Rhut Bianca is a writer and a woman. She was the first transsexual on Portuguese TV: she gave 14 interviews. “Glory times”, she recalls. Glory times filled with strip teases and a lot, a lot of sex. Today, with 57 years old, Rhut takes care of her parents, that are sick, and hates getting old. In this film, she will recreate her trajectory from scenes proposed by the director, while her autobiographical book is being released.

CAIS arises from photographic records of black women panned in antiques fairs with the intention of supplying a photographic memory that the director Safira Moreira doesn’t have of her family. From a memory that exists, but not in photographs, the film proposes the production of images that deal with stories and ancestral memories that are not in the albums of Brazilian black families.

Letícia, 28 years old, finds out she is pregnant, but she doesn’t know who is the father. There are four possibilities of paternity. For Letícia there is only one: being judged and handle it all alone. None of these men get closer or follow the pregnancy. This lonely pregnancy trigger a turnaround in her life. When the baby is born, her anxiety takes shape: she seeks out of finding who is the father of her son.

Melanie is pregnant with twins and due to surgery she is not sure if she will be able to breastfeed the babies. Among all the anxieties and expectations of pregnancy, his wife Marcela decides to prepare her own body to breastfeed as well.

Nova Iguaçu, a city in Rio de Janeiro state with high rates of domestic violence, 20 men charged with violence against women are sent by judicial order to the “Men’s School”, where they must reflect on topics such as gender, family relationships, alcoholism, drug addiction, sexuality, STDs and “Maria da Penha Law”. The film follows the meetings of the group, in addition to the daily life of three characters outside the classroom.

Through an intimate, poetic and pungent portrait of Juliane and Samara, leaders of the Promised Land, we’ll unveil the first feminist and nonpartisan landless occupation of Brazil. The matriarchal community, led by a trans woman and a cis, has now more than one thousand families headed by other women, and became a refuge for gays, trans and other minorities fighting for their rights to occupy the city, but also to reinvent their realities.

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Samuel, 5 years old, lives in a fishermen’s village. It’s been 3 years that he and his family have been filmed, and we follow this boy building his identity. The arrival of electricity is going to affect Samuel’s daily life and his family’s, with a new universe of information and stimulation they didn’t know before. They are the latest colonized people, witness of one of the biggest transformation on the daily life in the history of modern man.

A boy smashes the left leg of a frog. Years later, the boy’s left hand stops obeying him. Rafael, a young cartoonist, begins to receive professional recognition when he is diagnosed with multiple sclerosis, a degenerative disease that affects the central nervous system. The disease progresses quickly, forcing Rafael to reinvent the world around him. He decides to tell his story through autobiographical comics – but will the frog let him finish?

Gisele is a wheelchair user and dreams about a postgraduation course in English in order to become a teacher. Dependent on her parents, her daily routine is divided between private classes, therapies and going out with her family in Jundiaí, in the countryside of São Paulo. However, in her surroundings, the promises seem like ghosts and hope echoes resignation.

The feature-length documentary “Teatro Oficina” is built from the extremely rich audio-visual collection of Cia. De Teatro Oficina Uzyna Uzona. The film will present the creative entrails of Oficina, under the tutelage of José Celso M. Corrêa. A frenetic and active creation, which since the 60’s has been a focus of resistance of the culture and national vanguard. And the record of this trajectory is still unheard of for the general public.

A romantic exorcist and a woman possessed by the devil looking for divine liberation. A gay warlock and his jealous boyfriend burning in fervor with Satan. They are two opposite couples trying to get into mystic ecstasy. They invoke and expel the demon from their bodies among rituals of love.

For Yilmar Leandro Gónzalez a african-colombian fighter and gardener of his neighborhood’s cemetery life happens in between contracts: with the same hands he punches his contenders in the ring, he nourishes the life that grows amidst the graves. This is the story of a man’s struggle to find true happiness between his two trades.

In each chapter of “Marks on the Skin”, its protagonist invite us to immerse ourselves in the traces that lie on their bodies. Their personal stories are the startup for seeking the cultural, social and scientific reasons why those marks are in their bodies.

