Ana Galizia

Summoning documents, images, and sounds from the archives to connect the past with the present in the struggle for land and water in the Guapiaçu valley region in Brazil.

After his grandmother's funeral, Paulinho returns to his hometown. A misunderstanding sets him on a journey to find a lost photography.

Davi Kopenawa, a Yanomami shaman and one of Brazil’s leading Indigenous voices, confronts the threat of large mining companies encroaching on his Amazon territory. We follow him on a journey to Brumadinho, where he encounters the aftermath of the Brumadinho dam disaster. Between the earthly and the spiritual realms, his path intersects with the maxita watimapë—the “earth eaters” — and leads him to reunite with his longtime ally Ailton Krenak.

Between the urgency of running away and wanderings, Glória exists in the strange instinct of the night and living crowd.

Sr. Raposo is a staged documentary about the daily life of Acácio, who found out he was HIV+ in 1995.

Greice, a Brazilian girl studying in Lisbon, gets involved with a mysterious guy and ends up getting accused of a strange incident that occurs at the students' welcoming party, which forces her to return to her hometown to renew her residence permit. Hidden in a hotel, while preventing her mother from discovering she’s back in the country and with the help of some friends, Greice tries to find a place of comfort in the world.

At a supermarket, Magno watches over boys with backpacks as they go along the corridors. Meanwhile, the night drags on slowly for Bismarck, a cashier.

Lakes Region, southeastern Brazil. João has been unemployed since the restaurant where he worked closed its doors. Living with his father, he tries to devote himself to his duties as a young pastor in the local evangelical community. Idle and unable to help those around him, let alone himself, he feels abandoned by God.