Joel Barcellos
1936 - 2018
Imagens do Inconsciente
Leon Hirszman
Fernando Diniz, Adelina Gomes
In hopes of unraveling the causes and cure for various forms of insanity, a psychiatrist in Brazil created the Museum of Images from the Unconscious in 1952. It gathered paintings and drawings made by mental patients from all over Brazil. Many of the works in the museum are paired with the case-histories of the patients who created them in this fascinating film.
Images of the Unconscious
The Guns
Ruy Guerra
Átila Iório, Nelson Xavier
A group of armed soldiers is sent to the Northeast of Brazil in an attempt to stop a famine-struck population from invading and stealing a food deposit in the dry backlands. While the alienation and insanity of people driven to hallucination by their latent hunger is conducted by the predictions of a religious figure, a truck driver observes the situation and remains torn between his friendship with the soldiers and his revolt against the lack of government action in fighting the misery that lingers over the region.
The Guns
The Deceased
Leon Hirszman
Fernanda Montenegro, Paulo Gracindo
After visiting a fortune teller, Zulmira is informed that a blonde woman will threaten her peace. After talking to her husband Toninho, she suspects that her cousin Glorinha may be that blonde. In poor health, Zulmira makes all the preparations for the day of her death and asks her unemployed husband to deal with the costs of the coffin and funeral with a man named João Guimarães Pimentel. What Tom doesn't know is that Zulmira and this man hide some secrets that he could never imagine.
The Deceased
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.
Improvised and Purposeful: Cinema Novo
Proezas de Satanás na Vila de Leva-e-Traz
Paulo Gil Soares
Zózimo Bulbul, Emmanuel Cavalcanti
In the village of Leva-e-Traz, the discovery of a oil field is responsible for a mass evasion of the townspeople. Left are the old and incapable for the extraction job. When the local priest announces he, too, is leaving the town, Satan emerge thrilled with the chance of overtaking the place.
Proezas de Satanás na Vila de Leva-e-Traz
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.
Neville D'Almeida: Chronicler of Beauty and Chaos
O Rei dos Milagres
Glauber Rocha, Gianni Barcelloni
Joel Barcellos, Glauber Rocha
Expedito, after being abandoned by his parents, became Zefa's adopted son until he became a man and started earning his living as an independent fisherman. As soon as he finds out that Zefa is very ill, Expedito runs back home and finds his adoptive mother in agony. At the edge of the bed, a mysterious woman, who claims to be Death, sits.
Tatu Bola
Crônica À Beira do Rio
Maurice Capovila
Jorge Dória, Joel Barcellos
Rio de Janeiro is a city of very well defined contrast between the seafront, narrow, where the rich live and very close, the hills with their slums, where life changes very quickly in the short space of time.
Crônica À Beira do Rio
Garôta de Ipanema
Leon Hirszman
Márcia Rodrigues, Arduíno Colassanti
Chronicles the life of a 17 year-old girl living in the upper-class Rio de Janeiro neighbourhood of Ipanema. Márcia lives a life of parties and spend her days among bohemians, musicians and intellectuals. While seeming happy in the outside, she's extremely anguished inside. Based on the famous song by Antonio Carlos Jobim and Vinicius de Moraes.
The Girl from Ipanema
Parada 88 - O Limite de Alerta
José de Anchieta
Regina Duarte, Joel Barcellos
Residents of the city of Parada 88, contaminated in 1994 due to the explosion of a chemical industry reactor, live in plastic tunnels, the only way of life that can guarantee their survival, since oxygen, which has become a good consumption, used needs to be reused so as not to generate more expenses. One day, Joaquim wins a lottery that gives him enough money to pay for his and his family's oxygen; but to claim the prize, he'll need to go to the ruins of the factory to collect news from a group of contamination experts adventurers posted there.
Stop 88
