The year is 65 AD, Rome. The philosopher Seneca has been Emperor Nero‘s mentor and close advisor since childhood and significantly involved in his ascent. Nevertheless, Nero grows weary of Seneca an...

Fang Xiu Ying was born in Huzhou, Fujian in 1948. She suffered from Alzheimer’s for the last eight years of her life. By 2015, she moved to a nursing home, but her symptoms were already very advance...

Dancer, choreographer and filmmaker Yvonne Rainer changed the world of modern dance with her Trio A, a performance based on analysis of the repertoire of human movements. Influenced by John Cage, she ...

​Isabel is a victim of a “lightning kidnap”. The inexperienced perps realize that they won’t be able to reach the ATM before it is shut down at 10:00 PM. What was supposed to be an unfortunat...

It’s Leo’s bedtime, but he thinks there is something under his bed. Is it just the harmless imagination of a young boy, or something more sinister? CENTRO CULTURAL JUSTIÇA FEDERAL This film is s...

Sergio Bustamante, a 83-year-old singer with a 50-something-year long career. Initiator of psychedelia in Brazil and a rock icon, he fought for freedom in the public eye, came out as Serguei and left ...

​A story about jongo (caxambu), a form of music and dancing of African origin which is considered the ‘father’ of samba. The story is told from the perspective of descendents of black slaves. Th...

A journey into the largest open-pit mine of our times. In 1980, friends Juliano and Joaquim leave São Paulo for the gold rush. They arrive at the Amazon Forest like thousands of other men, full of ho...

In the 1980s, at the heart of the Amazon forest, 115 thousand men dug up 100 tons of gold and carried it on their backs up a 150 meter high mountain. Now, Serra Pelada has turned into a 150 meters dee...

In the 1980s, at the heart of the Amazon forest, 115 thousand men dug up 100 tons of gold and carried it on their backs up a 150 meter high mountain. Now, Serra Pelada has turned into a 150 meters dee...

​One May night, seven years ago, Rafael came home from work. As he opened the gate, someone called his name. He glanced sideways and saw people he didn't know. Rafael was taken by strangers and neve...

In1970s Brazil, in the midst of the military regime, a group of 70 political prisoners from different organizations is sent to Chile, in exchange for the release of the Swiss ambassador. This document...