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This courageous documentary follows Brazilian investigative journalist Daniel Camargos as he retraces the last known steps of his colleague Dom Phillips, who was murdered because of his accurate coverage of Amazon defore
This document is the final chapter of the history of Brazil's Amerindian tribes caught up in the trap of modernization. The Parakana Indians undergo the first contact which begins the process of their pacification. They
The pianist Carla Ruaro and her team embarked on a 40 days expedition which involved hoisting a piano onto a boat and traversing the Brazilian Amazon. In collaboration with local composers, the aim of this independent pr
Three partisans bound by a strong friendship return home after the war, but the clash with everyday reality puts a strain on their bond.
An intimate documentary about truth, memory, youth and places through the eyes of three close friends.
The jeweler Edmond gets a competitor, Mr. Snyder, who specializes in imitations. Snyder challenges him and claims he can make a perfect imitation of a pearl Edmond chooses.
"No País das Amazonas" begins showing the indigenous people of Amazonas. Then, it presents the economical activities showing each step in the production line of the incipient local industries, inclusive with the exit of
The Sesc Experimental Theater - TESC emerged in 1968 in the city of Manaus/AM, during the military dictatorship. The group began its activities in a period of increasing censorship and repression on the part of state app
Neville D'Almeida’s “Bye Bye Amazônia” tackles on the problems that plague the world’s biggest rainforest and its native people.
A Yemeni kid reads his journal entries from the past for his grandmother
Ballet by August Bournonville 1871. With Hans Beck, Valborg Borchsenius (née Guldbrandsen) and Ellen Price. (Stumfilm.DK)
CHILDREN OF THE AMAZON follows Brazilian filmmaker Denise Zmekhol as she travels a modern highway deep into the Amazon in search of the Indigenous Surui and Negarote children she photographed fifteen years ago. Part road
This documentary takes an anthropological perspective to unveil the life of a family living in the grip of generational poverty within a settlement in Eastern Slovakia. The film explores the recurring cycle into which ch
A documentary about the death of Cadet Marco Amarilla in a military academy in Paraguay, a death that was initially reported as a suicide, but was revealed to be a cover-up in a country where dozens of other young men ha
The film is a conversation between the director and the composer. The image and the music relate to each other, creating a very special kind of a tension.
The nearly two-hour film Origin of The Night (Amazon Cosmos) (shot between 1973–1977 and finished in 1982), which references a myth of the indigenous Tupi people, is a meditation on the South American rain forest that wa
Sarah is a little girl who lives in one of the many shacks in a slum in Manaus, Brazil. One day, her world expands beyond everything she knows when she meets her grandma Ceucy and goes on a journey of discovery of her in