A government operation promising to disrupt a supposed Islamic terrorist cell in the days leading to the Rio Olympics serves as a chance to dive into the current police/judicial system as well as Islam ́s history and presence in Brazil.

The series approaches each wall as a protagonist and reveals the story behind its construction. But above all he points out his subjectivities through the eyes of those most impacted by him: the people. There are 4 characters per episode two on each side living simultaneous stories. The life of those involved with the walls is the backbone of the narrative.

In ACSEXYBILITY, people with different types of disabilities, gender identities and sexual orientations speak openly about sexuality and their affective experiences.

Irreversible and devastating are the wars. Where would we live if it weren’t for it? Would I be Brasileira, Canadian or Salvadoreña? A journey on the present, longing for those almost 30 years that we didn’t spend together, joy for being alive and being family. Resilience, to redefine snow where there’s no summer. Raindrops, teardrops, waterfall, volcano. To wash the pain. To save our memory and El Salvador’s, one of so many erased in history.

The animal world as never shown on TV: a chimpanzee candidate for mayor, a bull father of 275,000 calves, a cat with 5 million youtube views, a hawk hired by an airport. With each episode, the series traces the profile of an animal whose life has been decisively transformed by the interests, passions and delusions of men.

A romantic exorcist and a woman possessed by the devil looking for divine liberation. A gay warlock and his jealous boyfriend burning in fervor with Satan. They are two opposite couples trying to get into mystic ecstasy. They invoke and expel the demon from their bodies among rituals of love.

Black Rio! Black Power! is a 75 minutes documentary film about the often neglected history of the black movement in Rio de Janeiro. Through important photographic and audiovisual archival documents from CULTNE, from Brazilian TV’s and from the cultural producer Don Filó personal archives this film explains how the black movement became a strong influence in the history of music and behavior during the period of redemocratization in Brazil.

Almost three decades after the end of military regimes in Latin America, the series reveals how each country is dealing with the marks left by dictatorships. Visiting museums, centers of art and memory, the director embarks on a personal journey in search of answers. How does knowing one’s own history affect us? Does art have the power to resignify pain? Can judging the crimes committed during the dictatorship strengthen democracy?

The story of the famous Doctor Player, on and beyond the fields, in the words of Socrates itself. Brazilian Socrates, Life on a Backheel Pass is presented through a metaphor connected to the backheel move: backwards. Like a perfect pass from Socrates’ heel. A film that will lead us to the less known origin of an worldwide idol that transformed the history of Brazil on and off the pitch.

The film is a poetic narrative built from Super 8mm images shot by actor Claudio Marzo during de 70s and kept stored in his apartment for more then 40 years. The documentary presents an investigation around this memory fragments about Claudio through his work in movies from the same period.

Son of a bank manager, he early cursed Capitalism, Religion or Monarchy. Designer, writer, artist and photographer, he created a visual style for the left, with posters for the Anti­Nazi League and the Rock Against Racism. He was an obsessive figure, who amassed the world’s largest collections of Soviet iconography, until that time missing, and revealed the regime’s strategies to ban its opponents. Discover the man who uncovered the Soviet era.

“Elections” builds a dialogue between youth and society. The film follows the student government elections at a public high school, located in downtown of São Paulo, Brazil. With divergent ideologies, the conflict between the candidates immerse the audience in the world of this questioning generation.

Facing the Scorpion is an autobiographic documentary that depicts the struggle of an Uruguayan immigrant with his urges to kill himself. Departing from the remake of the play “Abigail’s party”, Védia, the director’s alter­ego, rethinks his trajectory in Brazil as an immigrant and artist and faces his biggest fear: the death drive.

When Germano was a boy working for a rich Jewish family, he heard from his boss: “I make many events for the Jewish community. You should do the same for the black people.” Since that moment, he decided to work to promote black high society in Brazil. As a social columnist he’s always trying to show glamorous and successful people, in an attempt to break racists paradigms. Although he lives a very humble life in a poor neighborhood.

God is a woman is a film about Alexya Salvador, shepherd of the Church of the Metropolitan Community (ICM). In her church she attends to all the excluded, indiscriminately. She was the first transgender shepherd in Latin America. In 2018 she runs for Congressawoman in São Paulo. Her life is a political act: married, two adopted children, a transgender girl and another with special needs.

