CINEMA & CITIZENSHIP

FUNDING AGREEMENT No. 180/2025
PPROCESS SCEC-PRC-2025-00273-DM
DORDER 84421
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EParliamentary Amendment No. 2025.072.65778

The origin of the word “"citizenship"” It comes from Latin. “civitas”, which means “"city"”.
In ancient Greece, a citizen was considered to be someone born on Greek soil.
In ancient Rome, the word citizenship was used to indicate a person's political status and the rights that person had or could exercise.
Legally, a citizen is an individual who enjoys the civil and political rights of a State.
In a broader sense, citizenship means the quality of being a citizen and, consequently, possessing rights and duties.
That being said, we clarify that the films shown in the sessions CINEMA & CITIZENSHIP They discuss topics related to citizenship, aiming to awaken a critical spirit in the viewers.
These films showcase everything from significant events in Brazilian history to aspects of Brazilian culture, featuring the personalities and ordinary people who have shaped our country's history.

SCHEDULE FOR THE WEEK OF SEPTEMBER 23, 2025 TO SEPTEMBER 26, 2025

23/09/2025 at 6:30 PM
Césio137 – The Glow of Death (2003)
Documentary with extensive research and images of people affected by the radioactive disaster that occurred in 1987 in the city of Goiânia.
Directed by: Luis Eduardo Jorge
Rthese (2003)
Five cameras, five cities, one night and its remains.
The film is an urban portrait of waste collection.
Directed by: Cristina Maure & Pablo Lobato

24/09/2025 at 6:30 PM
BBrasilia: Contradictions of a New City (1967)
Images of Brasília on its sixth anniversary and interviews with a diverse range of the city's inhabitants.
Directed by: Joaquim Pedro de Andrade

25/09/2025 at 6:30 PM
CDog wing (2001)
Once upon a time, it was the best place in the world to live…
Under the viaduct next to CEAGESP, in São Paulo, some families have found a dignified way to survive, building dog houses with wood from crates abandoned by the market's merchants. Accustomed to the location – polluted, congested, and dangerous – the residents will have to face the São Paulo City Hall, which wants to evict them.
Directed by: Thiago Villas Boas

26/09/2025 at 6:30 PM
Dand Back to the Good Land (2008)
Men and women of the Panará tribe recount the journey of their people's displacement and rediscovery of their original territory, from their first contact with white men in 1973, through their exile in the Xingu Indigenous Park (formerly called the Xingu National Indigenous Park), to their struggle and reconquest of their lands.
Directed by: Mari Corrêa & Vincent Carelli

SCHEDULE FOR THE WEEK OF SEPTEMBER 29, 2025 TO OCTOBER 3, 2025

29/09/2025 at 6:30 PM
OPartridge workshop (2006)
The film tells the story of José Perdiz, owner of a mechanic shop located in a large warehouse on the outskirts of Brasília. When José lent the space for the staging of theatrical performances at night, a time when the shop is not in operation, the authorities tried to shut down the place. This immediately generated a large public reaction in defense of José.
Directed by: Marcelo Díaz
On the Tightrope (2006)
This animated film is a fable about the coldness of modern life and the attempt to maintain joy.
Directed by: Marcos Buccini

30/09/2025 at 18:30
Leila Forever Diniz (1976)
Based on excerpts from films in which she participated as a professional actress, testimonials from friends, and Super 8 mm footage from a film about her., Leila Forever Diniz This reveals candid glimpses into the private life of actress Leila Diniz (1945-1972), who, in addition to being a muse of the Ipanema neighborhood and a legend for a generation, broke taboos and caused a scandal at a time when repression harshly dominated Brazil.
Directed by: Mariza Leão & Sérgio Rezende
Hey Pagu, Hey! (1982)
The film was made at a time when the memory of the writer, journalist and political activist Patrícia Galvão (1910-1962), known as Pagu, was being rediscovered; she had been, until then, in relative obscurity.
Hey Pagu, Hey! It follows Pagu's trajectory, offering a generous portrait of the author of Industrial park (Published in 1933, Pagu signed it with the pseudonym Mara Lobo), considered the first Brazilian proletarian novel.
Long before becoming known as Pagu, a nickname given to her by the poet Raul Bopp (1898-1984), Patrícia Galvão was already a woman ahead of her time, with her behavior considered extravagant, and she championed feminist causes.
In addition to a wealth of archival material, with numerous photos and film clips, Hey Pagu, Hey! It includes scenes in which Pagu is played by actress Edith Siqueira.
Directed by: Ivo Branco
Cast: Edith Siqueira, Clodomiro Bacellar, Aldo Bueno and Julio Calasso

October 1, 2025 at 6:30 PM
RLittle Brazil 1977 (1977)
A long travelling through the favela in Rio de Janeiro, at a time when the specter of relocation to distant areas is the residents' biggest concern.
Directed by: Sérgio Péo
Seven Minutes (2007)
In a single take, the film depicts a showdown between two drug dealers.
Directed by: Cavi Borges, Júlio Pecly & Paulo Silva

October 1, 2025 at 7:30 PM
O Dragon of Evil Against the Holy Warrior (1969)
The Dragon is initially Antônio das Mortes, just as Saint George is the bandit. Later, the true dragon is the landowner, while the Warrior Saint becomes the teacher, when he takes up the weapons of the bandit and Antônio das Mortes. In short, this means that such social roles are not eternal and immobile, and that such components of solidly conservative, reactionary, or power-complicit social groups can change and contribute to change. They simply need to understand where the true dragon lies.
Directed by: Glauber Rocha
Cast: Maurício do Valle, Odete Lara, Hugo Carvana, Othon Bastos

Maurício do Valle (1928-1994), playing Antônio das Mortes, in The Dragon of Evil Against the Holy Warrior.

