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- Bethania Wanderley (Maeve Jinkings) has to return to the place where she was born, a decadent sugar cane mill, to prevent the former cane workers from taking over the land. She will have to deal with her past and her prejudices.
- Operation Peter Pan or Operación Pedro Pan was a clandestine mass exodus of over 14,000 unaccompanied Cuban minors ages 6 to 18 to the United States over a two-year span from 1960 to 1962.
- Marked by its ethnic diversity, today Rio Grande do Sul is home to thousands of Palestinian immigrants, expelled after the UN shared its territory in 1947, allowing the founding of the State of Israel. As a result, the Palestinian diaspora emerges, reaching six million people living in different countries. In Brazil, the discrete Palestinian community seeks to survive, grow and gain social recognition for its economic and social contribution.
- The faces, gestures and talks from beggars and other crazed figures from São Paulo marginalized and underground streets are presented during the festivities of the Carnival season. The images are presented along with texts from philosopher Frantz Fanon.
- What is the influence of Jazz on Brazilian music and the influence of Brazilian music on Jazz? The documentary Zuza Homem de Jazz draws a parallel between the two universes, featuring the renowned Brazilian musicologist Zuza Homem de Mello as the protagonist. It offers an intimate look at the writer and music journalist and highlights his long connection with Jazz, that dates back to the 1950's, when Zuza was a student at the Julliard School of Music. The film was also shot in New York, where Zuza meets old friends in the jazz circuit and revisits memorable stories.
- "101 Songs that Moved Brazil" is a musical doc-series hosted by legendary music journalist and producer NELSON MOTTA about the songs that moved hearts and minds of the country, illustrated by selected archive and live performance footage.
- The Songs of My Life is a great mosaic of Brazilian music. Through interviews and musical performances we learn the most striking songs that influenced the Brazilian songbook. A great homage to the Brazilian music made by its protagonists.
- "Cidades Possíveis" ("Possible Cities") addresses issues that involve new possibilities of life in Brazilian cities through sustainable and creative practices, presenting concrete cases based on the vision of the various actors involved.
- Rio de Janeiro, May 1981. DOI-CODI, the body responsible for the repression during the days of Brazilian military dictatorship, organized the "Mission 115", which aimed to "observe" closely a show in honor of International Labor Day, in the show house Riocentro. However, the mission failed to highlight its main objective: to carry out a terrorist attack by incriminating leftist revolutionary groups and thereby sabotaging the country's re-democratization.
- A reflection on the works and thinking of the last years of production by Torquato, grandson: such as the magazine "Navilouca", the film "Terror da Vermelha", the column "Geleia Geral" and the controversial Cinema Novo X Marginal, among other passages important aspects of Brazilian culture in the 60s and 70s.