Ralf Tambke

A claustrophobic situation where you have to choose the right words to be free.

The adventures of Pedro, a musician who is trying his luck in Rio de Janeiro, in the 1950's. He leaves his hometown Belo Horizonte to share a lodging with his brother Carlos in Rio. During one of his gigs, he meets Arlete, a singer in a vocal group and fall in love.

The documentary celebrates the poetic legacy of Lupicínio Rodrigues, investigating the musical contribution and historical context of this composer born in Rio Grande do Sul and author of hits that surpass generations.

It is the story of a regular day when mother makes money working in the city and father work in the fields to keep their seven children.

In a quilombo in the backlands of Ceará, Dulce witnesses the murder of her partner, Davi, carried out by gunmen on the orders of a foreign mining company. Threatened, Dulce goes to São Paulo, where she gives voice to the crime that occurred and denounces the involvement of the multinational, with the support of NGOs and lawyers. Orphaned and raised on a mission by sisters, Dulce is sought out in São Paulo by Beatriz, who reveals herself to be her mother. Abandoned as a baby, she also discovers that she has a twin brother, now her sister Marisa, who owns a karaoke bar with a "refuge" spirit, which brings together an LGBTIQ+ audience, a completely new universe for Dulce. Dulce and Marisa demand that Beatriz reveal something about their unknown father and now set off together, back to the backlands, with two missions: to celebrate the victory of the quilombo and to find the father who never knew of his daughters' existence.

Maria Eduarda, a cowgirl from the backwoods of Pernambuco, Adelino, a farmer from Pantanal, Mato Grosso do Sul, Augusto Leal Filho (Nico) and Pedro Costa (in memory), Marajoara cowboys, Pará, and Afonso, a cowboy from the Pampas Gaúchos. Among them, the relationship with the place, with the animals, with freedom and with the heritage of the craft that has been passed down for generations. The story of one of the oldest works in Brazil, based on the record of the daily bravery of working in the field.

One hundred years after the war to exterminate the traditional population of the Plateau region of Santa Catarina - the War of the Contestado - the beauty, intensity and faith that translates into the strength of cultural resistance of the Caboclo people, the original representative of the population of Santa Catarina . A real story that doesn't go beyond the 2 paragraphs in textbooks and that continues and remains silent after a century of genocide.

Ana (Manuela Campagna) is a 17-year-old girl who lives in a border town between Brazil and Argentina. There, she has no leisure options and no internet access. Your only refuge is to visit a tallow / lanhouse known as "The Cave". It is there that, one day, she ends up meeting Murilo (Fagundes Emanuel), the boy she will fall in love with.

“Submerso” features Nando Oliveira (Cassio Nascimento), a former world surfing champion, bastard son of an aristocrat from a traditional Santa Catarina family. Nando is a well-known figure, an icon and a celebrity in the sport, but, on the other hand, he has always had a wild life, different from what is imagined as the behavior of a top athlete, getting involved in confusions, fights, always present in the most famous ballads in the country.