Taba

Faith and Fury

The documentary starts from the religious conflicts that exist in Rio de Janeiro and Belo Horizonte's favelas and suburbs to analyze the growing conservative wave that hovers over the country.

Dia de Reis

The work is inspired by Shakespeare's play "Twelfth Night", and the whole narrative is built around the festivities of the Folia de Reis and an unexpected love born of this tradition.

Oysters Silence

The film tells the story of a woman who lives in a village of mining workers.

Sanã

An albino boy named Sanã lives on the island of Lençóis, an untouched paradise in northeastern Maranhão state. Surrounded by dunes, he is mimicked in a very white landscape, under a scalding sun from which he cannot escape. In this microcosm ruled by wind and the tides, Sanã builds his own private world.

Three Tidy Tigers Tied a Tie Tighter

Isabella, Jonata and Pedro are stuck at home for a weekend. Distressed by the state of the world and financial difficulties, the trio decides to go out on the streets of a dystopian São Paulo to relax, which allows them to meet many individuals in a similar situation, causing tragicomic and fantastic situations.

El hombre que cuida

Juan has become the laughingstock of the small fishing village, due to his wife being unfaithful and getting pregnant by another man. He has left fishing and now obsessively cares for an ostentatious mansion of a wealthy family from the capital. One day, the young son of the owner shows up at the house, without his father's permission and loaded with alcohol, with a foreign friend and a village girl they just met. During the course of the weekend, Juan will be forced to make decisions that will affect the rest of his life.

Tomorrow

Skin

The walls in the Brazilian city of Belo Horizonte are inundated with painted pictures and words, from stunning murals to old-school graffiti, and from enigmatic cries from the heart to furious cursing. Marcos Pimentel uses his mostly static camera to capture an impressive number of these public statements.

Polis

The horror and sublime of the urban environment are in constant change, in a time where nothing is finished or definite. Construction and destruction, systole and diastole are expressed in the poetics of the contemporary polis.

Os Ossos da Saudade

A film about absence, narrated from the experiences of people who experience feelings of absence and distance, spread across Brazil, Portugal, Angola, Mozambique and Cape Verde. The body, landscape, memory and time. Stories and places built with remembrance, oblivion and invention. A journey through the territories of memory, representation and belonging.

Memories Graveyard

Documentary built with homemade pictures about everyday life in the twentieth century.

Biografia do Tempo

The Part of the World That Belongs to Me

Documentary about dreams and desires of ordinary people, about fuels that move us daily: happiness, recognition, financial stability, marriage, health, fun, a few pounds less, enjoyment, overcoming or even a simple and humble kite.

Capturing the Friedmans

An Oscar nominated documentary about a middle-class American family who is torn apart when the father Arnold and son Jesse are accused of sexually abusing numerous children. Director Jarecki interviews people from different sides of this tragic story and raises the question of whether they were rightfully tried when they claim they were innocent and there was never any evidence against them.