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Award-winning journalist Daniela Arbex examines the horrors of the Colônia psychiatric hospital, where more than 60,000 people were killed over decades.
A documentary that observes the daily lives of three LGBTQ+ families through the perspectives of their children. With an intimate and attentive camera, it explores family life as it is shaped by care, affection, listening, and presence rather than by fixed structures or traditional models. Small gestures, shared moments, and ordinary routines reveal how bonds are formed and sustained within homes built on chosen kinship and mutual respect. By focusing on proximity and tenderness, the film gently dismantles normative ideas of family, offering a sensitive portrait of domestic spaces where love, identity, and belonging are continuously negotiated and reaffirmed.
A road movie by rail through four Brazilian states, 55 cities and 8.000 km of railways. A documentary, eight directors and six episodes taking place in natural landscapes and urban settings that proposes an anthropological voyage through cities and the lives of the communities alongside the tracks. The trains as conductors of history and the tracks like a way through time.
This is the story of Dona Virginia, an elderly woman who awaits the expropriation of her house. Year after year, the government threatens to destroy the place, her past and her memories.
A documentary about the life and work of the writer Cyro dos Anjos and his literature fellows Carlos Drummond de Andrade, Pedro Nava, Abgar Renault, João Alphonsus and Emílio Moura.
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After the inauguration of a crematorium in the city, a widowed matriarch imposes her last wish on her children who, despite trying hard to fulfill their mother's request, face several obstacles and paradigms linked to family rituals.
Raised as Catholics by the Queen of Portugal, the orphans Leonor, Brites, and Mécia are sent to the Brazilian colony with the order to get married. The harsh adaptation to the precariousness of the New World is felt differently by each of them.
“Grupo Corpo pela Música” is a documentary about the original Brazilian musical production created by the dance group from Minas Gerais over its 45-year history. In parallel with the production of its shows, Grupo Corpo has been consolidating a creative space for original Brazilian music, thus building a musical collection that marks its trajectory and that of the artists involved.
An obsessive photographer crazy for female feet; a man that projects himself on situations he sees on TV; a simple public officer that receives a proposal from a corrupt Judge; a slaughter in a marriage crisis and a broken heart secretary that dreams to get married. These five characters will have their lives changed from a hot weekend.
