Fuga da Rocinha

In 2001, Fernanda was a 15-year-old Brazilian foreign exchange student in Mesa, Arizona, considered the most conservative city in the United States. Fifteen years later – and two months before Donald Trump’s election – she’s back to understand her experience there.

Due to a rare disease, a child grows a beard. He likes being himself but resents people staring at him.

Tati and Renet were already trading pics, videos and music by their cellphones and on the last school trip they started making eye contact. However, what could be the beginning of a love story becomes the end.

Visiting day. Lindalva prepares food to take it to her son who is in jail. Metruti, Lindalva's son, shaves and wears the best clothes to welcome his mother. Today is a very special day and he really needs to make a phone call. His mother is taking a risk, she's willing to smuggle a cell phone for him into the penitentiary.

In the prison yard, the prisoners play football, dance “capoeira” and talk about freedom.

For seven years Aly Muritiba worked in a prison in Brazil. There, he was part of the Alpha team. After studying film and making some shorts, Aly returns to his old job to be reunited with his former colleagues and make a film about the Alpha Team. The Team consists of 28 people, men and women of different origins and backgrounds, that work as caretakers and custodians for over a thousand criminals in a Brazilian prison. Walkiu becomes the leader of the team and hopes to do a good job. But as time goes by he realizes that his hands are tied.

This is an exiting night in the life of Nelson and Lucas. They are preparing to march to the government hall. Nelson is a elite squad police officer. Lucas, his brother, prepares posters and Molotov cocktail to ignite the crowds.

In a huge abandoned shed, a woman inflicts the most various tortures on a man in order to get answers.

Renata lives isolated in the countryside with her teenage daughter and her husband, conceiving fear as a common feeling. The arrival of a stranger awakens in her the desire for all that was asleep.

Western book writer, Eugenio is going through a difficult phase. He is famous for the novels starring the Jesus Kid, but his sales have been going from bad to worse for some time. The light at the end of the tunnel seems to be a film director's invitation: he wants Eugenio to write a film script. However, to write this script, Eugênio must spend three months isolated in a luxury hotel, without being able to go out or have contact with the world he knows. Based on this premise, Mutarelli builds a scathing critique of the publishing market and the film market — where he has been circulating for years. Bringing to Eugênio much of his own personality, the author shows how the commercial part of culture can be perverse to those who work in it.

Palestinians Faez Abbas and his wife Salha Nasser live forcibly displaced from their culture and family.

The only successful armed agrarian uprising in the history of Brazil, after which more than 56,000 plots of land were titled, the Revolta dos Posseiros ended a severe dispute that lasted several years. The documentary A Revolta addresses this topic by bringing together multiple points of view and versions about this very significant and still little-known event.

Léo finds an old photograph dated the same day he was born. Intrigued, he sets off in search of what he thinks is a fragment of his past.

The Ball rolls freely and while the RAP echoes from the speakers, four friends roam the dance floor with very different goals. What they don't know is that their fates will be sealed forever after this night.

Lauriana decides to go back to the place where Giovani, her boyfriend, died while ago.