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Through her child's eyes, Patpro will go through three periods of the history of her indigenous people, in the heart of the Brazilian forest.

The inhabitants of the Brazilian city of Contagem yearn for a better life. At the core of it all is Selma, a woman dreaming about the heart of the world: it could be anywhere, as long as it's a place where to feel happier.

A young woman suddenly disappears, leaving her husband and son in disarray.

In response to the brutal execution of Rio de Janeiro city councilor Marielle Franco, the 2018 elections turned into the biggest political upheaval led by Black women that Brazil has ever seen.

It is the first time that Joana, a Brazilian, has visited her friend Kevin in her country, Uganda. They met 20 years ago when they studied together in Germany and have not seen each other for a long time. Now they are close to turning 40 and life is more complex than in youth. This is a film about a friendship between women.

Dayane's departure unfolds in the lives of those she left behind. Her mother, Marluce, tries hard not to show the shock her daughter's departure caused her. Dayane's younger sister, Mariana, faces some problems at the new school where she is going. Antônio, Dayane's fiancé, finds himself in a void in the face of her departure and obsessively searches for answers.

It centers on how the name of Brazil's biggest airport, Guarulhos, references the fact that it was built on indigenous territory. It follows a member of the ground staff as she seeks her roots beneath the runway.

A documentary structured in the mythical narratives about the origins of the black kingdoms in Minas Gerais, Brazil. Made in collaboration with the afro- descendant group Guarda de Moçambique and Congo Treze de Maio, this feature film has two priority seeks: the kingdoms' ritual cycles and cosmological features tell from the perspective of their participants; a travel to Angola with Belinha Casimiro (queen of the Congo kingdom) and Antônio Casimiro (captain of the Mozambique Guard). Back to Africa, they will recreate a vanished world that we can record just if we overcome the borders between documentary and fiction. Black diasporic culture is interesting for all the international festivals because the theme and the derived language of this film are fundamental issue of the humanity today: the encounter of differences, the forced migration in the past and today.

Janaína is an 18-year-old girl who lives with her mother and grandmother in a housing complex on the outskirts of Recife. She is the first person in her family to go to university, but an unwanted pregnancy threatens the plans she had made

A terrified young woman is staring at a disturbing monstrosity, a kind of Pagan spirit that has sprung out of a river. Eager to get rid of a nightmare that is infecting her life, Maristela is looking into the story of Pajeú, the now forgotten figure buried in the depths of the city of Fortaleza.

The construction of a community goes far beyond its erected walls and masonry bricks: it lies in the everyday invention of the commonplace, of life shared in its struggles and victories. Stemming from this premise, this debut feature film (by the directors of Na Missão com Kadu) documents the daily life of the urban occupation Eliana Silva, in the city of Belo Horizonte, on the eve of the 2018 elections. Seen from the inside, the hard-won territory becomes a protagonist as much as its residents, as they talk about political activism, companionship, love. Along with the records and personal testimonies is the (re)invention of subjectivity through art, going up against the totalizing narratives that reduce their existence to a newspaper news story.

The documentary 'PRESENT BODY' investigates the body as a form of art, expression and identity, presenting works, artists and thinkers that reflect on the theme. The film deals with the symbolism of the body through one of the main contemporary artistic expressions - Performance - which several scholars underline as a new ideology, typical of our time. The multiple bodies that make up the documentary are political bodies that create and propose new universes, signaling new ways of being in the world, translating contemporary society in all its complexity.

A self-employed worker faces financial and emotional problems. Without any decent opportunities, he creates a channel on YouTube as an attempt to monetize on his own failures while takes precarious jobs in huge corporations.

In January 2011 a batch of 110 love letters was found at an Antiques Fair, all written by a resident of Campo Grande-MS for her fiance in Rio de Janeiro. For 2 years, 1952/53, she reports on passion and distance. From this discovery, an investigation begins to locate this couple in love and discover the outcome of the romance. A story about love, time and memory.

Stories from members of the LGBTQI + community who are part of some religious institution.