Godless-The Truth Beyond Belief: Prejudice against Atheists tear families apart, end careers, and motivates murders and aggressions. Even in “liberal societies”, to demonize people who are suspected of being non­believers is generally tolerated. In a world where liberty is a value, fighting intolerance against non religious people is the last frontier in civil rights struggle.

“Have a nice day!” is about a small group of workers who spent most of their days inside a large supermarket. It will explore the dualities between a repetitive existence inside the store and an imaginative and extraordinary world of theirs, hidden from the bypasses eyes.

Hayu is a film about the daily evening events that take place in an indigenous Yanomami village at the Amazon. At this moment, the leaders of the group utter speeches that penetrate the night and reach the dawn. They talk about the day that ends and the day that comes. They elaborate the past, the present and the future. Their words become the dreams of those who fall asleep, and sustain the day to come at the community.

Documentary that presents the story of four teenagers from Belo Horizonte (Brazil), whose families bring gay, lesbian or trans parents. By provoking reflections and questions about the impact of new family arrangements on the lives of these adolescents and society.

INK CODE is a series about tattooing. Bru Simões tattooist is the presenter of the series, she is famous for the FINE LINE style, and has approx. 200,000 followers on Instagram. Tattoo is as ancient as it is mysterious. Try to understand what the past adds in the way we tattoo today, which remains true to the traditions, what has changed? What contemporary tattooing bears on this ancient tradition of marking the skin.

Raised in a wealthy Parisian neighborhood, Charlotte Merryl had always known that she was Brazilian and that she had been adopted by a French couple. At 14 years-old, she discovered a birth certificate that revealed her true name, Isabella, and also a receipt for a 10.000 euros payment… At 25, Isabella decided to investigate her origins and discovered that, like her, other babies had been sent illegally to Europe by a Brazilian orphanage.

For Yilmar Leandro Gónzalez a african-colombian fighter and gardener of his neighborhood’s cemetery life happens in between contracts: with the same hands he punches his contenders in the ring, he nourishes the life that grows amidst the graves. This is the story of a man’s struggle to find true happiness between his two trades.

Maria Luiza da Silva, the first transgender in the Brazilian Army, was compulsorily retired by being considered incapacitated for work after 22 years of service in the Air Force. The movie searches for the reasons why she was impeded to wear the female military uniform and shows her trajectory as a transgender woman.

In each chapter of “Marks on the Skin”, its protagonist invite us to immerse ourselves in the traces that lie on their bodies. Their personal stories are the startup for seeking the cultural, social and scientific reasons why those marks are in their bodies.

“Mud Trail” portraits the life of Marlon, a young man whose life turned upsidedown after one of the greatest socio-environmental tragedies in the world changed his life forever. Marlon was forced to migrate from his home in the country to the city outskirts, after the breakage of ore waste dam destroyed his entire village. The film follows Marlon’s efforts to continue with his life in a new setting while remaining connected with his memories.

The MUSEUM OF INTERPLANETARY ART is a feature ­length documentary about São Paulo’s artist Rubens Matuck, who from his vast production in arts transits between reality and fiction. From watercolors of Brazilian landscapes made in his trips to comic books with imaginary planets, the film immerses himself in Rubens’ inventive universe through his creative processes, revealing knowledge that goes from art to science.

My grandpa was a movie producer. He was discreet and conservative, but ventured into films with plenty of pornography and other subversive themes for the 80s, like homosexuality and drugs. It has always been a family taboo. I had a superficial relationship with him and we never worked together. But, somehow, I’ll do it now that he died. By trying to find out who he was and what legacy he left, I will make my first feature and become a filmmaker.

The daily life of an illegal immigrant in Trump’s America, my mother. She migrated in 2003. This June I spent 10 days with her coming and going from home to work in a town in Florida. We discussed her 15 years living illegally: the difference felt under Bush, Obama and Trump administrations in terms of economics, politics, and the mood of people surrounding her. She also talked about her expectations of being there for another five years.

Outlaws is a docudrama series about the legendary secret society called Scuderie Le Cocq, also known as the the Death Squad. Founded in 1965 as a retaliation to the death of police detective Milton Le Cocq, had more than 7 thousand associates and worshipers, being charged for hundreds of brutal killings all over Brazil. Their motto was making justice into their own hands.

