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Jean-Claude Bernardet, Rubens Rewald
How to act politically today? Is it possible to change things, people, society? And now, what to do? An intellectual and his contradictions. This is the theme of the...
Entre Nós, Um Segredo
Toumani Kouyaté, Beatriz Seigner
The story of Toumani Kouyaté, who, in 2014, established with his family and living in Brazil, was surprised by the call of his grandfather to return urgently...
New Directors Competition
Candango: Memórias do Festival
Lino Meireles
In 1965, a year after the military coup in Brazil, an oasis of freedom opened in the country’s capital. The Brasília Film Festival: a landmark of...
Chico Rei Entre Nós
Joyce Prado
Chico Rei was an enslaved Congolese king who freed himself and his subjects during the Golden Cycle in Minas Gerais, Brazil. His story is the starting point for...
Cracolândia
Edu Felistoque
Based on an intense research —and seen through different realities, from the ones who study it, from those who try to contain it and those who live in...
Dente por Dente
Júlio Taubkin, Pedro Arantes
The suspense revolves around Ademar, a partner in a private security company that provides services to a large construction company in São Paulo. When Teixeira, his...
Filho de Boi
Haroldo Borges
In his first fiction film, filmmaker Haroldo Borges decided to use a few aspects of the documentary: the cast is formed by non-actors, who did not read the...
La Chancha
Franco Verdoia
In the midst of a family vacation, an unexpected reunion updates Pablo’s childhood trauma. Confronted by the irony of chance, he begins a disturbing return to...
Casa de Antiguidades
João Paulo Miranda Maria
Modern day Brazil, but lost in time. Cristovam, a native black man from the rural north, moves to a former Austrian colony in the south to work in a milk factory...
Nheengatu
José Barahona
During a journey on the Negro River, in the Amazon, the documentary explores the language Nheengatu, imposed to the indigenous natives by the Portuguese colonists...
Mulher Oceano
Djin Sganzerla
After relocating to Tokyo, a Brazilian writer begins a new novel, provoked by her experiences in Japan and by one of the last scenes she witnessed in Rio de...
Cidade Pássaro
Matias Mariani
Amadi is a musician in his 30s who lives in Nigeria. He travels to Brazil to try to find his brother, who works as a Mathematician in a technological institute, in...
O Lodo
Helvécio Ratton
Manfredo works in an insurance company and leads a normal life. But he begins to suffer from depression, so he decides to see a psychiatrist, dr. Pink. The doctor...
Tentehar - Arquitetura do Sensível
Paloma Rocha, Luís Abramo
Tentehar means the real man. During the presidential election in Brazil, the film investigates the civilizational, political, human rights and environmental...
Mar de Dentro
Dainara Toffoli
Manuela is a successful professional who has to deal with the transformation of her body and her routine when she finds herself pregnant. Despite never contemplating...
Valentina
Cássio Pereira dos Santos
Valentina, a 17-year-old trans girl, moves to a small Brazilian town with her mother, Márcia, for a fresh start. To avoid being bullied in her new school...
Ana. Sem Título
Lucia Murat
This fiction mixed with documentary follows Stela, a young Brazilian actress, who decides to work on the letters exchanged between Latin American visual artists in...
Todas as Melodias
Marco Abujamra
This film is a sensitive journey through the life and work of one of the greatest artists of brazilian music, Luiz Melodia (1951-2017). With records since the 1970s...
Jaque Mate
Bruna Piantino
The documentary draws a social and political panorama to explore the changes in Uruguayan society after the legalization of cannabis, considering cultural...
Curral
Marcelo Brennand
The population of a small town in Brazil is divided between the Blue and Red parties during the mayoral elections, which represent political oligarchies fighting for...
As Órbitas da Água
Frederico Machado
A couple of outsiders arrive at a fishing village on the coast of Maranhão where nothing seems to be happening. The two end up transforming the life of the village and...
Êxtase
Moara Passoni
“Ecstasy” tells the story of young Clara, in her struggle against anorexia. In the film, we experience the intimacy of her agony, alongside the...
Glauber, Claro
César Meneghetti
The documentary delves into the years when filmmaker Glauber Rocha (1939-1981) was in exile in Italy, between 1970 and 1976. Through memories from friends, relatives...
Luz Acesa
Guilherme Coelho
The documentary portrays five people who try to recover from alcoholism or from the abusive use of substances. The different narratives show various aspects of...
Nas Asas da Pan Am
Silvio Tendler
The film is an autobiography of the director Silvio Tendler, who celebrated his 70 years, and an analysis on the advances and setbacks of the world that he lives in...
O Livro dos Prazeres
Marcela Lordy
The film brings Clarice Lispector’s novel Uma Aprendizagem ou O Livro dos Prazeres to the current days. In the plot, Lóri is a lonely and melancholic...
Samba de Santo - Resistência Afro-Baiana
Betão Aguiar
Three Carnival blocks, born from Candomblé religion, in Bahia, are the center of this documentary: Ilê Aiyê, Cortejo Afro and Bankoma. Through...
Irmã
Luciana Mazeto, Vinícius Lopes
An asteroid will collide with the Earth. Ana and Julia’s mother suffers with a terminal illness. She asks her daughters to find their father, in the...
Sobradinho
Cláudio Marques , Marília Hughes
In the 70’s, a dam and a hydroelectric plant were built in Sobradinho. The government at the time, which was commanded by the military regime, thought...
O Pergaminho Vermelho
Nelson Botter Jr.
Nina is a 13-year-old girl who gets intrigued when she learns that all the children are having recurring nightmares. She finds a mysterious red scroll, which takes her...
Um Dia com Jerusa
Viviane Ferreira
Silvia, a young, mediumic market researcher, faces the hardships of underemployment while awaiting the result of a public exam. At the same time, Jerusa, a...
Verlust
Esmir Filho
Isolated on the beach, the powerful business woman Frederica prepares an awaited New Year`s party. In the middle of a marriage crisis with photographer Constantin...
