Laboratorio Cisco Movies

As Jack begins his gender transition process, Brazil is plunged into a wave of extreme conservatism. The film follows the transformations in his life and in the country, crossed by an extreme right-wing government and a devastating pandemic. Through an intimat...

The documentary consists of a video-based exchange of messages between Brazilian and Cuban friends. By facilitating this audiovisual dialogue, the production team enables communication between these individuals and captures—through video letters—stories and li...

A a doc-poem about the woman’s body: dissident, desiring, deviant, empowered, sweaty, throbbing, survivor. On the scene, four artists who defy standards, subvert standards and poeticize their bodies in acts of resistance and transgression.

Three generations of Kariri-Xocó indigenous people are set on an expedition to recognize the memorial territory of this people, stolen from them over the course of centuries of painful colonization. Their language, their knowledge and even their sacred rituals...

Homeless people from two major Brazilian cities talk about themselves, fabulous their lives and reinventing themselves before the camera. They recognize and reveal different dimensions to be considered when addressing the issue of street populations. They poin...

Oksana is an Armenian born in Azerbaijan, from where she was expelled at the age of 14 when the Soviet Union collapsed and the persecution of her people began; Salamu is Sahrawi, but his family fled Western Sahara due to the Moroccan invasion in 1975, and he w...

What begins as a true-crime drama about three women — one imprisoned during a dictatorship, another who fled Brazil, and a third who took her own life — shifts when their nephew, now a father and the film’s director, steps in and questions his own narrative. T...