Alto das Flores

O Carnaval é de Pelé

This short film follows Pelé, a retired nurse who looks back on his time as a Mateus in the century-old Bumba Meu Boi group, Boi Tira-Teima. As he builds a new boi for the festival, he revisits the defining moments of his journey as a performer, carnival artist, and son of Mestre Gerson, the group’s former patriarch. The film explores how the way we carry our memories of the past shapes who we become in the present.

Mãos de Pedra

Olho de Palha

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João Heleno dos Brito

Até Amanhã

Madame

The documentary tells the story of Camille Cabral, Northeastern woman, transsexual, first Brazilian elected in France.

Porque Era Ela

White Noise

A reflection on the fate of humanity in the Anthropocene epoch, White Noise is a roller-coaster of a film, a whirlwind of sounds and images. The fourth feature-length work by Simon Beaulieu, this film essay plunges viewers into a subjective sensory adventure—a direct physical encounter with the information overload of daily life. White Noise transforms the imminent collapse of our civilization into a visceral aesthetic experience.

Walking Back to Happiness

A filmmaker embarks on a search for his real family name. The name his family has been passing on from father to son is not the right one. In the meanwhile he discovers many family secrets and feuds. An honest, humorous and universal story about fatherhood and family secrets.

A Song of Africa

An impressively done new documentary taking a look back at the making of this picture. Interviews with everyone from director Pollack to composer John Barry take us through the memories of the making of the picture. In between interview segments are looks and thoughts on and at the history of the story and Africa itself. Especially entertaining is when Streep and Pollack talk about working with the animals.

Heroes of Horror

A&E Comprehensive biographies of five of the greatest classic stars of the horror genre. Features lots or archive footage from some the greatest horror films committed to celluloid.

The Blizzard of AAHHH's

Greg Stump's rockumentary-style ski film inspired a whole new generation of skiers when it was first released in 1988. Taking a look at the heroes of the ski world -- both known and unknown -- Blizzard of Ahhhs features some of the best ski action ever filmed.

Buried in the Rock

Every corner of the world has now been mapped, from the remotest deserts to the highest mountains. Yet beneath the earth’s surface, accessible only through crevices, lies a largely unknown world.

Natalie’s Trifecta

South African artist Natalie Paneng’s biography describes her as “residing in Johannesburg and the cyber village called the internet.” The physical and digital are on an equal footing in Paneng’s utopian art, in which she uses various media to explore how our online personas relate to reality.

(this conversation is) Off the Record

Traversing the Mist

Step into the body of a young Taiwanese man to roam the steamy rooms and red-lit corridors of a surreal gay sauna—with thin mattresses, shared showers and lockers holding secrets.

Krishna’s Dancer

A documentary with Kasturi Mishra, dancer

Skating With Bilbo

clown-skat·ing /klownˌskādiNG/ Noun: the sport or pastime of clowning while aboard a skateboard. e.g: "Billy loves to clown-skate."