Roberto Gervitz

Braços Cruzados, Máquinas Paradas

Sérgio Toledo, Roberto Gervitz

Othon Bastos

São Paulo, May 1978. Three slates compete for the leadership of the Metalworkers' Union of São Paulo, the largest in Latin America, with 300,000 associate workers, and presided over by a platoon since the military coup of 1964. In the midst of the Union electoral campaign, the first workers' strikes that would change the country began. Braços Cruzados, Máquinas Paradas reveals, in an engaging narrative, the Brazilian trade union structure of fascist inspiration.

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.

Jogo Subterrâneo

Roberto Gervitz

Felipe Camargo, Maria Luísa Mendonça

To find the woman of his life, man makes a game up: he enters a subway train wagon, picks a woman he likes and waits to see whether she's going to take the same course and connections as he. If she is, he tries to make contact.

Feliz Ano Velho

Roberto Gervitz

Marcos Breda, Betty Gofman

After diving into a shallow lake, a college student becomes tetraplegic. In his wheel chair, he remembers the important facts of his life as an adolescent.

Prova de Coragem

Roberto Gervitz

Armando Babaioff, Mariana Ximenes

Na Dança! Doc

Roberto Gervitz

The documentary records the 2nd Na Dança festival, makes great interviews with its participants and composes an interesting portrait of the city of São Paulo and its immigrants.