Aruac Filmes

Music about becoming women in the contemporary world, their emancipation and struggles

An eye-opening he said/she said perspective on timbó fishing, a traditional practice of the Indigenous Yanomami people that involves the entire community and a vine used to stun fish, seamlessly blends preservation documentary, origin myth, magic realism and the reality of mining and economic threats to Yanomami culture in this formally inventive reclamation.

On the edge of the Transbrasiliana highway, Edna lives in a land in ruins, built on massacres.

Documentary about Indigenous peoples' profound connection to nature and their struggle against deforestation, a grave threat to their way of life and the ecosystem they call home.

Down on his luck and recently divorced, Paulo has begun driving a cab around Rio, hoping he’ll make enough to send his ex money to support their ten-year-old son. He mostly works nights, so in addition to his encounters with a colourful variety of customers, colleagues, cops and others, he must cope with loneliness, fatigue and new faces in his life.

When the flowers of the Mari tree bloom, dreams arise. The words of a great shaman lead to an oneiric experience through the synergy between cinema and the Yanomami dream, presenting poetics and teachings of the peoples of the forest.

Filmmaker Paula Gaitán and Richard Peña, a professor at Columbia University and former director of film programming at Lincoln Center, delve into the manifestos of Glauber Rocha, revisiting the Aesthetics of Hunger and the Aesthetics of Dreams to reflect on the revolutionary power of cinema.

A deep investigation, in the way of a poetic essay, on one of the main Latin American movements in cinema, analyzed via the thoughts of its main authors, who invented, in the early 1960s, a new way of making movies in Brazil, with a political attitude, always near to people's problems, that combined art and revolution.

A Yanomami woman watches a shaman prepare the Yãkoana, food for the spirits. Based on the narrative of a young indigenous woman, the Yãkoana that feeds the Xapiri and allows shamans to enter the world of spirits also proposes a meeting of perspectives and imaginations.

Igor is a teenager with a lot of potential and energy, but without the motivation to stay in school. His case reflects the situation in which many students at risk of dropping out of school live. The short shows a day in the life of this aspiring actor and capoeirista, who lives in Morro dos Prazeres.

With her radical voice, visceral improvisation, and unmistakable rasp, Elza Soares created a language all her own and crossed generations, continually reinventing herself as one of Brazil’s greatest artists. In the documentary that bears her name, Elza narrates her own story, weaving together a diary of memories, desires, and reflections through music, in dialogue with historic Brazilian films. Through Elza and her nearly century-long life, the film offers an X-ray of a country in turmoil.

Watoriki is a testament to the thought and biography of one of the most important indigenous leaders in Brazil, the shaman Davi Kopenawa Yanomami. Through interviews, he recounts details of his life, historical facts about the Yanomami people, and how his experience as an interpreter and translator of the world of the white people - napë - led him to his fight for the forest and to an accurate analysis of those who try to destroy it.

With a constellation of black voices and presences, the short film takes a dizzying journey between ancestral and contemporary territories. On this mystical journey, sound and image devours celebrate the black poetry that anchors memories and discovers futures.

La Rueda shows an everyday night in Pucallpa, a city located in the Peruvian Amazon. Colors, noises and lights are projected. Families transport their children to the amusement park. Fears, fantasies, joys and vertigo intertwine. A new world of sensations arises. The film dialogues with the most distant memories and drives of childhood and in the plots of affection between mothers and children.

An artist's investigation. A creative, formalist, and experimental exploration about and based on random images.

Delirium of the hunger of a man who incorporates, in the course of an ancestral ritual, the demons of a sick country. Home and man become living testimonies of history. Sanctuary or headquarters, the transformations affect everything around and provoke the fury of the sky.​