Marcelo Gomes
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
Estou Me Guardando para Quando o Carnaval Chegar
Marcelo Gomes
A documentary film about the Brazilian town of Toritama, the self-proclaimed capital of jeans. The workers of the city’s self-managed small businesses only get one real break from their self-exploiting lives in the textile business: the annual Carnival.
Waiting for the Carnival
Cinema, Aspirinas e Urubus
Marcelo Gomes
João Miguel, Peter Ketnath
1942, in the middle of Northeastern Brazil, two very different men meet along the road: Johan, an aspirin salesman avoiding the German draft, and Ranulpho, a rural Brazilian seeking escape from the drought.
Cinema, Aspirins and Vultures
Crítico
Kleber Mendonça Filho
Aki Kaurismäki, Alain Riou
Seventy critics and filmmakers discuss cinema around the conflict between the artist and the observer, the creator and the critic. Between 1998 and 2007, Kléber Mendonça Filho recorded testimonies about this relationship in Brazil, the United States and Europe, based on his experience as a critic.
Crítico
Viajo Porque Preciso, Volto Porque Te Amo
Marcelo Gomes, Karim Aïnouz
Irandhir Santos
José Renato, a 35-year-old geologist, is sent out on a solitary expedition to the hinterlands of northeastern Brazil. The purpose of the trip is to assess possible routes for a canal that will connect the area with the only major river in the region. As the field trip progresses, it becomes clear that Renato shares with those places the same emptiness, sense of abandonment and isolation.
I Travel Because I Have to, I Come Back Because I Love You
Sertão de Acrílico Azul Piscina
Marcelo Gomes, Karim Aïnouz
A trip, sort of a daydream in the Brazilian badlands. Remote places reveal traditions and customs of a landscape that is at once primitive and contemporary, regional and globalised.
Pool Acrylic Blue Hinterland
Paloma
Marcelo Gomes
Kika Sena, Ridson Reis
On a hot summer day, Paloma decides to fulfill her most cherished dream: a traditional wedding in a church with her boyfriend Zé. She is a devoted mother, a hard-working farmhand in a papaya plantation and has been saving to afford the celebration. The priest’s refusal to marry her and Zé will force Paloma to confront the rural society. She suffers violence, betrayal, prejudice and injustice but nothing shakes the faith and determination of this transgender woman.
Paloma
O homem das multidões
Cao Guimarães, Marcelo Gomes
Paulo André, Sílvia Lourenço
Juvenal is a metro driver from Belo Horizonte. Margô, a station controller. Both live in a state of complete solitude – each in a particular way. Juvenal refuses to be alone and strolls through the streets of this metropolis taking comfort by mingling with the anonimous crowd. Margo seeks relief in the virtual world of social networks where she struggles to establish long lasting relations with real persons.
The Man of the Crowd
Joaquim
Marcelo Gomes
Júlio Machado, Isabél Zuaa
Brazil, 18th century. The colony of Portugal endures a decline in gold production. A Portuguese minority rules over a corrupt and autocratic society. Joaquim is an efficient soldier, famous for capturing gold smugglers. While waiting for his promotion to Lieutenant, he leaves for a risky mission in search of new gold mines - the only way to buy the freedom of Blackie, a slave he is in love with. Inspired by the true story of Tiradentes, the first leader of the Brazilian revolutionary movement.
Joaquim
Era uma vez eu, Verônica
Marcelo Gomes
Hermila Guedes, João Miguel
Veronica, a young woman, lives in Recife, one of the most violent cities in Brazil. Her life is filled with fleeting love affairs and passing romances. As her father feels his death approaching, he asks a favor: that she finds true love before he passes away.
Once Upon a Time Veronica
