The short film follows the daily lives of Pai Marcos Luciano de Oxalá and Madrinha Catingueira, LGBTQIAPN+ Umbanda leaders in Piauí. The film looks at their experiences inside and outside the terreiros, showing the tensions between gender, sexuality and religiosity. The title refers to the expression "turning the leaf", used to describe a ritual in Afro-Brazilian religious shrines in which people's sexual orientation or gender identity was "turned".
Documentary about terreiro women in Fortaleza who occupy the highest positions in the hierarchy, sub...
Documentary about the preparation of a popular celebration of "Dia do Preto Velho", one of the most ...
The documentary adresses the meaning of music and the musical diversity present in Umbanda (a Brazil...
Teachings of an Issei. Advice, spirituality and challenges.
Some people seem to have come into the world to confuse, annoy, swim against the current, like the g...
This short film follows the journey of Rosane Pires and Iara Viana, during the preparations for thei...
The first of four installments in the groundbreaking Heartbeat of the World anthology film series. C...
Oxum goes to the river every day to fill his jug with water. One day, a woman in red clothes crosses...
Bestselling author and award-winning filmmaker Ian Halperin lifts the lid on Brangelina - the couple...
At the end of the world, day in, day out, three men take on the southern ocean and its legends. They...
Director Otso Tiainen’s fascinating study of an esoteric community hidden within the French Pyrenees...
After the birth of his grandson, Bobby Roth undertakes a cinematic investigation as to what constitu...
Take the rare and extraordinary opportunity to walk beside Zen Buddhist priest and social activist R...