Os Ossos da Saudade

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

A documentary about daily life in a remote, hard-to-reach rural hamlet in the interior of Minas Gerais, near Ibitipoca State Park. Despite the region's growing tourism, the routine of the families who have lived there for years remains unchanged. They remain virtually isolated from the outside world, on the fringes of progress. Most of the inhabitants are farmers striving to sustain their livelihoods and preserve ancient habits and customs that are on the verge of disappearing.

Over the rubble and debris of contemporary cities, the new urban warriors improvise daily on streets and ruins.

A poetic and melancholic documentary that portrays the daily life, fragility, and behind-the-scenes world of a circus.

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

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.

A documentary about an old man living with his son on a mountain, isolated from the outside world. A reflection on time and silence.