Vladimir Carvalho

Sinais de Cinza, A Peleja de Olney Contra o Dragão da Maldade

Henrique Dantas

Orlando Senna, Nelson Pereira dos Santos

Conterrâneos Velhos de Guerra

Vladimir Carvalho

Oscar Niemeyer, Lúcio Costa

Documentary about the people who came from all over Brazil to work in the construction of the city of Brasilia, their stories, and the abuse and humiliation they suffered in the process.

Brasília Segundo Feldman

Vladimir Carvalho

O País de São Saruê

Vladimir Carvalho

Paulo Pontes, Ecchio Reis

Documentary about a region in Northeast Brazil, situated in an area subject to severe drought, and the evolution of its economic activities.

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.

Tudo Por Amor ao Cinema

Aurélio Michiles

Cosme Alves Netto, Carlos Diegues

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

A Pedra da Riqueza

Vladimir Carvalho

The contrast in the extremely rudimentary form of xelite mining and the use of tungsten, obtained from xelite, in the most complex instruments of nuclear technology.

Cícero Dias, o Compadre de Picasso

Vladimir Carvalho

Francisco Brennand, Ariano Suassuna

The Pernambuco painter Cicero Dias created an unparalleled art for the world. Close to a modernist and influenced by artists such as Pablo Picasso, Fernand Léger and Joan Miró, he marked the history of Brazilian art.

Rock Brasília - Era de Ouro

Vladimir Carvalho

Renato Russo, Philippe Seabra

The story of the young people from Brasília that, led by Renato Russo, after a long journey and many obstacles, sees their dream come true, with the success of their bands.

O Engenho de Zé Lins

Vladimir Carvalho

José Lins do Rego, Vladimir Carvalho

Documentary on the life and work of José Lins do Rego (1901-1957), one of Brazil's greatest 20th century literary authors, writer of celebrated novels "Menino de Engenho", "Fogo Morto", "Moleque Ricardo", "Riacho Doce" and many more.

Os Romeiros da Guia

Vladimir Carvalho, João Ramiro Mello

William Mendonça

Annual pilgrimage of pilgrims to the ruins of Nossa Senhora da Guia, on the north coast of Paraíba. After visiting the temple, the faithful indulge in the coco de roda dance.

Barra 68 - Sem Perder a Ternura

Vladimir Carvalho

Othon Bastos, Jean-Claude Bernardet

The story of the University of Brasília, since it was only a project in Darcy Ribeiro's head until the fateful events in August 1968 when its campus was invaded by the police, during the military dictatorship, thus putting an end to its independence.

O Evangelho Segundo Teotônio

Vladimir Carvalho

Teotônio Vilela, Leonel Brizola

Passages from the life of former Alagoan senator Teotônio Vilela, with emphasis on the process of his formation as a public figure, from his childhood as a mill boy to the final stage, with his famous campaign for the democratic restoration of the country. At this point, he was a man on the brink of death, already victimized by the cancer that would kill him.

O Homem de Areia

Vladimir Carvalho

José Américo de Almeida, Jorge Amado

A Machine to Live in

Yoni Goldstein, Meredith Zielke

Vladimir Carvalho

In this wildly inventive hybrid documentary, the feature debut from experimental film and installation artists Yoni Goldstein and Meredith Zielke, viewers are transported to the space-age city of Brasília. A modernist architectural marvel, the city is a sparkling wasteland of machine dreams and aging monuments to a utopian future. Highlighting the sacred geometry of triangles and symmetry of lines, this sci-fi flick interrogates the semiotic structures that undergird the Martian outpost. With striking visuals and a thumping, electronic soundtrack, A Machine to Live In is a transcendent, transcendental voyage through Brazil’s cosmic capital.

Utopia, Distopia

Jorge Bodanzky, Bruno Caldas

Jean-Claude Bernardet, Vladimir Carvalho

Jorge Bodanzky reaches to his memories of the time he studiet at the University of Brasília to show a look into the 1960s Brazilian youtuh, with its dreams, expectations, crisis and incomplete projects.