Transgender people find a ROOF to restructure their lives. In the new daily life, between sharing a home and dealing with personal dramas, different ways to collectivize and build possible worlds emerge.

A movie about the experice of Conceição Evaristo, Sueli Carneiro, Preta Rara, Luedji Luna, Érica Malunguinho, Mirtes Renata and Urânia Munzanzu, while they retrace and (re) signify the original routes of the slave trade traveling through African countries: Ghana, Togo, Benin, Nigeria. The documentary takes the Balck women bodies as a main element that provokes reflections and debates imposed in the diaspora through Africa to the Americas.

“Misidentified” follows the journey of 5 young black men from Rio de Janeiro’s metropolitan area, struggling to prove their innocence in the criminal justice system and claim back their lives, abruptly interrupted by eyewitness identification procedure based on photographs in police archives.

Documentary about the Mothers of May, a movement dedicated to the memory of victims of the Brazilian police. The film will use real and imaginary spaces to build a portrait of these mothers.

She Is Almost Family is a documentary on the lives and cultural expectations of Brazilian housekeepers, who are mostly Black women. Woven together with stories of the life of Laudelina de Campos Melo, founder of the first housekeepers’ union in Brazil, the film includes historical reenactments performed by activists from the very union that Ms. Melo founded.

Sabrina, after being sexually abused throughout her childhood and adolescence by her own father, believes it is time to face wounds from the past that never closed. Talking with other survivors, as well as specialists, she starts a search for the hope of one day being able to live instead of just surviving, fighting daily against demons from the past so present. And thus, taking the taboo theme of CHILD SEXUAL ABUSE out of invisibility.

The largest mining dam disasters take place in Brazil. In the imminence of new ruptures, a state counselor confronts the modus operandi of the government and mining sector, while dam refugees are left to fend for themselves in a post-colonial wasteland.

The Healing of the World is a documentary about the returning, after 300 years, of the Mantos
Tupinambá — feather garments made by Tupinambá women, an indigenous group from Bahia.
They make the connection between heaven and earth, between humans and the Encantados
(the spirits). Plundered from Brazil in colonial times, the Mantos come back into existence
through the dreams of Glicéria Tupinambá, the main character and also the director of this
film.

In contemporary Brazil, a theater group tries to stage the store of Cassandra and Agamenon.
Cassandra, Apolo’s prophetess, sees everything and speaks nothing.
This is the story of what they have seen and what they have not.
A film about the power of seeing, and the risk of being seen.
About what we didn’t see in the disaster that engulfs us all.

Marcela and Melanie are a lesbian couple living along with their dog Clotilde in Sao Paulo, Brazil. When they decide to become mothers, Melanie gets pregnant with twins through the IVF and Marcela induces lactation in her non-pregnant body, so both mothers can both breastfeed their newborns. When the babies are born, the two mothers breastfeed and face a journey of dual motherhood based on the experiences of a queer family.

A class photo from 1955 becomes the object of investigation by documentary filmmaker Gregório Bacic in 1977. 40 years later, the director is reunited with part of the same characters with the aim of discovering the effects of time in members of their own generation. What could end up in a melancholy documentary, however, navigates much further by revealing,the values that sustain and characterize the privileged Brazilian middle class.

Every year, a 67 -year -old woman celebrates her 7th birthday. 

ALIVE! is a doc about the album VIVO by singer and composer Alceu Valença, who is recognized as one of the greatest artists of current MPB. Alceu was one of the first artists in the music scene at the time to combine northeastern music genres with the international pop rock sound. The show and the album Vivo! (1976), which guide this doc, symbolize the artist’s production in the counterculture years and represent the apex of this language.

Em busca de pistas sobre as mudanças climáticas, um fotógrafo e aventureiro brasileiro lidera um grupo de cientistas em um dos lugares mais perigosos e remotos do planeta. 

In each episode, one black designer in ascension in the Brazilian fashion industry is presented.

