Diego Lajst

What tools can we use to question our identities and moral stands? Would art be one of the ways to make that happen? In what ways can we put ourselves in someone else's shoes? In the end, who's speaking when we say something? This film presents four dialogues that address complex themes about human coexistence.

In 2019, the leakage of messages exchanged by authorities in Brazil undermines the credibility of Operation Lava Jato. A group of journalists follows the unfolding of the case, in a sequence of crises that puts Brazilian democracy at risk.

In 1996, a Brazilian official and a Swedish journalist ventured into the Amazon to document the isolated Korubo tribe caught in escalating land conflicts. Initially hailed as a heroic breakthrough, the footage now demands to be reexamined. Uncovering the hidden costs of “discovery,” the film confronts the colonial legacy and exposes the long-term repercussions for the Korubo.

Amid the vast rivers of the Brazilian Amazon, small communities of Moroccan Jewish descendants preserve centuries-old traditions, tracing a story of faith, memory, and survival at the meeting point between the jungle and the diaspora.

Participants recall a series of festivals held on a farm in Brazil during the '70s and '80s that evolved into liberating celebrations of music.

The history of the mobilizing of a group of 110 employees from Caixa Econômica Federal bank over the course of a year, after being unfairly dismissed in 1991 under the Fernando Collor de Mello government.

Follow the travels of a small circus troupe from São Paulo to Argentina, Spain, the United States, France, Holland, Mexico and Peru, in search of inspiration for a new show.