Ms’d Up tells the story of Rafael Corrêa, a cartoonist diagnosed with multiple sclerosis in 2010. In a hybrid narrative, the action starts from a childhood memory. As a child, Rafael cruelly and without reason killed a frog, crushing its left side. The first symptoms of the disease paralyze his left hand, the hand with which he draws, and he starts to believe in a kind of karma.

Nothing about my father is director Susanna Lira’s search for the true story of her father, whom she never knew. Susanna grew up knowing she was the daughter of a young Ecuadorian guerrilla fighther who came to Brazil to fight the military dictatorship in the 1970. Susanna flies to Quito, her father’s birthplace, and tells her story to dozens of Ecuadorian press outlets in hope to find him.

After the death of her husband, Eni Spinelli, mother of documentary filmmaker Kelly Cristina Spinelli, found herself without a partner – to dance and to share her life with. In A Partner to Call My Own, Kelly follows her mother and four other women who hire taxi dancers, thus investigating loneliness, sexuality and privilege among elderly women.

Four distinctive women and mothers of LGBTQI+ people share their lives and their experiences in relation to motherhood.

Aldeia Roots is the name of a small black community that exists in São Luís do Maranhão, a festive space where a network of families meet to celebrate Jamaican music on weekends. In Aldeia Roots, the regueiro people have memory and produce history: as demonstrators of intangible heritage, they carry – in themselves – the regueira memory of the capital of Maranhão.

Based on the musical presentations of the South African artist Nduduzo Siba, “Before The Next Flight” is a character driven documentary about Siba, whose short vacational trip to Brazil is extended to more than she could ever have thought. Having been arrested at the Brazilian international airport , she becomes a prominent artist after being freed from jail. Nduduzo, however, must fight a deportation order that puts her plans on hold.

MMA, Brazilian Jiu Jitsu and the Gracie family are a worldwide phenomenon that is widely known. But what about the story of the Black Panther, a disciple of Hélio Gracie, who defeated the master, challenged the dynasty of the most powerful family in martial arts and faced racism in Brazil?

BOY is a feature-length documentary about the daily life of black male escorts in the city of São Paulo. Through observational language, personal diaries and lyrical moments, the film intends to reflect on desire, coloniality and (hyper)sexualization of the black man.

“Bring on the Revolution!” is an animated documentary series that brings to life major revolutions led by men and women whose importance was diminished from History. The series’ protagonists are forgotten heroes who fought back against their oppressors.

Based on newly discovered archives and materials, the film tells the story of Brazilian filmmaker Alberto Cavalcanti, a brilliant artist who, although he participated in the main historical events of cinema in the 20th century and achieved critical success in Europe,but had his career jeopardized by an ambitious project in Brazil.

With exclusive and secret documents, the film will show how a terror network of South American dictatorships in the 1970s was already functioning many years before it became official, and that, unlike what the books tell, was created by Brazil. A documentary capable of changing official history.

Father Julio Lancellotti is, above all, a subversive. His deeds go beyond religious discussions and his rebellion consists in fighting a system based on social inequality. He supports women, scorns racism, defends transvestites and transgender people. PADRE JÚLIO is a feature film about the actions and reflections of a man who personifies what is most revolutionary in one of the most unequal countries in the world: the fight for human rights.

Abílio visits his family in Jundiaí, an inland city in Brazil. His sister, Gisele, is tetraplegic and dreams about doing a postgraduate course in order to become an English teacher. In the following days, the two brothers strengthen their bonds in a city where promises seem like ghosts and hope echoes like resignation.

A professional dancer, black and leader Candomblé religion goes to retiring. He searches a successor across the great mystery of his life: Gil dances professionally
at Ballet Company and dances ritually in the religious cerimonies, where your identity cannot be revealed.

A story of four girls growing up as You-tubers. In the process of recording their own youth, the camera becomes a personal prison and a way in which they seek affection and human contact. They are constantly testing the limits of their own performance as they interact with an invisible audience of strangers. A coming of age story about young girls struggling to build a sense os self and identity while trapped in a virtual fantasy world.

Letícia is pregnant but doesn’t know who the father is. She contacts the four possible parents and they all claim the child isn’t theirs because they didn’t come. A solitary pregnancy causes an upheaval and when the child is born she decides to search for the father of her child.

Aline, Vânia, Tathiane and Marília are real women, rape survivors. In the film, they are friends on a small trip: in a country house, nature is a territory of fictional impact that gathers them around its landscape, at the same time that it activates the memory of the past they try to forget.

Dener is the inventor of Brazilian fashion. The first to market his brand name. He created the myth of the “star couturier”, artist and sensitive. The first to dress a first lady, with whom he became close friends. He was also the first to suffer political attack. It was Dener who turned opera into fast-paced music during a parade. He became a millionaire. He lost everything. He was censured for being considered too effeminate. He drank to death.

This doc recounts the unprecedented stories of persecution and violence with which the Brazilian civil-military dictatorship acted against the LGBT population and how this same group constituted its resistance, transforming itself into fundamental subjects of the redemocratization process. The coup of 64 didnt introduce this prejudice, but, during that period, the LGBT population was considered an enemy of the traditional family and good behavior

“Itacoatiaras” is a project that deals with the search for the ancestry of two different and distant places that share the same name and their pasts as indigenous territories. Itacoatiara from Amazonas and Itacoatiara from Niterói, Rio de Janeiro. The project aims to collect forgotten stories from both places to offer the public a product that rescues part of their identity.

