Life and art, light and dark, despair and desire, poetry and pathos, tenderness and conflict freely intermingle in cinema marginal master Julio Bressane’s elegant and surrealist mosaic about a man and a woman who surrender themselves to a strange role-playing game. Screening with Kbela, an audiovisual experience about a black woman’s being and becoming.

A documentary-style portrait of middle-aged Marcelo, who, between coffee and hookups, monologues on a wide variety of topics. Screening with Noirblue: Displacements of a Dance, in which dancer and multimedia artist Ana Pi reconnects with her African ancestry through choreographic gestures.

In this singular take on counterculture in the northeast of Brazil, three outcasts use clandestine radio transmissions to communicate their hunger for freedom and revolution.

The third feature from director and visual artist Gabriel Mascaro, Divine Love is a fluorescent work of sci-fi that meditates on jealousy, faith, and the fear of divine power.

Helvecio Marins’s latest presents a melancholy hero whose life is in disarray, paying homage not only to cowboy culture but also to the solidarity of Brazil’s rural community.

A sprawling feature by Gabriel and Maurílio Martins, In the Heart of the World offers a vivid depiction of a close-knit community in the city of Contagem, where the filmmakers are from.

The winner of the Un Certain Regard award at this year’s Cannes Film Festival and Brazil’s submission for this year’s Oscars, Invisible Life is a tropical melodrama by Karim Aïnouz (Madame Satã) about inseparable sisters raised, like all women of their generation, to be essentially invisible in the eyes of Brazilian society. An Amazon Studios release.

The debut feature from Adirley Queirós is a fiction/documentary hybrid that examines the relationship between Brasilia, its surroundings, and the people who built the city from nothing.

This enigmatic, multilayered feature about a kidnapped man forced to take part in a film evolves from a playful game of metacinema to an allegorical tale of Brazil’s untold stories.

Necropolis Symphony, a sly and sinister comedy-horror-musical about an apprentice gravedigger, marked director Juliana Rojas as a filmmaker to watch. Screening with Swinguerra, which traces a cultural map of Brazil through dance rehearsal in a school gym.

Reflecting the storytelling and style of his previous film Araby, Affonso Uchôa’s Seven Years in May is a poetic and political fable structured around the often unheard words of Brazil’s working class. Screening with Ava Yvy Vera: The Land of the Lightning People.

Ruiz and L. are members of a suicidal, nihilistic group that operates underground in a city consumed by chaos and violence in filmmaker, critic, and visual artist Tiago Mata Machado’s fragmented post-apocalyptic portrait.

A subversive, psychedelic road movie through a tropical dystopian dictatorship, Sol Alegria turns a queer gaze to the legacies of Brazilian counterculture as enduring testimonies of freedom and joy.

In Caetano Gotardo’s follow-up to The Moving Creatures, João, a middle-class filmmaker living and working in São Paulo, has extensive conversations with friends and strangers that change his life.

Join series co-programmers Fabio Andrade and Mary Jane Marcasiano for a free panel discussion with filmmakers Gabriel Mascaro (Divine Love), and Gabriel Martins and Maurillo Martins (In the Heart of the World). They will trace and examine how the work of the filmmakers spotlighted in this series has emerged from a constellation of industrial circumstances, economic forces, technological developments, and sociopolitical tensions in Brazil.