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…
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…
This short film documents the apparently insignificant moments of the inhabitants of a Suburb of Lisbon, while they fig…
This documentary gravitates between the past and the present of the people of the Ave Valley, an area whose history is …
This documentary makes us travel through the route of the sand that will feed Cape Verde's hunger for new hotels and re…
Mariana left her parents' house to live with her boyfriend in Lisbon. But when he leaves for New York, Mariana begins a…
Through an beautiful black and white, we become witnesses of the days, spaces and breaths of the dancers of the Nationa…
A woman returns to meet her mother in her hometown, in Portugal. During her trip, we discover the history of her family…
This documentary brings to the canvas a unique point of view, based on the turnaround in the life of visual artist Vera…
The guide of a museum presents a famous painting to sighted people, blind people and a deaf and blind man, each group w…
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…
The ocean, a place of infinite pleasure. This essay documentary reflects on the concept of maritime transport, the men …
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…
Within a small, tropical Cape Verdean Island, the beloved Tchinda is hard at work preparing for a Carnival she hopes wi…
Best Documentary Films
