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Look Closely at the Mountains (2025)

 "Look closely at the mountains!": the phrase was coined by artist Manfredo de Souzanetto during Brazil's years of dictatorhsip. Mining activities were destroying the environment in the state of Minas Gerais in the south west of the country. Through editi ...

It Is Night in America (2024)

In Brasília, the modern capital of Brazil, an anteater is found dead by the side of a road, a boa constrictor wanders across the suburbs, and foxes prowl vacant streets. Meanwhile, in the city zoo—home to hundreds of displaced and rescued wild species†...

Meteoro (2023)

Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird (2021)

Taking its title from the poem by Wallace Stevens, the film is composed of a series of attempts at looking and being looked at. Beginning as a city state commission under the name and attitude of "Unschool", the film became a kaleidoscope of the experience ...

Apiyemiyekî? (2020)

Apiyemiyekî? addresses the genocide of the Waimiri-Atroari people in 1970s, when during the Brazilian dictatorship indigenous lands in the mid-west were invaded for the construction of the national road BR-174 and the installation of a mining company. Ill ...

Dreaming In The Dark (2018)

For Dreaming the Dark: hands that see, eyes that touch, Ana Vaz invited artists and filmmakers whose work trust cinema's capacity to transform relationships between the body and the camera to propose works that will engage with both perception and embodime ...

Regulado (2014)

Filipa César, in her films and installations, explores the post-colonial constellations that were spawned by the recent history of Portugal. Since 2011, her research is focused on the film production in Guinea-Bissau, the beginnings of which were closely ...

Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird (2021)

Taking its title from the poem by Wallace Stevens, the film is composed of a series of attempts at looking and being looked at. Beginning as a city state commission under the name and attitude of "Unschool", the film became a kaleidoscope of the experience ...