Afro Brazilian Movies

Young African-Brazilian Miguel drives across the country in search of a long-lost relative to find out about his ancestry. However, a deeper...

Four inconsequential young people and a dream at stake... in an attempt to better understand the steps that followed a tragedy, stories are told and...

The documentary adresses the meaning of music and the musical diversity present in Umbanda (a Brazilian religion with afroindigenous roots). With...

This documentary accompanies the journey of artists who exalt and celebrate ancestry and the orishas in their work. It also offers a manifesto...

Prior his first exhibition, Leo tries to find the best to way to express both his art and himself.

After years abroad due to his brother's murder, a renowned journalist returns to his family's home to take care of his mother, who suffers from an...

The Other Side of the Atlantic is a documentary that builts a bridge in the ocean that separates Brazil and Africa. The film tackles the cultural...

Mariana, a young black woman is recovering from a heavy depression. she just wants to be happy, but hasn’t found her way yet.

Festive Land examines one of the largest and most extraordinary popular celebrations in the world, the week-long Carnival that brings more than two...

Amid an identity crisis, Fábio, 22 years old, a young black man from Cidade Tiradentes, reconnects with his past through a funk party with...

'Black girls don't play with black dolls', says the lyrics of Preta Rara's rap, one of the characters in It Looks Like Me. The documentary explores...

A short film that gives voice and space for LGBTQIA+ blacks to express themselves freely, by reporting and documenting stories which are...

A debate about the presence of black culture in Brazilian contemporaneity, as well as the various paradoxes found in the environment of a society...

In love with Brazil and Maria, a soap opera heroin harassed by a corrupt contractor, Abdelinho suffers parallel ordeal in Morocco by pressure of Amr...

This controversial film from director Glauber Rocha records the funeral of his friend, major Brazilian painter Emiliano Di Cavalcanti.

"Outside the Aquarium" is the new exhibition of protagonist Jonas. In his paintings he portrays his experiences as a black immigrant and part of the...