Ferreira Gullar

HO

An experimental film on Brazilian avant-garde artist Hélio Oiticica and his works, especially the Parangolés.

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...

O Canto Livre de Nara Leão

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

Vinicius de Moraes

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

They Shot the Piano Player

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

Cinema Brasileiro, Mercado Ocupado

Documentary by Leon Hirszman about the economic conditions of film production in Brazil, produced in 1975 with...

On Borrowed Time

During the Brazilian military government, journalist Estêvão is sent from Rio de Janeiro to Brasilia to cover t...

Oscar Niemeyer: Life is a Breath of Air

A documentary made to coincide with Niemeyer's 100th birthday. The renowned architect talks about his long life...

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...

Ferreira Gullar: Arqueologia do Poeta

The intense life of Ferreira Gullar, one of the most influential poets in Brazil, is revisited by his personal...

Dossiê Jango

João Goulart (known as Jango) had been democratically elected president of Brazil, but was expelled from office...

The Memory Thread

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

Brasilia, Contradictions of a New City

In 1967, de Andrade was invited by the Italian company Olivetti to produce a documentary on the new Brazilian c...

Images of the Unconscious

In hopes of unraveling the causes and cure for various forms of insanity, a psychiatrist in Brazil created the...

Glauber Rocha - The Movie, Brazil's Labyrinth

Documentary about Brazilian filmmaker Glauber Rocha, one of the most important names in the Cinema Novo, with i...

O Guesa

"Life and work of the Maranhense poet Sousândrade (1833-1902), illustrated with engravings on Brazilian history...

The Heirs

Jorge, an ambitious journalist, marries into money and betrays colleagues to become a powerful politician durin...

Vianinha

The Inventor of Dreams

Mixed with fiction and documentary, the film relives the interviews conducted by the writer Clarice Lispector p...

Armando Costa: “Televisão pra Mim Não é Bico”

Armando Costa was one of Brazil's most successful authors, both in terms of audience and critical acclaim, resp...

Gabeira

Documentary about the trajectory of the Brazilian journalist, writer and politician Fernando Gabeira. With test...

Desesperato

Directed by Sérgio Bernardes Filho, "Desesperato" tells the story of a writer (Raul Cortez) who leaves his home...

Poeta de Sete Faces

Documentary about Brazilian poet Carlos Drummond de Andrade, and the many facets of his work.

Absolute Majority

The documentary depicts the everyday of illiterate rural workers in Northeast Brazil, living under extreme mise...

Glauber em Tempo - Redescobrindo o Brasil

A Raça Síntese de Joãosinho Trinta

Vinicius de Moraes, Um Rapaz de Família

A documentary on Brazilian poet and composer Vinicius de Moraes, made by his daughter a few months before his d...

Augusto Boal and the Theatre of the Oppressed

The movie "Augusto Boal and the Theatre of the Oppressed" shows the path of the dramaturgo Augusto Boal at the...

Imagens do Inconsciente: A Barca do Sol

The episode dives into the mystical universe of Carlos Pertius, the son of a family of French immigrants, hospi...

Plano B

ABC of a Strike

ABC of a Strike captures the 1979 metal workers strikes outside of São Paulo. The footage sat untouched until a...

Cantos de Trabalho - Cacau

Between 1974 and 1976, while researching for his filme "S. Bernardo", Leon Hirszman shot three documentary shor...

The Comrade: The Life of Luiz Carlos Prestes

Chronicles the life of military lieutenant, later communist militant and Brazilian politician Luiz Carlos Prest...

João do Vale, Muita Gente Desconhece

Latest images of the artist still alive, an unprecedented composition, testimonies of friends, family and icons...