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Out of the names of twenty cities from Minas Gerais, Brazil, the impulse towards the visual record of the things and lives that are found there. Images that do not intend to represent places, but rather to capture the following of a time specific for certain situations of coexistence between landscapes and people.
A documentary showing how carnaval is recieved by the tradicional gaúchos people and the struggles for the festivaty to have recognicion on its own.
In Curitiba, the group that leads music label Meia-Vida is responsible for a secret portion of the city, hidden behind secluded apartments, dimly lit rooms and crooked, labyrinthine songs, responsible for one of the most fascinating musical movements in the country.
Follows the story of Opinião, a theatre group created in 1964 during the early Brazilian dictatorship period to oppose the government through artistic performances. Considered the first left-wing response to the dictatorship, the group gathered now famous Brazilian artists such as Nara Leão, Maria Bethânia, João do Vale and Millôr Fernandes.
"Hilda Humana Hilst" is a documentary that explores the life and work of writer Hilda Hilst, one of the most enigmatic figures in Brazilian literature. Combining interviews, archival footage, and testimonials from friends and scholars, the film outlines the author's journey, from her poetic and theatrical works to her more experimental writings. In addition to addressing her literary production, the film also delves into her philosophical and spiritual aspects and the influence she had on her contemporaries.
A charming documentary on Brazilian sculptor Mario Cravo Jr. and his fountain project. What makes the documentary interesting beyond its topic is Oliveira's unusual approach; he tells the story of the sculpture project only through sometimes psychedelic pictures and music/noise without conventional narration.
Collages of peripheral life.
Tafers Code follows five teenagers at the T.A.F. language school in Itaquaquecetuba, guided by the charismatic Teacher Gilmar. Each episode explores the unique challenges and strengths of the students as they discover how learning English can transform their lives. With humor, emotion, and a touch of documentary style, the series culminates in a final project that inspires not only the characters but everyone to take the first step toward a brighter future through language learning.
Steamboat trip along the Purus River.
Nossa Chape tracks the rebuilding of the Chapecoense football club in Brazil after an airplane carrying the team crashed on November 28th, 2016, and left all but three of the players dead.
Brazil leaders a sad statistic: It’s the country that kills most LGBT people in the world, a reality that worsens after the result of the 2018 elections. In this scenario ASSIM COMO O AR, SEMPRE NOS LEVANTAREMOS is born, a feature-length documentary film that focuses on giving visibility to travestis, lesbians, bisexuals and trans women, portraying their anxieties and fears; and also showing, in the routine of their lives and family relationships, resistance, the fight for their rights, for their lives.
"The Xingu River obeys no laws; it has been restoring and resurrecting spirits against all the evil that has been done to it," proclaims Dona Raimunda, who, with her double-edged axe, justly separates evil from good. Her struggle exposes the harsh reality of segregation experienced by riverside communities, riverside dwellers, and Indigenous people in the Volta Grande do Xingu, in Altamira, Pará, since the construction of the Belo Monte Dam.
An award-winning doc focusing on the idea of "disappearance" in both fascist dictatorships and our own Western cultures.
Tomatoes are expensive.
Presents seven reminiscences of early childhood, read in seven different voices, as the camera presses close against the faded dye and exaggerated grain of family photographs from the early 1980s. The film encourages the audience to interrogate assumptions about gender, memory, performance, and death.
A TV comercial making of.
A reinterpretation of the cello player, by Amedeo Modigliani
Between scenes from his concert in São Paulo's oft-inaccessible Theatro Municipal, rapper and activist Emicida celebrates the rich legacy of Black Brazilian culture.
Renowned Brazilian samba singer-songwriter Nelson Cavaquinho performing at TV Cultura in 1973.
an old camera, memory cards and photos are synonymous of homesickness
Between 2009 and 2012, filmmaker Cristiano Abud’s team followed the Brazilian samba musician Wilson das Neves. The result is this documentary, which recaptures the trajectory of Wilson, considered the greatest samba drummer of the 20th century.
A gritty observation of precarious romance, debauchery, and heartbreak between addicts living in a São Paulo hotel.
