Preta Ferreira

Cidade; Campo (2024)

Two tales of migration. In the first, after a tailings dam disaster floods her hometown, rural worker Joana (55) moves to São Paulo to find her sister Tania, who lives with her grandson Jaime. Joana enters the universe of insecurity, replying to an a ...

Nobody Leaves Alive (2024)

"Nobody Leaves Alive" by André Ristum is shot in beautiful but also distancing black and white. Looking at the Venice line-up, this seems to be a trend this year among the maestros of cinema. The film is inspired by true events that took place in the last ...

Southern Sorceresses (2020)

Through artistic manifestations, a group of LGBTQIA+ people performs public stagings that raise debates on issues of gender, social inequality and prejudice in the streets of downtown São Paulo. Messing with the popular imagination and providing debates, ...

De Cabral a George Floyd: Onde Arde o Fogo Sagrado da Liberdade (2020)

Through clippings, the film draws a narrative line between the construction of racism in Brazil and the United States, having as base the European invasion of the continent, police violence, the genocide of the black people, the massacre of indigenous peop ...

Shine Your Eyes (2020)

A Nigerian musician travels to Brazil to search for his estranged brother, who is living a life very different than the one his family thought. ...

Mesmo com Tanta Agonia (2018)

The Cambridge Squatter (2017)

The Cambridge Squatter tells the story of refugees, recently arrived in Brazil who, together with a group of low-income workers, occupy an old abandoned building in downtown São Paulo. Daily dramas, comical situations and different views on the world comm ...

Quem Perdeu o Telhado em Troca Recebe as Estrelas (2017)

A congolese immigrant can't find a job. A resident of an occupation is exoelled from home. He doesn't know where he is going, she has nowhere to go. Together they roam the night of the city. ...