8 Presidents 1 Oath

CARLA CAMURATI

Using archival materials from different national and international media, the film retells the story of the process of Brazilian redemocratization, from the Diretas Já movement to the inauguration of Jair Bolsonaro.

2021 | 142 min | Brazil

Joy is the Acid Test

HELENA IGNEZ

Memorial film, about love, about the trip taken to Morocco in the 70s by Jarda Ícone (Helena Ignez), artist, sexologist and octogenarian rocker, as she defines herself, and Lírio Terron (Ney Matogrosso), defender of human rights. In fact, a journey that did not end in their lives. With her group of disciples and friends, she develops self-sustainable feminist and artistic projects.

2023 | 100 min | 14 years | Brazil

The Joy of Things

THAIS FUJINAGA

When a mother`s efforts to build a pool at her beach house collide with financial problems, all her frustrations come to a head, pulling her away from her plans and her family.

2021 | 87 min min | Brazil

A MONTANHA DOURADA

CASSANDRA OLIVEIRA

Documentary that presents the enchanted and cruel universe of the recent gold rush in the Amazon, through the stories told by people who cross Brazil to work in the Amapá mines.

2021 | 53 min | Brasil

The Woman With Her Own Light

Sinai Sganzerla

Helena Ignez is one of the main female personalities in Brazilian cinema. She started a new style of interpretation and currently is an independent director. The documentary describes part of the history of cinema, the political context and the artist’s trajectory.
MAIN FESTIVALS AND AWARDS
2020 – 38th Festival Cinematográfico Internacional del Uruguay | 2020 – 15th Festival Tucumán Cine Gerardo Vallejo - Argentina | 2020 - SANFIC 16 - Santiago International Film Festival | 2020 – 18th Filmmor - International Women’s Film Festival - Istanbul, Turkey | 2019 – 41st Havana Film Festival - Cuba | 2019 – 21th Rio de Janeiro Int’l Film Festival | 2019 – 14th Festival de Cinema Latino-Americano de São Paulo | 2019 – 8th Olhar de Cinema – Curitiba Int’l Film Festival

2019 | 74 min | 12 anos | Brasil

A MULHER DE TODOS

ROGÉRIO SGANZERLA

A weekend on the beaches of Ilha dos Prazeres, where Plirtz and his wife Angela Flesh and Bone, the woman of dull men, as she describes herself, are traveling. She is married to an arrogant millionaire, owner of numerous companies, including one that publishes comic books.

1969 | 93 min min | 18 years | Brazil

ALEXANDRINA, UM RELÂMPAGO

KEILA SANKOFA

A flash of lightning makes the cinema of invention a fertile field of contestation, which dares to tear up the records of the perverse and lying past, where Alexandrina, a black woman from the Amazon, who had previously been reduced to an object of study, was emptied of her vast repertoire of knowledge and soon Thrown into the limbo of supposed oblivion, now is the present!

2022 | 11 min

All the beauty and the bloodshed

LAURA POITRAS

An epic and moving story about artist and activist Nan Goldin, told through interviews, photographs and rare footage of her fight to hold the Sackler family accountable for the US opioid crisis. Directed by Oscar-winning filmmaker Laura Poitras, the film intertwines Goldin`s past and present, the deeply personal and the urgently political of her actions and expositions.

2022 | 117 min | USA

Las Hijas

KATTIA G. ZÚÑIGA

Summer Vacation. Two sisters, Marina (17) and Luna (14), travel from Costa Rica to Panama looking for their absent father. While dealing with the friction that arises between them, they find space to explore their desires, new friendships, dating and skateboarding, on a journey towards emancipation in which they discover the joy of the simple act of living together. An intimate and tender story of sisterhood in the urban tropics, with an in-depth portrait of colorful teenage life.

2023 | 80 min | 12 | Panamá, Chile

AS PRECES DE DELPHINE

ROSINE MBAKAM

The film portrays Delphine, a young Cameroonian woman who, like others, belongs to the generation of young African women crushed by patriarchal societies and abandoned to Western sexual colonization as their only means of survival. Through her courage and strength, she exposes these patterns of domination that continue to imprison African women.

