TV Brasil Internacional will begin airing ten documentaries produced by BdF this Sunday (18). The films will be broadcast weekly, every Sunday, at two time slots: 8:00 pm and 2:30 am (Brasília time). The programming is available online, via the network’s app, and is transmitted to 12 countries through digital satellite, via SAT C3.
Among the BdF titles is Territory in Flux, winner of the 47th Vladimir Herzog Journalistic Award for Amnesty and Human Rights, one of Brazil’s most prestigious journalism prizes, in the Video category, in 2025.
The documentary, which seeks to challenge stigmatizing approaches to São Paulo’s drug addiction problems, was also awarded second place in the 14th Amaerj Patrícia Acioli Human Rights Award, in the Journalistic Reporting category.
TV Brasil Internacional is Brazil’s public international television channel dedicated to presenting the country’s economic, political, social, and cultural realities to other peoples and to the millions of Brazilians living abroad. It is part of Brazil’s Public Communication System, managed by Empresa Brasil de Comunicação (EBC).
All productions are also available on BdF’s YouTube channel with English subtitles.
Here are the productions synopses:
Territory in Flux (2025)
Territory in Flux, a BdF documentary series about the region known as “Cracolândia,” examines the main conflicts shaping one of the most contested areas of the city of São Paulo. The result of nine months of investigation, the production challenges stigmatizing narratives and, through the voices of those who work in the area, portrays the territory’s complexity.
Running time: 1h10min. Available with English subtitles.
Sahel: Motherland or Death (2025)
For decades, countries in Africa’s Sahel region have been targets of colonialism and exploitation by France and other Western powers. Sahel: Motherland or Death explores popular resistance and the new development paths taken by Burkina Faso, Niger, and Mali after recent civilian and military uprisings.
The film was produced following in-depth reporting on social dynamics and geopolitical disputes in the region, after two BdF reporting trips.
Running time: 28min. Available with English subtitles.
Terra Vista (2024)
Terra Vista, a short documentary produced by BdF in partnership with the Orfalea Center, follows the journey of farmers in a Brazilian Landless Workers’ Movement (MST) settlement who are reforesting a degraded former plantation. Through agroecology, they have become an alternative to the dominant cacao production model imposed by large multinational chocolate companies in southern Bahia.
Running time: 19min
Chinese Machinery, Workers’ Lands (2025)
The documentary Chinese Machinery, Workers’ Lands portrays technical cooperation between Brazil and China aimed at promoting the mechanization of family farming in Brazil’s Northeast. The film highlights benefits such as reduced physical labor, youth retention in rural areas, and the strengthening of agrarian reform. Inspired by the achievements of the Chinese Revolution, the initiative seeks to modernize agriculture while upholding agroecological principles, fostering productivity, environmental respect, and social justice.
Running time: 29min. Available with English subtitles.
The River Just Wants to Flow (2024)
The River Just Wants to Flow: Climate Tragedy in Rio Grande do Sul depicts the social impact of extreme flooding in Rio Grande do Sul in 2024 on urban residents, agrarian reform settlers, as well as Indigenous and quilombola communities.
Running time: 27min. Available with English subtitles.
30 Years Since Mandela’s Election — The Next Step (2024)
Through exclusive testimonies from political leaders, grassroots activists, historians, artists, and former political prisoners, 30 Years Since Mandela’s Election recounts how the popular struggle that ended apartheid was built and traces the path toward the 1994 elections. With around 20 million voters, it marked the first time all people over 18 were granted the right to vote.
Running time: 15min. Available with English subtitles.
Gerais Under Siege (2023)
BdF traveled to northern Minas Gerais to investigate the reality of the Geraizeiro Traditional Territory of Vale das Cancelas. The reporting team examined the consequences of the expansion of eucalyptus and pine monocultures, which threaten environmental sustainability and the traditional way of life of the community, as portrayed in Gerais Under Siege.
Running time: 17min.
Third Act (2023)
Directed by reporter José Eduardo Bernardes, Third Act chronicles the events that defined the emblematic month of January 2023, from the historic inauguration of President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva (PT) to the coup attempt led by supporters of Jair Bolsonaro (PL), who vandalized the buildings of Brazil’s three branches of government.
Running time: 31min.
Sharecroppers (2024)
In southern Bahia, the crisis in cacao farming has not altered multinational dominance over the production chain. Sharecroppers exposes the precarious living conditions of rural families who produce cacao for sale as an agricultural commodity.
Running time: 20min. Available with English subtitles.
Nutrition in Early Childhood (2023)
On one hand, hunger and food insecurity affect more than half of Brazil’s population to varying degrees. On the other, the food industry lobby promotes ultra-processed products with low nutritional value at affordable prices. Nutrition in Early Childhood explores three possible paths to address this issue: healthy food production, decent income, and conscious consumption.
Running time: 16min
Where to watch
TV Brasil Internacional is available on the network’s website and app, and via digital satellite in 12 countries: Argentina, Uruguay, Paraguay, Chile, Bolivia, Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, French Guiana, Guyana, and Suriname.
