Marcelo Munhoz

In 2011, I visited Mrs. Deni Prata Jardim, the last representative of the Casa das Minas (House of Minas) in Northern Brazil. Among other things, Deni told me the story of the foundation of the house, during the slavery period. Among the slaves, there was a priestess from Dahomey, where she used to be a queen, and worshiped African voodoos. Lacking authorization to practice their worship, the slaves hid in a shed, which has become over the years the House of Minas.

In a small town in southern Brazil, Lidia spends his days watching others working around you and at night dreaming of times past in the cultivation of tobacco, when I could still walk. Along with the rescue of its history, we know the lives of four other tobacco growers. Guided by tradition, mysticism or pure pragmatism, they live on the fine line between the fight and the love of the land.

Túlio and Vicente are childhood best friends who have been together through many difficult times. As a young man, Vicente faced questions regarding his sexuality. Facing a challenge, which connects with family, identity and his relationship with his best friend.

Túlio and Vicente are childhood best friends who have been together through many difficult times. As a young man, Vicente faced questions regarding his sexuality. Facing a challenge, which connects with family, identity and his relationship with his best friend.

Cristian Nazario abandoned his family to climb Mount Everest and now returns home with terminal cancer. His homecoming brings to light his troubled family relationship and Brazil’s social situation: he is the fourteenth Brazilian to have climbed Mount Everest, but the first black man among them.