The festival presents several titles in competitive programs for Brazilian and international short, medium or feature-length documentaries, the Latin American Focus, the informative section State of Things, Retrospectives, and Special Screenings.
[1] To immediately establish itself as part of the Brazilian cultural scene, the event organization decided to hold the festival simultaneously in São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro, the most important cities in the country.
Dreyer: My Metier", by Torben Skjødt Jensen, and opening screening in São Paulo; "The Typewriter, the Rifle & the Movie Camera", by Adam Simon; "The House on Arbat Street", by Marina Goldovskaya; "Lumière et compagnie", by Sarah Moon; "Po zwycięstwie ", by Marcel Łoziński; and "The Murmuring", by Byun Young-joo.
[2] Among the Brazilian documentary films shown during the festival were "Carmen Miranda: Bananas is My Business", by Helena Solberg; "Two Billion Hearts", by Murillo Salles; and "Yndio do Brasil", by Sylvio Back.
[13][14][15] In the early years several well-known international guests such as Marcel Ophuls,[14] Kevin Macdonald,[16] Johan van der Keuken,[17] and Trinh T. Minh-ha[18] attended the event.