Adriano Gianturco
as Entrevistado
Marcos Cintra
Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva
as Ele mesmo (Arquivo)
Rosângela Lula da Silva
as Ela mesma (Arquivo)
Geraldo Alckmin
The film follows the final days of Brazil’s 2022 presidential election through livestreams and edits on the Chinese social media platform TikTok, which at that time had around 80 million active users in the country.
An intimate and revelatory portrait of one of the world’s most influential political figures, Lula explores the rise, fall and triumphant return of beloved Brazilian leader Luiz Inácio “Lula” da Silva, chronicling his extraordinary journey in 2022 to regain the Brazilian presidency after spending nineteen months in prison.
During 2016, a film crew embeds inside the Brazilian Congress while lawmakers plot to overthrow the country's elected president, Dilma Rousseff.
Brazilians gather in Houston, Texas to support thier team in The World Cup.
During the creation of an adaptation of A Midsummer Night's Dream in the Ceará backlands (sertão), a group of actors plunges into an intense process of rehearsals, improvisations, and conflicts. As behind-the-scenes reality blends with fiction, desires, tensions, and power dynamics begin to slip out of control, turning the creative process itself into an unpredictable and vibrant experience.
When the board shuts down operations for the first time in 112 years and announces the sale of the "Aryzão," Goytacaz fans rise up and risk their lives to save the last soccer stadium in Campos. Within a few months, a grassroots movement secures victories at the City Council and the Historical Heritage Council, launching the rebuilding of Goytacaz from scratch with the involvement of a young armless player. What does this story reveal about Campos?
The documentary delves into the images that shaped the political myth of Jair Bolsonaro, from his earliest YouTube videos to the end of his term in office. Over a series of sleepless nights, a narrator drifts through Bolsonaro’s livestreams, selfies, and speeches, searching for the logic of a form of power forged through and by images. By confronting this visual regime with Brazil’s official iconography, the film explores how power is understood, repeated, and asserted through images, at a time when politics increasingly unfolds on screens.
Diverse individuals (a demolition expert, a visagist, a physicist, an Indigenous leader, and a Santo Daime priest) recount how psychedelics transformed their lives in unexpected and profound ways.
A Woman's Soul unveils the world of Rio de Janeiro's travestites - these mythological figures who have opt for sexual ambiguity. Caricatures of women who live in marginality. The documentary shows that behind the stereotypes, exoticism and flamboyancy that involve the travestites, there are human beings with dreams, rights, ambitions and frustrations - as everybody else. The film recieved the Honorable Mention at the XXV Jornada Internacional de Cinema da Bahia in 1998. It was also exhibited in New York and at the London Institute of Contemporary Arts.