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.

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.

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

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

A couple argues. She doesn't know what he hides.

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

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.

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.

A music video-collage on modern urban life.

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 couple argues about their careers.

Zhu Songling is a retired paleontologist who worked at the Chongqing Natural History Museum for 40 years. He tells us his story while the dinosaur fossils he repaired are exhibited to the public every day.