Obsessed with questions about his past, a bankrupt, white Brazilian filmmaker undertakes an epic journey from Brazil to Mozambique and Portugal. This melancholic fable mixes animation, live-action, voice-overs, genres, and continents to explore Brazil's colonial past.
The border between Brazil and Paraguay: living on opposite sides of a big river, Brazilian boy Joca falls in love with indigenous-Paraguayan girl Basano. A magical tale of impossible love and adventure in this land full of memories of colonial wars and indigenous genocide.
A group of young people is in a bar to drink, and they are trying to choose a story for the movie they are decided to make, but their characters are not very satisfied with the results of it.
Joy is a fable about courage and youth. It tells the story of Luiza, 16 year old girl, who can not stand to hear about the end of the world… On a Christmas night, his cousin John is mysteriously shot in a street in the Lowlands and disappears into the night. Weeks later, while Luiza spends days...
It's carnival in Rio de Janeiro. Saulo is a gay werewolf who visits the enchanted lands of beauty and chaos in search of new prey. It's on the last night of the carnival festivities that he meets Gustavo, a new crush who could be his last prey. “Carne Fresca” is a carnival fable about...
An experimental collective film lasting little more than an hour, compiled from 10 episodes by a total of 14 different young Brazilian filmmakers. The project was an initiative of the directing duo Felipe Bragança and Marina Meliande, who sent a ‘letter of concern’ to inspire the...
Documentary and staged scenes mix in this very personal story of a family in the suburbs of Rio, through the memories of a backyard, a giant tree, and the woman who planted it.
So, here we are in time, here in the singularity, where two bodies inhabit an in-between space marked by the dilation of time. Inspired by radical Black thought, FUGA is an experiment on the erratic movement of escape and its impossibility.
In early summer, a group of students in Rio das Ostras decide to collectively produce an arts festival. Between work and parties, live the bullshit and delights of university life in a small town. However, the mistaken repercussion of a university event causes a great controversy in social media...
Over Rio de Janeiro looms the monstrous shadow of Mutante, a giant goddess who, at over 100 meters tall, keeps provoking the world below. While snooping through windows, she meets Mulher, a craftswoman who will transform her world.
“They see black man and think it`s a lion.” Documentary images and staged scenes are mixed to tell the memories and dreams of three war refugees living in a square in Berlin downtown.
Ana, a Portuguese actress, dives into Brazil's current atmosphere of identity and political crisis while trying to portray in a feature film the colourful life of famous singer and actress Carmen Miranda, who helped define Brazil's identity.
Zahy Guajajara, 23, is one of the indigenous leaders of a village created next to Maracanã, in the old Museu do Índio, in Rio de Janeiro, threatened with demolition. In this video created with four hands with Felipe Bragança, Zahy, a shaman and storyteller from his village, takes a new look at...