The rescue of a real character from the work of Mario de Andrade. Chico Antônio is a singer and poacher of the interior of Rio Grande do Norte. As he climbed the stems to reach the fruits, he sang and enchanted those who passed by. And Mário de Andrade was one of those spectators, because he loved the warm climate of the equatorial lands
Arnulfo Silva, a former abandoned child, retells his childhood difficulties living on the streets.
A fantastic biopic based on the life of actress and producer Regina Vogue, one of the leading figures in Brazilian theater. Today, at 81, she recounts her story. In a playful way, the film delves into various theatrical forms, such as shadow theater, puppet theater, and the use of masks. Thus, Regina reveals the resilient spirit of an artist in a delicate blend of reality and fiction, where everything is true.
Laessio Rodrigues de Oliveira was the biggest rare book thief in Brazil. After running the scheme from inside the prison, Carmen Miranda's fan tells everything straight away.
The film shows the daily lives of groups participating in the Ecomotion Pró race, the places they pass through, contact with local inhabitants, their stories, customs and curiosities in this region of northeastern Brazil located in the center of Bahia: Chapada Diamantina.
People who didn’t know each other, simultaneously exchanged houses for 24-hours. Each one brought a portable video camera and had total freedom to film whatever they wanted in the home of this stranger during this period. Each participant tried to elaborate a 'mental image' of the "other" while along with their personal objects and their homely universe. At the end of the experience, each one gave a personal report on how theyimagined the “other”. "Two way street" is a project that deals with the reality of the urban individual who lives alone. It is an attempt to disorganize a little bit these realities. Using a video camera the participants insert their personality (through sight perspective) into the personality of someone else that is absent. Solitudes confound themselves at some point in the flow of looking at and being looked at, of absent presence and present absence, and of identification and differentiation.
12 Years of League of Legends in Brazil!
This documentary illustrates how the participation of women in open urban spaces is marked by insecurity and harassment, explores the public space as a place of violence and analyzes how campaigns promoted by activists and feminists have changed power relationships between men and women in Brazil.
Filmmaker Estela Renner analyzes the effects that mass media and advertising have on children, showing how the industry discovered that they are the best targets for selling products. In addition to listening to them, the film talks to parents who report how influential their children are at home and how this is directly linked to advertisements, and experts debate the negative effects of this exposure.
In the Kuikuro homeland of the Upper Xingu in central Brazil, the community is called upon to make preparations for the Jamurikumalu ritual: a traditional festival of singing and dancing that is performed only by women. However, complications arise when an elderly woman is seriously ill. With refreshing frankness and exuberance, this extraordinary documentary follows the Kuikuro people in a race against time to preserve the knowledge of their elders and the practice of their traditions before they are lost forever.
Sunny Sunday on the hood. A proud uncle, a fabulous mother and an artist kid.
A documentary made to coincide with Niemeyer's 100th birthday. The renowned architect talks about his long life, his inspirations, and his aspirations towards a just Brazil, and the ways he tried to help that along in his spectacular and beautiful buildings.
The documentary addresses the social erasure of black female bodies based on the personal and artistic experience of 11 black women, who debate identity, collective memory, ancestry, affections and motherhood.
Through memories of her own past, the artist Meibe Rodrigues proposes a reflection on negritude and survival.
The architect Sérgio Bernardes' vision of the future for Rio de Janeiro. Models and designs of airports, ports, and remodeled neighborhoods propose the creation of a vertical city for the urban problem and its transformation into an international center for commercial and
After a fire destructed my house, I return to the places where I grew up looking for childhood recollections. In this journey appears the memory of a photo for Karin Eitel, a young woman, tortured and detained during the dictatorship, to whom I owe my name. A story that my parents never told me, brings me closer to Karin and not just because of my name. In the background, the memory of a childhood in Chile, a country that reconstructed its democracy omitting its own history.
A documentary about Italian immigration in Brazil.
Marcos Tiarajú was the first baby born at Fazenda Annoni in 1985, in an occupation of the MST. At age 22, he became a medical fellow in Cuba. The short follows this story of overcoming.
just some pictures of a dog at the bar.
