Paulo Caldas
2021Passages
Lúcia Nagib, Samuel Paiva
Tata Amaral, Cláudio Assis
Passages showcases Brazilian films in which the utilisation of artforms and media such as literature, painting, theatre, music, photography, radio and television, functions as a 'passage' to political and social reality.
Passages
Candango: Memórias do Festival
Lino Meireles
Carlos Diegues, Milton Gonçalves
In 1965, a year after the military coup in Brazil, an oasis of freedom opened in the country's capital. The Brasília Film Festival: a landmark of cultural and political resistance. Its story is that of Brazilian cinema itself.
Candango: Memoirs from a Festival
O Rap do Pequeno Príncipe Contra as Almas Sebosas
Paulo Caldas, Marcelo Luna
Hélio José Muniz, Alexandre Garnizé
A documentary that focuses on two young male inhabitants of Recife (statistically, the fourth worst city in the world to live in) who have both reacted strongly to their situation. One has become a drummer in a rap/rock band. The other has killed forty-four people and is now in jail. Both use the term "Wicked Souls" to describe their enemies.
The Little Prince's Rap Against The Wicked Souls
Flores do Cárcere
Barbara Cunha, Paulo Caldas
Flávia Ribeiro de Castro
Flavia Ribeiro meets 8 female ex-offenders with whom she helped as a volunteer in the Women's Chain, city of Santos. Together, in a inhospitable and precarious space, they transformed anguish into art, rebellions into dialogue, despair into hope.
Prison Flowers
Crítico
Kleber Mendonça Filho
Aki Kaurismäki, Alain Riou
Seventy critics and filmmakers discuss cinema around the conflict between the artist and the observer, the creator and the critic. Between 1998 and 2007, Kléber Mendonça Filho recorded testimonies about this relationship in Brazil, the United States and Europe, based on his experience as a critic.
Crítico
Deserto Feliz
Paulo Caldas
Nash Laila, Hermila Guedes
Jéssica is a teenager from Brazilian Northeast. After being abused by her stepfather, she runs away to Recife, where starts to work with sexual tourism. Then, she meets Mark, a German tourist, and falls in love with him.
Happy Desert
