O Cineasta das Platéias

The Beginning of Life

One of the greatest neuroscience breakthroughs is having discovered that babies are far more than a genetic load. The development of all human beings

2016

Cinema Novo

A deep investigation, in the way of a poetic essay, on one of the main Latin American movements in cinema, analyzed via the thoughts of its main autho

2016

White Noise

Through a poetic language, "White Noise" seeks to reflect on the whitening processes that Brazil suffered for 130 years, after the abolition of slaver

2019

Nos Passos do Mestre

2016

Martyrdom

Waving the flag that states every film is political, Vincent Carelli visibilizes in this documentary the cause of the Guarani-Kaiowá: a group of indig

2017

Panair of Brazil

Panair do Brasil revives the story of the most important commercial aviation company in Brazil, between 1930 and 1965, with its commercial daring in e

2007

Maria Bethânia: Música é Perfume

Brazilian singer Maria Bethania has a 40-year singing career. A documentary shows her concerts and famous family.

2005

Central

The Central Prison of Porto Alegre was considered the worst in Brazil by a commission of inquiry of the Chamber of Deputies in 2008. Now, the place op

2017

The Salt of the Earth

During the last forty years, the photographer Sebastião Salgado has been travelling through the continents, in the footsteps of an ever-changing human

2014

Cora Coralina: Todas as Vidas

All the lives of Cora Coralina in a poetic narrative in the voices, feelings and interpretations of six generations of great Brazilian actresses. A po

2017

O Índio - Ontem, Hoje e Amanhã

The surviving 14 minutes of the original documentary about the Villas Boas expedition to the Amazonian tribes in Brazil.

1990

Teresinha

2016

O Arco e a Lira

2002

Além de Tudo, Ela

2019

Closed Beaches

Beaches are closed during the COVID-19 pandemic. Nevertheless, the middle class must survive the tropicals.

A kiss for Gabriela

A KISS FOR GABRIELA tells the story of a remarkable woman named Gabriela Leite. An activist for sex workers’ rights for over 30 years, Gabriela was th

2018

Hello, Hello, Terezinha!

Hello, Hello, Terezinha! is a feature-length documentary about the country's biggest communication phenomenon. Politically incorrect, radical, renewin

2009

Brazillians Like Me

The encounter with a growing, and mostly undocumented, brazilian community allows us to bear witness to its energy, its vivacity, and its diversity. T

2008

Waste Land

An uplifting feature documentary highlighting the transformative power of art and the beauty of the human spirit. Top-selling contemporary artist Vik

2010

Isle of Flowers

A tomato is planted, harvested and sold at a supermarket, but it rots and ends up in the trash. But it doesn’t end there: Isle of Flowers follows it u

1989