Meus Oito Anos: Canto Escolar

The popular song Chuá Chuá, illustrated with scenes of rural life. Girl observes in window. A fountain drains water. A flower. The cattle grazing. River waters. Man seen from window of wattle and daub house. Girl hangs cage with bird. Man walks towards the gate. Ducks in river drink water. The popular song A Casinha Pequenina, illustrated with scenes from rural life. Hut surrounded by banana trees and a coconut tree. Children walk hand in hand, sit on the riverbank. Birds in cages. Again the little house and the vegetation that surrounds it, especially the coconut tree.

A visual interpretation of Brazilian popular songs "Azulão" and "Pinhal".

A Velha a Fiar illustrates a Brazilian folk song in which a being or entity is always predating another being, but is in its turn predated by some other animal, until the circle closes. It begins like this: an old woman is quietly weaving and a fly disturbs her; a spider eats the fly; a mouse eats the spider; a cat chases the mouse and so on...

Carmen, a poor and beautiful woman, lives in a shantytown in Rio de Janeiro. All men desire her, including her stepfather, but she only has eyes for her boyfriend, Milton. After being expelled from home, she finds out her lover is married. Unhappy with her life, she finds a place in a boarding house and tries to find a job, with no success. Tired and starving, she ends up passing out in the street, being helped by a passer-by, who leaves her at writer Flávio Martins's house, a man torn between the proposal of an arranged marriage, an old flame, and the new guest.

A theater manager about to go bankrupt decides to accept help from his daughter and her boyfriend to save the family's finances, which she does with the sponsorship of a rich man.

Reconstruction of the historical episode of the Inconfidência Mineira (Minas Conspiracy).

In the beginning of the Twentieth Century, in Belo Horizonte, the industrial Sampaio lives in a manor house with his stepdaughter Carmen, who has a sort of engagement with Roberto...

Coronel Januário's goddaughter, Maria Fausta, is having a secret affair with João do Carmo. While her godfather is engaged in his political campaign for mayor of the city, the couple disappears. Galdino, an accordionist who is secretly in love with her, goes looking for them.

In 1594 Brazil, a frenchman becomes a prisoner of the Tupinambás. While waiting to be executed, the foreigner learns the habits of the indigenous people and joins a woman who tries to help him escape.

A documentary-tribute to the filmmaker Humberto Mauro considered the pioneer of Brazilian and Latin American cinema, directed by his grandnephew, André Di Mauro.

A short documentary about the Victoria Regia.

An adaptation of Machado de Assis' eponymous short story, preceded by a short telling of the author's life and works.

Historical information about the opera "O escravo", by Carlos Gomes, highlighting the fourth act, in which Iberê sings Iara's love.

Between captured images, animations and scientific descriptions, the puraquê electric fish is presented through the eyes of Humberto Mauro and Carlos Chagas Filho.

The epic of the exploration and conquest of the Brazilian territory, in search of gold and precious stones.

Biographical data about Castro Alves: the different cities where he lived, the love misadventures, the school institutions where he studied and his poetry. Countryside landscapes illustrate the narrated trajectory. Negra caresses a child in a performance by Castro Alves with her nanny Leopoldina. Men work in pestles, weed. Views of the cities of Cachoeira and Salvador. In the capital, highlights include the Church, Feira de Meninos, the Solar da Boa Vista. Views of the city of Recife. The Recife Faculty of Law. A herm of the poet. The Santa Isabel Theatre. Return to Salvador and the São João Theater.