Pedro Aspahan

The virtuoso guitarist Artur Miranda Azzi shatters the conventions of classical guitar, reinventing the instrument as a dynamic medium for avant-garde experimentation. Through six bold and innovative performances of contemporary works, Azzi dismantles traditional techniques, transforming the guitar into a living, evolving entity—one that defies expectations at every turn.

Breath is a creative documentary about human existence and the mysteries of life and death, seen in the everyday life of a small village in the middle of nowhere, in the countryside of Brazil, where families have lived for years, almost completely isolated from contact with the outside world. Wind, dust, mountains, silence and time… Man and nature live together there in both harmony and conflict, amidst what is and what could be, in the vastness of a landscape grander than vision can grasp.

Documentary about dreams and desires of ordinary people, about fuels that move us daily: happiness, recognition, financial stability, marriage, health, fun, a few pounds less, enjoyment, overcoming or even a simple and humble kite.

Slowly we recognize traces of a couple's history. Joana, living isolated in an apartment between books and mysteries searching for an "ideal world" and Jota living on the streets searching for a confrontation with the real and trying to give back the final word to the "other"..

Through the shared creation of scenes and performances with masters from Reinado do Rosário and Umbanda, the film makes it possible to see and feel the ancestral knowledge made present and updated in the body attitudes, gestures, words, dances and songs of Pedrina de Lourdes Santos , Captain of the Massambike Suit of Nossa Senhora das Mercês, from Oliveira, MG, Maria Luiza Marcelino, Caretaker of the Spiritist Center Caboclo Pena Branca, from Ubá, MG, and José Bonifácio da Luz (Bengala), Captain of the Reinado Congo Guard of Nossa Senhora do Rosário, from the community of Arturos, Contagem, MG.

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An albino boy named Sanã lives on the island of Lençóis, an untouched paradise in northeastern Maranhão state. Surrounded by dunes, he is mimicked in a very white landscape, under a scalding sun from which he cannot escape. In this microcosm ruled by wind and the tides, Sanã builds his own private world.

Vale do Jaguaribe, Ceará. Following the route of the Aracati wind, the film moves from the beach to the countryside. During this path, it observes the relationship between man and landscape, thetransformations of space and the limits between nature and artifice.

www.saberestradacionais.org Transversal Education in Traditional Knowledge UFMG filmed in Spring 2018 Makota Valdina Terreiro Nzo Onimboya, Salvador Educator, community and religious leader, activist for religious freedom and spokesperson for African-based religions, women's rights and black populations. Course: Arts and Crafts of Traditional Knowledge: Land Policies In the second half of 2018, we received Makota Valdina as a professor of the Earth Policies course. We expected her to come back in 2019 to call the bush back. When visiting the forest of Estação Ecológica (Ecological Park), she appears again in the images with her teachings and songs. This was the last time that she was filmed in life.

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At the top of Serra do Padeiro (BA), the Tupinambá people resist invasions, reaffirming their original right to the territory. Leaders such as Dona Maria da Glória and the shaman Seu Lírio guide a daily life of care for the forest, rituals, and spiritual strength. The film is an intimate and political testimony of a continuous process of reclaiming and affirming the traditional existence of the Tupinambá people of Serra do Padeiro.