Kiko Goifman

A portrait of transgender musician and artist Linn da Quebrada, who uses her body and performances as weapons to fight sexism, homophobia, and racism.

A documentary about actress Phedra D Córdoba, Cuban and transsexual who lives in downtown São Paulo.

Through a life story the film deals with issues related to human rights, such as the right to difference. The character's life is presented from others, otherness as a logic. The spectators complete the senses and gradually realize that this is a homosexual who, still in his adolescence, became a transvestite; "Amapoa" is a term that comes from Yoruba and has become transvestite slang for women. The film has a brutal ending, revealing that the character suffered a strong violence. Homophobia. The approach leads to identification with the character and allows reflections on the intolerance of today's society.

Flo Menezes is a composer of contemporary classical music, working with more emphasis on the electroacoustic aspect. The DVD De spectris sonorum presents eight of his most representative works, covering 21 years of production, between 1986 and 2007. Created in important studios around the world (Studio für elektronische Musik in Cologne, Germany; Studio PANaroma, in Brazil), the compositions are accompanied by experimental videos by renowned Brazilian artists: Carmela Gross, Branca de Oliveira, Alberto Lefèvre, Kiko Goifman, Jurandir Müller, Regina Johas, Fernando Saiki and Luciana Ohira. The DVD was produced with a DTS 5.1 Surround sound system and is accompanied by 18 posters with excerpts of scores and studies for the works.

The making of an unfinished film about phobias. Says the director. Behind the screens, he discusses at length (with e.g. Coffin Joe) about the aesthetic boundaries of the project: volunteers under controlled circumstances become immersed in their phobias in order to film the fear on their faces.

Syllvio Luccio is a transsexual male being transformed in the middle of the Brazilian dry lands, a region of high temperatures, poverty and where male’s virility is extreme.

Kiko Goifman always knew he was adopted. At age 33 he finally decides to undertake a journey to find his biological mother, and film it as a documentary. He starts off with the few facts he knows, aided by two private detectives, his adoptive mother, and his wife. He also writes an online diary detailing his activities and findings, which gives him additional tips. The title 33 not only refers to Kiko's age, but also to the famous film noir ".33", the age of Christ - "like Kiko - a Jew" , and other coincidences involving the number 33.

A documentary made in Mexico City about a singular character and her feelings about sex and religion.