Broken Coast is a documentary that narrows down the relation between the impact of the ocean on the Brazilian coastline caused by climate change and the scars provoked by social inequality. The film profiles an extraordinary case of a beach town destroyed by the ocean invasion in the past decades that displaced more than 500 families. It dives into the lives of locals about to lose their homes to display the big picture of this global threat.

Carlini, Guitar Man tells the 50-year trajectory of the guitarist who created the band Tutti Frutti and is considered the greatest Brazilian rock guitarist.

Ao acompanhar o cotidiano de três famílias indígenas de diferentes etnias no Alto Amazonas, revelamos a história de mais de cem anos de contato com o homem branco e o impacto causado por essa relação de  poder e exploração na cultura ancestral e na vida dos povos da região.

Diferente do futebol, o surf nunca foi conhecido como um esporte que gerasse grandes transformações sociais. Até a chegada de Adriano de Souza. Conhecido como Mineirinho, ele vem de uma favela no Guarujá e sua vida é marcada pelas tragédias inerentes à vida nessas comunidades. A  sua história poderia ser a história de milhões de brasileiros. Poderia, caso ele não tivesse canalizado toda a sua energia no surfe e se tornado um campeão mundial.

FLY BROTHER with Ernest White II is a television travel docu-series about friendship and connection, featuring storyteller and explorer Ernest White II. In each half-hour episode, Ernest’s real-life friends bring him into their communities, taking the audience on a journey through different cultures and showing that the whole world is our tribe. Season 1 was filmed in 11 cities or regions in five continents and premiered on PBS USA in 2020.

In one of the main kart championships in Brazil, the São Paulo Cup at Granja Viana, children mature at high speed as they face challenges on and off the tracks. At each stage, the series follows the pressure of parents, the financial effort of the families, the responsibility of child pilots, the thrill of victories, the frustration of defeats. Who will be the next racing idol?

A photographer follows the greatest devastation in the history of the Pantanal and the work of volunteers who fight to save the animals.

After suffering a physical aggression for transphobia in the evangelical church she used to attend, Mel Rosário, 56, bears the pain and the costs of the lawsuits involving this case whilst she claims for her rights by protesting in front of the church she is now prohibited to get in. Meanwhile, she must find her way through Bolsonaro’s government and reinvent herself in search of a better life.

The life story of Brazilian indigenous women along the paths of healing, war, vision and knowledge. Between the contrast of the indigenous presence in the urban context to the village environment, the cultural diversity of the original peoples who formed Brazil bring us perspectives on being an indigenous woman in the contemporary, the relationship with ancestry and leadership in crisis scenarios, to be part of the Earth’s healing process.

Documentary about the life and work of the musician Lobão, known both for his musical talent and for the controversies that have always been part of his life.

Ângela Leal and her daughter Leandra, two important Brazilian actresses, are the heirs of the oldest private theatre in Brazil. While they look for ways to brave the financial crisis brought by the pandemic, they decide to stage WAITING FOR GODOT in their own home. When an unknown virus brings the whole world to a halt, family dramas find escape in Beckett’s theatre of absurd.

A search for the story of the journalist, Osmar Santos. Through the intimate, and oftentimes, distant look, us, his son and daughter – Victor and Lívia – intend to dive into the story of our father who, even though is a public figure, remains unseen in many ways.  A film in the first person of the plural.

In an unknown future, the astronaut Minemosine arrives on Earth and is faced with audiovisual records of a fire that occurred at the Natural History Museum of the Federal University of Minas Gerais, on June 15, 2020, Belo Horizonte. Faced with the particular stratigraphy that confuses times and spaces in the documents found, the narrator turns to traces of this fire and other similar events in history, observing the ashes and successive erasures that form a palimpsest. An investigative essay on what lies behind Brazil’s flammable history.

