Terecô: a força que vem da raiz

Four Springs is a documentary film that presented a family's daily life in the remote town of Dushan in the Guizhou province in southwest China. From a subjective angle, the camera induced the flow of life out of the screen: the quotidian toils, singing, excursions in nature, visits among friends and extended families, funerals, reunions and departures. It presented the state of being of the two main characters, the director's own parents, and their attitude when facing irretrievable loss in life.

Deeply rooted in humanity's history, the Blessed Virgin Mary has been making repeated visitations throughout the world, particularly in the latter part of the 20th century, to warn us that we are on the brink of destruction unless we heed her messages for repentance, prayer, conversion, fasting and reconciliation. Is humanity on the verge of self-destruction? Can the world be delivered from the fear engulfing it today? Fatima Portugal, Beauraing & Banneux Belgium, Garanbandal Spain, Zeitun Egypt, Akita Japan, Medjugorje, Yugoslavia, Bethania Venezuela, Kibeho Rwanda, Naju South Korea, Ukraine and more...

This movie is a short documentary about both the narrator's, and the youth's, experience as Christian tourists in Israel.

Years of pent-up dissent turned into an igniting spark at Istanbul University's Beyazıt Campus. The moment that police barricade was torn down, with TİP students at the very forefront, was not only the breaching of a physical barrier but the shattering of the walls of fear built around the youth.

Through artistic manifestations, a group of LGBTQIA+ people performs public stagings that raise debates on issues of gender, social inequality and prejudice in the streets of downtown São Paulo. Messing with the popular imagination and providing debates, the artists explain their daily struggles to anyone who is interested in acquiring a new perspective on the most subtle layers of intolerance.

Pelé, a retired nurse, revisits his memories as a performer in the Boi Tira-Teima group from Caruaru, Pernambuco. Between longing for the past and the impossibility of celebrating Carnival in the present, he imagines what it would be like to return to Carnival one last time.

A snapshot of the celebration with drums, the terecô.

The film tells the story of how a team challenged boundaries and traditions to transform the "Land of Grapes" into a stage for horror, proving that independent cinema thrives through community collaboration and perseverance.

ImpunIdade: As consequências da lei da maioridade penal no Brasil

Visionary filmmaker Abassi Okoro (Uncloaked) returns with a mind-blowing look into ancient African and Orisha origins of many of the Marvel and DC comic book superheroes and exposes how European culture and religion for over a 12,000 year span has historically appropriated the black Gods of old.

In a small community in the countryside of southern Espírito Santo, a group of women gathers to embroider. Together, they teach, learn, recreate their lives, and weave their freedom and identity.

A young man with academic and social struggles finishes high school without a clear vocational path due to his artistic talents. Social pressure leads him to choose civil engineering at Peru's top university to please his family and secure his future.

Enawenê-nawê: Os Homens-Espíritos

Baránok Boží

Veľkonočné evanjelium

The first large-scale television project depicting thirty years of underground life of the Greek Catholic Church, which was banned in the Soviet Union. The film includes unknown facts about the underground, stories of oppression and terror perpetrated by the totalitarian system. The film records dozens of vivid testimonies from priests, nuns, and laypeople who lived through those times, and features unique materials that create an unknown chronicle of the underground Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church, which was the most persecuted religious community in the world.

Vida Real - Um Filme Sobre a Conquista do Corinthians na Copa do Brasil 2025

Religiosity is an immaterial wealth that preserves the identity of a people. Documentary filmmaker Patricio González Colville searches for the ancestral rites that characterize the relationship between God and man from the countryside. A strange mix of faith, devotion, pagan festival, wine, submission, violence and sorcery make up these rites whose origin has been forgotten but tradition does not allow losing. Cultural mixes over time have given rise to the peculiar current peasant religion. The documentalist's camera allows the country man to express his personal experiences, beliefs and divergences with divinity in his simple language. Through five chapters, the documentary searches the Maule Region for the descendants of Adam, expelled from Paradise to cultivate the land. What kind of faith does this man have left and how does he manifest it? The documentary presents his perspective on this controversial issue.

GLAUBER MARCADO PARA MORRER

In Rio de Janeiro, a young doctor, seminarian and surfer touched the lives of those who knew him with his example of faith and charity.