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…
Miguel and Rubén, two Cape Verdean immigrant descendants living in Portugal, find themselves in limbo. They both have d…
Mixing reality and fiction, we see the trial and the interpellation of those involved in the murder of a young Portugue…
This short film, a winner at the Berlinale, is an exuberant scream that literally destroys the image of xenophobia agai…
With discretion and subtlety, this film documents in a school in Portugal the experience of the Generación Orchestra, a…
Marcos, a young Brazilian living in Argentina, faces a dilemma in his family's WhatsApp group that involves the impeach…
This beautifully photographed documentary follows the unique life of a fisherman in a small Lisbon coastal community.
In the safety of a desolate house, a group of homeless people in the city of Porto tell us what it is like to live and …
Filmmaker Caio Baú makes an intimate portrait of his sister Luiza, a special young girl who navigates her life between …
After living for several years in the United States, a group of men are deported and forced to return to the Azores, th…
The award-winning filmmaker João Botelho creates this gem of a film, a kind of cinematic tribute to his main inspiratio…
This short film documents the apparently insignificant moments of the inhabitants of a Suburb of Lisbon, while they fig…
Best Documentary Films
