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Testimonial film with Eliezer Jucá Soares, president of the Mixed Cooperative of the Garimpeiros of Serra Pelada, COMGASP. Pioneers of the mining of the great tectonic breach in the region of Araguaia, southern Pará, claim their mining rights in a region that has been the center of attention of the country and the world since the beginning of the 70s, when the Guerrilla that challenged the Military Dictatorship .
A man waits for the bus in vain. In vain? Well, if the bus is delayed, then it's coming soon.
A lonely woman takes up the habit of breaking into her neighbor's apartment, when he's out, to answer his phone.
Can one person really make a difference? This documentary explores the work of two non profits started by women in Recife, Brazil. Through their grassroots efforts, they help kids get off the streets and women break the cycle of domestic violence, to find a second chance.
"Xuxa 20 anos" is a special produced by Rede Globo in honor of the 20th anniversary of the debut of presenter Xuxa Meneghel on the channel. The special was shown on October 14, 2006, and later released on DVD.
The story of 12 twin brothers born in São Paulo, Brasil.
Leonardo, an upper-middle class boy from the south of Rio de Janeiro, befriends Kiko, a boy who lives on the street and who juggles balls at a traffic light. The rich kid decides to lend Kiko his handheld video game – but it is stolen by hill boys. This is just the beginning of a great friendship between the two. They begin a great adventure that takes Leonardo to the favela, where he knows a reality entirely different from his own.
Experimental film shot by cellphone.
During a video workshop at the Kuikuro village, an eclipse happens. Suddenly, everything changes.
Sebastian, a novice in a post-apocalyptic Brazilian monastery, prepares to be ordained while struggling with intense doubts. Before priesthood, he must confess his greatest secrets: his rape as a child and the passion he has for another monk. He turns to penance and martyrdom to relieve his guilt.
Patient wakes up in a short film and her nurse insists that she accept more coffee.
A documentary that follows former members from guerrilla movements that fought against the military dictatorship in Brazil between late 1960's and early 1970's. They share stories about their routine and daily lives beyond the armed combat.
The film gradually reveals the apparently isolated existence of Dominguinhos, a 72-year-old hermit who lives inside a cave that juts off from a rock mountain. The film is composed of long silences in which the hermit executes his daily chores, such as cooking and cleaning, and of images that transcend his territory. Towards the end we discover that silence is commonplace in the hermit’s life, the normal state in which time passes. Speech is the state of exception.
A sing-a-long homage to the wonderful music of Burt Bacharach, Peter Sellers and Surf! A tantalizing production shot in various exotic surf locations around the world. Filmed in Los Angeles, Puerto Escondido, Itacaré, Venice Beach and Venice, Italy.
"Eu Tenho a Palavra" is a linguistic journey in search of the African origins of Brazilian culture.
This album was recorded live in December 2004 at SESC Pinheiros to celebrate the anniversary of the Channel "Canal Brazil". Ney Matogrosso presents a eclectic repertory which include his greatest hits and who received new arrangements with instrumentalists chosen by him, forming a suit of plucked strings of the highest quality.
Luzia lives in the countryside of Brazil with her parents and her brother Pedro. When her brother starts going to the school, the girl shows her desire to go with him, but her wish is not respected. Repressed by her father, Luzia learns to read using her own way.
A journey in the history of the Brazilian songbook with a look at the relationship between poetry and music, sewing testimonials of great names of our culture, musical performances and amazing research of images.
Tonho experiences marital problems due to his inefficiency in bed. To help him, his wife Zulmira literally becomes a zombie.
Politically incorrect parody of the movie "The Devil Wears Prada" and winner of Gongo Show of MixBrasil Festival 2006.
A great inventor used to make useful things to everyone on his street, the Street of Tulips, after seeing the happiness of them all, decides that one person's happiness was still missing.