Casted into the seas of diaspora, nine letters travel across the Atlantic Ocean, fighting against male chauvinism, xenophobia and racism. Through the trajectory and poetry of Elisa Lucinda, Paulina Chiziane and Raquel, Lima, we delve into a daily life of art and activism in Brazil, Mozambique and Portugal. These countries where an insurgent Portuguese language echoes, which in the film Letters To, … claims the voice, time and body of women, black women, as protagonists of the future.

The Tapajós River region is the largest gold producer in Brazil and offers work to hundreds of people, but in an illegal and predatory way. Penedo is a ‘currutela’ where they exchange their gold for food and in the cabarets. But there is room to dream, like Lucas, who sends money to his family and wants to have a more comfortable future, or Cristyane, who managed to graduate a daughter in medicine with the money she earned working in the mines.

Over 300 years ago, a people who were kidnapped from Guinea-Bissau rebuilt their home and cultivate, in the Quilombo of Santa Rosa dos Pretos, their ancestrality, spirituality and culture, which goes through the sense of union with the land in a deep relationship of involvement. Invaded and shredded by the hands of the State and multinationals, today the Quilombo resists the threat of a new genocide, incarnate in the duplication of BR 135

“My friend Lorenzo” shows the beautiful friendship between an extremely musical 19-year-old autistic young boy with a 75-year-old filmmaker/musician, director of
the film. It all started with a meeting at a music therapy setting 15 years ago when the filmmaker started recording all the therapeutic sessions. The musical friendship
was born, developed over the years and became a film to tell this story of music, reception and friendship.

Rui Mendes is honored for his 40-year career with a 600 m2 panel in downtown São Paulo – a photograph of Raul Seixas covering the entire side of a building. Rui infiltrated the musical universe. He was responsible for the most iconic images of Brazilian rock in the last decades. Rui, his friends and celebrities will reveal the stories behind this and many other emblematic photos.

AS PAJÉS is a documentary series that travels through indigenous territories of several Brazilian regions in search of women shamans, a position of great respect, usually occupied by men. This journey brings the story of eight women who overcame barriers to occupy a leadership role in maintaining ancestral knowledge of healing, cosmology and rituals that values the preservation of nature for the perpetuation of humanity and the planet earth.

Social Housing – Projects of Latin America is a documentary series about the history of popular housing on the continent. From the great modernist housing estates of the past to popular self- management movements, we present the urban history of eight major Latin American cities. Our characters are inhabitants of Latin American cities, heirs of a history marked by contradictions.

On a remote island in southern Brazil, a group of fishermen have visions with the maned wolf stamped on the 200 reais bill. Desiring quick wealth, Martelo, a 70-year-old man who cannot retire, begins a treasure hunt in search of the Jesuit gold that legends say is buried in the region.

Documentary about the work of filmmaker Ruy Guerra. The film rearranges ideas and gestures present in its first short, adding to them testimonies and interviews. In this sound-visual montage, we know his trajectory, from his first cinematographic experience to his current words about his work: the artist as a critic of society, cinema in favor of political transformation, the emancipation of women and the return of the repressed.

Through a series of testimonies from multiple characters, in different perspectives, all orbiting around the fact
that medical cannabis is relieving symptoms of illness and bringing a better quality of life, the film’s narrative will demonstrate the plant’s influence on the lives of patients and families, and the effect the topic is having on the shape of medical care and scientific research.

After receiving the archives of her grandfather Joaquim da Costa Ribeiro, a pioneer of experimental physics in Brazil, Ana began to investigate the mysteries of the Thermodielectric, a phenomenon he discovered in 1944. This enigmatic encounter, full of questions and doubts, but also of curiosity and poetry, has resulted in a deep reflection on the electricity of life.

100 years after the São Paulo Modern Art Week, the black painter brothers João and Arthur Timotheo da Costa return from the dead with a question: why were they forgotten by the modernist movement they helped to found? Trying to answer the question the brothers begin where they worked as teens, pass through the atelier where they improve their techniques and end up at the Psychiatric Hospital of Rio de Janeiro, where both died before 45 years old.

A women-led street movement has led Argentina and Colombia to decriminalize abortion in recent years. By presenting the “Green Wave” and the successful experiences in neighboring countries, the film shows the urgency of this debate in Brazil. Women who are at the forefront of the fight for reproductive rights report the present situation in each country. Those who have already conquered autonomy over their own bodies tell how it was possible.

What is the relationship between extreme right-wing president Jair Bolsonaro and criminal groups in Rio de Janeiro? This documentary narrates the relationship between power and organized crime groups that were established during the military dictatorship, reaching the present day with the militias, which control extensive territories, in a logic that began in Rio de Janeiro and is slowly extending to the rest of the country.

Zózimo Bulbul, born Jorge da Silva, was a great black ator and cineast in Brazil. He fought against the dictatorship and racism in society. With his art, Zózimo occupied places not reached before by black people. What is the impact of this artistic influence on a black family
in a country as deeply racist as Brazil? How his legacy dialogues with the lives of young till this day? Rescuing the memory of Zozimo Bulbul is an open debt to society.