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A travel diary filmed on director Karim Aïnouz's first trip to Algeria, the country where his father was born, mixing travel records, home footage, family photographs, historical archives and super-8 footage.

"I have already lived my death and now all that is left is to make a film about it." So said the filmmaker Hector Babenco to Bárbara Paz when he realized he did not have much time left. She accepted the challenge to fulfill the last wish of her late partner: to be the main protagonist in his own death. In this tender immersion into the life of one of the greatest filmmakers from South America, Babenco himself consciously bares his soul in intimate and painful situations. He expresses fears and anxieties, and also memories, reflections, and fantasies, in this face-off between his intellectual vigor and physical frailty, which were the hallmarks of his career. From the onset of cancer at the age of 38 until his death at 70, Babenco made of the cinema his medicine and the nourishment that kept him alive. "Babenco - Tell me when I Die" is Barbara Paz's first feature film, but is also in a way Hector's last work: a film about filming so never to die.

The experiences (and resistance) of the great Brazilian comedians during the military regime (1964-1984).

The trajectory of musician and comedian Mussum as vocalist of the group "Os Originais do Samba" and later in cinema and TV as a member of "Os Trapalhões", a group that revolutionized the way of making humor on Brazilian television.

Is a doc that delves into the work of Carlos Diegues, one of the greatest Brazilian filmmakers of all times, who portrayed the history and the soul of Brazil since 1961.

Mercury contamination threatens the inhabitants of Amazonia with the shadow of the Minamata Disease.

The documentary addresses slavery in Brazil with a special focus on the period of abolition, highlighting the abolitionist movements, their allies and enemies.

For six decades, the cinema of Nelson Pereira dos Santos has projected Brazil into the eyes of the world. The film shows us the man behind the camera. Through his legacy it is possible to see all the richness of Brazilian culture.

Brazil, 1930. Local elites not only admired Nazi and Fascist regimes, they even subjected victims to racist experiments. But one of them (BOY 23) survived to tell the tale.

This documentary includes brand-new footage and exclusive interviews with the people in power that show how the January 8th coup d'etat attempt in Brazil was handled by authorities before, during and after it all took place.

"Os Transgressores" shows the life and work of four people - a lawyer, a stylist, a "favelado" and a housewife -who came out of their comfort zone to face what they think should be changed in the system, each with their way.

Souza Dantas was a Brazilian ambassador to France. With the outbreak of World War II, on his own he began issuing visas to Jews allowing them to flee to Brazil, saving them from the Holocaust.

"Politics: How to Do It" is a co-production of GloboNews and Maria Farinha Films and gives continuity to the project initiated with "Policy: How to Use", aired in 2017. The two seasons were inspired by the research "Political Emergency", carried by Instituto Update.

In this war, there are no winners. Through personal stories from people on both sides of the conflict and powerful footage, Favela Frontlines takes you straight to the frontline of the battle between police and drug traffickers in Brazil. On average, one policeman is killed every two days. There are 60,000 homicides every year. Interspersed with the stories are interviews with judges, journalists, slum residents and historians. They reflect on Brazil's public safety policy of the past three decades, the impact of social inequality and the legacy of slavery.

With confidential and unpublished documentation, the film shows the background and behind-the-scenes of the coup in Chile that took place on September 11, 1973 - and General Pinochet's dictatorship, which lasted 17 years.

CALLADO is a biography about the writer and journalist Antonio Callado. The documentary reminds us of the fight for democracy , the commitments with Brazil and the shocking facts about the writer's life. His famous pieces that went throughout the XX Century also stand out in the film, today they represent an alarming truth about the dark era of our times. His coworkers, friends and family such as his widow wife and his daughter,Ana Arruda, try to explain in this movie who was Antonio Callado. But, at the end, there's a doubt that stands out. Maybe the real Callado is not the person we think we know, from real life, but the person who lives stuck in his book, being set free by the power of his reader's imagination.

Mangueira is Brazil's most popular samba school. In 2016, it won the championship of the Carnival of Rio with a parade in homage to Maria Bethânia, the diva from Bahia, who has a 50-year career and is Caetano Veloso's sister. The doc followed the creation of this carnival in all stages, from the first drawings and rehearsals to the construction of the allegories and the winning parade. Our crew also traveled with Maria Bethânia to Santo Amaro, her hometown in the interior of Bahia, discovering particularities that inspired the creation of this Carnival, such as her peculiar religious universe, which congregates candomble and Catholicism, the parties inherited from the slaves, and the openness of her house to the local community. As we tell the story of Bethania's hometown and the victorious carnival of Mangueira, we establish links between Rio de Janeiro and Bahia, focusing historical issues like the birth of samba, racism and religious tolerance.