02/10/2025 at 6:30 PM
CCat's gold (1960)
On the eve of Carnival, boys from a favela steal cats for tambourine makers.
It's remarkable how the film combines images of the favela with those of the city, as well as showing a boy's love for an Angora cat and his dilemma at having to sell the kitten.
Directed by: Joaquim Pedro de Andrade
Cast: Francisco de Assis, Riva Nimitz, Henrique César, Napoleão Muniz Freire, Cláudio Correia e Castro, Milton Gonçalves, Domingos de Oliveira, Paulinho, Sebastião, Aylton and Damião
TRuques, Syrups and Other Reliable Items (2003)
In Largo da Carioca, in the center of Rio de Janeiro, the encounter between a doll seller, a magician, and a syrup merchant raises the question of trust among men.
Directed by: Eduardo Goldenstein
Cast: Augusto Madeira, Cláudio Mendes, Alexandre David and Alexandre Dacosta

03/10/2025 at 6:30 PM
EName of the Reason (1979)
Documentary filmed at the Barbacena (MG) psychiatric hospital about the role of psychiatric institutions in our society.
Directed by: Helvécio Ratton

SCHEDULE FOR THE WEEK OF OCTOBER 6, 2025 TO OCTOBER 10, 2025

06/10/2025 at 6:30 PM
PSecond Class Passengers (2001)
A humanized cinematic look inside a mental institution, where segregated patients are subjected to abandonment, isolation, electroshock therapy, and absolute misery.
The film was shot in 1986 in Goiânia, and only finished in 2001.
Directed by: Luiz Eduardo Jorge, Waldir de Pina & Kim-Ir-Sem

07/10/2025 at 6:30 PM
Memory of the Cangaço (1964)
The film depicts the origins of the cangaço, a movement that took place in the northeastern backlands of Brazil between 1935 and 1939, when armed groups, known as cangaceiros, committed crimes and fought for their own survival in a context of social precariousness and lack of state action.
Interspersed with testimonies from some survivors of the struggle (bandits and authorities), are authentic sequences from films made in 1936 by Benjamin Abrahão, an Arab peddler who managed to film the famous gang of Virgulino Ferreira da Silva, Lampião.
Directed by: Paulo Gil Soares

08/10/2025 at 6:30 PM
SUnderground football (1964)
Brazilian football analyzed from its underground perspective; what happens outside the field, outside the festivities; the fan in the stands, who only wants their team to win in order to forget their problems.
The film follows the players on the pitch and goes to the outskirts of the city, where children without schooling begin to fall in love with football.
Directed by: Maurice Capovilla

08/10/2025 at 7:30 PM
COpen Marked for Death (1984)
The film is a semi-documentary narrative of the life of João Pedro Teixeira, a peasant leader from Paraíba, who was assassinated in 1962.
Directed by: Eduardo Coutinho
Narration: Ferreira Gullar & Tite de Lemos

09/10/2025 at 6:30 PM
Viramundo (1964)
A documentary about people from Northeast Brazil who, attracted by the wealth of the South, arrive in São Paulo in search of a better life than that of the countryside.
The film explores the theme of migration from Northeast Brazil in five clear acts: disembarking at the train station, working in construction, working in industry, charity and the trance of religions, and returning to the city of origin.
Directed by: Geraldo Sarno

10/10/2025 at 6:30 PM
Ãgtux (2005)
The Maxakali ethnic group inhabits the Mucuri Valley in Minas Gerais, and possesses a remarkable artistic and sonic refinement, but lives under a shadow of misery widely publicized by the media.
Ãgtux (means “"telling stories"”This aims to show what is missing from the news: the richness of the graphic designs, language, and daily life of the Maxacali people.
The Maxacali people are concerned about the availability of water for all men.
The film is interesting for raising viewers' awareness of the importance of preserving this vital resource, water, as well as addressing issues of land degradation and the need for indigenous tribes to adapt to a way of life that is not their own.
Directed by: Tania Anaya

SCHEDULE FOR THE WEEK OF OCTOBER 13, 2025 TO OCTOBER 17, 2025

10/13/2025 at 6:30 PM
MWhat did they do? (1983)
An engaged documentary, with a proposal for political activism in the final years of the military dictatorship (1964-1985), the film exposes the behind-the-scenes events of the virtual destruction of the Mangueirinha Reserve in Paraná.
Do I kill them? It is divided into chapters, beginning with questions of ironic grandiloquence (for example: “"Is it better to buy the indigenous land and extract the timber, or to report those who do it?"”), which emulate the bureaucratic forms of government institutions.
Directed by: Sérgio Bianchi
Cast: Lota Moncada, Carlos Kraide

14/10/2025 at 6:30 PM
O Men's Work (1998)
Another incident in the city of São Paulo: a kidnapper holds a woman at gunpoint. The police arrive and set up a perimeter, attempting to make contact with the kidnapper. Elite snipers are called in. A pair of snipers position themselves atop a building. While awaiting orders over the radio, the two converse.
Directed by: Fernando Bonassi
Cast: Leona Cavalli, Ney Piacentini, Celso Frateschi, Fernando Vieira
Stray Bullet (2004)
On a sunny afternoon, in a square in Rio de Janeiro, a shootout begins. Time rewinds a minute to reveal the stories of several people who witness the gunfire. These people are exposed to the trajectory of the bullets. Anyone can die at any moment.
Directed by: Victor Lopes
Cast: Alexandre Rodrigues, Camila Pitanga, Tuca Andrada, José Karini, Letícia Isnard, Emiliano Queiroz, Lucio Mauro, Rogério Cardoso, Danilo Menegale, Fernando José, Hylka Maria, Vinícius de Oliveira, Aramis Trindade, Marcelo Melo, Marta Jordan 

15/10/2025 at 6:30 PM
Trampolim (1998)
Teenager preparing for diving competitions identifies with suicide victims who jumped from an old viaduct in Porto Alegre.
Directed by: Fiapo Bart
Flying Gerald (1994)
A boy from the favela with a special gift ends up getting involved with drug traffickers.
Based on the works of American comic book artist Will Eisner (1917-2005).
Directed by: Bruno Vianna
Cast: Robson dos Santos, Bruno Garcia, Renato Pinheiro, Maria Gladys, Helena Ignez

15/10/2025 at 7:30 PM
O Suely's Sky (2006)
A young woman from northeastern Brazil decides to raffle off her own body in order to raise money for a trip in search of better opportunities.
Directed by: Karim Aïnouz
Cast: Hermila Guedes, Maria Menezes, Zezita Matos, João Miguel, Georgina Castro, Claudio Jaborandy, Marcélia Cartaxo, Flavio Bauraqui

