Francisco Craesmeyer

A film about popular movements in defense of housing. Introducing: the State against the Homeless, in the capital of Brazil.

A film about popular movements in defense of housing. Introducing: the State against the Homeless, in the capital of Brazil.

The first transgender in the brazilian army, Maria Luiza's story begins in Ceres (Goiás, Brazil), where she was born in July 20, 1960 - the same day we celebrate Santos Dummont's birthday, patron of the Brazilian Aviation. Since she was a child, she didn't consider herself as a boy. During puberty, she went through a vocal cord scraping process and a hormonal treatment to become manlier. Depressed, she dropped out of school. At 18 she enlisted in the Air Force, and being completely in love with airplanes, she saw an opportunity there. She was drafted into the military in 1979. It marked the beginning of 22 years of service as a military aircraft mechanic in Brasilia.

Since 2015, the Landless Workers Movement has been occupying an indebted sugarcane factory's land to press for its redistribution through land reform. Grandma, P.C. and their encamped fellows struggle to conquer a small share of land where they can settle down and live a self-sustainable life, growing agro-ecological crops in a newly knit peasant community they draw in their dreams.

This film touches on political thought, worldview, as well as the direct actions of a group of militants from autonomous movements in the Federal District of Brazil, from 2005 to 2013.

This film touches on political thought, worldview, as well as the direct actions of a group of militants from autonomous movements in the Federal District of Brazil, from 2005 to 2013.

Shots fired inside a club frequented by black Brazilians in the outskirts of Brasilia leave two men wounded. A third man arrives from the future in order to investigate the incident and prove that the fault lies in the repressive society.

During the passage of the World Cup of Brazil through Brasilia, we accompanied Maninho, a former professional football player who today works as a street walker, selling bottles of water and flags of the national teams.

A documentary about football players in the low divisions of Brazilian football.

The struggle of a small group of blacksmiths trapped between keeping a long going strike with claims for better fees and the necessity of getting back to work when there's no money left for basic necessities.

A documentary about rap artists from Ceilândia, a satellite-city of Brazil capital, Brasilia. The film portrait the struggle of the lives of the rapers and makes a parallel with the violent building of the city designed to settle the outcast from Brasilia after its completion.