Braço Armado das Empreiteiras

Claw, discipline, tenacity, physical strength and obedience; These are the treasures that are kept so that we may live a fuller and healthier life. Your body thanks you!

Bacurau, a small town in the Brazilian sertão, mourns the loss of its matriarch, Carmelita, who lived to be 94. Days later, its inhabitants notice that their community has vanished from most maps.

For the last 500 years, Edilson has been cutting sugar cane in Brazil. One day, the machines arrive and he leaves his job to engage in his first space mission. A small step for him, a giant leap for the nation.

More than 500,000 deaths. A denial president who mocks the disease. Just over a year after the start of the pandemic, Brazil becomes the new epicenter of Covid-19 in the world. In hospitals across the country, health professionals struggle daily to save each patient. For the occupational therapist Poliana, the job is to maintain the fine line that links the lives of patients with that of their families.

In 1965 a VW Beetle is sold in São Paulo, Brazil. Forty years later, the car ends up in a Recife scrapyard in the northeast, with the license plate KFZ-1348. The documentary “The Beetle KFZ-1348” presents the stories of this car through its eight owners, whose lives show a unique portrait of a country.

When images of illuminated objects penetrate a dark chamber through a small hole and get projected onto a white paper sheet positioned a certain distance from that hole, one can see inverted objects with their own shapes and colors on the sheet.

The arrival of the Suape port and industrial complex brought business opportunities for large construction companies and their planned "high standard" neighborhoods in contrast to the life in the periphery and rural area of Cabo de Santo Agostinho (PE), the most vulnerable city for the young black men in Brazil.

Pacific, a documentary, is entirely constructed from images taken by passengers on a cruise ship which is bound for one of the most beautiful natural settings in Brazil, the archipelago of Fernando de Noronha. The seven days of the voyage are recorded by the lenses of the tourists who film everything, all the time. By casting its eyes on how the characters see things, the film is revealed to be an essay on the production of images in contemporary society and their political implications. In addition it throws the spotlight on a reflection on Brazilian society, using a social group rarely seen and one that is well beyond the stereotypes commonly observed in documentaries.

When we are faced with something that we know will disappear.

Brazil, 2016.

As Ariel Ortega thinks about the history of contact of the Mbya-Guarani, he tries to understand how his people got expelled from their land.

Iris lives alone in a spacious apartment by the sea. The green horizon seems to distance it from the city in comfortable isolation. At nightfall, the place hosts known and unknown in a frantic party flow. Iris is the main attraction. But on a hungover morning, she finds a corpse in the living room. As in the distorted reflection of a crooked mirror, Iris feels repeating steps of her childhood friend, Tiara, a medical student who had run over a guy at the exit of a nightclub. After the incident, Tiara plunges into a spiral of self-pity, sentimental emptying and violence. The case is well known in town and Iris does not want to become another ghost in this dark repertoire of stories. In All the colors of the night, reality works as a dimension of imagination, memory and madness.

A couple of artists (a painter/performer and a photographer) experience a double isolation – isolation from the city, because they live in a studio in the old part of the center of Recife but do not interact with its surroundings, and an affective/conjugal isolation established between themselves. "Hollow body" captures the spectrum of a separation.

Aluisio loves the shop and his animals. Cristina can’t wait to sell the place.

The film turns to university student occupations during the fight against the PEC of the End of the World, at the end of 2016.