A Rotação da Terra

Using a mixture of film clips and interviews with Ozualdo Candeias himself the film tells the director's 40 year trajectory.

There is no place in the world where the prison population grows as fast as in Brazil, a country that have the fourth largest population of inmates in globe. Sentence on Trial dives deep into the hellish everyday life of the Brazilian prisons to expose how moroseness, prejudice and the culture of fear amplify violence and the social abyss of the country.

Would have one of the masters of Brazilian cinema always made the same film? From an encounter with documentarian Eduardo Coutinho recorded in 2012 and a vast amount of archive footage, this film offers a general look at Coutinho's work and testifies how the filmmaker’s thinking still stand the test of time to this day and age.

The story of a photograph: A single mother, an absent father and a child.

While out for a walk in the countryside, Marina and Juvenal stop to take some pictures in front of an old woman’s house. Annoyed, the old woman turns out to be a witch and casts a curse on the young couple in the form of a wound that feeds on raw flesh.

In a small port city on the coast of São Paulo, Brazil, rapid advances in infrastructure works and growing tourist development are increasingly impacting the lives of local inhabitants. Edivaldo, a longtime resident of the region, passionate about cinema, uses his camera to record the memories and changes of the place where he grew up. Meanwhile, young Iara faces challenges in search of a new home in the Topolândia neighborhood, trying to escape the chaos caused by the construction of a highway near her home. In the midst of these transformations, an unprecedented storm hits the city.

On the first year of a far right government in Brazil, Joder decides to investigate his health after moving to Brasilia for work.

The short film reports the process of rescuing and finishing A Praga, by José Mojica Marins, o Zé do Caixão. Produced in 1980, the film was never completed and was lost.

Republic of Judges presents a panorama of central events in Brazilian politics from recent decades, such as the Constitution of 1988, the Mensalão Trial and the Car Wash Operation, to analyze the phenomenon of the recent participation of the Judiciary power in the current power framework in the country.

The documentary questions the knowledge of sociology in the face of the crises of the contemporary world. Experts in the subject discuss and evaluate the usefulness of this discipline and propose new ways for its application.

The documentary shows the history of the emergence of some of the first film courses in Brazil and their fundamental role in the development of national cinema. Featuring stories from professors and students of these pioneering courses and a vast use of archive materials, the film presents initiatives that sought to bypass financial and political problems to make Brazilian cinematography possible and train its new generations of filmmakers.