Samba Novo approaches the universe of the carioca carnival from the experience of the children who participate in this celebration. With an intimate look, the film accompanies the 5 children who compose the court of the samba ‘mirim’ during the period before the parade and its surroundings to unveil the world of those who live the carnival everyday.

From Brazil, nostalgic of a promising future always stolen, but promised since 1500, this movie investigates the most mythical face of Portuguese identity, the culture of saudade, to understand how we deal today with the colonial heritage and the many saudade produced by this, including the saudade of situations we’ve never lived. Shot in Portugal, Brazil and Cape Verde, countries linked by the sea and by the saudade produced by colonization.

“Sculpting Air” is a movie about encounters and the transformative power of dance. The documentary tells the story of a great master of Brazilian artists, the Frenchman Jean Marie Dubrul. For him, the technique is fundamental, but the emotion is what transforms. Through photos, archive images and interviews, we will reflect on themes such as: the passage of time, the relationship with the body, life choices, emotions and being present here and now.

“Sexygenarian” is a 13 ­episode series about women over 60 years old who live their lives fully, participate of the job market, have active love and sexual lives and are full of plans for the future.

Thammy is Dereck’s mother. Bruna and Shiva too. Together they raise their child. Together they make music and together they build their own house. “Taiobas” follows Thammy and her partners in this creative and affective construction through spaces of belonging, interspersing moments of their daily lives, with fragments of their songs.

Feature-length documentary, “Brazilian Godfather” has two parallel narratives: the history behind the mafia-based lottery born in Rio and the life of it’s greatest and most flamboyant character: Castor de Andrade.

“The instant” tells the story of brazilian pioneer documentary filmmaker Jorge Bodanzky and his relationship with the image. For over 50 years as a photographer, documentary maker or camera person, through his lens, he witnessed a half century of changing in the world, documenting Europe in the 60s, the rise of Latin American dictatorship governments in the 70s, and over all, the mutation of the Amazon Rainforest.

The History of AIDS in Latinamerica is telling from on the road by lady Beatriz, an 70 years old woman who was an HIV activist. In each stop, she meets a different couple who lives with that disease as well. Beside, they talk about their experiences and stories, she always leaves to them a letter which was wrote by other couple. This movie follows the path of these love letters and connecting different couples with a lot in commun.

Reconstituting the speeches of deputies and senators in legislative assemblies, the film THE MARGIN COLOR propose a reflection on racism and the myth of racial democracy in Brazil through the investigation and analysis of laws that contributed to the whitening ideology wich was widely disseminated in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. The film will also show interviews with specialists and archive material.

Over the last years, Rio de Janeiro has experienced a dizzying growth of violence and intolerance. In a city where politics, parallel power and religion get mixed up, three “pais de santo” resist and struggle to rebuild their faith.

If twelve years old is too young to have sex, when it would be too old? Nobody comes with an expire date, isn’t? The desire ends? The documentary film “Turn on the lights” is about sex in the old age, one of the greatest taboos in the world. Speaking in an uncensored way and broadcasting old people in a place forbidden for them until now, the documentary film invites the viewer to enter their rooms and lay down in bed with them, but not to sleep.

In the 1980s, five young people revolutionized Brazilian audiovisual production by creating the TVDO. They did literally “tvdo” (everything) that could be done with the video: video clips, video art, videopoems, video installations, video reportages. They have subverted genres and the support itself. In a short time, they arrived at the open TV, confronting the communication system in Brazil.

TWENTY THREE follows the journey of a group of militants who took active part of the 2013 protests in Brazil and today are about to go to jail for their political work. On one side, they tell, for the first time and exclusively, details of the political, judicial and media persecution, and its impact on their personal lives. On the other, their foes unravel what they see as a merciless hunt for dangerous terrorists.

We are going to meet 5 inspiring women from different countries and follow their journeys, their complex paths in relation to body, the challenges they had to face and the ones they continue to face to this day. We’ll follow their life-stories, where mistakes and personal drama lead to learning and pave the way to maturity.They run away from beauty and behavior patterns, so they face big challenges to breach boundaries and break taboos.