The new year
I believe in laughter and tears as antidotes to hatred and terror. Good films constitute an international language, responding to humanity’s need for joy, compassion, and understanding. They are a means of dissipating the wave of anguish and fear that pervades the world today… If we could at least exchange films between nations, in large […]
Presentation of the Book: “Amazonia for an Open Wound of the Planet”
Manuel Carvalho has traveled more than 12,000 kilometers in the interior of the Amazon. In Amazonia: a journey through an open wound on the planet (ed. Ideais de Ler), the author takes us through territories of dense forest, soy plantations, indigenous villages, contaminated rivers and areas of illegal deforestation. Going back to the time of […]
Millennium’s Turn
Maria and her friends’ bucolic childhood is haunted by an unexpected doubt. On television, they talked about the year 2000 bug and the chance that the world would end. So, how would they spend the days that remained, at a time when there was time? This is a small portrait of the last pre-internet childhoods […]
Spring Tide
Women shellfish gatherers leave marks of their work in the mangroves, scars drawn on roots and branches. These cuts, silent witnesses to the collection of oysters, become a living calendar. For these women, each scar is a memory of the time that has passed, a count of the high tides since the last time they […]
Caught in the Net
Atom & Void
The Time Of Waters
GERLACH
Camorim
Camorim is an urban quilombo located near Barra da Tijuca, an upper-middle class neighborhood in Rio de Janeiro. The film is made through the eyes of four quilombolas who reveal their desires, memories and important discoveries about the place where they live and resist.
Coast
One winter’s night, the sea once again threatens the apartment tower where two neighbors live. The next day, their children come to pressure them to leave everything behind.