The championship seemed lost. Bad results, delayed salaries, and internal fights. In the midst of this storm, Fábio Luciano announces that he will hang up his boots and asks the players to help him become champion one last time. Mobilized by the captain's leadership, the team transforms and doesn't lose another game. Fla is Tri again, this time with a special flavor. By winning its 31st state title, it breaks the 103-year dominance of its rival from Laranjeiras and achieves for the first time the absolute hegemony of Rio de Janeiro football. With all the goals of the campaign, unreleased interviews, behind-the-scenes images and of the Flamengo fans, PENTATRI - THE HEGEMONY records this unforgettable chapter in Mengão's history. It also features a show of images from the final, with five exclusive cameras and new songs composed by the singer Roge. Another production by Fla Filmes, lucky charm since 2006.
Brazilian Band - Back To Bar - Live is the 17th album of the Brazilian backlands double Bruno e Marrone, released in 2009 on CD and DVD Recorded at Hangar Studios in São Paulo, on 29 and 30 October 2008, the album revives the early career of Bruno e Marrone, who performed in bars in the region of Goiás and Minas Gerais. The scene was set and designed to resemble the atmosphere of the bars. The album features some of the major successes of the repertoire played by the duo in their early career, such as "I Am" by Chrystian & Ralf and "Two Times You" Caesar and Paulinho, besides the unreleased songs "Love You So Much" , "can Go While" and "Do not Try to Stop Me" (the lead single from the album). Also noteworthy rewriting "Cavalcade", success of Roberto Carlos originally recorded by them in 1977. This album also received a nomination for the 2009 Latin Grammy award for best backcountry album that same year.
A Kayapó-Xikrin (brazilian indigenous people) origin myth.
Carapiru is a member of one of Brazil's remaining indigenous peoples, living in harmony with nature and making wise use of the local flora and fauna. But Carapiru is suddenly forced to fend for himself and flees into the nearby rain forest, building a new life for himself with the help some sympathetic settlers. However, after rebuilding his life Carapiru is uprooted once again, this time by government agents. A expressive visual storytelling in this study of the native peoples of Brazil in the 21st century.
A believer, when reading the bible, feels the power of God entering his body, and fights against the Holy Ghost in the holy battle of metalanguage.
The political and domestic life of João Goulart, brazilian president victim of a civil-militar coup in 1964.
In March 1982, Rádio Fluminense FM, known as MALDITA, airs in Niterói, which with irreverence, boldness and creativity in programming, breaks with the standardized foreign music markets and begins the so-called Rock 80 generation.
After the Brazilian carnival, in the melancholy aftermath of Ash Wednesday, the ants begin their own profane, multicolored feast to the rhythm of matchbox samba.
Side by side, two faces of the same woman looking at the camera are in slow motion. All nuances of her expressions can be perceived. In one portrait, she’s young, at the peak of her beauty. On the other one, she’s about 60 years old. The woman is the actress Liv Ullman, acting in two different films by Ingmar Bergman.
“Friends Forever” tells the story of three friends: Di, Drix and Mari. The girls meet, become super friends and live an adventure when leaving their cities to try the "star life" in São Paulo.
In 2002 Petter Baiestorf launched the fanzine "Manifesto Canibal" with notes on how to produce films independently without any resources. In 2004 the anarchist publisher Achiamé ordered an expansion of the fanzine to be published in book format and, thus, the book "Manifesto Canibal" by Petter Baiestorf, Cesar Souza and intervention by Carli Bortolanza appeared. In 2007, already out of print, Petter Baiestorf decided to film the book in the format of an experimental short and what follows here is the result of this iconoclastic experience that kills the gods of cinema.
Starring Juliana Silveira, this is the first live DVD related to the soap opera Floribella.
Documentary about Stereolab's gig at Rio de Janeiro in 2000, when the band played the Algumas Pessoas Ainda Tentam Festival, organized by Midsummer Madness.
A documentary about actress Phedra D Córdoba, Cuban and transsexual who lives in downtown São Paulo.
The tragic story of the misery and abandonment Brazilian indigenous populations have been suffering for over the last 500 years. Maksuara chronicles the wisdom of indigenous people, who live in perfect harmony with nature without destroying or damaging it.
A man is chased by his fellow creatures, whom he does not look like.