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The Wind Blows the Border
Brazil / 2022 / 78 minutes / documentary
Synopsis: In the violent state of Mato Grosso do Sul, the heart of Brazil's agribusiness, Indigenous teacher Alenir Aquino Ximendes fights for her community's right to ancestral lands. On the other side of the dispute stands the heiress to those lands — a powerful lawyer.
The Wind Blows the Border
Brazil / 2022 / 78 minutes / documentary
Synopsis: Documentary series that investigates the extermination policies of the Brazilian state against Indigenous populations during the military dictatorship, as well as Indigenous resistance. Co-written, directed, and edited by Laura Faerman, Dangerous Memory presents footage from dozens of villages, previously unseen archival material, and testimonies from anthropologists, Indigenous rights activists, journalists, Indigenous leaders, and elders who survived the years of repression.
Indigenous Peoples and the Military Dictatorship
Brazil / 2022 / 78 minutes / documentary
Synopsis: The National Truth Commission on Indigenous Peoples investigated, for the first time, the violence committed against Indigenous peoples during Brazil’s military dictatorship, revealing a reality largely unknown to Brazilian society: Indigenous peoples were the most affected group under the military regime. Massacres, enslavement, clandestine imprisonment, and torture are among the documented abuses. These revelations raise fundamental questions about how the Brazilian democratic state can uphold the principles of Truth, Memory, Justice, and Reparation for Indigenous peoples.
Vlado and Birri: Encounters
Brazil / 2022 / 78 minutes / documentary
Synopsis: Narrated by filmmaker and theorist Fernando Birri—one of the pioneers of New Latin American Cinema—this documentary explores the relationship between journalist Vladimir Herzog and cinema. Vlado and Birri: Encounters was screened as part of the program Memory and Transformation – Political Documentary in Latin America, Then and Now at the Cinemateca Brasileira in São Paulo, at the Tiradentes Film Festival (2012), on TV Cultura, and on Sesc TV.
On the Order of the Invented:
Brazil / 2022 / 78 minutes / documentary
Synopsis: What do Mathematics and Art have in common? This film invites viewers to reflect on that question. Using works from the Museum of Contemporary Art at the University of São Paulo (USP), three mathematics professors from USP share what these artworks evoke about the connections between Art and Mathematics.
Trojan Horse Operation
Brazil / 2022 / 78 minutes / documentary
Synopsis: The documentary follows groups of young people from the outskirts of São Paulo as they attempt to sneak into an open-air rave without paying. With no money, they navigate through forests, dodge security guards and dogs, all in pursuit of a place on the dance floor.