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Mãe só há uma
Mãe só há uma
A vida do adolescente Pierre vira de cabeça pra baixo quando ele recebe uma denúncia e é obrigado a fazer um teste de DNA. Após o resultado, descobre…
Tags: Youth / La juventud
As Minas do Rap
As Minas do Rap
No Brasil, as mulheres tardaram a entrar no cenário do rap, e até hoje são raros os grupos ou artistas individuais que alcançaram destaque em suas…
Tags: Afro-Brazilian / afro-brasileño, Short Film / Cortometraje
A festa da moça
A festa da moça
Chief Pedro Mãmãindê, who conducted both the proceedings and the shoot itself, describes the necessity of strengthening the girls of his village by…
Tags: Indigenous filmmaking / Cine indígena, Short Film / Cortometraje
Aruanda
Aruanda
The film describes the miserable lives of the descendants of the slaves, who founded a "quilombo." The men plant cotton in the dry ground. The women…
Tags: Afro-Brazilian / afro-brasileño, Short Film / Cortometraje
Casa grande
Casa grande
Ambientada en el mundo de la élite social de Río de Janeiro, es la historia de Jean, un adolescente de 17 años que lucha por escapar de sus padres…
Tags: Youth / La juventud
Kbela
Kbela
Hair is an important marker of black female identity. Many films have been made about 'nappy' hair, but this debut by Yasmin Thayná is among the best.…
Tags: Afro-Brazilian / afro-brasileño, Short Film / Cortometraje
Clementina
Clementina
A journey through the songs and story of Brazilian singer Clementina de Jesus. Her most poetic sambas, the rhythmic sway of the drums and the…
Marighella
Marighella
Beginning with a breathless, Robin Hood-style train robbery and ending with a highly provocative—and not for the faint of heart—final sequence, the…
Alma no olho
Alma no olho
Alma no olho (Soul in the Eye), a short film directed and performed by Zózimo Bulbul in 1973, constitutes the inaugural gesture of black cinema in…
O Tempo dos Orixás
O Tempo dos Orixás
The Summer of Gods is a short film about a young girl named Lili who unites with her Afro-Brazilian religious ancestry on a summer visit with family…
Tags: Afro-Brazilian / afro-brasileño, Short Film / Cortometraje, Youth / La juventud
Mãtãnãg, a Encantada
Mãtãnãg, a Encantada
Based on a traditional myth of the Maxakali people, directed by Shawara Maxakali and Charles Bicalho, the film follows Mãtãnãg, who upon seeing her…
Tags: Indigenous filmmaking / Cine indígena, Short Film / Cortometraje
Los territorios
Los territorios
A lo largo de LOS TERRITORIOS, “Iván” (las comillas están puestas ya que mucho de lo que aquí se cuenta con estilo documental debería ser tomado con…
Tags: Journalism / Periodismo
Konãgxeka: ou dilúvio Maxakali
Konãgxeka: ou dilúvio Maxakali
Konãgxeka in the indigenous language maxakali means "big water". It is the maxakali version of the flood story. As a punishment, because of the…
Amazônia Eterna
Amazônia Eterna
The Amazon is a vast laboratory for sustainable experiments that are revealing new relationships among human beings, corporations, and the natural…
Tags: Amazon / Amazonas
El aula vacía
El aula vacía
Bajo la dirección creativa de Gael García Bernal, once directores retratan el impacto de la deserción escolar en América Latina a través de un…
Tags: Youth / La juventud
Menino 23 - Infâncias Perdidas no Brasil
Menino 23 - Infâncias Perdidas no Brasil
The Forgotten Boys of Brazil follows the research of historian Sidney Aguilar, beginning with the discovery of bricks marked with Nazi swastikas on a…
Cidade de Deus, 10 anos depois
Cidade de Deus, 10 anos depois
City of God – 10 Years Later investigates the fate of the young actors who participated in the award winning film City of God, directed by Fernando…
Ori Inu: In Search of Self
Ori Inu: In Search of Self
Ori Inu: In Search of Self is a coming-of-age story about a young immigrant woman who must choose between conforming her identity and spirituality to…
