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Dancer Vera Grabinska performs choreography by Pierre Michailowsky for the piece "Le Cygne", by Saint-Saëns, next to the artificial fountain on the grounds of the International Sample Fair in Rio de Janeiro. The dance movements alternate with images of swans in the water.
The life and times of comedy rock band Mamonas Assassinas, from their beginning to their breakthrough in the late 1990s.
A singer is in love with the wife of a rich banker. Both men have the same analyst who allow them to swap souls.
Two teenagers from opposite sides of town, with very little in common except for their passion for music meet in 1970's Rio de Janeiro, at the height of the military dictatorship _ and of Brazil's booming underground rock scene.
The rise of real life country singers Milionário e José Rico from their humble beginnings until musical success.
A Deusa Negra is a love story that spans two centuries. In 18th century Yorubaland, Prince Oluyole is taken prisoner in the course of internecine warfare fanned by overseas slave traders. He is sold into slavery in Brazil. In present day Nigeria, at his father's deathbed, the young Babatunde promises to go to Brazil and search for traces of their once-enslaved ancestors. Beginning with a Candomblé ritual, his journey takes him ever deeper into this culture and, in a dream-like sequence, affords him a deeper understanding of his ancestors' suffering and powers of resistance. Balogun effortlessly links present with past, real with magical worlds and discourse with trance. The hypnotic atmosphere is also heightened by the music of the Nigerian drummer Remi Kabaka, which plays with repetitive patterns and distortions.
An adventurer travels by train through the Brazilian state of Minas Gerais, meeting old and new lovers and remembering love affairs of his youth.
The trajectory of musician and comedian Mussum as vocalist of the group "Os Originais do Samba" and later in cinema and TV as a member of "Os Trapalhões", a group that revolutionized the way of making humor on Brazilian television.
Xuxa welcomes her little viewers to the magical world of circus in the fifth volume of her series of educational videos dedicated to kids.
Mangue Beat, a musical and aesthetic movement which emerged in Pernambuco in the 1990s, transformed the visibility of the peripheries and cultural manifestations of the metropolitan area of Recife and placed the state on the map of the world music market with the launching of bands like Chico Science and Nação Zumbi and Mundo Livre S.A. The film experiments with the freedomn of thought of the Mangue using a plural language, which brings togther ideias and ideals, refleting the daring which resulted in the great symbol of the movement: a satellite dish planted in the mud of the estuaries - the Mangue.
Wanderley, a young and dreamy Army parachutist, arrives in Teresópolis, a resort mountain town, to enjoy his holidays with his father, a housekeeper for a rich family. Wandering around the woods, he meets Débora, an extremely good-looking girl, but doesn't reveal his true identity, saying only he was a Prince Charming in search of a Sleeping Beauty.
Two university cleaning staff members make a documentary to prove that nobody can see them... except for Cleiton, the security camera. The experiment soon spirals out of control, revealing much more than they initially imagined...
The life of Renato Russo, from his first involvement with music, to his years in the punk rock band Aborto Alétrico, to the formation of Legião Urbana, in the Brasília rock scene of 1970s and 1980s.
A documentary about the creative process of Arrigo Barnabé
In the sports court of a school, dancers rehearse under the watchful eye of a choreographer. Tensions haunt personal desires as they are observed by a rival troupe.
A precious necklace is stolen during a convention at Quitandinha Palace, a hotel in which a wives conference is deciding whether or not unfaithful husbands should receive the death penalty.
Almost thirty years after the first reunion of Doces Bárbaros (four of Brazil's major popular music stars: Caetano Veloso, Gilberto Gil, Gal Costa and Maria Bethânia), the artists involved decided to get together again for limited concerts in São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro, in December 2002. The film documents the group's live performances, rehearsals and interviews.
A few days before a Hip Hop festival, a group of young people do their best to overcome the challenges imposed by daily life in a poor neighborhood, in order to guarantee a 'peaceful day' for the Rubem Berta community.
Katy Perry takes the stage at the 2015 Rock in Rio festival September 27 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Setlist: Roar / Part of Me / Wide Awake / Dark Horse / E.T. / Legendary Lovers / I Kissed a Girl / Hot N Cold / International Smile (With "Vogue" snippet by Madonna) / By the Grace of God / The One That Got Away / Thinking of You / Unconditionally / Walking on Air / This Is How We Do / Last Friday Night (T.G.I.F.) / Teenage Dream / California Gurls / Firework
A satirical documentary portraying KISS' visit to Brazil in 1983 during their tour celebrating 10 years of the band and the album Creatures of the Night. Centered on the historic Morumbi Stadium show in São Paulo, the film captures the vibrant spirit of 80s rock youth.
Aerosmith at Cidade do Rock, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil on September 21, 2017. Setlist: Let the Music Do the Talking / Love in an Elevator / Cryin' / Livin' on the Edge / Rag Doll / Falling in Love (Is Hard on the Knees) / Stop Messin' Around (Fleetwood Mac cover) (Joe Perry on vocals) / Oh Well (Fleetwood Mac cover) / Crazy / I Don't Want to Miss a Thing / Eat the Rich / Come Together (The Beatles cover) / Sweet Emotion / Dude (Looks Like a Lady) / Dream On / Walk This Way
A delivery man dreams of having a motorcycle. He was told that everything would be like a musical film.
