Role Model

The rise and fall of Fernando Collor de Mello, Brazil's youngest president and the first president in the Americas to be impeached.

Ariel Kuaray Ortega returns to his hometown to visit his grandfather in a region of Brazil bordering Argentina. He wants to finally hear the full story of Canuto, a fellow villager who turned into a jaguar and then died a tragic death. A plan soon arises to make a film about the mysterious Canuto, with the villagers playing all the roles.

"Yesterday, by the afternoon, I went to see if our theater was still there. And it was".

The city and its parking lots.

The documentary delves into the images that shaped the political myth of Jair Bolsonaro, from his earliest YouTube videos to the end of his term in office. Over a series of sleepless nights, a narrator drifts through Bolsonaro’s livestreams, selfies, and speeches, searching for the logic of a form of power forged through and by images. By confronting this visual regime with Brazil’s official iconography, the film explores how power is understood, repeated, and asserted through images, at a time when politics increasingly unfolds on screens.

Between the scars of the past and the uncertainties of the future, Jardim Panorama resists. A little over ten years ago, the favela was ripped in half by a monster. Today, the monster sleeps. Until when? A film about the dreams, memories and daily life of those who live in a community surrounded by the walls of an upscale neighborhood in São Paulo.

Brian walks through his childhood neighborhood, looking for new areas to explore. Romeo, from his windowed office, designs a new marketing strategy. Carla plans new investiments watching the city from above. A table game. A future image. A city project.

Look, a new hatred. Listen, a new hatred.

Heavily guarded, a luxurious castle lies on the bank of the Pinheiros River, in São Paulo.

Two child preachers search for a better life through the power of faith. 17-year-old Daniel, was once Brazil’s most renowned child preacher; today, as he nears adulthood, he grapples with the weight of an uncertain future. Meanwhile, 12-year-old João Vitor is at the height of his fame, reaching millions through his followers. Amidst livestreams and smartphones, he preaches to the masses. The film uncovers the childhoods concealed behind these public personas, reflecting a country in transition — a place where politics and religion frequently intertwine. As one cycle closes and another opens, they navigate a Brazil that has been forever changed.

Fifty years after it was recorded, the footage of the graduation of the first and only class of the Indigenous Rural Guard reappears. In 1970, eighty indigenous marched, in uniform, in the courtyard of a police station, to the leadership of the military dictatorship. Fifty years later, the film seeks out these guards - their bodies, their stories, their memories. Fractures, silences, what remains and what is lost in violent Brazilian history.

Real estate brokers explain their work and talk their feelings about it.