Lírio Ferreira
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
Ouro Velho, Mundo Novo
Lírio Ferreira, Cláudio Assis
Lirinha, Bráulio Tavares
Filmmakers Cláudio Assis and Lírio Ferreira go on a journey through the frontier between the states of Pernambuco and Paraíba, Brazil, to show the importance poetry holds in local culture.
Ouro Velho, Mundo Novo
O Homem Que Engarrafava Nuvens
Lírio Ferreira
Caetano Veloso, Maria Bethânia
A host of personalities reminisce about the life and work of songwriter, lawyer, and congressman Humberto Teixeira — aka "Baião Doctor" — the author of such classic Brazilian popular songs as "Asa Branca". A musical film about the baião, a movement in Brazilian music in the 1940s and 1950s that was later snowed under by samba and bossa nova.
The Man Who Bottled Clouds
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
Fim do Mundo
Hilton Lacerda, Lírio Ferreira
Hermila Guedes, Jesuíta Barbosa
Vitória and her son, Cristiano come back to their hometown Desterro, running away from a troubled life in the city. She asks her brother Balbino for shelter. The arrival of mother and son brings the town's secrets and forgotten stories back to light, in strange, mysterious ways. Cristiano's journey of self-discovery through the town's ghostly entrails sets him in a collision course with the most powerful man in town: his uncle.
Fim do Mundo
Sangue Azul
Lírio Ferreira
Daniel de Oliveira, Caroline Abras
When the Netuno Circus returns to Fernando de Noronha, it brings back a young man with a turbulent past. Pedro is now Zolah, the human cannonball. When secrets surface, bizarre family reunions rival the circus performances.
Blue Blood
O Poeta Americano
Lírio Ferreira
The boy runs after the ball. The worker builds concrete dreams between buildings and soccer balls in a lowland field in Recife. The poet receives a word ball, gives a literal stroke and makes an imaginary goal in this film about football, passion and poetry. João Cabral's America goes beyond the four lines of the field or paper, it transcends time and the field; update the memory to the fact that the love of football will not be volatile or ephemeral, neither in defeat nor in victory.
O Poeta Americano