Pïrinop, meu primeiro contato
Pïrinop, meu primeiro contato
Em 1964, os índios Ikpeng têm seu primeiro contato com o homem branco numa região próxima ao rio Xingu, no Mato Grosso. O filme relata este encontro,…
Tags: Amazon / Amazonas, Ikpeng / Txicão, Indigenous filmmaking / Cine indígena
Brava gente brasileira
Brava gente brasileira
Diogo is a cartographer and artist who is encharged to set the new frontiers of Portuguese Colonies in South America. When he reaches the center of…
Café com canela
Café com canela
Violeta lives in a tight-knit community in Bahia, Brazil. She is far from the only one struggling with grief and loss: there is also a grandmother…
Cores e Botas
Cores e Botas
Joana tem um sonho comum a muitas meninas dos anos 80: ser Paquita. Sua família é bem sucedida e a apoia em seu sonho. Porém, Joana é negra, e nunca…
Tags: Afro-Brazilian / afro-brasileño, Short Film / Cortometraje, Youth / La juventud
Pisa ligeiro
Pisa ligeiro
É um documentário de Bruno Pacheco, produzido nos primeiros anos da década passada, com poplações indígenas de diferentes regiões do país. O filme é…
Tags: Amazon / Amazonas
Vazante
Vazante
Minas Gerais, 1821. Período em que a economia local era baseada na extração de diamantes entrou em colapso. Ao voltar para casa, depois de uma longa…
So quando eu danço
So quando eu danço
Only When I Dance was begun as a hopeful documentary about social projects in Rio’s favelas, the aim being simply to show another side to the…
Que horas ela volta?
Que horas ela volta?
Que horas ela volta? tells the story of Val, a woman from the Northeastern region of Brazil who works as a live-in maid for a well-to-do São Paulo…
Tags: Feminism / Feminismo
Domésticas
Domésticas
Domésticas is not a film about maid-servants but a film by maid-servants. Domésticas wants to give them a voice. Or rather: voices. No less than 3…
Martírio
Martírio
Filmed over the course of 40 years, indigenous expert and filmmaker Vincent Carelli seeks out the origins of the Guaraní Kaiowá genocide. A conflict…
Corumbiara
Corumbiara
A personal account of 20 years of video activism in Corumbiara, a municipality in western Brazil. In order to stop the destruction of the habitat of…
Tags: Amazon / Amazonas
Quilombo
Quilombo
Palmares is a 17th-century quilombo, a settlement of escaped slaves in northeast Brazil. In 1650, plantation slaves revolt and head for the mountains…
Xingu
Xingu
A gripping account of a collision of cultures, "Xingu" tells the inspiring true story of the three Villas Bôas brothers, who became the leading…
Tags: Amazon / Amazonas
O dia de Jerusa
O dia de Jerusa
"The Day of Jerusa" narrates the encounter between Jerusa (Lea Garcia), a resident of an old townhouse of Bixiga with the young Silvia, played by…
Tags: Afro-Brazilian / afro-brasileño, Short Film / Cortometraje
Bixa Travesty
Bixa Travesty
A documentary that follows Ms Linn da Quebrada, a black trans woman, performer and activist living in impoverished São Paulo. Her electrifying…
Carandiru
Carandiru
São Paolo, 1992. A new doctor arrives in the notorious male prison of Carandiru, aiming to promote Aids education. Gradually we become aware of…
Tags: Afro-Brazilian / afro-brasileño, Literary adaptation / Adaptación literaria
Cidade de Deus
Cidade de Deus
Basada en hechos reales, describe el mundo del crimen organizado en Cidade de Deus, un suburbio de Río de Janeiro, desde finales de los sesenta hasta…
Tags: Afro-Brazilian / afro-brasileño, Literary adaptation / Adaptación literaria
Ventos de Agosto
Ventos de Agosto
Mascaro’s film shows a place in the process of disappearing; in this case, due to climate change. It centers on two main characters: Shirley (Dandara…
Ôrí
Ôrí
While giving an overall look at the documented history of BLACK MOVEMENTS in Brazil (during the 70s and 80s), ORI tells the story of a woman, Beatriz…