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Sixty-six adolescents, residents of Favela da Maré, were selected to participate in a dance show led by the choreographer Ivaldo Bertazzo, which incorporated their own daily experiences. Ten years later, directors David Meyer and Helena Soldberg search for some of the participants of this experience.
It is the first film produced at the extinct ICA (Instituto Central de Artes), in a co-production between UnB (Universidade de Brasília) and the also extinct INC (Instituto Nacional de Cinema). Held at the Festa do Culto ao Mito do Divino Espírito Santo in Pirenópolis, state of Goiás, in 1968, it was completed in 1969, in Rio de Janeiro. The film is extremely important for the memory of Brazilian popular culture and the state of Goiás, as it is a work of art about this popular festival, and not just a documentary record, as it reflects its cultural character. Today the party is considered Cultural Heritage of Brazil by IPHAN.
When images emerge from the film material itself and exist on their own, they become one thing among many others. Manipulations of super-8 and digital.
Venetian gondola installed in an artificial lake moves the life of a small town in southern Santa Catarina where 95% of the 13 thousand inhabitants are descendents of Italians from the Veneto region. Only four gondolas were officially donated by Italy, the others are in Toronto/Canada, Saint Petersburg/Russia, and Las Vegas/USA. The documentary recovers the history of the coming of this gondola to Brazil and reflects on why it rekindled the sense of Italian identity in the town. They even have the “Carnival of Venice”, and the festivity gathers hundreds of masked party goers in costumes made by local artisans.
The documentary Home Key - Chave da Casa follows the last 48 hours of a group of Palestinians in the refugee camp of Al-Rweished, on the border between Jordan and Iraq, before leaving for Brazil. They leave behind family, friends and a past full of memories. Nine months later, the film follows five of them in different points of Brazil, showing their adaptation issues, their fears for family safety, for the ones that were left behind in the middle east, the country, the uncertainties and hopes for a new future.
An livid and comic presentation of Madureira in Rio de Janeiro.
With free eyes, an open heart, good friends and a handful of luck, Gurcius Gewdner revisits some of his adventures of the past five years, survives the relentless Russian winter and asks the following question: How far can an underground Brazilian film go?
A documentary that captures 24 hours in Downtown Rio de Janeiro, in September 2019.
The second-biggest nuclear accident in the world happened in Goiânia, capital of Goiás, Brazil. In September 1987, two scrap collectors looking through an abandoned clinic (Goiânia Radiotherapy Institute) found an old radiotherapy device. Moved by curiosity with the machine, they took it to a junkyard, where they disassembled it and extracted a capsule containing a blue powder that glowed in the dark. From that night onwards, the radiation spread unseen throughout the city, contaminating more than a hundred people, leaving deep marks and traumas. From a collage of contaminated images, radioactive ghosts emerge, embedded in the history of that place.
Inspired by the 18th article of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, which says that everyone has the right to freedom of thought, conscience and religion, the documentary shows how Agahü is traditionally made and used in the Upper Xingu by the Kuikuro people. Xingu salt feeds the spirit of nature, rituals and people, strengthening souls.
Mery Lemos records, with affection, delicacy and humor, the story of her mother and so many other women engaged in the fight against child malnutrition. A tribute to the collective strength and programs that have changed lives in the country.
This documentary follows a couple of days of Ariane, a deaf person, and how she relates to different worlds.
Deutrudes Carlos da Rocha, a 24-year-old Brazilian, black, illiterate, is a car washer and lives in São Paulo. Through his testimony and also holding the camera, he brings us closer to his experience and vision of the world.
The process of making the lacquer sticks, cutting the wood and bringing the food to people's mouths.
"20 Centavos" is a feature-length documentary that portrays the social and political unrest triggered by the fight against the raise in the rates of public transport in Sao Paulo and follows all the developments, on a national scale, of these early protests. Its main characters are the streets, the public spaces taken by the voice of the protesters. Its speech is constructed by billboard after billboard, from claim to claim. The result is a portrait, with more than realistic textures, of zeitgeist, a spirit of an era unknown in Brazil, marking the emergence of a new form of political activism that comes from a deep crisis with the idea of representative democracy.
An emblematic film having as a guiding thread the clothes spread on the poles.
Artist Heitor dos Prazeres talks about his life as a painter and samba musician.
The film focuses on Black writer Carolina Maria de Jesus, who lived in a favela.
A film in red, a film in pain.
A documentary on the experience of mixed-race women in the south of Brazil.
Five artists - a deaf person, two people with low vision, a person in a wheelchair and a limping person - are faced with a lot of questions, sent by the public, that reveal a whole imaginary around their bodies.
Documentary about the works
Wagner Tiso is one of the leading arrangers of Brazilian music, also working as a conductor, composer, and pianist.
Ozualdo Candeias was a grumpy truck driver. He never lost the verve of this strange form of freedom, trapped in the cab and facing the varied itineraries of the world. Among the many jobs he held, he was also that of a filmmaker in Boca do Lixo, at a time when making films lacked pride and friends. He had both in abundance. His complexity can now be revisited in a process of image and sound collages, guided by a frank and reflective conversation, recorded at the end of 1997, about the cinema of yesterday, but also about today.
Documentary about the life of one of the greatest composers in the history of Brazilian music. Pianist, composer and conductor, Chiquinha Gonzaga was ahead of her time and revolutionized the customs of a sexist society.
We know the figure of the werewolf, half-human, half- beast, a creature shaped by mankind as a scapegoat to give contour to cruel acts perpetrated by humanity through the course of history. Unfolding the points of view, an essay film as an inquiry.
In 2021, the biggest flood of the Rio Negro occurred, director Jimmy Christian's gaze captured images of the city of Manaus reflected in the waters and documented this curious phenomenon in an unusual way.
New work by singer Samuel Mariano, recorded live at the PE 60 Convention Center - Cabo de Santo Agostinho - PE.
Guitarist Lanny Gordin was one of the fundamental characters in the transformation of Brazilian music from the 1960s onwards. He electrified Gal Costa, Gilberto Gil, Caetano Veloso and Jards Macalé, among others. Lanny reveals his libertarian process of composition and current thinking, embarking on an unusual odyssey through China, his birthplace, and Brazil, the country where he lives.
A man emerges from the slums of Rio to lead the nonviolent cultural movement known as Afro-reggae.
Dobradiça Entrevista presents laid-back conversations and artistic performances for YouTube. Dobradiça Entrevista is under the umbrella of Dobradiça Enferrujada Records, a music label from the Federal District - DF, Brazil focused on free improvisation and experimental art.
The rise of Brazilian surfing between 2014 and 2021 with names like Gabriel Medina, Ítalo Ferreira and Adriano de Souza. Athletes who changed the course of the sport's history and consolidated Brazil on the world surfing circuit.
A documentary made in Mexico City about a singular character and her feelings about sex and religion.