10/16/2025 at 6:30 PM
BBased on Real Facts (2001)
A debt, a lamp, a Bible, a revolver. These are the elements involved in a story that could have happened to you.
Directed by: Bruno Bini
Cast: Cassiano Carneiro, Marcelo Valente, Pericles Anarkos
O Thirsty Dog (2005)
In 1970, a series of car thefts shook João Pessoa. The criminal also killed his victims, leaving no clues.
Directed by: Bruno de Sales
Cast: Liuba de Medeiros, Ricardo Emmanuel, Buda Lira, Saul Carvalho, Jéssica, Túlio Flávio, Zackarias Nepomuceno

10/17/2025 at 6:30 PM
MAira Helmet (2006)
The film portrays the daily life of an eccentric figure in the Vila Margarida neighborhood, in the city of São Vicente, on the coast of São Paulo.
Viewed as someone without feelings or prospects, Maria Capacete bravely confronts prejudice, humiliation, and mockery from everyone. However, she never loses her will to live.
Directed by: Eduardo Bezerra & Victor Luiz dos Santos

SCHEDULE FOR THE WEEK OF OCTOBER 20, 2025 TO OCTOBER 24, 2025

20/10/2025 at 6:30 PM
CCat's gold (1960)
On the eve of Carnival, boys from a favela steal cats for tambourine makers.
It's remarkable how the film combines images of the favela with those of the city, as well as showing a boy's love for an Angora cat and his dilemma at having to sell the kitten.
Directed by: Joaquim Pedro de Andrade
Cast: Francisco de Assis, Riva Nimitz, Henrique César, Napoleão Muniz Freire, Cláudio Correia e Castro, Milton Gonçalves, Domingos de Oliveira, Paulinho, Sebastião, Aylton and Damião
PIcolé, Pintinho and Pipa (2007)
The arrival of the barter van on the hill always sparks everyone's curiosity, especially the children's.
He comes once a month. The exchange of scrap metal for popsicles, chicks, or kites has to be quick.
The children from the favela are beginning to learn that “"Nothing in life is free"”.
Directed by: Gustavo Melo
Cast: Henrique César, Ana Miranda, Xande Alves, Luís Otávio, Chico Santana, Diego Francisco, Felipe Paulino, Arthur Bispo, Wallace Coutinho, Newton Magalhães, Ana Carla

21/10/2025 at 6:30 PM
Nlittle horse and Kika (2005)
Neguinho and Kika are teenagers discovering first love. They live a story of hope in a favela in Rio de Janeiro. But for their love to flourish, Neguinho will need to distance himself from drug trafficking.
Directed by: Luciano Vidigal
Cast: Adriano de Jesus, Jéssica Thamires and Babú Santana

22/10/2025 at 6:30 PM
AAmazonas, Amazonas (1966)
Glauber Rocha's (1939-1981) first color essay, shot between God and the Devil on Earth Sun (1964) and Land in Trance (1967). It was commissioned to be a classic documentary about the natural beauties and riches of the Amazon region, but it still has Glauberian characteristics, such as the lyrical rapture of the shots and the director's nationalist concerns.
In just fifteen minutes, Glauber synthesizes and contrasts the natural beauties and riches of the Amazon region with extractive exploitation and the subjugation of local commerce to the foreign market.
Directed by: Glauber Rocha
Cidadão Jatobá (1987)
A group of young indigenous people from different ethnic groups in the Xingu Indigenous Park, in northern Mato Grosso, learn to build the traditional canoe made from Jatobá bark.
Due to the park's limitations, this type of fast-built canoe, which was mainly used for exploring the surrounding area, is no longer in use, and only the oldest residents of the village still know how to build it.
Directed by: Maria Luiza Aboim

23/10/2025 at 6:30 PM
Dada (2000)
The story of Dílson, Dennis, and Dadá, three friends separated by a secret.
Directed by: Eduardo Vaisman
Cast: Thaísa Medina, Jonathan Haagensen and Jésus Lino

24/10/2025 at 6:30 PM
VCommon wing (1994)
From a clandestine mass grave found in the Perus Cemetery, on the outskirts of São Paulo, a hidden past emerges, exhuming part of the country's recent history.
Directed by: João Godoy

SCHEDULE FOR THE WEEK OF OCTOBER 27, 2025 TO OCTOBER 31, 2025

27/10/2025 at 6:30 PM
O The Day Dorival Faced the Guard (1986)
In a military prison, on a very hot night, the black man Dorival has only one desire: to take a shower. To achieve it, he will have to confront a frightened soldier, a corporal with heroic delusions, a sergeant missing his girlfriend, a lieutenant full of arrogance… Then, Dorival will end the tranquility of that night in the barracks.
Directed by: Jorge Furtado & José Pedro Goulart
Cast: João Acaiabe, Pedro Santos, Zé Adão Barbosa, Sirmar Antunes, Luís Emílio Strassburger, Vera Lúcia Lopes, Marcos Breda, Verlaine Pretto, Marta Biavaschi, Alexandre Corrêa, Roberto Henkin, Arthur M. Rocha, Flávio Ferreira
UA shot in the wing (2005)
In Brazil, the military dictatorship ended in the 1980s, but it continued to claim victims…
Directed by: Maria Emília de Azevedo
Cast: Sérgio Bellozupko, Reinaldo Gramkov and Rodrigo Fernandes

28/10/2025 at 6:30 PM
Illegal (2001)
The film presents images and situations depicting the game of hide-and-seek experienced by students who, in the late 1960s, fought politically for social equality, and were persecuted and murdered.
The Blue Kingdom (1989)
The tribulations of a tyrannical king who, to escape boredom, decides to paint his entire kingdom blue.
Animated film.
Directed by: Otto Guerra

29/10/2025 at 6:30 PM
DiRight hand is the hand you write with. (2009)
Forgotten by her father after ballet class, young Carolina is encouraged by a friend to try to go home alone. In this adventure, the girl will face her fears and encounter curious characters along the way.
Directed by: Paula Santos
Cast: Valentina Herszage, Selma Lopes, Roney Villela, João Pedro Zappa, Helena Stratner, Paula Tolentino, Flavia Nunes, Pablo Aguilar, Clara Francine and Marta Frohmuwer
Pedalar (1992)
The discovery of São Paulo by a girl on her bicycle and her grandmother's memories of the city.
Directed by: Andréa Seligmann
Cast: Edith Siqueira, Néa Simões and Júlia Ianina

