Eduardo Coutinho

Destiny River

Critic

Seventy critics and filmmakers discuss cinema around the conflict between the artist and the observer, the crea...

Madame Satã

In the favelas of Rio de Janeiro of the 1930s, João Francisco dos Santos is several things — son of slaves, ex-...

Twenty Years Later

Eduardo Coutinho was filming a movie with the same name in the Northeast of Brazil, in 1964, when there came th...

Câncer

This film shows people with constant psychological and social conflicts: the violence among outlaws, conflicts...

Jogo de Cena

Following a newspaper ad, ordinary women tell part of their life stories to director Eduardo Coutinho, which ar...

Candango: Memoirs from a Festival

In 1965, a year after the military coup in Brazil, an oasis of freedom opened in the country's capital. The Bra...

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...

Capturing Reality

From cinema-verite; pioneers Albert Maysles and Joan Churchill to maverick movie makers like Errol Morris, Wern...

Master, a Building in Copacabana

The daily lives and routine of 37 families living in a huge 12-story building in Copacabana, Rio de Janeiro: th...

Dib

Documentary that addresses, through the testimony of directors and actors, the work of Dib Lutfi, considered on...

Last Conversations

Made from interviews with young Brazilian students by filmmaker Eduardo Coutinho before his death (in February...

Memórias do Grupo Opinião

Follows the story of Opinião, a theatre group created in 1964 during the early Brazilian dictatorship period to...

1964: 40 Years After

Documentary that shows the events that culminated in the deposition of President João Goulart, on March 31, 196...

The Beggars

A young female fugitive escapes from a juvenile institution (the Child Assistance Service) and joins a group of...

Movie Theaters of Rio

The story of Rio de Janeiro’s movie theaters and the radical transformation they have endured since the inventi...

The Memory Thread

A panorama of the Brazilian black experience, starting with the figure of the semi-illiterate popular artist an...

Tudo Por Amor ao Cinema

A documentary on Cosme Alves Netto (1937-1996), former head of the Cinematheque of the Museum of Modern Arts at...

Babilônia 2000

Documentary on poor people living in a slum in Rio de Janeiro, on the occasion of New Year's Eve of 1999.

Moscow

Continuing the exploration of the thin line between truth and performance, Eduardo Coutinho turns his attention...

The Method

The Method shows and reveals the knowledge and tools used by great documentary filmmakers on the challenge of r...

Uma Visita Para Elizabeth Teixeira

Short documentary about a woman known from a film by Eduardo Coutinho.

The Mighty Spirit

An overview of Brazilian spirituality and religions.

Coutinho Reporter

In an open conversation with Eduardo Coutinho, the filmmaker analyzes the period he worked for Globo Repórter o...

Sete Visitas

How much theatricality is there in an interview-based documentary? On one side, someone answers. On the other s...

Coutinho.doc - Apartment 608

The audience follows the creative process of the filmmaker Eduardo Coutinho in the documentary, from the resear...

Eduardo Coutinho, 7 de outubro

A conversation with Brazilian documentary filmmaker Eduardo Coutinho about his work and methods.

A Treat of Coutinho

Would have one of the masters of Brazilian cinema always made the same film? From an encounter with documentari...

Inhabiting Time

May's full moon. Six friends. Two poems. One night, 22 years ago.