Festa do Divino Espírito Santo

Lendas Brasileiras

January 2008 •Portuguese

Camila Decide Matar

Invalid date •Portuguese

The Guardian

May 2025 •Portuguese

After hearing about a Brazilian folklore party at the neighborhood school, Fernando, an 8-year-old child, decides to go dressed as Curupira, with a skirt and everything, and suggests it to his grandfather, Mr. Lino, 70 years old. The dynamics between grandfather and grandson begin to be affected as Lino perceives Fernando to be a different child. Through subtleties in the dialogues and the silence, social conventions and the responsibility of being the guardian-protector of something precious, the film evokes conceptions of the masculine within a queer childhood.

Se Essa Lua Fosse Minha

August 2022 •Portuguese

The musical “Se Essa Lua Fosse Minha” tells the story of a people who abandon their land in search of a place to build a new tomorrow. Upon reaching the island of Porto Leste, they discover that the place is already inhabited by another people with conflicting beliefs and cultures, making a division of the land indispensable in order to avoid a war. However, when residents of opposite sides begin a forbidden romance, not even a clash between peoples can separate two passionate hearts.

AGARRA

August 2023 •Portuguese

folklore: a fashion film.

December 2023 •Portuguese

España: An Idiotic Story

July 2024 •English

Five friends spend 4 days in Spain and get up to some right laughs.

Out Of The Rain

July 2020 •French

Traidor: Una crónica de la vida de Jay de la Cueva

July 2024 •Spanish

This chronicle follows the journey of Jay de la Cueva, an icon of Latin American music, in his brave transition towards a solo career. After many years in bands such as Microchips, Molotov, Fobia, Titán, and Moderatto, Jay decides to reinvent himself musically. Through five artistically intervened cubes, the story reveals his trajectory, from his beginnings in music to his current quest for new artistic expressions.

Two Toddlers in High Chairs

Invalid date •English

Two toddlers sit for the camera in their best clothing. One is determined to take toys and objects from the other until the other toddler starts to cry. The BFI notes this is a copy of a film originally made by the Lumière brothers.

#50ForDaCity

December 2021 •English

Zach Randolph Documentary. This documentary film chronicles Grizzlies’ legend Z-Bo and his journey in Memphis, from the trade that brought him to the Bluff City, to every Z-bound, headband toss, MLGW bill, chokeslam, and more

I Live Where You Vacation, El Árbol de la Vida Vol. I. Samaná

Invalid date •Spanish

I Live Where You Vacation, Contrastes Naturales Vol. IV. El Sur

September 2024 •Spanish

Søren Kam: Nazisten, der aldrig fortrød

April 2017 •Danish

Daughter of Mobius

January 1981 •Korean

Daughter of Mobius shows the struggles of an independent women living in the early 80s - an era when it was much more difficult for women to be independent. The movie follows a 29-year-old single woman - who at the time was the object of social prejudices - through her daily life, showing the sights of Seoul in the early 80s and the life of the woman, in documentary style.

The Other Side of Home

April 2016 •English

In 1915, estimated 1.5 million Armenians were killed by the Ottoman Turks, during the Armenian Genocide. In 2015, a Turkish woman named Maya discovers that her great grandmother was survivor of the Armenian genocide. Maya embodies the conflict as she has two enemies living in her body: one side that suffers and the other side that denies. The documentary follows Maya as she decides to go to Armenia to take part in the 100th commemoration of the genocide and to explore her conflicted identity. This film is a universal story of identity, denial, and how the experience of genocide creates a ripple effect for future generations on both sides.

Tarrafal

November 2016 •Portuguese

One day almost everything turned into a pile of rubble and bush. There remained ghosts wandering through the fields, the ruins and the fog. Some of these ghosts are alive. They are those who stayed, those who came back, those who roam the difficult memories of the most cursed neighborhood of the city. Only that this Tarrafal, the name of the field of slow death of Salazar's dictatorship, is not in Cape Verde but in Portugal.

Carl och spelreklamshelvetet

April 2019 •Swedish

Internet comedian Carl Déman from the humor group JLC lived a life that looked glorious. But beneath the surface was a terrible gambling addiction that almost cost him his life. In 2019, he and other gambling addicts struggle to stay afloat in a contemporary age marinated in gambling advertising. Carl wants to ask those who make the advertising how they think and wonders why the advertising profiles now also come from the world of culture and entertainment.

Cherrie - ut ur mörkret

May 2018 •Swedish

Prisoners of the Moon

July 2019 •English

Was Arthur Rudolph, a central figure in the first Moon Landing, also involved in war crimes involving the death of 20,000 slave labourers in World War 2?