 30/10/2025 at 6:30 PM
DExtracted for Death (2001)
Three black teenagers wander through the alleys, streets, and avenues of the metropolis.
United by a life-or-death game, these are three experiences, three distinct ways of perceiving the world.
Directed by: Jefferson De
Cast: Cynthia Raquel, Robson Nunes and Fabinho Nepo
Raz (2010)
While the world around him moves, Raz, a boy who sings Rap In the subway cars of Rio de Janeiro, he tries to forge his own path through the city streets.
Directed by: André Lavaquier
Cast: Arthur Bispo, Jahir Soares, Rafael D'Avila, Robson Rozza and Nely Coelho

31/10/2025 at 6:30 PM
10 Cents (2001)
A day in the life of a boy who lives in a suburb of Salvador and works as a parking attendant in the historic center of the Bahian capital.
Directed by: Cesar Fernando de Oliveira
Cast: Fernando Fulco, Frank Magalhães, Jorge Antônio da Silva Junior, Cesar Carvalho, Márcio Santana, Narcival Rubens, Paulo Prazeres, Stella Voutta
São Paulo Railway (2010)
During their vacation, three bored teenagers decide to take a train to the beach, traveling along the old São Paulo Railway line that connects Jundiaí to Santos. During their adventure, they discover the meaning of friendship.
Directed by: Marcelo Müller
Cast: Eduardo Bernardes, Rômulo Oliveira and Pedro Mingotti

SCHEDULE FOR THE WEEK OF NOVEMBER 3, 2025 TO NOVEMBER 7, 2025 

03/11/2025 at 6:30 PM
LUrdinha, The Illusion Seller (2007)
Lurdinha, a woman of approximately forty years of age, elegantly dressed, sells lottery tickets in downtown Florianópolis. While she sells her tickets, she chats with people and gives advice.
The film is an account of the importance of people who could remain anonymous, but who become a link between the private and collective lives of the urban population.
Directed by: Cesar Cavalcanti

04/11/2025 at 6:30 PM
DThey say I'm crazy. (1994)
Based on the accounts and stories of those who, throughout the centuries, have been called “"street lunatics"”, The city is captured in its diverse rhythms and pulses.
Directed by: Miriam Chnaiderman
Risk (2004)
A wanderer promotes urban art intervention in the streets of Rio de Janeiro, scratching the walls he passes with a stone, as a form of... “"to write"” your journey through the city streets.
Directed by: Renato Gebara

05/11/2025 at 6:30 PM
BUbula, The Red Face (1999)
The documentary career of documentarian, cinematographer and photographer Wolfgang Jesco von Puttkamer (1919-1994), who participated in several missions to bring anthropologists Cláudio (1916-1998) & Orlando Villas-Bôas (1914-2002) and Francisco Meirelles (1908-1973) closer to the indigenous peoples.
The film revisits the cinematic work of Wolfgang Jesco, built over four decades with indigenous people from the Brazilian Amazon.
Directed by: Luis Eduardo Jorge

05/11/2025 at 7:30 PM
SSão Paulo Public Limited Company (1965)
Carlos is a middle-class young man from São Paulo who, in the late 1950s, gets a job at a small company that soon becomes a large corporation. Over time, Carlos achieves a comfortable financial situation and a family. Even so, he remains dissatisfied.
Directed by: Luiz Sergio Person
Cast: Walmor Chagas, Eva Wilma, Darlene Glória, Ana Esmeralda, Otello Zeloni, Etty Fraser, Kléber Macedo, Sérgio Hingst

06/11/2025 at 6:30 PM
AGuararapes Residents Association (1979)
The unique story of the Guararapes favela in Rio de Janeiro, nestled within the sophisticated Cosme Velho neighborhood and legally acquired by its owners through a court order.
Directed by: Sérgio Péo
Tropical Blizzard (2003)
The delivery of a sack of flour triggers an epic commotion in the favela.
Directed by: Bruno Vianna
Cast: Babu Santana, André Santinho, Gustavo Falcão, Elza Soares and Jayme del Cueto

07/11/2025 at 6:30 PM
NOur Samba School (1965)
One of the founders of the Unidos de Vila Isabel samba school shows the school's preparations for the 1965 Carnival. He also presents the daily life of the Pau da Bandeira favela.
Directed by: Manuel Horácio Gimenez

SCHEDULE FOR THE WEEK OF NOVEMBER 10, 2025 TO NOVEMBER 14, 2025

10/11/2025 at 6:30 PM
Ô People, then no (1973)
The film is a documentary about farmers in the town of Salgadinho, near Garanhuns, in Pernambuco.
It primarily shows the difficulties faced by ten families.
Directed by: Joaquim Assis

11/11/2025 at 6:30 PM
VAldir and Ruth (1997)
The journey of a stolen stove alters the routine of a couple who collect paper and struggle to survive.
Directed by: Eloi Pires Ferreira
Cast: Tupaceretan Matheus, Maria Adélia, Zeca Cenovicz, Edson Rocha, Carmem Hoffmann, Willy Schumann, Fábio Tavares and Jeanine Rinow
TRuques, Syrups and Other Reliable Items (2003)
In Largo da Carioca, in the center of Rio de Janeiro, the encounter between a doll seller, a magician, and a syrup merchant raises the question of trust among men.
Directed by: Eduardo Goldenstein
Cast: Augusto Madeira, Cláudio Mendes, Alexandre David and Alexandre Dacosta

12/11/2025 at 6:30 PM
NStill life (1995)
The physical degradation of man and nature in the coal mining region of Santa Catarina.
Directed by: Penna Filho
Cast: Daniel Izidoro, Estela Lourenço and Ivan Wersfal
QWho killed Elias Zi? (1986)
Using animation techniques, Cordel poetry, and documentary scenes, the film reconstructs the assassination of union leader Elias Zi, which occurred in 1982, recording the numerous instances of violence perpetrated by landowners and land grabbers against rural workers in Maranhão.
Directed by: Murilo Santos

12/11/2025 at 7:30 PM
O Sound Around Us (2012)
Life on a middle-class street in the southern part of Recife takes an unexpected turn after the arrival of a militia offering security to residents. The presence of the militiamen brings tranquility to some, and tension to others.
Directed by: Kleber Mendonça Filho
Cast: Ana Rita Gurgel, Caio Almeida, Maeve Jinkings, Dida Maia, Felipe Bandeira, Gustavo Jahn

