Little Book of Love

Fifteen years after their split, a man and woman reconnect during a chance encounter and reconsider their new loves and lives.

“Touch one, touch us all” is a slogan of the women who took over the streets in Brazil and organized themselves in social networks to face male chauvinist and conservatism. Through testimonies of women who have been subjected to violence, the documentary reveals that, despite legal achievements, the woman still remains vulnerable. Amongst other deponents are Maria da Penha, Joanna Maranhão, Luíza Brunet, and Clara Averbuck.

Inspired by the moving book “Só as Mães São Felizes”, by Lucinha Araújo, Cazuza's mother, the film covers a little more than 10 years of the singer’s crazy and brief life – from the beginning of his career in the Circo Voador venue, in 1981, to the huge success and the apotheosis of his shows with the Barão Vermelho band, his solo career, his relations with his parents, friends, lovers and passions, and the courage he had to face his final years, with HIV, until his death, in 1990.

Fifteen year ago, Carlos went to the cinema to meet Júlia, his university colleague with whom he was in love. She never showed up. Carlos was left waiting in the lobby alone. While he waits, something happens which will change his life. A scene, an encounter, an unfinished sentence... Something insignificant, but which will determine the character's life. Fifteen years later, we follow three completely different versions of Carlos's life. In one, he is a man divided between the stability of a secure life in a lukewarm marriage, and the growing desire to live a great love affair. In the second, he is homosexual and places passion above all else. In the third possible life, Carlos is a man who hasn't yet discovered love, and lives through successive disastrous relationships in search of the perfect woman. One of them is his real life. Another is not his life. And a third is the life he'd like to lead. Which is his true life ?

Jessica, Sabrina and Daiane have dreams, just like all young people of any social class or place in the world. They live in a low-income neighborhood in the periphery of Rio de Janeiro and find in prostitution a way to survive and satisfy their consumer desires. However, even faced with the trials of absolute uncertainty and lack of hope, Jessica, Sabrina and Daiane insist on loving, having fun and planning their future.

Biography of a Brazilian dancer who lived on an island and practiced nudism when it was forbidden by law.

The routine of a group of brazilian teenagers living in Brasília, Brazil's capital. Their aspirations, dreams and illusions presented in a context of a country that was on the final years of a dictatorship back in the 1980s.

Fifteen years after their split, a man and woman reconnect during a chance encounter and reconsider their new loves and lives.

The film follows four digital influencers: Jout Jout, Bispo Arnaldo, Rita Von Hunty and Spartakus Santiago.

Filmmaker Sandra Werneck interviews remarkable women such as Marieta Severo, Zezé Motta, Margareth Dalcolmo, Conceição Evaristo, Denise Werneck, and Iole de Freitas for a journey of shared experiences that challenge stereotypes of female aging. From work to love life, from health to sexuality, these women share their stories, reflections, and life lessons, offering inspiration and raising questions about what truly matters when one reaches maturity, while also highlighting the hardships and misfortunes of aging.

The transvestites of the Rio nights in testimony about their professional difficulties, moralism, repression and stardom

The training process of professional soccer players has become part of a powerful economic system. The case of Pintinho illustrates the drama not only of soccer players, but all those gifted with talent and potential who permanently struggle against the social and economic conditions in which they live and which hinder their personal realization. The film shows soccer as one of the few ways of escaping poor social conditions, as well as the high price of success, the problems in overcoming personal limitations and bearing the pressures of premature expectations.

A documentary dramatized on the daily life of a women's prison: Instituto Penal Talavera Bruce, in Bangu, Rio de Janeiro. The film reveals the struggle for survival within this micro-society that is formed between the walls, the relationship of these women with the penal institution, with justice and with the outside world. Through work, leisure, leisure, affective relationships and the social and sexual roles that each one assumes in prison, the film shows the relationship between people, the struggle for survival within this micro-society that is formed between the walls, the relationship of these women with the penal institution, with justice, and with the outside world.

Mixing fiction and documentary, DAMAS DA NOITE tells the story of Júlia, a street girl who wanders around the city fighting for survival. She sells chewing gum, commits small thefts, until, due to lack of option, she begins to prostitute herself.

There is a silent and not officially declared war. A minefield where there is a battle of unequal forces. A combat without causes, disputes or conquests, where the combatants do not even distinguish their enemies.