Paralelos

Put on some makeup, get ready, gather the little money they have, and head out with some friends. Rayra wants to enjoy the last night before starting her eighth job at a mall. The party isn’t great, but an unexpected encounter along the way might just change her financial fate.

In 1970, the Brazilian national team took the field with big dreams and an even bigger challenge: to become the first three-time world champions.

Two young black friends from the same hood thrive a future as artists, but everything changes when the COVID-19 pandemic becomes a global issue and art can no longer be the main source of their income. Even thought, each in their own way, they strugle to continue with their artistic goals, besides the government and the circumstances conspiring against their ambitions.

How do we read the sky—and who taught us? This beautiful exploration of ancestral Indigenous astronomy in Brazil weaves lectures, conversations and community memory into a poetic meditation on knowledge, loss and the many ways humans understand the cosmos.

Murilo Peres and Pedro Barros get a once-in-a-lifetime pass to roll on the fabled curves of some undisputed masterpieces of modern architecture. Oscar Niemeyer remains one of the most important architects in modern history. The Brazilian visionary, who died in 2012 aged 104, elevated modern architecture beyond the realms of function and created buildings that are works of art and express the highest attributes of humanity. His work with reinforced concrete in particular created new architectural forms and possibilities, eschewing the tyranny of angles to create waves and swooping arches of such soaring beauty that they represent nothing less than physical poetry.

Travel around the globe with the world's top skateboarders as they discover the most unique skate spots, from ancient stone to petrified forests and everywhere in between.