processo de paz, ETCR, mediações, economias diversas.

The article aims to identify how the Brazilian short and medium-length documentary represents cultural identities in frontier zones, evoking knowledge about alterities and differences. For that, seven films directed by Brazilian filmmakers from border states with Uruguay, Argentina, Peru and Bolivia were analyzed. The methods used in the interpretative exercise were film analysis, documentary and bibliographical research. From the decupagem, the documentaries were agglutinated in two axes of analysis that translate different ways to represent the border: the "Border as a place of permanence" and the "Border as a space of resistance". The results collaborate to uncover violenceridden groups and also to value the border contexts where the recognition of difference is constitutive of life in society. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]