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Luisa and Rafael are a couple who live in a rural area and use various elements of nature surrounding their home to try to protect their newborn baby, who is at risk of being stolen by an evil entity. The characters rely on their memories and ancestral rituals to save their child from the entity, generating a radical change in their lives.
Jun 2023
Thiago and Bruno are two friends with no direction in life who come across a great business opportunity when they discover, inside a doghouse, a portal that allows anyone who enters to exchange bodies and minds with other people. But how far does the desire to be someone else go?
Sep 2023
Putta (Whore) follows the story of three prostitutes living in the town of Foz do Iguaçu, on the triple border between Brazil, Argentina and Paraguay. The film traverses the complexities of each of the three prostitutes personal lives’–from transexuality to family and motherhood–in the context of the brothels and streets in which they work.
Dec 2016
In a record of images and sounds, a HIV-positive man recounts his sexual experience on the border between Argentina, Brazil and Paraguay.
Aug 2023
Fátima and Gonzalo are a couple of farmers who are going through a grieving process due to a recent family loss. One morning, Fátima finds a strange figure inside a bluish egg that she intended to cook. Her relationship with her husband start to fall apart, and only until they manage to face a painful fact from the past, that they will finally be able to heal.
Apr 2024
After an exhausting day, Pablo lies in his bed, where he begins to experience several bizarre events. Between his failed attempts to escape, he realizes that he can't for some reason. Maybe something from the past keeps him trapped. What motivated this situation?
Dec 2022
Oct 2024
A visual essay on ethnicity, gender and misogyny.
Jun 2019
A documentary about rap artists from Ceilândia, a satellite-city of Brazil capital, Brasilia. The film portrait the struggle of the lives of the rapers and makes a parallel with the violent building of the city designed to settle the outcast from Brasilia after its completion.
Nov 2005
Victor and Francisco meet in a bar. After a night of lust and passion, seduction turns into a nightmare when Francisco finds himself at the mercy of a killer who hides his insanity behind a handsome face.
Mar 2025
Luisa is beginning to forget, sometimes getting lost in the maze of her memories. At the bus station, she writes texts in an attempt to safeguard her memories, especially those involving the great love of her youth.
An experimental process that explores the self-fiction of a body between the virtual and the ritual. Under the effects of digital technology and the reality of obsolescence, what remains for dissident identities? What is real? Dancing to understand oneself as a cyborg and connect with other technologies.
Aug 2024
Breno, a lonely boy, deals with a recent breakup by reliving memories while trying to understand why Ísis, his former love, left him, recalling various moments from their significant relationship.
Nov 2022
After her father's disappearance, Lais returns to the family's old airport to find clues as to her whereabouts, however, with her brother's return to her life everything changes, will she find answers? Or do just more secrets and mysteries await her?
Oct 2023
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This is not a documentary about documentary film-making.
May 2022
The filming of a horror movie goes wrong when the film's killer, dressed as a dinosaur, decides to kill everyone on the film crew.
Jul 2023
Marcos, a 10-year-old boy, is devastated after his kitten Fefe goes missing. In his search, he finds a book about tales and legends from the city of Foz do Iguaçu. His sister, Mariana, joins him on the adventure to help him find Fefe. Walking through the streets of Foz, they notice black cats painted on all the walls, and Marcos immediately realizes that this has something to do with the disappearance of his feline best friend. As Marcos and Mariana get closer to the truth about Fefe's whereabouts, he decides to return to the company of his human best friend. They both discover the true meaning of friendship, unconditional love, and companionship.
Jan 2026
Mar 2028