Gringo on the Slum

O Último Programa do Mundo is a weekly TV show that takes place in a post apocalyptic scenario, where there will be no further TV program.

'Black girls don't play with black dolls', says the lyrics of Preta Rara's rap, one of the characters in It Looks Like Me. The documentary explores the lack of black dolls in the Brazilian market and shows the work of the artisans who try to change this scenario facing the gigantic toy industry with their handmade dolls.

After losing her husband, 65-year-old midwife Betânia is persuaded by her daughters to leave her remote village. She moves near the sand dunes of Lençóis Maranhenses in northern Brazil and ventures a new beginning.

Marcha Cega portrays violent police repression at demonstrations in São Paulo that turned the city's streets into real battlefields, leaving blind journalists, students wounded and dozens of political prisoners. This violent march follows without seeing the deep roots hidden by the dense fog of the tear gas.

Colonel Ustra (1932-2015) is the only military man convicted as a torturer during the dictatorship. Today he is exalted as a hero. But what is the truth? Through internet searches, Brazil's past is being reconstructed and collides with the present.

In 1982, almost five million people took theaters to see Erotic Things, the first Brazilian porn film. The production is today considered a major episode in the history of Brazilian cinema because it was launched during the country's military dictatorship. Thirty years later, The First Time of Brazilian Cinema found the producers and actors to tell the inside story of this fascinating journey.

Baderna is a city in a countryside region of Brazil. Founded in 1871, it was built by black enslaved people and today it remains emancipated from the Brazilian state. With its mundane conflicts and its historical resistance, the city also maintains an intense relationship with nature. The movie narrates the day when Baderna receives 'Obaluaê', the 'Orixá' lord of the Earth, in a search for the cure of the 21st century.

Three carnival blocks, born in candomblé terreiros in Bahia, are the center of this documentary: Ilê Aiyê, Cortejo Afro and Bankoma. Through work, centenary groups, the film explores black culture, its dances, its fabrics and its ancestry.

Through Marcelo Perdido's search in the process of researching his album called Brasa, musicians, singers and composers reflect and sing the chapel in silent black and white. When the music stops, what we hear is the cry of the world.

The band Bixiga 70 is the subject of the documentary by Rubens Crispim Jr., which portrays the symbiosis between the music produced by the group and the elevation effect it causes in people.

Nine stories take place between Christmas and Carnival, the sabbatical of Brazil. It's the northeast of the country. Dilemmas as displacement, roots, destiny, cycles, the sacred and the profane are sewn by real and fictional characters. Exploring the boundaries between documentary and fiction, Dropped the boots and dived into Heaven is a film about the Brazilian.

Gerd Wenzel was born in Berlin, and as a boy he arrived in Brazil as a refugee from East Germany. Here, he was a pastor, found himself a football commentator and, today, recovered social and political activism. At 75, after fleeing the Second World War, overcoming Nazism, being persecuted by the military dictatorship and never getting tired of the fight for freedom ... Gerd, a good friend, has a story to tell.