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Gatto and Barbot are lifelong companions for more then 40 years and have just moved to a big decayed and abandoned building downtown Rio de Janeiro, where they start to live and promote their dance company rehearsals. The difficulties of everyday life are merged to artistic creation and to their belief in the Orishas gods. Through dance they spread through the city, occupying their territories.

Silvana is a tired woman. The world no longer belongs to her, the invisible bothers her, the daily life oppresses her. What she wants sometimes is to abandon everything and go back home.

A film documentary about the fate of the young actors of the award winning film City of God by Fernando Meirelles and Katia Lund. It shows how their lives unfolded after the film's worldwide success.

A film of the literary hallucinations and existential dreams of the character João, who is also José and Joyce, anthropologically enchanted by cinema in his two hours of life. Based on the work of James Joyce and Oswald de Andrade.

In a gray city in the near future, religious sects and rats live on the prowl. It rains non-stop.

This film seeks to rescue the role of filmmaker Neville D'Almeida by using many rare images, numerous interviews, vast archival and audiovisual material.

A robbery at a rental store in the south zone of Rio de Janeiro.

In a world troubled between capital and hunger, free thinking about the importance of enjoyment and enjoyment as an act of resistance. No longer representation as a metaphor for the relationships sold by American cinema, but life lived as a metaphor for resistance to bad politics lived in the world.

Ana, a Portuguese actress, has come to Rio de Janeiro to play the lead in a film about Carmen Miranda, the eccentric actress and singer who put Brazil on the map for its samba and carnival culture. The characters in the story come to life by alternating black-and-white and colour film, but they are at odds with each other as the myth clashes with everyday reality. Felipe Braganca and Catarina Wallenstein (who also plays the lead role) address a generation of Brazilians eagerly searching for a new identity. References to the Tropicalism art movement and the celebration of 'cultural cannibalism' - which arose in part as a form of resistance to the military junta of the late sixties - also play a prominent role in this tropical nightmare. (IFFR)

What if the White House was invaded by enraged protesters? In 2013, while Brazil was seeing the biggest street protests of its history, a team of advisors working in the Congress had a mission of writing a speech to the president, so she could calm the people. Inspired by true events, in this film, we imagine what would happen if the Congress of Brazil was invaded.

During carnival Flaviana lives a pretty difficult dilemma; how to disguise from her last night lover who refuses to get out of her shower?

Rafa is an autistic child, son of Miguel and Cris. Miguel had been away from home for years, after a fight. His meeting with his brothers brings up childhood traumas, all recorded by Rafa.

A film that explores the life of Marceline, a recently deceased day laborer, who faces a dilemma when her seven-year-old daughter is diagnosed with leukemia.

December 1970: Brazil is under a military dictatorship. The Swiss ambassador in Brazil is kidnapped by a group of rebels. 40 days later they trade the ambassador by seventy political prisoners. The documentary find those prisoners 40 years later. Who are they? How they pass trough prison, torture, exile. How they manage to live?

Benjamim Zambraia is a young drunk who wanders around the city and is sometimes treated with pampering and sometimes with a beating by his parents (Helena Ignez and Otávio Terceiro). As in Chico's book, the boy is obsessed with a big stone.

"Training is training, a game is a game". "The one who runs is the ball". In order to, among other fundamental reflections, account for aphorisms of this magnitude, Mr. Football uses the testimonies of the stars Ademir da Guia, Afonsinho, Gerson and Nei Conceição, all confessed disciples of the author of these and many other feats - the one who was elected the greatest player of the 1958 World Cup; deserved the international title of Mr. Football; was renamed by Nelson Rodrigues as the "Ethiopian Prince"; and was the inventor of the dry leaf kick: Didi.

Rutger is an E.T whose mission is to spend 72 hours on Earth researching on human behavior. To avoid suspicion, he disguises himself as a "documentary filmmaker" and choose the city of Rio de Janeiro to give his first step.