Documentary Movies

Biringuete

A brief experience of Cannes 70

Mosaicos

O Retorno da Terra Tupinambá

Riverbanks

The villages of Vadul Rașcov and Rașcov (Transnistria) are separated only by the waters of the Dniester. For years, people communicated with each other without obstacles: getting married, visiting each other for baptisms or other family celebrations, and sometimes even for a glass of wine. Things have changed since the Dniester became a border river. A check in point appeared on the left bank, which controls and authorizes crossings from one bank to another. Ever since the bans were imposed, people go out on the shore and communicate by shouting because the "screaming" is not subject to prohibitions and does not involve any costs. Ana and Vasile Manea lived in their youth on the left bank, then moved to the right, while their children chose to live on the other side. Such twisted connections are plentiful in these two villages.

Down on the Corner

Beer, cigarettes or margarine, the corner store in Sirca has it all. It's the meeting point of those who didn't emigrate. No work, no money, but a lot of humor and friendship. Everyday life in central Serbia and maybe soon all over Europe?

Continuará...

The most transcendent and controversial event since the invention of the seventh art: the disappearance of photographic film. What for many people seems to be simply the result of technological evolution, brings with it paradoxes and contradictions that endanger photographic film heritage and accelerate its deterioration.

Future Works

Mockbuster

A struggling filmmaker’s opportunity collides with chaos and compromise when Sharknado’s notorious studio, The Asylum, invites him to direct a "mockbuster."

Inbetween

A semi-autobiographical account of a move from Sri Lanka to Britain, which explores "being inbetween East/West, mother/father, male/female". The filmmaker was born in Sri Lanka and brought up in the traditions of European culture and Roman Catholicism. He moved to England to live and work, and the film, which combines drama and documentary, is a personal account of his "negotiation of his personal history".

Uma outra cidade

Sao Paulo revisited by brazilian poets that were aligned with the beatnik generation.

Architect Athfield

Examines the practical philosophy, the achievements and frustrations of one of New Zealand's most lively and innovative architects, Ian Athfield. The film provides a portrait of the architect and his work both in New Zealand and his project to design housing for 140,000 squatters from the Tondo area of Manila in the Philippines, for which Athfield won an international competition in 1975.

O Zero Não é Vazio

Freakonomics

Some of the world's most innovative documentary filmmakers will explore the hidden side of everything.

Invisible Heroes

This film documents the untold adventures of the African-Americans who went to the Spanish Civil War, in the thirties, to fight for the civil rights that were denied to them in their home country.

Knef - Die frühen Jahre

A documentary about the life of the actress Hildegard Knef.

Bug Attack

They hide in the darkest, most inaccessible corners, are armed with venomous quills and hooked legs, and possess cunning and effective hunting strategies, worthy of the most fearsome predators. Herpetologist Phil De Vries takes us on a journey to discover some of the most dangerous invertebrates on the planet, from the giant centipede of the Amazon to the deadly Japanese mandarin wasp. But beware: what might seem like a nightmare to us is actually something this eccentric scholar can't get enough of.

Standing in Front of Many Houses

After the collapse of the Soviet Union, Natasha immigrates as a child with her family to Germany. The film begins today, twenty years later, when Natasha returns for the first time to her unknown home. Natasha's time in Baikal Port is mainly structured through her everyday encounters with the people who live there. In different situations, she meets them and gets into conversations about employment and living conditions that are still marked by the effects of the Perestroika. While Natasha gains these intimate insights into different ways of living, she reflects on her own position and tries to make a connection with this place, which is a part of her identity. The cinematic drawing of intimate portraits of people living in Baikal Port as well as Natasha’s play- acting as a returning, identity-seeking figure is accompanied by an ever-present recording camera.

Mémoires enfouies

El barco de Teseo

There and Back Again

During the COVID-19 pandemic, Marília, Marcelo and Mateus travel from Rio de Janeiro to Pernambuco, their homeland. Unable to meet as many friends and family as before, what remains in the empty places is the memory from when they lived there. As they wander between past and present, their affection comes to light, for they know that soon the trip will come to an end and those places will remain only in their memories once again.