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A hybrid feature film that investigates contemporaneity through the body and its countless possibilities of expression and meanings. The film puts the body and the idea of the body in evidence, through metalanguage, articulation and confrontation of documentary, fictional and performative languages. The film follows the trajectory of the main character who uses her own body to formulate universes and investigate the meanings that are drawn in it. In a kind of subjective diary written on her skin, she records sensations and reflections, building relationships with thinkers, performances and archival materials, which lead her to other bodies and other stories.

Mundurukuyü – The Forest of the Fish Women(2025)

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Rescue of the life story of feminist activist from the 1930s, Almerinda Farias Gama, participant in the struggle for the right to vote for women in the 1934 Constitution, and activist of the Brazilian Federation for Female Progress, together with Bertha Lutz.

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As Iracemas(2009)

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In the heat of a Manaus night, the young women, Orfea (she) and Eurídice (they/she) have fun with their friends in the middle of parties and bars of the city's queer nightlife, all while they try to hide what they feel for each other.

My Neighbor Flora(2018)

Alice's life changes when Laura, the daughter of her neighbor on the wall, knocks on her door to ask if she knows anything about her mother. No one has seen her for days, neither Alice nor Laura, nor the lonely residents of the building.

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Two waitresses suffering from financial problems are convinced to participate in a robbery at the home of a famous writer without knowing that they are about to walk into a cruel trap.

Firelight(2012)

Incarcerated women join a band of volunteers who battle forest fires and assist during natural disasters.

O Novo Corpo(2025)

On an isolated farm, a woman finds an injured and frightened woman in her old chicken coop. Moved by an inexplicable instinct, she decides to help her, without imagining that this silent encounter will awaken buried secrets. When tension finally gives way to trust, something dark approaches, bringing a truth that no one could have foreseen.

Cyclone(2025)

Dayse, a Brazilian playwright known as Cyclone, wants to study in Paris. Having a career in theater is unthinkable for a woman in São Paulo in 1918. But her director doesn’t want her to go, as he would lose his mistress and ghostwriter. When she becomes pregnant by him, her dream starts to fade. An artist’s struggle for self-determination in a patriarchal society, based on the true story of Daisy Pontes and modernist Oswald de Andrade.