No, in my room 2020

A parallel history is being written under the nose and out of control of the director. The all-mighty filmmaker yells cut, yet as an act of defiance one camera keeps rolling, capturing what the spectator shouldn't see, candidly documenting what history leaves out. But even then, someone's holding the camera, someone's editing the shots, someone's splicing titles with dates and places over the frame. What happens when the camera simply takes over?

Atopy 2015 ( 8)

After being for eleven years in the city, José António Baptista returned to his home village to focus on literature.

Psycho Tom 2017

MAKING OF DA VIDA 2023

Favela Rising 2005 ( 5.8)

A man emerges from the slums of Rio to lead the nonviolent cultural movement known as Afro-reggae.

Here is Flamengo 2020

Flamengo is the most famous football club in Brazil. Deep in Ceará arid region, a small village shares a passion for the team that is shown in village name: Flamengo. Who is born there is called flamenguense, and every flamenguense is also a flamenguista. We witnessed the local commotion caused by the Libertadores final in 2019.

Futebol Para Todos 2019

Mimo: O Milagre de Milagres N/A

Letter From Marker 2017

A video essay by Luís Azevedo using the words filmmaker Chris Marker spoke about himself to tell his story. In 1958, after watching LETTRE DE SIBÉRIE (1957), André Bazin wrote that Marker’s first feature film resembles nothing hitherto seen in documentary films: “The important word is ‘essay,’ understood in the same sense that it has in literature – an essay at once historical and political, written by a poet as well. Generally, even in politically engaged documentaries or those with a specific point to make, the image (which is to say, the uniquely cinematic element) effectively constitutes the primary material of the film (…) with Marker it works quite differently. I would say that the primary material is intelligence, that its immediate means of expression is language, and that the image only intervenes in the third position, in reference to this verbal intelligence”. In 2017, the intelligence in his essay films still flows in the fringes of filmmaking.