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- Three friends leading a nonprofit organisation investigate environmental crimes in the Amazon involving a major mining company.
- Discoveries in neuroscience can help us understand childhood development. When a person is born, it is more than just a genetic load. We are formed by our relationship with everything around us combined with our genetics, The Beginning of Life investigates what separates us and what is essential to all of us, how we can create a better world by investing in the first years of our lives.
- The last two surviving members of the Piripkura people, a nomadic tribe in the Mato Grasso region of Brazil, struggle to maintain their indigenous way of life amidst the region's massive deforestation.
- Bikes vs Cars is a documentary about the bike and what an amazing tool for change it can be. It highlights a conflict in city planning between bikes, cars and a growing reliance on fossil fuels.
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- Genuine connections between children and nature can revolutionize our future. But is this discovery still possible in the world's major urban centers? The new chapter of "The Beginning of Life" reveals the transformative power of this concept.
- From Brazil to Kuwait, the levels of childhood obesity are outstandingly high. "Way Beyond Weight" is a movie that seeks to answer those questions in depth. It interviewed families, kids and specialists from all over the world.
- Pointing out the importance of maintaining a playful spirit, which we all have when we are kids and society forces us to abandon in our adult lives, Drops of Joy is a documentary that speaks widely about the idea that playing is something very serious and urgent.
- Experts and thinkers debate the dilemmas surrounding the passage of time. From increasing life expectancy to the inequalities surrounding the topic, the documentary embraces the human connection with age and time.
- The documentary weaves a tapestry out of the gestures seen in children's play throughout Brazil. These gestures tell stories, reveal narratives, and construct the unique, yet universal, language of play. Directors Renata Meirelles and David Reeks collected their footage over a two-year period, traveling among the country's most diverse realities.
- The challenges of the present, expectations for the future, and the dreams of those who experience the reality of public high school in Brazil. Through the voices of students, principals, teachers and experts, "Not Even In a Wildest Dream" offers a reflection on the value of education.
- There is a market where childhood may be traded in for anything of lesser value. Everybody knows about it, but it appears to be something easy to ignore. Brazil takes second place on a world ranking of childhood sexual exploitation cases. In an urgent investigation, journalist and Youtuber, Jout Jout; TV show host, Luciano Huck; doctor and author Dráuzio Varella and Gail Dines, professor in sociology at Wheelock College join forces with people who work daily to save girls and boys from a perverse cycle. Moving between the faded boundaries between online and offline, "Um Crime Entre Nós" (A Crime Amongst Us) is a daring and thought-provoking look into the fight to end sexual abuse of children and adolescents.
- The documentary offers a unique glimpse at the way the Yudja people raise their children in the Xingu Indigenous Park, Brasil. Play, community life, and a spiritual connection to nature are revealed as elements that shape the bodies and souls of Yudja children.
- A critique of excessive consumerism in childhood, driven by advertising without limits, ethics or regulations. An invitation to parents and educators to reflect on their roles in our consumer society and how they can help change this scenario.
- A child, lost in the subway system of a large city, looks for his mother. What he finds is an early encounter with his inner self.
- "Being a world-renowned chef for some can mean personal recognition, for others a call to transform the world with food. "Table for All" tells stories of people that came together because they all believed it was possible to transform realities by bringing education and gastronomy together. And it is in the city of Rio de Janeiro, during the Olympics, that we see the project taking shape in the fight against food waste, malnutrition and social exclusion, showing that human dignity begins with food."
- The documentary portrays the way children participate in 12 folk celebrations from 4 Brazilian states. A variety of interviews reflect on this participation with topics that range from collective play, intergerationality, to what is sacred play.
- Follow a woman's battle to escape a toxic relationship that brings her into contact with Taino Indians ancient people.
- Have you ever asked yourself if the path you're following is really the path you'd wish to follow?
- A portrait of an exiled people, who survive almost exclusively from the aid of NGOs in the Western Sahara region, bringing them food, medicine, and a little bit of hope to those who have lived in the margins of society for the past 40 years, waiting for the pacification of their territory, currently under intense oppression and violence.
- The film portrays the lives of several people involved in different ways with the Museum of Modern Art of São Paulo: the curator, the artists, employees and the public. Through these stories and the museum's quotidian we overlook the history and the essential role of the institution: to disseminate critical thinking in society through human relationships and artworks. It also makes the perennial clash of the museum and society of rules clear: a totalitarian ideological force that - in addition to the dichotomy of liberalism and conservatism - preaches exclusion and standardized ways of being. In an always conciliatory tone, the film narrates the museum's various efforts to question and keep the hope for a discursive society alive.
- A documentary about how our consumerist society and the media affects the lives of kids and teenagers.
- A series that travels the four corners of Brazil to show experiments in rethinking education, looking to the school as a powerful place of social transformation.An invitation to participate in a journey that passes through the hearts and minds of every individual and inspires the reinvention of schools and the world.
- Rethink Praise is a documentary that proposes a reflection on how children are praised. While girls are beautiful, princess like and delicate, boys are strong, intelligent and brave. To what extent do these adjectives imprison their individual and true beings? This is a film that reflects on the power of words and culture, which generated a profound imbalance in the way that we praise girls and boys.
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- A series which presents inspirational stories about attempts to update democracy in Brazil and throughout Latin America.