Starting Points

Built as a letter to JK in his centenary, the film shows what remained in the memory of Brazilians 26 years after his passing in a car accident in August 1976.

Younger brother of Henfil and Betinho, Chico Mário became a great guitarist and discovered in music his way of expressing himself and looking at the world.

The film deals with the process of globalization based on the thought of geographer Milton Santos, who through his ideas and practices, inspires the debate about Brazilian society and the construction of a new world. Santos discusses his views on the importance of respecting difference and his belief that an alternative globalisation model could wholly enfranchise all citizens of the world. An illustrious presence in 20th century social sciences, the man dubbed as ‘geography’s philosopher’ eloquently elucidates a developing world perspective on the global age.

Mini series about the 1960s in Rio de Janeiro, when a politically engaged student falls in love with a left wing journalist's daughter who doesn't care for politics. The romance follows 15 years of Brazilian history, since President João Goulart deposition by military reactionary forces, until the first signs of restoration of democracy, in the 1980s.

The story of João "Jango" Goulart, the Brazilian left-wing president deposed by the military.

The world post-World War II and its transformations; the utopias that were created and the barbarity that have marked it. The dismantling of the dreaming generation of 1968 and the creation of new prospects in a globalized world.

Documentary about Brazilian filmmaker Glauber Rocha, one of the most important names in the Cinema Novo, with interviews with some of his friends and colleagues.

Documentary about Brazilian history, from 1945 until the 70s, focusing on president Juscelino Kubitschek, his political rise, his philosophy of economical development, his gigantic project ...

Compilation of some of the best moments in the career of Brazilian comedy group "Os Trapalhões", with scenes from their previous films, also telling the story of each individual artist.

In the post-pandemic future of covid-19, will the centrality be the financial casino and the accumulation of wealth by an elite or a quality life for all, with less inequality? Did the minimal state show itself capable of serving the collective? How to guarantee life without social and labor rights? What model of society do we want to live in? The film addresses the dismantling of the concept of social welfare and makes us reflect on the incompatibility of neoliberalism with a humanist project of society.

Chronological profile of Brazil's student activism, from the 30s to the occupation of UNE's headquarters in Rio de Janeiro, 2007.

Maria Pimentel is one of us! A fierce activist, she was part of the founding of the Federation of Women of São Paulo in the early 1980s as a union leader and contributed to the formation of several women's associations in the state. The film, in partnership with Instituto Angelim and Caliban Cinema, tells the memories and stories of Lúcia Maria Pimentel, an activist who fought against the military dictatorship in Brazil from a young age. Committed to her country and her people, she was arrested, went underground and exiled, but returned to fight for redemocratization and social justice.