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In 1975 Angola declared itself independent and a long Civil War broke out. Forty years later, Alice, the only Brazilian daughter of an Angolan family in Brazil, decides to go to Angola in search of the stories that motivated her parents to give her that name.
Juxtaposing two distinct modes of storytelling, one restrained and reverent, another energetic and dissimulated, seeking to recapitulate the plans of conspiracy and coup plotted by the former governor of Guanabara Carlos Lacerda in the backstage of the official history of Brazil using not only the archival images , but the sound of narration and incidental sound effects to characterize the change of focus and tension, as well as establishing the identities of the characters involved, namely Getúlio Vargas, Jânio Quadros, João Goulart, JK, foreign forces, Brazilian military, etc. In honoring the famous passage of the false newsreel in Glauber Rocha's "Terra in Transe" (1967), we will present the trajectory of Carlos Lacerda who, like the dictator Porfirio Diaz, from the fictional city of Eldorado, began his public life in communism but, within a few years, he became a notorious coup and conservative leader.
You will eat the fruit of your womb, the flesh of your sons and daughters whom the Lord your God has given you, in the fear and distress with which your enemy will oppress you.
The story of a father who tries to help his son to become a poet, but fails miserably.
Dudu has already chosen his future profession, now he will have to face his fears to become a monster doctor.
Luana and Wagner's father sends a letter after years of neglect. Wagner believes his father may have changed. Not Luana.
Three embroiderers wait for a bus in the hinterland. While this is not enough, they play with their magical powers.
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.
Lost in an unknown kingdom, exiled due to a strange drowning, the artists find shelter in a stable, and there, together, through music, they see an escape to this terrible destiny. Second video from the series "Messer In Concert", recorded between the years 2017 and 2019.
A suspicious chase.
Ken Saro-Wiwa was a well-known Nigerian writer and activist who led a peaceful resistance movement against environmental racism practices by nigerian authorities and multinational oil companies in the Niger Delta, Nigeria. In 1995, along with eight other activists, he was tried by a fraudulent military court and sentenced to death. Through interviews with artists, activists and family members, the documentary presents its history, the impacts caused by the oil exploration in the Delta and the political and cultural relevance of artistic projects in London dedicated to its memory.
In the first evidence of humanity in southern Brazil, we find, side by side, the visible and invisible parts of a story.
In a cemetery, from a dystopian Lisbon, a family of one woman and three children survives. The mother does not allow her children to leave the graveyard, but an event causes the eldest daughter to disregard this order, leaving her mother dominated by fear and anguish while her youngest daughter disappears.
The immensity of the sea, the melody of the wind and the greatness of a love between father and son. This is the scenario that the short film Vento Menino navigates to tell the story of Piaba, a sensitive boy who "reads" the wind, which causes admiration and amazement in some residents of a quiet fishing village.
In his first comedy special, comedian Murilo Couto talks about leaving Belém, the difficulties of living alone, family, relationships, and other funny situations.
In Limbo, the body is configured in a choreographic operation revealing the deep interweaving between movement, memory, body and place.
Mauro runs and runs, but Long Bueno remains far far away.
Boy meets girl. Boy meets girl again. An ashtray in-between.
Ana and Fernando live a relationship that has already fallen into routine. Dissatisfied with the situation, Ana has an extramarital relationship with Amanda. One day, having her plans thwarted by Fernando, Ana decides to meet her lover for the first time.
Quilombo Rio dos Macacos is a documentary about the quilombola community and its struggle to guarantee land ownership, traditional use, claimed by the Brazilian Navy, located between the municipalities of Salvador and Simões Filho.
Marina is much more than a woman, a black woman, living on the outskirts of São Luís, 83 years old. She is strength and faith. From the particular to the universal, the documentary starts from the trajectory of Marina and reaches a Brazil that many want to hide: racist, elitist and cruel with a significant layer of the population. In this pain, Marina unfortunately is not alone.
A disillusioned man survives for another day the emptiness of his existence.
"Spark!" follows the agonizing struggle of a woman in her process of trying to create.
The third and last part of the trilogy where we see Moacir as a film director: the film and the scenes that Moacir conceives and shoots - scenes entertained, tragic, dramatic and romantic - with its particular cinematic and aesthetic style. On the other hand, we see the behind the scenes of the construction of this film: a documentary that shows Moacir conducting his fictions, in everyday familiar situations.
In 2012, Rodrigo Piquet, from the Museu do Índio, showed Marcelo Zelic, from the group Tortura Nunca Mais, a film he had found called ‘Arara‘. The title did not refer to the animal, nor to the people known by that name. Zelic underline it as an important probative record on the teaching of torture during the military dictatorship. They were images of the graduation of the Guarda Rural Indígena, in Belo Horizonte, produced by the anthropologist Jesco Von Puttkamer (1919-1994) in 1970.
Creating new verses for a well-known Portuguese rhyme, the piece reaches out from one end of the Atlantic to the other, bridging Brazil and the African continent, both metaphorically and spiritually, as the artist’s own family pictures flow in and out of the water.
In a port and industrial complex, the population faces the process of gentrification of the territory. Resistance is the earth.
Debra and her girlfriend Alma have just moved to a quiet town in the interior of São Paulo. There, they intend to rebuild themselves emotionally and start from scratch, but Debra soon notices strange events happening during the nights in her new town.
There was once a woman, Maria Laura, who used to come here to bang. One night, after a party, she came here with two guys. So, the day after, a bricklayer found her dead in a puddle of blood. Everyone who comes here has the habit to paint something in the wall if no, Maria Laura's ghost appears, rips person's head and hangs in her neck.
A dialogue about what is a sanity and what is crazy.
This is an independent film that was created to inform people about natural bodybuilding. The film does not discriminate against anyone and does not glorify natural sport as it also has its disadvantages. It has the participation of people like Jason, Léo Araújo and Rafael Rey and shows the preparation of an athlete until his climb on the stage. As shown in the film I have nothing against anabolic steroids, but I chose to be natural and I want to show that you can have a nice body without using drugs.
From dawn on in her dance lessons until nightfall in a nightclub, young Emma defies standards and tradition through her visceral dance. Between dream and reality, a metaphor for repressive society.
In the south of Mato Grosso do Sul, almost on the border with Paraguay, indigenous and rural producers are disputing land ownership. In a tense atmosphere, there are clashes, evictions, attacks and even deaths. The conflict comes from centuries, caused by errors of the Brazilian State itself. Now, both sides demand urgent solution. The dispute has already turned into a tragedy of great proportions.
All the photos, never printed, were lost due to a damaged memory card. What a funny name for such a card. I can remember those lost images more than most of the photos I took during that time.
Built as a flow of thought inspired by the concept of interior monologue by filmmaker Sergei Eisenstein, the documentary rescues the fragmented memory of a man who lived his childhood and adolescence during the military dictatorship, when it was common to beat his children at home and also in schools.
