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- A travel diary filmed on director Karim Aïnouz's first trip to Algeria, the country where his father was born, mixing travel records, home footage, family photographs, historical archives and super-8 footage.
- "I have already lived my death and now all that is left is to make a film about it." So said the filmmaker Hector Babenco to Bárbara Paz when he realized he did not have much time left. She accepted the challenge to fulfill the last wish of her late partner: to be the main protagonist in his own death. In this tender immersion into the life of one of the greatest filmmakers from South America, Babenco himself consciously bares his soul in intimate and painful situations. He expresses fears and anxieties, and also memories, reflections, and fantasies, in this face-off between his intellectual vigor and physical frailty, which were the hallmarks of his career. From the onset of cancer at the age of 38 until his death at 70, Babenco made of the cinema his medicine and the nourishment that kept him alive. "Babenco - Tell me when I Die" is Barbara Paz's first feature film, but is also in a way Hector's last work: a film about filming so never to die.
- The trajectory of musician and comedian Mussum as vocalist of the group "Os Originais do Samba" and later in cinema and TV as a member of "Os Trapalhões", a group that revolutionized the way of making humor on Brazilian television.
- Brazil, 1930. Local elites not only admired Nazi and Fascist regimes, they even subjected victims to racist experiments. But one of them (BOY 23) survived to tell the tale.
- This documentary includes brand-new footage and exclusive interviews with the people in power that show how the January 8th coup d'etat attempt in Brazil was handled by authorities before, during and after it all took place.
- Souza Dantas was a Brazilian ambassador to France. With the outbreak of World War II, on his own he began issuing visas to Jews allowing them to flee to Brazil, saving them from the Holocaust.
- With confidential and unpublished documentation, the film shows the background and behind-the-scenes of the coup in Chile that took place on September 11, 1973 - and General Pinochet's dictatorship, which lasted 17 years.
- Homeless, immigrants and refugees occupy an abandoned cinema and reenact scenes from classic movies shown there 60 years before. Facing the threat of eviction, they go on a journey from life to fiction, from three to two dimensions.
- In this war, there are no winners. Through personal stories from people on both sides of the conflict and powerful footage, Favela Frontlines takes you straight to the frontline of the battle between police and drug traffickers in Brazil. On average, one policeman is killed every two days. There are 60,000 homicides every year. Interspersed with the stories are interviews with judges, journalists, slum residents and historians. They reflect on Brazil's public safety policy of the past three decades, the impact of social inequality and the legacy of slavery.
- Mercury contamination threatens the inhabitants of Amazonia with the shadow of the Minamata Disease.
- Laéssio Rodrigues is considered the greatest thief of rare books in Brazil. Over the last five years, this documentary has followed his trajectory, which includes four imprisonments. It is not an ordinary story the one of a young bakery attendant, obsessed with antique papers, who starts to live among fine art merchants and collectors and then sees himself in the newspapers' crime pages. But the decision to narrate it involves dilemmas for which neither Laesio nor the documentary itself were prepared. Although in twisted ways, Laessio evidences the necessity of Brazil to take care of its own History.
- The 'Aqualoucos' were clown-athletes in 'swimsuits' who risked their lives to entertain thousands of people around Brazil.
- A portrays of the period in which Brazilian humor had fewer limits (1986-2003), free from military dictatorship.
- For six decades, the cinema of Nelson Pereira dos Santos has projected Brazil into the eyes of the world. The film shows us the man behind the camera. Through his legacy it is possible to see all the richness of Brazilian culture.
- Chilean desert, Brazilian Amazon, Colombian Andes and Argentine Pampa. Four destinations in Latin America revisited through fragments of memories, reconstructed from rubble.
- The documentary addresses slavery in Brazil with a special focus on the period of abolition, highlighting the abolitionist movements, their allies and enemies.
- Reporter Pedro Neville shows what the Brazilian has the best, creativity. He travels the country in search of inventors with brilliant and unusual ideas.
- A member of the Brazilian Revolutionary Communist Party (PCBR), Theodomiro Romeiro dos Santos was the first Brazilian prisoner sentenced to death in the republican period - for the murder of a sergeant in 1971. The sentence was later changed to a sentence of life in prison. Arrested at 18, he was savagely tortured and served nine years in prison. The imminence of the 1979 Amnesty law gave him the certainty that they planned to kill him. Theodomiro then flees, embarking on an adventure which the details have remained hidden for years. In this film, accompanied by his youngest son, Guga, Theodomiro retraces his path.