Rubens Ewald Filho
1945 - 2019Candango: 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
Quando as Luzes das Marquises Se Apagam: A História da Cinelândia Paulistana
Renato Brandão
José Moreira, Inimá Simões
With archive footage and testimonials from former filmgoers, a story of movie theaters that were located on the avenues of São João and Ipiranga and its surroundings, in São Paulo's city centre. Known as Cinelândia Paulistana, this area lived its heyday in the 1950s, reaching more than 15 cinemas in full operation.
When The Marquees' Lights Go Out
CineMagia: A História das Videolocadoras de São Paulo
Alan Oliveira
Rubens Ewald Filho, Raphael Cubakowic
Before the streaming era, the video stores were the key for the beginning of home video experience in Brazil. The documentary narrates the history of São Paulo's mom-and-pop video stores from its appearance to the vanishing of this platform. Owners, employees, customers and critics talk about the experience of renting a movie.
CineMagia: The Story of São Paulo's Video Stores
A Primeira Vez do Cinema Brasileiro
Bruno Graziano, Denise Godinho Costa
Carlos Reichenbach, José Mojica Marins
In 1982, almost five million people took theaters to see Erotic Things, the first Brazilian porn film. The production is today considered a major episode in the history of Brazilian cinema because it was launched during the country's military dictatorship. Thirty years later, The First Time of Brazilian Cinema found the producers and actors to tell the inside story of this fascinating journey.
The First Time of Brazilian Cinema
Manual para Atropelar Cachorro
Rafael Primot
Bárbara Paz, Zezé Polessa
A simple and handy manual to take the boredom under the narration of a sick mind, crazy in any big city. Mojo, a lonely young fanatic about movies and American culture, has dreams that will never come true. After spending his days holed up in a building, he decides to vent his repressed impulses by running over mutton dogs.
Manual para Atropelar Cachorro
Amor, Estranho Amor
Walter Hugo Khouri
Tarcísio Meira, Vera Fischer
A man remembers forty-eight crucial hours in his life when, as a child, he visited his mother, the favorite woman of an important politician, in a bordello owned by him, right before some important political changes in 1937 Brazil. In those hours, he discovers his own sexuality.
Love Strange Love