13/11/2025 at 6:30 PM
RA Psypsody of the Absurd (1995)
Experimental documentary, featuring archival footage from journalistic coverage of two significant episodes in the struggle for land in the countryside and the city that occurred in Goiás.
The film seeks to demonstrate the existing conflict between private property and the poor throughout the world.
Directed by: Claudia Nunes
Nada to Declare (2003)
A portrait of the Brazilian elite, from the perspective of an artist in critical condition.
Directed by: Gustavo Acioli
Cast: Bruce Gomievsky, Julia Carrera

13/11/2025 at 8 PM
LIbertem Angela Davis (Free Angela and All Political Prisoners, 2012)
This documentary retraces the story of activist and university professor Angela Davis, born in the U.S. state of Alabama and known for her commitment to defending human rights.
In the 1970s, while defending three Black prisoners, Angela was accused of organizing an escape and kidnapping attempt that led to the deaths of a judge and four inmates. At that time, she became the most wanted woman in the United States. Even today, Angela remains a symbol of the fight for the rights of women, Black people, and the oppressed.
Directed by: Shola Lynch

14/11/2025 at 6:30 PM
Césio137 – The Glow of Death (2003)
Documentary with extensive research and images of people affected by the radioactive disaster that occurred in 1987 in the city of Goiânia.
Directed by: Luis Eduardo Jorge
Rthese (2003)
Five cameras, five cities, one night and its remains.
The film is an urban portrait of waste collection.
Directed by: Cristina Maure & Pablo Lobato

SCHEDULE FROM 11/17/2025 TO 11/21/2025

17/11/2025 at 6:30 PM
Oh folks, so what? (1973)
The film is a documentary about farmers in the town of Salgadinho, near Garanhuns, in Pernambuco.
It primarily shows the difficulties faced by ten families.
Directed by: Joaquim Assis

18/11/2025 at 6:30 PM
BBrasilia: Contradictions of a New City (1967)
Images of Brasília on its sixth anniversary and interviews with a diverse range of the city's inhabitants.
Directed by: Joaquim Pedro de Andrade

19/11/2025 at 6:30 PM
GCapoeira act (1979)
The film focuses on a capoeira dancer in the streets of Salvador, where he experiences situations involving the popular world of the Bahian capital and Afro-Brazilian traditions.
Directed by: Mario Cravo Neto
Ilê Aiyê/Angola (1985)
Showcasing the Carnival of the Ilê Aiyê group, an organization from the Curuzu neighborhood of Salvador, the film portrays the music, religion, politics, and influence of this community, one hundred and twenty years after the end of the slave trade to Brazil.
Directed by: Orlando Senna

19/11/2025 at 7:30 PM
Pixote – The Law of the Weakest (1980)
The film tells the story of a teenager involved in crime, trafficking, and prostitution in the city of São Paulo.
Directed by: Hector Babenco
Cast: Fernando Ramos da Silva, Marília Pêra, Jardel Filho, Rubens de Falco, Tony Tornado, Elke Maravilha, Beatriz Segall

SCHEDULE FOR THE WEEK OF NOVEMBER 24, 2025 TO NOVEMBER 28, 2025

24/11/2025 at 6:30 PM
CDog wing (2001)
Once upon a time, it was the best place in the world to live…
Under the viaduct next to CEAGESP, in São Paulo, some families have found a dignified way to survive, building dog houses with wood from crates abandoned by the market's merchants. Accustomed to the location – polluted, congested, and dangerous – the residents will have to face the São Paulo City Hall, which wants to evict them.
Directed by: Thiago Villas Boas

26/11/2025 at 6:30 PM
AAmazonas, Amazonas (1966)
Glauber Rocha's (1939-1981) first color essay, shot between God and the Devil on Earth Sun (1964) and Land in Trance (1967). It was commissioned to be a classic documentary about the natural beauties and riches of the Amazon region, but it still has Glauberian characteristics, such as the lyrical rapture of the shots and the director's nationalist concerns.
In just fifteen minutes, Glauber synthesizes and contrasts the natural beauties and riches of the Amazon region with extractive exploitation and the subjugation of local commerce to the foreign market.
Directed by: Glauber Rocha
Cidadão Jatobá (1987)
A group of young indigenous people from different ethnic groups in the Xingu Indigenous Park, in northern Mato Grosso, learn to build the traditional canoe made from Jatobá bark.
Due to the park's limitations, this type of fast-built canoe, which was mainly used for exploring the surrounding area, is no longer in use, and only the oldest residents of the village still know how to build it.
Directed by: Maria Luiza Aboim

 27/11/2025 at 6:30 PM
DHappy Dayss (2002)
A young couple from Brasília is about to have an abortion. On the way, they experience fear, anguish, and sadness, and they recall happy moments they spent together.
Directed by: José Eduardo Belmonte
Cast: Rosane Holland, William Lopes, Marisa Mendes Campos, Antônio Abujamra and Chico Sant'Anna
Dtwo in One (2003)
A teenage couple deeply in love must face the difficult decision of having an abortion. It could tear their lives apart.
Directed by: Luis Carlos Soares
Cast: Gustavo Dias, Juliana Mesquita and Paula Lopes

28/11/2025 at 6:30 PM
UMy Life and Another (2006)
Nara is pregnant.
They say she won't be a good mother. But everything in life is a matter of choice.
Directed by: Daniel Aragão
Cast: Sarah Vasconcelos, Rodrigo Riszla and Hermila Guedes
Dtwo in One (2003)
A teenage couple deeply in love must face the difficult decision of having an abortion. It could tear their lives apart.
Directed by: Luis Carlos Soares
Cast: Gustavo Dias, Juliana Mesquita and Paula

SCHEDULE FOR THE WEEK OF DECEMBER 1, 2025 TO DECEMBER 5, 2025

December 1st, 2025 at 6:30 PM
ARwanda (1960)
The story of a quilombo, formed – in the mid-19th century, in the backlands of Paraíba – by freed slaves.
The film, considered one of the precursors of Cinema Novo, depicts a small community, isolated from the country's institutions and trapped in a tragic and hopeless economic cycle, ranging from cotton farming to primitive pottery.
Directed by: Linduarte Noronha