2021 | 91 min | 14 | Camarões, Bélgica

ATÉ QUE A VIDA NOS SEPARE: UMA BIOGRAFIA DE NELSON CARNEIRO

EMILIA SILVEIRA

Film about the life and work of parliamentarian Nelson Carneiro, a key player in the promulgation of the 1988 Constituent Assembly and responsible for the approval of more than 1,000 laws, including Divorce, an important milestone in women`s struggle for freedom and rights.

2023 | 70 min min | Livre | Brazil

AVE MARIA

PÊ MOREIRA

A film about making a family. With a young black and trans woman as the protagonist, it records the craftsmanship of relationships through time, death and change. After her father`s unexpected and early death, Maria spends a year away from her family. On Christmas Eve, she returns. The reunion with home, mother, siblings and grandmother reactivates memories and strengthens relationships.

2022 | 15 min | Brazil

CAFI

NATARA NEY, LÍRIO FERREIRA

In his adolescence, Carlos Filho left the city of Recife to look at the world and its developments through his lens. Documentary road-movie about the eye, the camera and the sky.

2021 | 76 min | Brazil

Scenes from Childhood

KIMBERLY PALERMO

A little mouse lives a peaceful childhood. He eats homemade cookies, plays with his dolls and listens to fairy tales before going to sleep – until a sleepless night makes him break away from his idyllic world.

2021 | 5 min min | Brazil

Balance

OLINDA TUPINAMBÁ (MUNIZ WANDERLEY)

The speech of Kaapora, an indigenous spiritual entity, guides the critical discussion of the destructive relationship between our civilization and the only known planet that supports life, and on which we ourselves depend to continue our existence as a species.

2022 | 12 min | Brazil

Scarse

GABRIELA GAIA MEIRELLES, CLARA ANASTÁCIA

The mockumentary follows Rose, a professional pet walker who presents her new home to a documentary team while celebrating the realization of a dream: owning a home, even if occupied. While claiming to take care of the property and waiting for the owner to return, the new “tenant” creates intimacy with the house, falling in love with the absent owner.

2022 | 15 min | Brazil

Incompatible with life

ELIZA CAPAI

Based on the record of her frustrated pregnancy, director Eliza Capai talks to women who have had experiences similar to hers, creating a touching choir of voices that reflect on universal themes: life, death and public policies that affect us.

2023 | 93 min | Brazil

Infantry

LAÍS SANTOS ARAÚJO

Joana wants to become a girl. Dudu wants his father. Verbena, who arrived uninvited, hides what she wants.

2022 | 24 min | Brazil

IRACEMAS

TUCA SIQUEIRA

In the capital of Ceará, Iracema is the name of many women. It is the name of a school, inn, bakery, laundry, steakhouse. Iracema is the name of the beach. One late afternoon by the sea, Elba, 58 years old, and Cássia, 39, disagree about the real existence of the character created in 1865 by José de Alencar.

2023 | 73 min | Brazil

Since no one Asks me to Dance

ANA MARIA MAGALHÃES

The documentary rescues the participation in Brazilian culture of the revolutionary actress Leila Diniz, fifty years after her disappearance. Authentic and free, she paved the way for the sexual revolution and became one of the greatest Brazilian female myths.

2021 | 91 min min | 12 | Brazil

Jane par Charlotte

CHARLOTTE GAINSBOURG

In the documentary, Charlotte Gainsbourg looks at her mother, Jane Birkin, in a way she never did, overcoming a sense of reserve. Using a camera lens, they expose themselves and begin to move away, opening space for a mother-daughter relationship.

2021 | 90 min | France

Nothing Like Before – The Music of Clube da Esquina

ANA RIEPER

The film delves into the sound of an exceptional team of musicians – Milton Nascimento, Lô Borges, Beto Guedes, Toninho Horta and others – to understand how diverse references and influences from landscapes, history and poetry reflected in each of them and in the timeless music they created .

