This study aims at finding an answer to the question "foreignization or adaptation". This contribution is based on a corpus of documentaries about Brazil produced by Western Europeans that were translated or, more specifically, voiced-over from Brazilian Portuguese into French and German, as well as addressed to the communities that speak these languages. The author suggests that every production of a documentary about a certain culture by producers/filmmaker from other cultures should be viewed as a type of translation, viz every production involves naturalization as a type of adaptation because it revals the target producer's subjective perceptions of a given source culture, which may bring consequences to translation.