02/12/2025 at 6:30 PM
Mfriend's wife (2005)
The leader of a gang of thieves goes out on a mission and leaves his loyal friend in charge of his wife, since a handsome young man is seen hanging around the area.
Directed by: Leandro Monteiro
Cast: Kinho Lima, Edson Carlos, André Cojaque, Dom Jonas, Tiago Desilho, Elielson Freitas, Flavia Souza, Aline Pimentel, Vinicius Martins, Michele Vieira, Viviane Paixão, Carlos Nascimento, Betinho Piranha, Nil Santos
Popsicle, Chick and Kite (2007)
The arrival of the barter van on the hill always sparks everyone's curiosity, especially the children's.
He comes once a month. The exchange of scrap metal for popsicles, chicks, or kites has to be quick.
The children from the favela are beginning to learn that “"Nothing in life is free"”.
Directed by: Gustavo Melo
Cast: Henrique César, Ana Miranda, Xande Alves, Luís Otávio, Chico Santana, Diego Francisco, Felipe Paulino, Arthur Bispo, Wallace Coutinho, Newton Magalhães, Ana Carla

03/12/2025 at 6:30 PM
O Prophet of Colors (1995)
Antônio da Silva spent his life, from the age of three months, in orphanages, reformatories, prisons, and asylums, gaining his freedom upon reaching forty-two years of age, after more than fifteen years of confinement in the Franco da Rocha Judicial Asylum, in the metropolitan region of São Paulo.
Living on the streets, under bridges and viaducts, and collecting cardboard, Antônio discovers Art, Painting. He begins to call himself... “"The Prophet of Colors"” and it quickly becomes a unanimous success with both the public and critics.
Directed by: Leopoldo Nunes

04/12/2025 at 6:30 PM
10 Cents (2001)
A day in the life of a boy who lives in a suburb of Salvador and works as a parking attendant in the historic center of the Bahian capital.
Directed by: Cesar Fernando de Oliveira
Cast: Fernando Fulco, Frank Magalhães, Jorge Antônio da Silva Junior, Cesar Carvalho, Márcio Santana, Narcival Rubens, Paulo Prazeres, Stella Voutta
RWomen's River (2009)
In a very dry environment, where water is scarce, women live among children and other women.
This film was shot in the Quilombola community of Berilo, in the interior of Minas Gerais.
Directed by: Cristina Maure & Joana Oliveira

05/12/2025 at 6:30 PM
Trampolim (1998)
Teenager preparing for diving competitions identifies with suicide victims who jumped from an old viaduct in Porto Alegre.
Directed by: Fiapo Bart
Flying Gerald (1994)
A boy from the favela with a special gift ends up getting involved with drug traffickers.
Based on the work of American comic book artist Will Eisner.
Directed by: Bruno Vianna
Cast: Robson dos Santos, Bruno Garcia, Renato Pinheiro, Maria Gladys, Helena Ignez

SCHEDULE FOR THE WEEK OF DECEMBER 8, 2025 TO DECEMBER 13, 2025

08/12/2025 at 6:30 PM
A Yoke (2001)
In an open field, amidst a dry crop, an old farmer forces his sons to attach a yoke to their shoulders. His wife and daughter-in-law, who is pregnant, are also forced to help with the work. Out of his mind, the old man loses control of the situation; and the family reacts, provoking an unexpected outcome.
Directed by: Marcus Vilar
Cast: WJ Solha, Zezita Matos, Everaldo Pontes, Servilio de Holanda, Verônica Cavalcante
O Man of the Woods (2004)
José Borba da Silva, actor, sugarcane worker, singer, spiritual leader, and popular culture artist, plays Jack, the avenging vigilante, defender of the workers of the Zona da Mata region in Northeast Brazil.
Directed by: Antonio Luiz Carrilho
Cast: Hermila Guedes, Lourival Batista, Nerisvaldo Alves, Simião Martiniano, Soraia Silva, Jones Melo, Jonathans Ferreira Lucena, José Borba da Silva

09/12/2025 at 6:30 PM
Chapelers (1983)
Filmed in Campinas, in an early twentieth-century hat factory, the film evokes an oppressive industrial production, where abnormality becomes normality and the banal details of daily life become expressions of human resistance.
Directed by: Adrian Cooper
O My Grandfather's Hat (2004)
It shows the growing closeness between the filmmaker and her grandfather, the owner of the last hat factory in Brazil. Through visits to old hat makers, narrations, and images of past stories, the film captures the passage of time, the feelings, and the subtleties of family relationships and the relationships built in that old factory.
Directed by: Julia Zakia

10/12/2025 at 6:30 PM
Mina of Faith (2004)
A young woman's life can be truly difficult when her lover is the head of a drug trafficking ring. Such is Silvana's life.
Directed by: Luciana Bezerra
Cast: Carla Severo, Manuel Júnior, Luciano Vidigal, Dila Guerra, Sabrina Rosa, Rosana Barros, Tamires Tarcila, Pierre Santos, Rose Haagensen, Jota Farias
Nlittle horse and Kika (2005)
Neguinho and Kika are teenagers discovering first love. They live a story of hope in a favela in Rio de Janeiro. But for their love to flourish, Neguinho will need to distance himself from drug trafficking.
Directed by: Luciano Vidigal
Cast: Adriano de Jesus, Jéssica Thamires and Babú Santana

11/12/2025 at 6:30 PM
RLittle Brazil 1977 (1977)
A long travelling through the favela in Rio de Janeiro, at a time when the specter of relocation to distant areas is the residents' biggest concern.
Directed by: Sérgio Péo
Seven Minutes (2007)
In a single take, the film depicts a showdown between two drug dealers.
Directed by: Cavi Borges, Júlio Pecly & Paulo Silva

12/12/2025 at 6:30 PM
DExtracted for Death (2001)
Three black teenagers wander through the alleys, streets, and avenues of the metropolis.
United by a life-or-death game, these are three experiences, three distinct ways of perceiving the world.
Directed by: Jefferson De
Cast: Cynthia Raquel, Robson Nunes and Fabinho Nepo
Raz (2010)
While the world around him moves, Raz, a boy who sings Rap In the subway cars of Rio de Janeiro, he tries to forge his own path through the city streets.
Directed by: André Lavaquier
Cast: Arthur Bispo, Jahir Soares, Rafael D'Avila, Robson Rozza and Nely Coelho

