CTR - Departamento de Cinema, Rádio e TV

A couple discusses their first night and relationship.

Jonas is desperately trying to get to a job interview, but the world seems to fight against him — or rather, it seems oblivious to him.

In an antique shop in downtown São Paulo, a love story from the past is revealed amid the daily life of the place.

May 2, 2024. Amidst big names from São Paulo's drag scene, a young filmmaker dives into the experience of becoming a drag queen for one night.

Beyond the lights and magic of the ring, this documentary follows the lives of the main stars of comedy: clowns.

Two people fight for survival in a captivity in which the only contact with the outside world is a small gap in the room where they are locked. A short film made for the "Noite de Kino 2023" project of the São Paulo International Short Film Festival - Curta Kinoforum.

It's dawn. When Melina enters Café Insomnia, she doesn't imagine she's about to meet someone from her past again. Fate seems to bring them together again for a single night that will change the course of one of them forever.

Akyns are Kazakh poets who sing improvised songs to the sound of the dombra. Jiahenur, a famous akyn in his region, is our guide on this musical journey through Kazakh life in the Chinese city of Kanzu, in his home province of Xinjiang. The narration for this documentary was improvised by Jiahenur and the dombra solos were played by Alaxi, his son.

What if you could kill someone with the press of a button?

Thousands of years ago, a special ceremony of dance and music was created for Confucius, one of the most important thinkers in China and the world. Crossing the barriers of time, the ceremony is still held at the Confucius Temple in Qufu. In the same way, the values of Confucius continue to be carried in the hearts of the Chinese people.

In Xinjiang, in northwest China, an underground river brings life to the desert for the Uyghur people. An ancient construction whose waters flow from the depths of the earth to the lush grape fields, the Karez is known to those who benefit from it as the Mother River.

A woman asks her friend to read the screenplay she wrote.

A little girl believes a monster is hiding in her closet.

The Xibe ethnic group crossed China from east to west to defend the western frontier in the 18th century. Their main weapons were bows and arrows. Since then, they have kept their archery alive, passing it down from generation to generation. What began as a way of defending the country has become a sport that they are really good at and respect. Heirs of Xibo Archery focuses on people who have inherited this tradition and how they deal with it in their own ways.

A music video-collage on modern urban life.

A woman arrives from a trip, only to find her house a bit different from what she remembers.

During a therapy session, Lucio, a disturbed man, discusses a presence that has come to stalk him. Since then, Lucius began to deal with his constant desire to commit violent acts in a different way.