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Visions of Empire
🇵🇹 Portugal The 1970sA film about the Portuguese colonial empire as it is seen and shown through photography, from the end of the 19th century until the 1974 revolution that put an end to the political regime that ruled Portugal.
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The film seeks to address the risks that Ziraldo's work takes. In a building abandoned ten years ago, the cartoonist's "Santa Ceia", a six-meter-high work painted in 1967, is far from the public and subject to the effects of time
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Make Me Famous
New York The 1980sA madcap romp through the 1980's NYC art scene amid the colorful career of painter, Edward Brezinski, hell-bent on making it. — An investigation of Edward Brezinski, an ambitious, charismatic Lower East Side painter hell-bent on sucess, who thwarted his own career with antics that roiled NYC’s art elite. Brezinski’s quest for fame gives an intimate portrait of the art world’s attitude towards success and failure, fame and fortune, notoriety and erasure.
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Your Name Is
🇵🇹 Portugal The 2000sAnimated documentary evoking Gisberta Salce Jr., a transsexual brutally tortured and murdered in Portugal in 2006, through the memories and testimonials of transexual friends and two of the young men involved in her death.
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Vai!
🇧🇷 BrazilCorinthians has spent 23 years without winning a title. Its fanbase, however, only grew and became more and more present: both in the life of the team and in the political life of the country.
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Nova Pasta, Antigo Baú
🇧🇷 BrazilA self-portrait short film by veteran Brazilian filmmaker Sylvio Lanna.
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A Night of Knowing Nothing
🇮🇳 IndiaL, a university student in India, writes letters to her estranged lover, while he is away. Through these letters, we get a glimpse into the drastic changes taking place around her. Merging reality with fiction, dreams, memories, fantasies and anxieties, an amorphous narrative unfolds.
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What I've Never Lost
🇧🇷 BrazilA feature documentary on the life of Alzira Espíndola and her impact and influence on different generations of Brazilian music. From her origins on Mato Grosso do Sul to her breakthrough as a instrumentist and composer in São Paulo, the movie explores her life, work and ventures with partners such as Itamar Assumpção, Ney Matogrosso and her sister Tetê Espíndola with irreverence and erudition.
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Muribeca
🇧🇷 BrazilFaced with the imminent transformation of their homes into a true ghost town, residents of the Muribeca Housing Complex express the physical death of a community still alive in memory and feelings. The disappearance of the neighborhood (in Jaboatão dos Guararapes, Pernambuco), due to structural problems, real estate speculation and a long and turbid imbroglio between residents and agencies responsible for the work, is witnessed through resilience and resistance, affective landscapes and memories , who sometimes seek shelter in nostalgia, sometimes rekindle the resolute flame of hope.
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Chico Mário - A Melodia da Liberdade
🇧🇷 BrazilYounger brother of Henfil and Betinho, Chico Mário became a great guitarist and discovered in music his way of expressing himself and looking at the world.
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Secos & Molhados
🇧🇷 Brazil The 1970sThe founder of Secos & Molhados, João Ricardo, gives his version of the story of one of the main bands of the 1970s.
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Vicky is fisherman by day and bar owner at night. When she was a little boy her dream was to be a radio soap opera star, nowadays she dreams of falling in love again. How is it possible that a small, barren place in the third world has managed to achieve this special form of freedom and tolerance?
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Toada para José Siqueira
🇧🇷 BrazilA feature documentary on the life and work of Brazilian conductor, teacher, musicologist and composer José Siqueira. Founder of some of the most important Brazilian orchestras, including the Brazilian Symphonic Orchestra, Siqueira was part of the 3rd. nationalist generation of Brazilian composers who used folklore as a source of inspiration and emphasized their northeastern roots in their work. An artist and leader of the musical class who showed the world the strength and diversity of Brazilian culture and who remains unknown in his own country after having his history erased by the Brazilian military dictatorship.
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Brincando com Maracatu
🇧🇷 BrazilAline Morales is one of the main broadcasters of Maracatu in Toronto. From a meeting with members of Recife's Maracatu Estrela Brilhante Nação, she and her traveling companions reflect deeply on the different aspects of this genre, beyond music.
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Filme Hõkrepöj
🇧🇷 BrazilA deep dive into contemporary Brazilian music. Guided by the composer, anthropologist and ethnomusicologist Kilza Setti and the Hésperides Música das Américas nucleus, the documentary takes us to a world where contemporary music, the Guarani and Timbira peoples, the colonization of America and poetic professions meet.
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Harald Naegeli - Der Sprayer von Zürich
🇨🇭 Switzerland The 1970sThe Swiss artist Harald Naegeli became known around the world as the “Sprayer of Zurich” in the late 1970s. With his graffiti he criticized the monotonous, inhospitable cityscape of Zurich, but also the politics and the handling of the environment. In her sensitive portrait, director Nathalie David shows Harald Naegeli's multifaceted personality - as a visionary, argumentative artist, rebel, philosopher and astute, humorous person.
