Um breve respiro democrático

Do Útero Ao Túmulo

Fortaleza Liberta

Símbolos Municipais: Hino, Brasão e Bandeira - Historiando em Novo Barreiro

A personal biography of the leader of the PCP (Portuguese Communist Party) seen through the eyes of those who were close to him and those who studied his trajectory and thought.

Phantom Heritage

Noi e la grande ambizione

Ouro Preto, one of Brazil’s most historically significant cities and a UNESCO World Heritage Site, was once known as Vila Rica. Its history is filled with stories and characters that have transcended generations through oral tradition, folk tales, and the stories passed down by its people. Through the accounts of several interviewees, the film tells the story of Antônio Francisco Alves, known as Vira-Saia, one of these figures who, even before Tiradentes and the Minas Conspiracy, had already challenged the Portuguese Crown and disrupted its plans for extracting gold and sending it to the capital of the Portuguese Empire.

Back in 1950s, as the communist regime escalates, a group of Czech young people starts a resistance movement in an underground jazz club.

Glossário Marxista-Leninista

At the height of Brazil’s military dictatorship, a flight would change the fate of everyone on board. Among the passengers were a mother, her two young children, and militants from VAR-Palmares with a daring plan: to divert Flight 114 to Cuba. Caravelle 114 reconstructs, in fiction, the events behind the hijacking that defied the Brazilian dictatorship.

Surrounded by solitude a homeless walks through streets and abandoned buildings searching for food to survive. But what he fears most is to be found.

A religious fanatic ends up awakening his own demons. Haunted by disturbing hallucinations that embody his deepest desires and nightmares, his sanity starts to collapse. Trapped by his own mind, he realizes that the only relief from his torment is total surrender to the sin he tried to suppress.

Natureza

Inspired by an unconventional teacher, a group of teenagers in upstate New York in the early 1990s make a student film and uncover a vast conspiracy that is poisoning their community. Thirty years later, they revisit their film and confront the legacy of this transformative experience.

Twenty-four images of a camera running in the woods, a moonlight and a cemetery through improvised gestures, mechanical abstraction and saturated colors

Terra Brasil - Especial Pico dos Pontões

Tuna are among the top predators in the oceans. But the hunter is also the hunted: many species are overfished. Can we use the riches of the oceans without destroying them?

Nathalie Simard, mon Noël à l'île

Winsor McCay was the first master of animation. This movie features every surviving film by this cinema pioneer with lovely piano score by famed composer Gabriel Thibaudeau. Highlights in this collection include: Little Nemo (1911), Gertie the Dinosaur (1914), How A Mosquito Operates (1912), The Sinking Of The Lusitania (1918), The Centaurs (1918-21), Gertie On Tour (1918-21), Flip’s Circus (1918-21), Bug Vaudeville (1921), The Pet (1921) and The Flying House (1921). DVD features a commentary by film historian John Canemaker and his charming documentary Remembering Winsor McCay.

In 1999, for the 30th anniversary of the original Woodstock festival, organizers planned the three-day Woodstock '99 music festival in an abandoned air force base in Rome, New York. Thousands of people came to the festival. Performers such as Kid Rock and Limp Bizkit performed at the festival. However, all was not peace and love. Bad conditions and inflating prices for water led to riots and looting on the last night of the festival.