Chico Buarque

Le Grand Échiquier

Le Grand Échiquier is a French variety television program created and presented by Jacques Chancel. It aired at...

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Criança Esperança

Grandes Nomes

2022

Chico & Caetano

The Long Voyage of the Yellow Bus

For this behemoth, Bressane took his opera omnia and edited it in an order that first adheres to historical chr...

O Povo Brasileiro

Directed by Isa Grinspum Ferraz, the series O Povo Brasileiro proposes a deep dive into the history of Brazil t...

The Mandarin

The history of Brazilian popular music in the 20th Century, focusing specially on the life and works of intrigu...

Pitanga

This documentary investigates the aesthetic, political and existential trajectory of emblematic Black Brazilian...

Naked Eye

“Naked Eye” is a film-documentary of long-length of the artistic and existential universe of the singer Ney Mat...

The Man Who Killed John Wayne

O Canto Livre de Nara Leão

Nara Leão revolutionized Brazilian music, broke prejudices, confronted the military dictatorship, opened paths...

The Girl from Ipanema

Chronicles the life of a 17 year-old girl living in the upper-class Rio de Janeiro neighbourhood of Ipanema. Má...

They Shot the Piano Player

New York, 2010. Jeff Harris, a music journalist, sets out to uncover the truth about Francisco Tenório Júnior,...

Vinicius de Moraes

To celebrate the life and the work of a multifaceted creator – playwright, poet, partner of the most important...

The Man Who Bottled Clouds

A host of personalities reminisce about the life and work of songwriter, lawyer, and congressman Humberto Teixe...

A World Without Beethoven?

"What would the world be like without Beethoven?" That’s the provocative question posed by this music documenta...

Fados

A series of musical performances showcasing the diverse facets of fado, a musical genre from Lisbon.

The Trial

The impeachment and removal from office of Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff in 2016 was triggered by a corrup...

Desire Machine: 60 Years of Teatro Oficina

In six decades, Teatro Oficina has done more than revolutionize theatrical language in the country: the aesthet...

A Farra do Circo

This documentary highlights the evolution of Brazil's Circo Voador venue from homespun artists' performance spa...

Elza & Mané: Amor em Linhas Tortas

Consideração do Poema

Carlos Drummond de Andrade's poetry is read by exponents of Brazilian culture, such as Chico Buarque, Caetano V...

Beyond Citizen Kane

Beyond Citizen Kane (1993) is a British documentary film directed by Simon Hartog, produced by John Ellis, and...

Ed Mort

A detective is hired by a mysterious woman to find her missing husband, a master of disguises, and important in...

Chico: Brazilian Artist

Chico Buarque is a constant presence in Brazil's art scene and makes up its citizen's popular culture. This wea...

A Night in 67

In the 1970s, "festivals" were incredibly popular in Brazil, as they were recorded before a live studio audienc...

O Sol - Caminhando contra o vento

Documentary about the 68-generation, told through the story of the newspaper “O Sol”, one of the first vehicles...

Ney - À Flor da Pele

The impact of Ney Matogrosso's performances on his audience and the reverberation of that impact on Brazilian c...

Nas Ondas de Dorival Caymmi

The film reveals the creation of poet Dorival Caymmi's musical works with testimonies from researchers, journal...

Phono 73: A Country and its Music

The biggest Brazilian historical festival of all time. The great cast of the 1973 Phonogram (now Universal Musi...

1964: Brazil between weapons and books

We question the most unquestionable period in our history. The result was an international investigation with p...

Aperana Street 52

In his film Rua Aperana 52 Júlio Bressane describes the invention of a landscape, the topology of a corner of R...

The Music According to Tom Jobim

Half a century ago, Brazilian composer and musician Antonio Carlos "Tom" Jobim (1927-1994) introduced bossa nov...

O Tempo e o Som