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The Falling Sky 2024 star_border 6
Documentary about Indigenous peoples' profound connection to nature and their struggle against deforestation, a grave threat to their way of life and the ecosystem they call home.

Fishing with Timbó 2023
An eye-opening he said/she said perspective on timbó fishing, a traditional practice of the Indigenous Yanomami people that involves the entire community and a vine used to stun fish, seamlessly blends preservation documentary, origin myth, magic realism and the reality of mining and economic threats to Yanomami culture in this formally inventive reclamation.

Mãri Hi: The Tree of Dream 2023
When the flowers of the Mari tree bloom, dreams arise. The words of a great shaman lead to an oneiric experience through the synergy between cinema and the Yanomami dream, presenting poetics and teachings of the peoples of the forest.

A Woman Thinking 2022
A Yanomami woman watches a shaman prepare the Yãkoana, food for the spirits. Based on the narrative of a young indigenous woman, the Yãkoana that feeds the Xapiri and allows shamans to enter the world of spirits also proposes a meeting of perspectives and imaginations.

Solmatalua 2022
With a constellation of black voices and presences, the short film takes a dizzying journey between ancestral and contemporary territories. On this mystical journey, sound and image devours celebrate the black poetry that anchors memories and discovers futures.

Centelha 2021
Delirium of the hunger of a man who incorporates, in the course of an ancestral ritual, the demons of a sick country. Home and man become living testimonies of history. Sanctuary or headquarters, the transformations affect everything around and provoke the fury of the sky.

Edna 2021 star_border 5
On the edge of the Transbrasiliana highway, Edna lives in a land in ruins, built on massacres.

Burning Night 2020 star_border 4.7
Down on his luck and recently divorced, Paulo has begun driving a cab around Rio, hoping he’ll make enough to send his ex money to support their ten-year-old son. He mostly works nights, so in addition to his encounters with a colourful variety of customers, colleagues, cops and others, he must cope with loneliness, fatigue and new faces in his life.

Elza Soares: A Mulher do Fim do Mundo 2017
Music about becoming women in the contemporary world, their emancipation and struggles

Cinema Novo 2016 star_border 6.7
A deep investigation, in the way of a poetic essay, on one of the main Latin American movements in cinema, analyzed via the thoughts of its main authors, who invented, in the early 1960s, a new way of making movies in Brazil, with a political attitude, always near to people's problems, that combined art and revolution.

Igor 2013 star_border 6
Igor is a teenager with a lot of potential and energy, but without the motivation to stay in school. His case reflects the situation in which many students at risk of dropping out of school live. The short shows a day in the life of this aspiring actor and capoeirista, who lives in Morro dos Prazeres.

La Rueda 2012 star_border 6
La Rueda shows an everyday night in Pucallpa, a city located in the Peruvian Amazon. Colors, noises and lights are projected. Families transport their children to the amusement park. Fears, fantasies, joys and vertigo intertwine. A new world of sensations arises. The film dialogues with the most distant memories and drives of childhood and in the plots of affection between mothers and children.

Eu Carrego um Cinema Dentro de Mim 2008