This Is Bate Bola (Somos Melhor Que Tem)(2019)

Vivencial I(pt)

Short by Jomard Muniz de Britto

O Carnaval é de Pelé(pt)

This short film follows Pelé, a retired nurse who looks back on his time as a Mateus in the century-old Bumba Meu Boi group, Boi Tira-Teima. As he builds a new boi for the festival, he revisits the defining moments of his journey as a performer, carnival artist, and son of Mestre Gerson, the group’s former patriarch. The film explores how the way we carry our memories of the past shapes who we become in the present.

São Sebastião do Rio de Janeiro(pt)

The documentary shows the 450 years of the rich history of the city of Rio de Janeiro and its profound transformations, using archive images, 3D simulations and testimonials.

O Mundo de Arlindo(pt)

The documentary talks a little about the carnival experience that Arlindo Rodrigues had during his more than 25 years of artistic life.

Over the Andes(en)

This Traveltalk series short looks over the South American Andes mountains, and the South American west coast, also Rio de Janeiro.

Filhos de João, O Admirável Mundo Novo Baiano(pt)

A panorama of Brazilian popular music from the 60s and 70s through the musical group Novos Baianos. A retrospective of the community lifestyle adopted by its members and the influence inherited from singer João Gilberto.

Alegria, Viva o Bloco Não é Não(pt)

Rio by Them(pt)

​An unprecedented collection of pictures, characters and historical facts about the city of Rio de Janeiro, rescued by tv networks, documentary filmmakers and foreign journalists over the course of the 20th Century. The film reveals how Rio, its inhabitants and its cultural and natural attributes have been seen by foreigners. This is an opportunity to relive, through the eyes of a foreigner, social, political, technological and mundane events which Brazilians either did not manage to document audiovisually or whose works were lost.​

Artesanato do Samba(pt)

The making of the samba school parades, with the construction of the great cars, the decorations being spread all over the city and the hand-crafted tailoring of the costumes by apt hands that stitch together colourful and glowing materials.

Memória em Verde e Rosa(pt)

The Mangueira slum is the scenario where Tantinho and the old samba composers remember stories about the slums and samba.

Carnaval de Malmédy(fr)

Short silent documentary on Carnaval at Malmédy, Belgium.

VIVA - The opening Ceremony Documentary of Rio 2016(pt)

For the first time ever, experience the work of a nation as it host the world and puts on a show like never before.

O Rio de Cada Um(pt)

People from different areas of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, try to answer the following question: for you, what is it like to live in the Marvelous City?

The Magnet City(pt)

The film shows the lives of four foreign musicians from different backgrounds and musical genres that after visiting the City of Rio de Janeiro, ended up falling in love with the city, choosing it to live in and becoming typical cariocas.

Los pueblos dormidos (por la Quebrada de Humahuaca)(es)

Documentary about the kolla people living in North Western Argentina.

A Raça Síntese de Joãosinho Trinta(pt)

A Farra do Circo(pt)

This documentary highlights the evolution of Brazil's Circo Voador venue from homespun artists' performance space to national cultural institution.

Bus 174(pt)

Documentary depicts what happened in Rio de Janeiro on June 12th 2000, when bus 174 was taken by an armed young man, threatening to shoot all the passengers. Transmitted live on all Brazilian TV networks, this shocking and tragic-ending event became one of violence's most shocking portraits, and one of the scariest examples of police incompetence and abuse in recent years.

Cesta za tancem(cs)

Rush in Rio(en)

Legendary rock band Rush plays the Maracana Stadium in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, on the final night of the band's 2002 Vapor Trails tour, in front of 40,000 fans.