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- Three people (Raul Schnoor, Olga Breno and Tatiana Rey) sail aimlessly while remembering their past.
- Film about the true events in Rio de Janeiro, in 1960, when a gang having the infamous outlaw Tião Medonho as a leader performed a sensational railroad hold-up on a train carrying a small fortune.
- Dorival, a man in jail, has only one wish: to take a bath. To achieve his objective, he defies the private, the corporal, the sargeant and, finally, the lieutenant in charge of the prison.
- Schizophrenic tramp performs outrageous acts in the streets of Salvador, and in the end tries to fulfill his ultimate dream: to fly over the city, as a superhero would.
- A man (Arroyo Carrillo) is sent to Europe on a diplomatic mission. The ship in which he travels is sunk by a German submarine. In Mexico, his girlfriend Lupita (Cota) receives a telegram with the news and looks for relief in La Virgen de Guadalupe, saint patron of catholic mexicans. After reading a book about the Virgin legend, Lupita falls asleep. Next morning, she receives good news, her boyfriend is alive. Together they go to La Villa del Tepeyac (a church devoted to La Virgen de Guadalupe) and thank for the miracle.
- Young man who had lost his father falls in love with the local Chieftain's daughter, who opposes the romance. Only a miracle can save the couple's love affair and Our Lady of Charity intervenes in the name of justice.
- A man is accused of shooting his wife and her lover but as we find out. It wasn't her lover...
- The meeting between a young boy and a tough sergeant in the 1970s.
- Four Ikpeng Indian children show their way of life, families and settlement, in the State of Mato Grosso, Brazil.
- An essay on the imagination, cultural identity and prejudice against black people, focusing on the work of Gabriel Joaquim dos Santos, salt mine worker and semi-illiterate black artist who has built, in São Pedro d'Aldeia, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, the Casa da Flor (House of the Flower), made of objects found in the trash.
- A young couple is menaced by an evil doctor who wants lead the boy to drug addiction and lead the girl to his arms.
- On the day of his wedding, young man from a family of immigrants faces some problems to get the money needed for the last arrangements. The family do what they can in order to honour the great event, selling personal belongings and buying enough supplies for a decent party.
- In 1947, Edgar went to visit Usher and his sister Lady Madeleine. He find out that coursed still living in the house after Usher rebuild it. Based on the novel of Edagar Allan Poe.
- Documentary about the first years of Brazilian cinema, until the movement called Cinema Novo, in the 1960s, with photographs and scenes of rare films.
- Coronel Januário's daughter, Maria Fausta, is having a secret affair with João Galdino. While her father is engaged in his political campaign for mayor of the city, the couple disappear. Galdino, an accordionist who is secretly in love with her, goes looking for them.
- The short illustrates a Brazilian folk song in which a being or entity is always predating another being, but is in its turn predated by some other animal, until the circle closes. It begins like this: an old woman is quietly weaving and a fly disturbs her; a spider eats the fly; a mouse eats the spider; a cat chases the mouse and so on...
- Film based on Manoel de Barros poetry. Story about poet's life in the swamp area of Brazil (Pantanal) and its wildlife; & his obsession with the sea and his new life in the big metropolis in Brazil.
- José recollects a visit to his friend Ângelo. He goes to the man's apartment which is far from his home but a series of erratic and unfortunate events prevent him to find Ângelo. But when he does find him and they decide to have some dinner at a restaurant another series of confusing events takes place.
- The daily routine of a streetwise office boy, waiting in long lines, having to deal with some fishy situations, listening to music, and meeting people.
- Young Carmen arrives in Lima, dreaming of falling in love and finding happiness. She goes to live with her cousins and aunt, in the elegant Miraflores district. Soon she falls in love with Oscar, but he must leave her to go to the war. After a long time waiting for him to return, she learns he has died. Desperate, she decides to join a convent.
- In his semi-drag nightclub act, a man philosophizes about sex, loneliness, prejudice and AIDS.
- Documentary about José Américo de Almeida, aka "The Patriarch of Democracy", interventor in the State of Paraíba while Getúlio Vargas was President of Brazil and the events of the Revolution of 1930.
- Documentary about Mário Peixoto, Brazilian filmmaker, who directed the legendary cult "Limite", made by one of his friends.
- Two outlaws install a pirate radio station using stolen equipment, and start interfering in other stations' broadcasts, becoming an immediate success.
- Fred is a blind boy who lives alone with his mother. Out of his dull routine, in which nothing ever changes, he speculates continually about the color of things and claims to prefer the color white, which represents for him everything that is unattainable.
- Short documentary about Carmen Miranda, with some of her songs, rare footage of the "lost" film "Banana-da-Terra" and scenes of her funeral, in 1955.
- São Paulo urban violence seen through music, dance and graffiti made by black young people part of the hip-hop movement.
- Violence is triggered by a mere pair of fashionable red sneakers, in the poor neighborhood of Itaquera, in the east part of São Paulo.
- The decadence of old sugar-cane mills in Brazil, giving way to modern industrial technologies.
- Based on the true story of ex-social worker Maria das Graças Sena, who, in the 70s Brazil of military dictatorship, was fired from her job on account of her political involvement, arrested, tortured, and then managed to be exiled in Lisbon. Struggling with leukemia and with no financial resources to raise her 3 month old son, she and her husband were forced to hand the child to a friend, at Lisbon airport, to deliver him to his grandparents, back in Brazil.
- Images of Marshall Rondon's expeditions through the Amazon: the rivers, Indians, towns such as Tabatinga, Iquitos and Rio Branco, taken by Major Luiz Thomaz Reis, considered his main cinematographer.
- A comedy about the love life of a not-so-loving couple, through the childish eye of their 6-year-old-daughter, Kiki Cavalcanti.
- Documentary about the band called Moleques de Rua, from the outskirts of São Paulo, that creates new instruments, in search of new sounds.
- A different Building where straights, gays and Draggs reveal their live
- The sordid, the putrid and the fetid. The bizarre, the eschatological and the grotesque. Peas, urine and chickens.
- In a middle class family in Buenos Aires, a conflict arises between their two sons. One is a carefree playboy who spends his nights on cabarets. The other, a promising engineer who is the pride of the family.
- A woman is in a supermarket and sees a man from Argentina and get into her fantasies of loneliness
- Diego is accused of murdering a man in a fight for a woman, he then joins the criminal gang known as the gang of El Águila de la Sierra Morena and fights a rival gang as well as the authorities.
- A young woman suffers the daily oppression of living in a big city.
- Documentary about the avenue (Avenida Brasil) that is the main access to Rio de Janeiro, crossing very poor and violent suburbs.
- The lives, loves and personal dramas of a group of students who live together in a boarding house in Buenos Aires, in the 20s.
- The paraplegic Bóris stays at home with the beautiful young woman Cacau, while his wife Ivette goes to the movie theater. When Cadú, the boyfriend of Cacau, unexpectedly arrives in the apartment, a night of sex, sadism and violence happens. When Ivette returns, the fantasies of a sick mind are disclosed in a surprising end.