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After heartbreaks and professional disappointments on planet Earth, Julio and Clara decide to flee together into space.
The work celebrates the Carnival of Salvador and explores the festival's importance to the city, Afro-Brazilian culture, politics, and musicality. Featuring scenes of Carnival festivities and famous landmarks, the documentary presents testimonies from anthropologist Goli Guerreiro, musician Mestre Jackson, conductor Ubiratan Marques, and filmmaker Matheus Rocha.
Evinho Bonfim had spastic cerebral palsy at birth. Mobility difficulties did not stop him from loving football and Milan. That's how, at the age of 14, he founded Milan dos Coelhos. For more than two decades, Coach Evinho's project has helped to change the reality of children and young people in the Coelhos neighborhood, in Recife. The documentary shows how a lowland team survives in the face of a lack of sponsorship and how the coach is inserted into society through football.
A series of interviews of torture survivors from Brazil dictorship are mixed with performance.
The young Beto ventures to the Brazilian countryside in search of a collection of rare drawings. There he meets Samir, the collector, and his family ruined by the demise of the cocoa plantations. The journey and the encounter will irrevocably change the young man’s soul.
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.
Clarisse notices a small green leaf growing out of her right arm.
Recent studies suggest that the average adult will spend at least half of their life in front of a screen. This documentary explores how Brazilian digital influencers are using that reality to fuel activism on social issues such as racial representation, LGBTQ+ rights, feminism, and politics. Stuck at home with social media as their only tool to make their voices heard, nine influencers create content across multiple platforms, raising awareness about taboo subjects in an accessible and deconstructed way while sharing their daily lives. Through the communities they build online, they question whether our screens have become true mirrors of the souls of today’s societies.
Breath is a creative documentary about human existence and the mysteries of life and death, seen in the everyday life of a small village in the middle of nowhere, in the countryside of Brazil, where families have lived for years, almost completely isolated from contact with the outside world. Wind, dust, mountains, silence and time… Man and nature live together there in both harmony and conflict, amidst what is and what could be, in the vastness of a landscape grander than vision can grasp.
As he does every single day, Elon goes to meet his wife at her workplace, but she is not there. He doesn’t find her at home as well, so he starts to retrace the path Madalena makes daily. In the morning after, Elon goes to the police station and files a report, runs into hospitals, morgues. Alone, he wanders through a metropolis, searching for news about the sudden and mysterious disappearance of his wife.