SCHEDULE FOR THE WEEK OF DECEMBER 15, 2025 TO DECEMBER 19, 2025

15/12/2025 at 6:30 PM
Asoul in the Eye (1974)
A reflection on Black identity in Brazil, through mime and body language, focusing on African origins, European colonization, and the liberation provided by cultural identity.
This film is highly relevant, not only because it reflects on the experience of Black people in Brazil, but also because it was directed by Zozimo Bulbul (stage name of Jorge da Silva, 1937-2013), an icon of a generation for having acted in emblematic films such as... Five Times Favela (1962), Ganga Zumba (1963) and Land in Trance (1967))
Directed by: Zozimo Bulbul
Cedar Blacks (1997)
The slow agony of a Black community in Goiás, which expresses a proud awareness of its Blackness through the customs and traditions it seeks to preserve.
Directed by: Manfredo Caldas

16/12/2025 at 6:30 PM
Asoul in the Eye (1974)
A reflection on Black identity in Brazil, through mime and body language, focusing on African origins, European colonization, and the liberation provided by cultural identity.
This film is highly relevant, not only because it reflects on the experience of Black people in Brazil, but also because it was directed by Zozimo Bulbul (stage name of Jorge da Silva, 1937-2013), an icon of a generation for having acted in emblematic films such as... Five Times Favela (1962), Ganga Zumba (1963) and Land in Trance (1967))
Directed by: Zozimo Bulbul
Sacred Space (1975)
The film documents the sacred space of a typical Candomblé ceremony in the Recôncavo Baiano region, exploring its diverse origins and syncretisms between African and Indigenous ethnicities.
Directed by: Geraldo Sarno

17/12/2025 at 6:30 PM
EName of the Reason (1979)
Documentary filmed at the Barbacena (MG) psychiatric hospital about the role of psychiatric institutions in our society.
Directed by: Helvécio Ratton

12/18/2025 at 6:30 PM
Dada (2000)
The story of Dílson, Dennis, and Dadá, three friends separated by a secret.
Directed by: Eduardo Vaisman
Cast: Thaísa Medina, Jonathan Haagensen and Jésus Lino

19/12/2025 at 5 PM
Dand Back to the Good Land (2008)
Men and women of the Panará tribe recount the journey of their people's displacement and rediscovery of their original territory, from their first contact with white men in 1973, through their exile in the Xingu Indigenous Park (formerly called the Xingu National Indigenous Park), to their struggle and reconquest of their lands.
Directed by: Mari Corrêa & Vincent Carelli

19/12/2025 at 6:30 PM
Illegal (2001)
The film presents images and situations depicting the game of hide-and-seek experienced by students who, in the late 1960s, fought politically for social equality, and were persecuted and murdered.
The Blue Kingdom (1989)
The tribulations of a tyrannical king who, to escape boredom, decides to paint his entire kingdom blue.
Animated film.
Directed by: Otto Guerra

SCHEDULE FOR THE WEEK OF JANUARY 12, 2026 TO JANUARY 16, 2026

12/01/2026 at 5 PM
O Men's Work (1998)
Another incident in the city of São Paulo: a kidnapper holds a woman at gunpoint. The police arrive and set up a perimeter, attempting to make contact with the kidnapper. Elite snipers are called in. A pair of snipers position themselves atop a building. While awaiting orders over the radio, the two converse.
Directed by: Fernando Bonassi
Cast: Leona Cavalli, Ney Piacentini, Celso Frateschi, Fernando Vieira
Stray Bullet (2004)
On a sunny afternoon, in a square in Rio de Janeiro, a shootout begins. Time rewinds a minute to reveal the stories of several people who witness the gunfire. These people are exposed to the trajectory of the bullets. Anyone can die at any moment.
Directed by: Victor Lopes
Cast: Alexandre Rodrigues, Camila Pitanga, Tuca Andrada, José Karini, Letícia Isnard, Emiliano Queiroz, Lucio Mauro, Rogério Cardoso, Danilo Menegale, Fernando José, Hylka Maria, Vinícius de Oliveira, Aramis Trindade, Marcelo Melo, Marta Jordan

12/01/2026 at 6:30 PM
10 Cents (2001)
A day in the life of a boy who lives in a suburb of Salvador and works as a parking attendant in the historic center of the Bahian capital.
Directed by: Cesar Fernando de Oliveira
Cast: Fernando Fulco, Frank Magalhães, Jorge Antônio da Silva Junior, Cesar Carvalho, Márcio Santana, Narcival Rubens, Paulo Prazeres, Stella Voutta
São Paulo Railway (2010)
During their vacation, three bored teenagers decide to take a train to the beach, traveling along the old São Paulo Railway line that connects Jundiaí to Santos. During their adventure, they discover the meaning of friendship.
Directed by: Marcelo Müller
Cast: Eduardo Bernardes, Rômulo Oliveira and Pedro Mingotti

January 13, 2026 at 5 PM
PSecond Class Passengers (2001)
A humanized cinematic look inside a mental institution, where segregated patients are subjected to abandonment, isolation, electroshock therapy, and absolute misery.
The film was shot in 1986 in Goiânia, and only finished in 2001.
Directed by: Luiz Eduardo Jorge, Waldir de Pina & Kim-Ir-Sem

13/01/2026 at 6:30 PM
O The Day Dorival Faced the Guard (1986)
In a military prison, on a very hot night, the black man Dorival has only one desire: to take a shower. To achieve it, he will have to confront a frightened soldier, a corporal with heroic delusions, a sergeant missing his girlfriend, a lieutenant full of arrogance… Then, Dorival will end the tranquility of that night in the barracks.
Directed by: Jorge Furtado & José Pedro Goulart
Cast: João Acaiabe, Pedro Santos, Zé Adão Barbosa, Sirmar Antunes, Luís Emílio Strassburger, Vera Lúcia Lopes, Marcos Breda, Verlaine Pretto, Marta Biavaschi, Alexandre Corrêa, Roberto Henkin, Arthur M. Rocha, Flávio Ferreira
UA shot in the wing (2005)
In Brazil, the military dictatorship ended in the 1980s, but it continued to claim victims…
Directed by: Maria Emília de Azevedo
Cast: Sérgio Bellozupko, Reinaldo Gramkov and Rodrigo Fernandes