2023 | 78 min | Brazil

Into the Void of Air

PRISCILLA BRASIL

To understand what drives someone to become a pilot in the Amazon, an activity that is often poorly paid and dangerous, the director returns to the small airport where her uncle flew, 30 years after his death. As the runway seems to crumble beneath their feet, pilots share stories about the precariousness, prejudice and crimes that occur in the skies over the forest.

2022 | 73 min | Brazil

Te-Ato Chorus

STELLA OSWALDO CRUZ PENIDO

José Celso Martinez Corrêa returns from exile and forms a Choir of actors for the reopening of Teatro Oficina in São Paulo. Still under the military dictatorship, this group is faced with a false idea of ​​freedom and is harshly repressed and prohibited from working.

2023 | 80 min min | 10 | Brazil

The Messenger

LUCIA MURAT

The film has two main characters: the mother, a married, conservative, Catholic lady; and a young soldier, recently arrived from the South, who witnessed some barbarities and doesn`t know how to deal with it. He ends up taking the risk and agreeing to take a message from the prisoner to his mother, thus creating a bond that will experience countless contradictions.

2023 | 110 min | Brazil, Argentina

The Basement of Scream Street

SABRINA GREVE

Jonas and Rebeca, orphaned brothers, live in an old mansion on Rua do Grito with their weakened grandmother and a mysterious child hidden in the basement. Rebeca wants to leave the past and move forward, but Jonas resists, tormented by the screams and whispers of family secrets kept for generations.

2022 | 90 min | 16 | Brazil

Orixas Center

MAYARA FERRÃO

Produced and filmed in Salvador (BA), the short unfolds the narratives of the orixá archetypes, creating and rescuing traces of Yoruban cosmology through aesthetic, ethical, philosophical and political references.

2021 | 13 min | Brazil

Breathing Deep

JORANE CASTRO

Three women with different views on life and love go on a journey together, going from the urban setting to one where raw nature prevails. Eva, mature and pragmatic, invites her friend Melina, free and without commitments, and Keithylennye, a young ex-technobrega dancer, to join the journey. Along the way, the events experienced by each one reveal the different meanings of that journey.

2016 | 100 min | 12 | Brazil

PRAIANO

ZIENHE CASTRO

The short film addresses, in all doubt, the strong relationships between men, often loving and erotic ― sublimated or not ―, which find their core of social expression in football. It also reflects on the hypocrisy with which this relationship is dealt with when it triggers clashes of interests between family, society and sexual freedom.

2022 | 30 min | Brazil

Racionais MC’s: From the Streets of São Paulo

JULIANA VICENTE

With their protests in the form of music, the legendary rap group Racionais MC’s transformed street poetry into a powerful movement in Brazil and the world.

2022 | 106 min | Brazil

TAPAJÓS ÃGAWARAITÁ

PRISCILA TAPAJOWARA

The film talks about the spirituality and sacredness of the 13 indigenous peoples of the lower Tapajós region, and shows the importance of ancestral knowledge that generates awareness and respect for the enchanted and for mother earth. For us, it is essential to pass on knowledge to younger people, as this is the only way to maintain the culture of our people.

2018 | 15 min | Brazil

TARSILINHA

CELIA CATUNDA, KIKO MISTRORIGO

Tarsilinha is a girl who embarks on a fantastic journey, in which she needs to recover her mother`s stolen memories. On her journey, she must become increasingly independent and courageous, as well as return home safely.

2021 | 93 min | Brazil

TRANSAMAZONIA

RENATA TAYLOR, DÉBORA MCDOWELL, BEA MORBACH

Like a true road-movie, the film travels along the Transamazônica highway, capturing encounters and landscapes between the cities of Marabá, in Pará, and Lábrea, in Amazonas. Melissa is a 21-year-old mother. Marcelly, at 35, is unemployed. The two are transvestites who live in different parts of this road that tore the country apart.

2019 | 74 min | 12 | Brazil

UTOPIA

RAYANE PENHA

A daughter`s search for stories lived by her gold miner father, who died while mining. Files about this father, photos, videos and letters he wrote to his family describing his experience and difficulties in mining. The documentary seeks to humanize men who dedicate their lives to the land. More than a record, the film shows an intimate and poetic account of the lives of these workers.

2021 | 15 min | Brazil