Paulo César Saraceni

Depois do Transe

Paloma Rocha, Joel Pizzini

Glauber Rocha, Paulo Autran

The documentary "Depois do Transe" covers the entire process of creating the masterpiece "Entranced Earth", which was released and awarded at the Cannes Film Festival in 1967. "Entranced Earth" charmed the world and won great admirers such as filmmaker Martim Scorsese and the writer Marguerite Duras, who at the time considered a "fabulous filmic opera."

Improvisiert und zielbewusst: Cinema Novo

Joaquim Pedro de Andrade

Glauber Rocha, Arnaldo Jabor

Originally produced for German TV, Improvised and Purposeful is a firsthand look at the "Cinema Novo" movement (otherwise known as the 'Brazilian New Wave'). Director Joaquim Pedro de Andrade focuses on six Cinema Novo filmmakers working in Rio in 1967.

Porto das Caixas

Paulo Cézar Saraceni

Irma Álvarez, Reginaldo Faria

Irma can only think about getting rid of her cowardly dirty husband. She seeks out lovers not to commit adultery or for pleasure, but to find an accomplice to kill her husband.

Integração Racial

Paulo Cézar Saraceni

A comprehensive view of the situation of different ethnic groups in Brazil. In the testimonies gathered in the streets and neighborhoods of various capitals, black, white, mulatto, Portuguese, Italian and Japanese express their opinion and describe personal experiences involving relationship, racism, miscegenation and cultural exchange.

Arraial do Cabo

Mário Carneiro, Paulo Cézar Saraceni

Ítalo Rossi

The arrival of a chemical plant in a fishermen haven brings along social transformations, interfering with the local traditions. A landmark of Cinema Novo, the result of a partnership between Mario Carneiro and Paulo Cesar Saraceni.

O Bom Cinema

Eugênio Puppo

Carlos Reichenbach, Rogério Sganzerla

An authentically marginal cinema created in Catholic university in Brazil. One of the most intriguing and imaginative moments in modern cinema in the voice of some of its select conspirators—with Carlos Reichenbach at the lead—, and through the most razing flow of images that can possibly be conceived.

Glauber Rocha - The Movie, Brazil's Labyrinth

Silvio Tendler

Glauber Rocha, Orlando Senna

Documentary about Brazilian filmmaker Glauber Rocha, one of the most important names in the Cinema Novo, with interviews with some of his friends and colleagues.

Dib

Márcia Derraik

Dib Lutfi, Zelito Viana

Documentary that addresses, through the testimony of directors and actors, the work of Dib Lutfi, considered one of the greatest photographers of Brazilian cinema.

Sermões - A História de Antônio Vieira

Júlio Bressane

Othon Bastos, Antônio Abujamra

Based upon the life story of Father Antonio Vieira, born in Lisbon in 1608 and deceased in Salvador, Bahia, in 1697. He's considered the first Brazilian writer and one of the most important aesthete of linguistic and of the Portuguese language of all times, a master in the art of metaphor, of verbal relations and analogy. He was persecuted and condemned by the Portuguese Court of Inquisition due to his position against native slavery, against the intolerance to the Jewish people and to the colonial politics of exploration.

Natal da Portela

Paulo Cézar Saraceni

Milton Gonçalves, Almir Guineto

Biography of one of the legendary names in the Samba genre of Brazilian music. Although he could hardly dance or play an instrument, he became one of the main composers of Portela, an important Samba "school" in Rio de Janeiro.

Bahia de Todos os Sambas

Paulo Cézar Saraceni, Leon Hirszman

João Gilberto, Gilberto Gil

Between August 23 and 31, 1983, at the "Circo Massimo", in Rome, there was a musical event that brought together artists from Bahia. This film brings a recording of the event, also featuring backstage, rehearsals, testimonies and some relaxing moments of these great names in Bahia's music.

A Casa Assassinada

Paulo Cézar Saraceni

Norma Bengell, Tete Medina

Newly wed arrives at her husband's family house, in the country. The heavy atmosphere of the house frightens her, and she takes refuge in her homosexual son-in-law's room, who is kept locked and hidden from society. A tragedy occurs, causing her departure. She's only to return seventeen years later, and sick.

Cinema Novo

Eryk Rocha

Nelson Pereira dos Santos, Glauber Rocha

A deep investigation, in the way of a poetic essay, on one of the main Latin American movements in cinema, analyzed via the thoughts of its main authors, who invented, in the early 1960s, a new way of making movies in Brazil, with a political attitude, always near to people's problems, that combined art and revolution.

O Desafio

Paulo Cézar Saraceni

Isabella Cerqueira Campos, Oduvaldo Vianna Filho

Passively facing the repression imposed by military dictatorship in Brazil in the 60s, a journalist gets into a personal crisis, aggravated by his love affair with an industrialist's wife, who doesn't want to leave her home because of her son

Muito Prazer

David Neves

Ítala Nandi, Cecil Thiré

Two contrasting social groups get in touch: three architects and three street urchins, all struggling for survival.

O Viajante

Paulo Cézar Saraceni

Marília Pêra, Leandra Leal

Fortune takes four human beings to the last frontier of passion. There, where love becomes almost inhuman and divine. As if he was a comet, Rafael, the traveler, appears at the party for the cities patron saint, in a small town in the interior of Minas Gerais. He is the one who brings passion and crime, vanishing afterwards, leaving a poetic feeling in the air, which is always deadly to the ones who stay. Mrs. Ana de Lara, the proud rich widow, and Missy, still a child, whose beauty and innocence are like the Tiê-Sangue, a red bird, are the travelers victims. There is also Master Juca do Vale, a criminal, whose passion turns him incredibly human, in this story of love, death, forgiveness and resurrection.