Luiz Carlos Barreto

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."

Milagrez

Paloma Rocha, Joel Pizzini

Glauber Rocha, Walter Goulart

Documentary on "Antonio das Mortes", Glauber Rocha's 1969 film.

Por onde anda Makunaíma?

Rodrigo Séllos

Paulo José, Tatiana Longo Figueiredo

Searching for Makunaima is a cultural and historical account of the most Brazilian character there is in fiction. The film begins with Makunaima, one of the founding myths of the native people from the border between Brazil-Venezuela-Guiana, first captured in the writings of the German ethnographer Koch-Grünberg at the beginning of the 1910s. With interviews in Portuguese, German, Spanish, and in the indigenous languages Macuxi and Taurepang, Searching for Macunaima reclaims this amazing character who represents Brazil in many ways (from literature to cinema to theatre) and remains relevant to date.

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.

Cinema: Embaixador do Brasil

Tizuka Yamasaki

Maria Silvia, Luiz Carlos Barreto

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.

Fotografação

Lauro Escorel

Alex Baradel, Luiz Carlos Barreto

A film about remarkable moments in the History of Brazilian Photography, built through the eyes of Lauro Escorel. It also reflects on the impact of digital photography on contemporary society.

Neville D'Almeida: Cronista da Beleza e do Caos

Mario Abbade

Neville D'Almeida, Pedro Aguinaga

This film seeks to rescue the role of filmmaker Neville D'Almeida by using many rare images, numerous interviews, vast archival and audiovisual material.

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.

Jorge Amado no Cinema

Glauber Rocha

Jorge Amado, Zélia Gattai

Jorjamado no Cinema foi feito para um programa de televisão consagrado ao escritor Jorge Amado. Nesse documentário, Jorge Amado é filmado em sua casa, rodeado por sua numerosa família; numa livraria, durante uma sessão de autógrafos de um de seus livros, em um cinema em Salvador, na avant-première do filme Tenda dos Milagres, de Nelson Pereira dos Santos, adaptação do livro homônimo de Jorge Amado. Glauber filma seu amigo com muito humor e carinho. A câmera vai evoluindo lentamente, sem cessar e com rapidez sobre o escritor, seus familiares, atores e atrizes do filme de Nelson, além de passar por objetos de rituais de candomblé que constituem o museu de Jorge Amado.

Pitanga

Camila Pitanga, Beto Brant

Antônio Pitanga, Camila Pitanga

This documentary investigates the aesthetic, political and existential trajectory of emblematic Black Brazilian actor Antônio Pitanga. He career spans over five decades, and he has worked with iconic Brazilian filmmakers Glauber Rocha, Cacá Diegues and Walter Lima Jr. He was a prominent figurehead and outspoken activist during the Brazilian dictatorship, a period of unrest in Brazilian cinema. Pitanga deep dives into the world of Antônio and the history of Brazil. The documentary was directed by his daughter Camila Pitanga, one of widely recognised faces in Brazilian television and cinema right now. The film is also a poem, and a tender ode to fatherhood.

Isto é Pelé

Luiz Carlos Barreto, Eduardo Escorel

Pelé, Sérgio Chapelin

Antena da Raça

Luís Abramo, Paloma Rocha

Glauber Rocha, Paloma Rocha

In 1979, while Brazil was going through the troubled moment of the Amnesty Law, Glauber Rocha directed the program Abertura for TV Tupi, in which he interrogated a contradictory and boiling Brazil head-on, full of utopias but always under the weight of secular wounds.

Como se Morre no Cinema

Luelane Corrêa

Luiz Carlos Vasconcelos, Nelson Pereira dos Santos

Memories of a parrot who participated in the filming of the classic Vidas Secas, in 1962, where it was featured along the puppy Baleia.

Glauber em Tempo - Redescobrindo o Brasil

Maria Maia

Glauber Rocha, Erika Bauer

José Aparecido de Oliveira – O Maior Mineiro do Mundo

Gustavo Brandão, Mário Lúcio Brandão Filho

Fernanda Montenegro, Geraldo Carneiro

Documentary that chronicles the trajectory of the journalist, federal deputy, secretary of state, minister of state, governor and ambassador José Aparecido de Oliveira, who lived with the greatest authorities and personalities from the political, business and cultural circles in Brazil and the world.