In 1965, a year after the military coup in Brazil, an oasis of freedom opened in the country's capital. The Brasília Film Festival: a landmark of cultural and political resistance. Its story is that of Brazilian cinema itself.

Candango: Memoirs from a Festival

A documentary discussing Brazil's efforts of taking part on World War II by sending troops from the Brazilian Expeditionary Force (FEB) to Italy.

Rádio Auriverde

Yndio do Brasil is a collage of hundreds of Brazilian films and films from other countries - features, newsreels and documentaries - that show how the film industry has seen and heard Brazilian indigenous peoples since they were filmed in 1912 for the first time: idealised and prejudiced, religious and militaristic, cruel and magic.

Our Indians

Poet Cruz e Souza was a black man, born in the State of Santa Catarina, Brazil, where the majority of the population are blonde. He was also poor and fell a prey to the racism of his time. Died young, at 37, and dragged the great love of his life, Gavíria, into a path of great suffering.

Cruz e Sousa - The Banished Poet

The life of Austrian writer Stefan Zweig in Brazil. He wrote the famous book "Brasil, País do Futuro" (Brazil, Country of the Future). He and his wife Lotte, in a mysterious death pact, decided to kill themselves in the week following 1942 Carnival, in Brazil.

Lost Zweig

The documentary contextualizes the Contestado War, a bloody fight between caboclos and government forces that took place from 1912 to 1916 in Santa Catarina.

O Contestado - Restos Mortais

An overview of the life and work of Graciliano Ramos, who died in 1953 and author of great books of Brazilian literature. The documentary combines archival materials, film clips and interviews with people close to the writer.