In 1976, Gilberto Gil traveled to Lagos (Nigeria) with the purpose of participating in the Second Festival of Black Art and Culture. The event had the participation of approximately fifty thousand Afro-descendant and Diaspora artists. After the trip, Gil released the album Refavela. The documentary celebrates the 40th anniversary of this album essential album for the Brazilian Popular Music.
Biography of one of the legendary names in the Samba genre of Brazilian music. Although he could hardly dance or play an instrument, he became one of the main composers of Portela, an important Samba "school" in Rio de Janeiro.
Casablanca emerged from a sensitive look (and listening) from a characteristic place on 3rd street in the center of Goiânia. With a territorial approach through a biographical perspective, the documentary tells the storys of the lives of Zardos and Iara that today allow places like Casablanca to continue to exist in a big city. On Thursdays, at 8 pm, what during the week was just a pizzeria, becomes an environment where bolero goes beyond the corners.
Ruído das Minas was produced by journalists Filipe Sartoreto, Gracielle Fonseca, and Rafael Sette Câmara as a graduation project in Social Communication at Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais (UFMG). The film gained visibility after being screened at the first IN-EDIT Brazil International Music Documentary Festival in June and July 2009, in São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro. This exposure led to an invitation from MTV Brasil, and the documentary was later broadcast as part of the channel’s Doc.MTV programming block, dedicated to music documentaries. Heavy guitars, long hair, crosses, and demons: heavy metal from Minas Gerais became one of Brazil’s most influential scenes. Belo Horizonte gave rise to bands such as Overdose, Sarcófago, and one of the biggest metal acts in the world, Sepultura. Ruído das Minas tells this story through the voices of those who lived the early days of heavy metal in the state capital firsthand.
Between rhymes, beats, and archival footage, three “MCs” talk about their experiences in the rap battles that take place in downtown São Paulo (Brazil) and reflect on the role of these artistic encounters as a form of expression, entertainment and representation.
Dona Onete became a great name of recent brazilian music, the movie shows one of her concerts and some interviews.
Recorded live directly from Allianz Parque (São Paulo) on June 18, 2023, this Titãs' show celebrates the band's 40th anniversary, on this great (re)encounter tour.
A photographer falls in love with a rock singer.
Grieved over the loss of their daughter, an elderly couple has decided do spend their vacation travelling around Europe. The cab driver who takes them to the airport, Leo, overhears their conversation and decides to profit from their situation: Leo convinces the couple's staff he's their nephew, and invites his friends and girlfriend over for a special summer. Things go awry when his friend Marcelo arrives with a bus full of teenagers, who believe the mansion is actually a summer camp.
Nasi was always a controversial guy. Since his times with Ira! in the early 1980s, his name was among the most talented and also the most troublesome artists on the Brazilian scene.
Some people seem to have come into the world to confuse, annoy, swim against the current, like the guys from Gangrena Gasosa, the first and only Sarava Metal band of the universe. "Desagradável" covers all the 23 years of the band. A special reunion of people that stirred the underground scene of 90's until today. All the legends detailed in a film that will show the most shameful chapters in history of Brazilian Rock. Jello Biafra, Jão and João Gordo, BNegão, Marcelo D2, Anjo Caldas, Dado Villa-Lobos, Rafael Ramos, Fabio from Garage, Marcos Bragatto, Tom Leão, Pedro Só, Adilson Pereira, Larry Antha and the former members (more than 15!) recalls the regrettable moments that Sarava Metal happened in their lives. Archive images, photos and videos to prove, once for all, that "Home Saint makes miracles too".
A marginal version of Brecht’s piece, “Baal”.
A Velha a Fiar illustrates a Brazilian folk song in which a being or entity is always predating another being, but is in its turn predated by some other animal, until the circle closes. It begins like this: an old woman is quietly weaving and a fly disturbs her; a spider eats the fly; a mouse eats the spider; a cat chases the mouse and so on...
Documentary that portrays the emergence of DeFalla, going through the different phases and formations that the band experienced, until the return of the classic quartet, which took place in 2011.
Lionel Richie - The Outrageous Tour Live is a UK VHS release by The Video Collection on 5th October 1987, which got re-released in the UK by Music Club and Video Collection International Ltd on 4th September 1989. Captured live at The Ahoy-Rotterdam-Holland during his 1987 European tour, Lionel Richie delivers an 'outrageous' performance filled with surprises: a moveable stage, his band members flying above his head and a piano that plays itself. But these effects are just icing on the cake, merely enhancing his fine performance.
Visual album of Bruna Alimonda's debut, "Estado Febril".
A childhood episode comes back to the memory of a man with no land
An Argentinian and a Brazilian fall in love and at the same time, their couples do the same thing between them.
The Syndicate of Brazilian Thieves tries to steal the world's greatest diamond, owned by the international star Iraya, who comes to spend the carnival in Rio. Interpol kicks in.
A teacher, activist, and guardian of Amazonian knowledge, Dona Onete became a music star at 72, but her story began much earlier. In this documentary filmed among the rivers and forests of Pará, Onete sings of the banzeiros (drums), the dolphins, and the flavors of the forest with humor and wisdom in a celebration of the living Amazon that pulsates in her voice.
Groups of young people from the outskirts of Fortaleza gather for a dance competition: the Swingueira. Inspired by the Bahia pagoda, teams form and, with a lot of swing and determination, seek to emerge victorious in the championships.