Best Brazilian short movies

This documentary is a collection of interviews of homosexual boys who are proud to be labeled queers. They discuss the stigma behind the word and how they reacted to homophobic attacks they've face at some point of their lives.

Brazil is going through a political crisis which even representatives of our institutions reproduce speeches that seek to criminalize social movements by framing them as terrorists. The short "Teto Pra Quem" seeks to question the brutality of common sense fueled by the conservative wave by opposing it to the reality of thousands of families and their struggles in the pursuit of one of their most basic human rights: living under a roof.

Glauco Mattoso, a blind sadomasochistic poet, agrees to participate in a documentary about his own life, but the conditions he imposes raise difficulties to the work of the young director.

The memory of Olivia's father still haunts her months after his death. She returns to her psychologist in order to try closing her old wounds, but she finds things that were not able to be seen in the surface before.

In the Kalapalo cosmogony (an ethnic group that lives in the Xingú Indigenous Park), water is as old as humans and is the source of life. That is where all their sustenance comes from, their food, their drink, their joy. The idea of using water as a dumpster, of poisoning water is a dystopia. In this documentary Chief Faremá —from Caramujo village on the banks of the Kuluene River— tells us about the birth of water and warns us about the consequences of disrespecting it.

I always left that memory buried deep in my mind. Until one day she came back as a movie.

Down on her luck after an exhaustive job search, Luna returns to the home of her childhood friend following another failed interview. They commiserate over wine, working to re-establish their relationship as young adults navigating São Paulo, Brazil.

It feels so good to dream of you. It feels so real it fills me with pleasure. And I can't think about anything else.

A woman is mesmerized by a mystical sound and from there chaos begins to spread.

Raquel has been dripping for six months, but it seems that today everything will melt.

Pipes sing and cracks spy. Where to go if inside is as dangerous as outside?

A weird trainee. A stifling job. In the midst of corporate oppression, a worker passively fights back with stories from home.

There's no escape when your destiny is set. A slasher film tribute.

Two friends open an email about an entity called Hellchaise with a ritual for it to appear, but they will regret this decision ...

Experimental short film with focus on Bahia(Brazilian State) Christian iconography.

A group of migrants from the drought areas of Northeastern of Brazil gets a truck "pau-de-arara" trying to move to São Paulo and have a better life. Along their travel, one of the women delivers a baby on the road. The driver, indeed, intends to carry them to the slave-work in the fields of a powerful "colonel", but the brave Ana faces the foreman of the farm and the driver, and the truck follows to the hired final destination.

Here is a cinema marginal short by the director of Meteorango Kid André Luiz Oliveira that tells the tragic story of a street seller of sweets.