Vinicius de Moraes

Le Grand Échiquier

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

Samedi soir

They Shot the Piano Player

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

Coisa Mais Linda - Histórias e Casos da Bossa Nova

Documentary about the birth of bossa-nova, in Brazil, and the major stars of this musical style.

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...

Vinicius de Moraes

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

Os Afro-Sambas: The Brazil of Baden and Vinicius

Released in 1966 by Vinicius de Moraes and Baden Powell, the record Os Afro-Sambas is one of Brazil's most reve...

Mario Wallace Simonsen, Entre a Memória e a História

The documentary is an investigation into the life of Mario Wallace Simosen, a man who commanded conglomerates o...

Chico: Brazilian Artist

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

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...

Improvised and Purposeful: Cinema Novo

Originally produced for German TV, Improvised and Purposeful is a firsthand look at the "Cinema Novo" movement...

Pixinguinha, an Affectionate Man

The life of legendary Brazilian musician Alfredo da Rocha Vianna Filho, better known as Pixinguinha.

Brasil

João Gilberto receives Caetano Veloso, Gilberto Gil and Maria Bethânia during the recording of his album Brasil.

The Girl From Ipanema: Astrud Gilberto, Queen of Bossa Nova

The Girl from Ipanema charts the progress of bossa nova (new wave), and the Brazilian singer Astrud Gilberto's...

Música, poesia e amor

ABC of a Strike

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

As nascentes

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...

Caterina Valente presents Brazilian music

Vinicius para Criança: A Arca de Noé

Toquinho Maravilhoso

The documentary narrates the life of Toquinho, one of the greatest Brazilian artists, a musician who transcends...

Miúcha, The Voice of Bossa Nova

Despite her position at the epicentre of the Brazilian bossa nova scene, singer Heloísa Maria Buarque de Hollan...

Garoto - Vivo Sonhando

A prodigy of stringed instruments, a pioneer of Bossa Nova, a modernizing master of the guitar: Aníbal Augusto...

Musicalmente

Witness here a historical moment of Brazilian music. At the end of the 70’s, Vinícius de Moraes, Toquinho, Tom...

Masters of Bossa Nova: Jobim, Toquinho, Vinicius

Legendary bossa nova artists Antonio Carlos Jobim, Vinicius de Moraes and Antonio Toquinho demonstrate on stage...

Cyro Monteiro

Certas Palavras com Chico Buarque

The life and work of Brazilian singer-songwriter, guitarist, composer, playwright, writer and poet Chico Buarqu...

The Crystallization of Brasília

Fourth chapter of the "Atlas", "The Crystallization of Brasília" explores the ideia of the future as a petrifie...

Toquinho

Pluft, o Fantasminha

It tells the story of a girl being abducted by the evil pirate with a wooden leg.

Otto: De Trás p/ Diante

The life story of journalist and writer Otto Lara Resende. Paulo Mendes Campos, a personal friend of Otto, prov...

Brasília, Uma Sinfonia