January 14, 2026 at 5 PM
Rhapsody of the Absurd (1995)
Experimental documentary, featuring archival footage from journalistic coverage of two significant episodes in the struggle for land in the countryside and the city that occurred in Goiás.
The film seeks to demonstrate the existing conflict between private property and the poor throughout the world.
Directed by: Claudia Nunes
Nothing to declare (2003)
A portrait of the Brazilian elite, from the perspective of an artist in critical condition.
Directed by: Gustavo Acioli
Cast: Bruce Gomievsky, Julia Carrera 

14/01/2026 at 6:30 PM
GCapoeira act (1979)
The film focuses on a capoeira dancer in the streets of Salvador, where he experiences situations involving the popular world of the Bahian capital and Afro-Brazilian traditions.
Directed by: Mario Cravo Neto
IRead Aiyê/Angola (1985)
Showcasing the Carnival of the Ilê Aiyê group, an organization from the Curuzu neighborhood of Salvador, the film portrays the music, religion, politics, and influence of this community, one hundred and twenty years after the end of the slave trade to Brazil.
Directed by: Orlando Senna

January 15, 2026 at 5 PM
Memory of the Cangaço (1964)
The film depicts the origins of the cangaço, a movement that took place in the northeastern backlands of Brazil between 1935 and 1939, when armed groups, known as cangaceiros, committed crimes and fought for their own survival in a context of social precariousness and lack of state action.
Interspersed with testimonies from some survivors of the struggle (bandits and authorities), are authentic sequences from films made in 1936 by Benjamin Abrahão, an Arab peddler who managed to film the famous gang of Virgulino Ferreira da Silva, Lampião.
Directed by: Paulo Gil Soares

January 15, 2025 at 6:30 PM
MWhat did they do? (1983)
An engaged documentary, with a proposal for political activism in the final years of the military dictatorship (1964-1985), the film exposes the behind-the-scenes events of the virtual destruction of the Mangueirinha Reserve in Paraná.
Do I kill them? It is divided into chapters, beginning with questions of ironic grandiloquence (for example: “"Is it better to buy the indigenous land and extract the timber, or to report those who do it?"”), which emulate the bureaucratic forms of government institutions.
Directed by: Sérgio Bianchi
Cast: Lota Moncada, Carlos Kraide

January 16, 2026 at 5 PM
DHappy Dayss (2002)
A young couple from Brasília is about to have an abortion. On the way, they experience fear, anguish, and sadness, and they recall happy moments they spent together.
Directed by: José Eduardo Belmonte
Cast: Rosane Holland, William Lopes, Marisa Mendes Campos, Antônio Abujamra and Chico Sant'Anna
Dtwo in One (2003)
A teenage couple deeply in love must face the difficult decision of having an abortion. It could tear their lives apart.
Directed by: Luis Carlos Soares
Cast: Gustavo Dias, Juliana Mesquita and Paula Lopes

16/01/2025 at 6:30 PM
MWhat did they do? (1983)
An engaged documentary, with a proposal for political activism in the final years of the military dictatorship (1964-1985), the film exposes the behind-the-scenes events of the virtual destruction of the Mangueirinha Reserve in Paraná.
Do I kill them? It is divided into chapters, beginning with questions of ironic grandiloquence (for example: “"Is it better to buy the indigenous land and extract the timber, or to report those who do it?"”), which emulate the bureaucratic forms of government institutions.
Directed by: Sérgio Bianchi
Cast: Lota Moncada, Carlos Kraide

SCHEDULE FOR JANUARY 19, 2026 AND JANUARY 20, 2026

19/01/2026 at 5 PM
Ua Nation of Gente (1999)
A meeting of generations, two visions of the same world. The setting is the backlands of Ceará, one of the driest and poorest regions in the country. The characters are four cowboys: two young and pragmatic; the other two, veterans and romantics. With pride, the four tell us about the simplest tasks of their daily lives and question the future of their profession.
Directed by: Margarita Hernández & Tibico Brasil
Cast: Moisés Uchôa, Zé Marchal, Francisco Salvino, Chico Walter, Taciano Silva, Ermes José Gomes
Spring (2005)
Life flows and renews itself like water. Destiny becomes a spring.
Directed by: Helvécio Marins Jr.

19/01/2026 at 6:30 PM
Mimmigrants (1972)
The film is based on a news story published in a newspaper, according to which shopkeepers complained about migrants living under an overpass near their stores.
Directed by: João Batista de Andrade
Where São Paulo Ends (1995)
Rap, Drugs and violence. A day in the outskirts of the southern zone of São Paulo city.
Directed by: Andréa Seligmann

January 20, 2026 at 5 PM
LHere and there (1995)
That place is far away. That place is where we are not. That place doesn't exist.
Here and There It's a film about the feeling of being here and far away.
The film follows the daily life of TB, a girl from the suburbs of Rio de Janeiro. She hesitates between staying there or joining her sister, who moved to the South Zone. The camera follows TB through the streets of suburban neighborhoods, on weekdays, meeting with friends, and playing in train stations.
TB's universe is mixed and colorful, like the tiled facades of suburban houses.
Directed by: Sandra Kogut
Cast: Regina Casé, Eliane Maria, Arlete Maria, João Brandão, Jillrey Coutinho, Cláudio Mascarenhas, Odete Ferraz, Beth Silva, Cristiane Teixeira

20/01/2026 at 6:30 PM
Ppassengers (1987)
A typical robber. A typical taxi driver. A typical nighttime route through the streets of Porto Alegre, from the bus station to a deserted location. But, at the moment of the robbery, the driver doesn't react as he should. Meanwhile, on television, the Minister of Justice is giving a speech against violence.
Directed by: Carlos Gerbase & Glênio Póvoas
Cast: Zé Adão Barbosa and Marcos Carbones
Drought situation (2007)
João occupied an abandoned public school in a region known as Vale da Seca, between the Jequitinhonha and São Francisco valleys, in Minas Gerais. There, he lives with his wife and four children.
The camera follows João's family's activities for five days, without directly interfering: their re-registration in the Federal Government's Bolsa Família program, the children at school, the planting of crops, the collection of water from the river, and the care of the animals. João then reveals the peculiarity of his worldview.
Directed by: Adriana Cursino