The crew of an artisanal fishing boat in southern Brazil waits every year for the sea water from the Atlantic Ocean to enter Lagoa dos Patos. However, as marine fish may represent the difference between abundance and scarcity, the low occurrence of salinization in recent years leaves these men at the mercy of their fate, in an endless wait in which time almost seems to go around in circles.

Pacaraima é uma minúscula cidade na fronteira mais remota e conturbada do Brasil. Com o afluxo de imigrantes venezuelanos é hoje o município que mais cresce no país. É também, por isso, o lar, provisório ou definitivo, de centenas de refugiadas em busca de melhores condições de vida, cujo cotidiano e conflitos, a diretora Fabiana Assis pretende retratar. O que é afinal a experiência de deixar sua casa e viver como refugiada em outro país?

The film tells the human aftermath of the greatest environmental disaster in the history of Brazil: the collapse of a tailings dam at a mining complex run by the two largest mining companies worldwide. Beyond the hard facts and official inquiries, my wish is to convey the thoughts and feelings of those whose everyday lives were directly affected, simple and humble people condemned to silence throughout history.

The series “RIOS” reveals that the river not only modifies the landscape, it modifies the people and who tells this story is the photographer Eduardo Moody when embarking with his technical team on a journey through the rivers of Maranhenses. At the end of each episode, photo essays establish a bridge between the sensitivity of the artistic gaze of photography, the cultural knowledge and popular knowledge of the characters found along the way

The documentary investigates why the Brazilian malls’ protests have mobilized thousands of black people in recent years. Follow the lives of three characters and discover the dreams of a generation that has found new ways of dealing with violence. Discover the dreams, beauty, poetry, art and politics of a generation that has found new ways of dealing with violence by promoting an intense debate across the Brazil about how black lives matter.

The documentary “Roots of the Sacred Feminine”, directed by Carla Camurati, is an investigation into how five of the world’s major religious doctrines depict the female gender. How are women perceived by religion and how have they been treated throughout history? How is the feminine figure portrayed in sacred texts? How do pre-established models, such as those created by goddesses and saints, influence the status of women in society?

The film follows the daily life of Samuel and his family for six years in a fishing village on thecoast of Paraty, RJ. Little by little we perceive a complex reality, where modernity and tradition, luxury and trash, nature and technology reveal their contradictions. The arrival of electricity and tourism, as well as the extinction of fish and violence in the family, deconstruct an idealized paradise, forming a portrait of contemporary Brazil.

STELA DO PATROCÍNIO AND THE GENESIS OF POETRY is a film about the Brazilian poet Stela do Patrocínio, a black woman who lived for many years in a psychiatric institution on the outskirts of Rio de Janeiro. Stela reinvented her existence, assuming for herself the elaboration of her own history through poetry and performance.

The film shows the daily life of Bruna de Souza, a 23-year-old transvestite, in Rio Verde, Goiás. Based on the relationship between documentary and fiction, the director will reconstitute scenes from Bruna’s life until the dawn of an inevitable Ash Wednesday. Sometimes directing, sometimes acting, the director, in Bruna’s place, will cover the subjective and economic dimensions of transvestite and transsexual prostitution and agribusiness, at Setor Pauzanes, in Rio Verde, Goiás.

In each episode, a woman will be invited to an intimate photo shoot in which she will be  challenged to face her natural beauty, with no makeup, no retouching or any other intervention, wearing only underwear. Breaking with the impositions of beauty standards seems an easy task, but in reality it is a daily and permanent process.

“Welcome to Maracanã” is a documentary about the transformation through the last 20 years of the worldwide famous brazilian football stadium: Maracanã.

“When The LSD Arrived” tells the story of the first lawsuit for LSD trafficking in Brazil that culminated in the torture and imprisonment of the young artist from Sao Paulo, Antonio Peticov, in 1970.The film also contextualizes the emergence of LSD, from its discovery in Switzerland in 1943,its medicinal therapeutic use in the late 1950s and mid-1960s, until it reached the status of iconic substance in the counterculture and consequent repression.