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Migliaccio: O Brasileiro em Cena
🇧🇷 Brazil The 2010sThe documentary Migliaccio - O Brasileiro em Cena follows the path of those who take risks for the art, either as directors, as writers, as scenographers and even as costume designers. The Oscarito trophy received by Flávio Migliaccio in 2014 Gramado Film Festival crowns a career enmeshed by many threads. Since Migliaccio has performed in different fields of art - from cinema and theater to literature and drawing -, the documentary creates varied visual interventions to enchain the narrative, in addition to the interviews and archive pictures, such as a shadow play to represent his humble childhood, and to the cartoons the artist drew to portray his existential questions in his ranch in Rio Bonito (State of Rio de Janeiro). Images and stories that aim to show a professional and personal life pervaded by possibilities and attitudes, both artistic and political.
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Shiny_Flakes: The Teenage Drug Lord
🇩🇪 Germany The 2010sMax S. reveals how he built a drug empire from his childhood bedroom as a teen in the real story behind the series "How to Sell Drugs Online (Fast)."
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Barajas
The 1970sExplores the tragic death of Angel Rama, Marta Traba, Manuel Scorza and Jorge Ibargüengoitia on an airplane crash near Madrid in 1983. Through the biographies of these four authors –each one from a different part of Latin America- the film explores this continent´s history in the second half of the 20th century, full of social unrest, revolutions and dictatorships that influenced a whole generation.
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En el nombre del litio
🇦🇷 ArgentinaIt is a documentary about the struggle of the original communities of northern Argentina to prevent their salt flats, where one of the largest lithium reserves in the world are found, from becoming a “sacrifice zone” to reduce global warming.
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Alia's Birth
New Yorkdrama — A rocky relationship between a female couple forces them to spend the night apart.
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Is set in the figure of a transhumant muleteer who once a year takes more than a thousand sheep up into the heart of the Andes Mountains. Accompanied by six men and ten dogs, he crosses forests, cliffs and rivers in search of food for his livestock, regardless of the risk to his life that this effort entails.
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There is no way back home
🇷🇴 Romania The 1950s The 2000sIn 1958, Robert Gottlieb was forced to renounce his Romanian citizenship in order to migrate to Israel. 50 years later, his daughter Yaela (re)builds that route but her father’s story does not match the places she knew. Family mandates and ghosts of the past get materialized. Him from Lima and her from Buenos Aires, for the first time, find an undeniable gap that leads her towonder: who her father is
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From a chance meeting to a tragic fallout, Malcolm X and Muhammad Ali's extraordinary bond cracks under the weight of distrust and shifting ideals.
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Dialogue of Shadows uses the exhibition "Pedro Costa: Company" as its raw material, and as a starting point to build a mosaic, sparking a dialogue between several figures from filmmaker Pedro Costa's creative imagination.
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Sobre Olhares
🇧🇷 BrazilThe feature film that brings together 12 shorts by youngsters of the suburbs of São Paulo, addressing issues such as the lack of work perspective, racism, right to housing and homophobia.
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This documentary traces the capture of serial killer Guy Georges through the tireless work of two women: a police chief and a victim's mother.
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Soul of the Earth
🇵🇹 PortugalThe breadth and physiographic diversity that characterize the Melgaço border offered multiple possibilities of passage during the time of smuggling and immigration by leaps and hops. And it is in this mythical place that the roots of a multifaceted artist are born. Madalena Lima infects us with her intelligent, expressive and ironic way of being. Her work celebrates traditions and opportunities, as well as revealing contradictions and weaknesses, experimenting with new techniques without neglecting the concept. By telling her story, we enter into symbiosis with the landmarks that imprint a unique identity to this land in Minho.
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The Sons of Sam: A Descent Into Darkness: Miniseries
New York The 1970sA closed case is only the beginning. — The Son of Sam case grew into a lifelong obsession for journalist Maury Terry, who became convinced that the murders were linked to a satanic cult.
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Q: Into the Storm: Season 1
🇵🇭 Philippines District of Columbia The 2010sWho controls QAnon? — A three-year investigation chronicles the evolution of “Q” in real time, with access to key players, along with an examination of how the anonymous character uses conspiracy theories and information warfare to influence politics.
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Adolf Muschg – The Other
🇨🇭 Switzerland The 1960s The 1970s The 1980s The 1990s The 2000sIn his exploration of the cultural dynamic between East and West, Adolf Muschg, the most significant Swiss writer since Frisch and Dürrenmatt, searched for the other in himself in order to understand otherness.
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Les nouvelles Èves
🇨🇭 Switzerland The 2020sJune 2020, Corona, one year after the national women's strike. Six directors dive into the everyday life of six women and explore what it means to be a woman in today's Switzerland.
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Quem Saiu Para Entrega?
🇧🇷 BrazilA vertical documentary, directed remotely. — Five delivery workers tell stories during COVID-19 pandemic in Brazil.
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