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Felipe visits Goiânia in a moving journey back to his musical roots: his childhood home, the church where he sang, his school, the impact his father had during his first steps in the music industry, his friends, grandmother, and cousins. He will also remember his greatest idol: his brother Cristiano. Felipe goes back in time and remembers when a career as a singer was just a dream.
Naywá returns to her hometown of Oeiras, in the interior of Piauí, and proposes to a group of amateur actors a reading and performance of a 1758 document that narrates a Witches' Sabbath in the city. Arrenego is a film that addresses the persistence of colonial, racial, and gender oppression in Brazil, connecting the past with the contradictions of the present.
Short documentary that captures glimpses of everyday reality and, in this process, encourages the viewer to poetically observe these details.
The sertão is everywhere, the sertão is within us. The concrete advances against Dona Maria, but she moves forward, calmly in the world.
After a murder shocks the academic community of the Federal University of Santa Catarina, a group of documentary artists decide to tell this story - but they find out terrible secrets.
The UN estimates street children worldwide at 150 million. In Latin America, they are 40 million. In Brazil, street boys and girls felt so enchanted by a camera that they took it as their own to express themselves and fight the silence.
Inspired by the life of the french-born photographer and ethnographer, Pierre Verger, the movie follows his journey between Bahia, Brazil and Benin, Oriental Africa, showing places and people he met and his life study project: the Candomblé culture.
A day in the life of a group of stray cats, who live in a wealthy neighborhood
The raft man Manuel Jacaré was swallowed by the sea when Orson Welles was filming It's All True in 1942. The fact evokes memories of the dictatorship of the Estado Novo, of World War II, of Ceará fishermen's struggle for labor rights and housing in their traditional space - target of real estate speculation.
A land is a place of knowledge, resistance and enchantment. It is a place to reestablish the connection with ñanderu and live a life made of prayer, plantation, school, extense family, chicha, chima, terere, guahu, kotyhu. For the Guarani and Kaiowa in MS to retake occupation over their traditional lands, their tekohas, means resuming the possibility of living their own way of life, their Teko. Directed by a group of young men, women, and leaderships from Tekoha Guaiviry, this film attaches the particular story of a fight that resulted in the reoccupation of the land where they now live to the daily life arousal of the Teko in Guaiviry.
Jonathan, the doc's director, standing in front of a mirror recalls an event from his childhood, reflecting on the image he has of himself. To do this, he immerses himself in his past. All of this happens extremely fast, like the duration of a thought and the format of a micro short.
The filmmakers spoke to ex-political prisoners who had been tortured by the military government who were at that point supported by the US government.
Group of comedians creates a complete show in one day. This is the idea of humorists Patrick Maia, Thiago Ventura, Afonso Padilha, Murilo Couto and Renato Albani.
“Dub Echoes” is a documentary that traces the origins of the Jamaican dub music and it’s influence on the development of hip hop and electronic music.The film shows how the Jamaican invention called dub ended up influencing much of the music we hear today, from electronic music to hip-hop, transforming the studio in a musical instrument and giving way to all of sonic experiments.
This documentary follows a couple of days of Ariane, a deaf person, and how she relates to different worlds.
An unusual look at 1978 Brasilia Film Festival and the politics that make certain films fashionable or not.
A hush rests upon the monastery, stirred by echoes that drift through its halls. Chants, prayers, and gentle whispers compose the soundscape of the Mosteiro de Nossa Senhora das Graças — a space where mystery lingers and peace feels absolute.
A travelogue film using Pound's concept of invention as a starting point.
The film documents the work of the primitive painter Chico da Silva seen in his neighborhood, with his people, his world, his life. Chico da Silva's painting, inspired by the fight between birds, fish and dragons originating from his prodigious fantasy, is presented in flash comparing his paintings with leisure movements from his daily life and subsequently analyzing his technique and style at the time that paints. The film has surprising statements from the painter about his life and life.
