The Leap

Elitization of football. This is the main theme of the documentary "Adeus, Geral", directed by 5 high school students, which exposes the advantages and disadvantages of the soccer modernization process.

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.

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 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.

An authentically marginal cinema created in Catholic university in Brazil. One of the most intriguing and imaginative moments in modern cinema in the voice of some of its select conspirators—with Carlos Reichenbach at the lead—, and through the most razing flow of images that can possibly be conceived.