuguese village, a man wanders through the mist. His house, the crops, the animals, and the pine f…
In response to the assassination of a black women's rights activist in Brazil, a group of women massively turn out for …
This beautiful documentary takes us close to Lanny Gordin, a prolific guitarist who worked with great musicians such as…
In the vicinity of Europe's largest military base, nature and its creatures prevail among men preparing for war.
After several years in Europe, Violeta returns to her native Brazil to renew vows in her religion. But the years do not…
Today is the marriage of Babi, a Brazilian trans woman. This short film documents a ceremony that symbolizes an achieve…
An Artist, a Musician, and a Dreamer leave their comfortable life in Great Britain to create a home in the picturesque …
Two rugby teams from Argentina and Brazil composed of LGBTI players face each other in a match where the triumph goes b…
On the eve of the presentation of their next work, a piece about black homosexuality, this poetic documentary follows a…
When the electoral campaign for the student elections begins in a Brazilian high school, the friendships, dreams and pa…
This experimental short film uses found footage of trips in Europe during the 70s to make a powerful and fleeting essay…
In a remote village in rural Portugal, a filmmaker arrives to delve into his family's past.
Focusing on the phenomenon of evangelical drug dealers that have become common in the Brazilian slums, this incisive do…
Fifteen years after living as an exchange student in Arizona, filmmaker Fernanda Pessoa returns to the United States to…
Through interviews, re-enactments and documentation of live events, this documentary reflects on the evolution of the l…
Three surfers face the biggest challenge in the world of professional surfing: to paddle the impressive waves of Jaws, …
Educational, incisive, necessary. This ecological documentary puts the spotlight on the Forest Code, a legislation impl…
In the colorful and chaotic Sao Paulo, three Brazilian artists try to establish a collective dialogue with the inhabita…
This independently filmed short film is a glance at the Chinese community in Brazil, with all its nuances, stereotypes …
Blending documentary and fiction in a way rarely seen before, this South American road movie follows an Argentinean man…
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…
After becoming a widower, Inacio, the former shaman of a remote Portuguese community, begins to live with an endearing …
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,…
Lludy, a Brazilian immigrant, has just lost his flat in Barcelona and has nowhere to go. Through her belongings we disc…
In the southeast of Brazil, in the Goiás region, there are two rural towns where only adults and old people remain. But…
Through the audiovisual works of two award-winning young creators awarded in PLURAL +, a program of the United Nations …
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 …
Summer of 2016. All the attention of the world is on the Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. But from the favelas that …
In 2007, João Paulo Seara staged a puppet theater play. This documentary is a fascinating insight into its creation pro…
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…
Filmmakers Filipa Reis and João Miller Guerra resort to their common imaginary, vibrant scraps of images and sounds tha…
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