Documentary about Brazilian filmmaker Glauber Rocha, one of the most important names in the Cinema Novo, with interviews with some of his friends and colleagues.
Invited by his brother, physician Luis Alvarado, filmmaker Ramon Alavardo records two unpublished surgeries carried out at the Hospital das Clínicas (Clinical Hospital), in Vitória.
Eneida, 83 years old, makes a journey into her past, in search of her firstborn daughter, whom she has not seen for over two decades.
History of Renner, football club champion Gaúcho undefeated in 1954. A rescue of the time formed by players, former workers of Renner companies, who overcame Grêmio and Internacional. The feat made alive in the memory of several generations
Ana, a three-year-old girl, accompanies her family to Catalonia. It's a return to the homeland after half a century away. Gathered in the small town of Valls, six Panadés brothers remember their childhood in a troubled time in Spanish history, ravaged by civil war and post-war difficulties. The girl's attention comes to landscapes, stories, old photos, recipes and nursery rhymes. The saga of the Panadés blends into the universe of children.
It’s Carnival in Rio. A young man wanders through the streets of the city and the remains of the huge cardboard parade floats. Driven by grief over the bankruptcy of his samba school, he’s also haunted by memories of his dead father and a lost love. An impressive cinematic experiment composed of fragments of the present and the past, developed as part cinema, part art installation in the tropical setting of Rio.
Documentary about Guinea-Bissau, African soccer, and the colonial emancipation movement.
MPB - MÚSICA PELO BRASIL is a Spotify documentary series that explores the coolest things going on in Brazilian music. In this episode, we visited Recife and São Paulo and spoke with Dadá Boladão, Shevchenko & Elloco, MC Loma e as Gêmeas Lacração, MC Troia, A Tropa, MC Lia e Magnatas do Passinho to learn about the origins and evolution of brega funk...
In Vino Veritas(1982) is the first feature film made by a woman in Rio Grande do Sul(RS), as well is the first movie of the famous actress Itala Nandi, which is a documentary about the itallian collonization in the south of Brazil .
Hateful poetry, old audio files and archive voices, against the shadow of a frustrated face.
Footage from the first ever São Paulo LGBTQ Pride Parade, which took place on the 28th of June 1997 on Avenida Paulista. The annual event would go on to become the largest pride parade in the world.
The film portrays the life and work of the composer and samba gaucho Túlio Piva. A native of Santiago do Boqueirão, Túlio consolidated his musical career in Porto Alegre. Owner of a very own beat on the guitar, lived more than 50 years of samba, owned the bar "Gente da Noite", where he composed much of his work and recorded four LPs.
An immersion in spirituality and everyday life of the Mbya-Guarani from the Koenju village in Southern Brazil.
The documentary tells the story of journalist Vladimir Herzog, nicknamed Vlado, who has been tortured and murdered during the repression years of Brazilian military dictatorship.
The impact of Ney Matogrosso's performances on his audience and the reverberation of that impact on Brazilian culture, from the second half of the 20th century to the present. An audiovisual anthology, all composed of archival images. The best way to get to know Ney is to be with him on stage.
Component of the vocal trio “Os Tincoãs”, the singer and composer Mateus Aleluia developed his musical career between Brazil and Angola. Back in Brazil around the 2000s he retakes his artistic production in an acclaimed solo career. Following the process of composition of his second album, the documentary “Aleluia, The Infinite Song” addresses in the construction of the imagery around the artist’s life and work.
It's one thing to come up with arranged ideas, it's another to deal with a country of people, of flesh and blood, of a thousand and so many miseries. So many people, it's scary to know, and none of them calm down. Everyone being born, growing up, getting married, wanting a job, food, health, wealth, being important, wanting rain and good business.
Get down a little; I bow my head and disappear at the end of his bone.
An emblematic film having as a guiding thread the clothes spread on the poles.
Memories of Fortaleza, brazilian city, filmed in super8.