Film or Not Film

Reconstructing the details of the death of his brother, Rafael Burlan da Silva, twelve years ago, the filmmaker Cristiano Burlan launches a personal journey that leads to the heart of a cycle of violence in the outskirts of São Paulo — like the neighborhood Capão Redondo, where his family lived and where his 22 year-old brother was killed with 7 shots in 2001. Exploring his brother’s reasons for involvement with drugs and car theft, the director exposes parts of his own family history, listening to relatives and friends, whose testimonies bring to light the fates of several characters, mapping the history of painful emotional wounds.

Arrested since a popular demonstration in 2013, Janaína escapes and meets her friend Cassia in a context of an ongoing coup d’etat. Their reunion brings along their drums and attempts to break out the imposed silence over black lesbian bodies.

Nosferatu arrives in a town escaping from Van Helsing. He brings not only his curse, but ghosts from his past. In this escape, he dives into a macabre dance searching for an actress and faces the horror of eternity and the pain of an endless existence.

Peaceful reunification will not happen.

A couple of workers think about their jobs as they deal with an impossible pregnancy.

Boris has done everything in life. He is even the best actor in the world.

A man on the road resumes his life. His delicacy: his freedom.

Days before the World Cup in Brazil, a worker reflected on his work.

Sunny Sunday on the hood. A proud uncle, a fabulous mother and an artist kid.

Filmmaker Lincoln Péricles' "Filme dos Outros" gathers together a series of snippets taken from home videos recorded on smartphones stolen around the city of São Paulo.

A little girl presents the construction of the place she lives now.