Joel Barcellos

Amenic - Entre o Discurso e a Prática

Fernando Silva

Joel Barcellos, Paula Gaitán

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.

The Conformist

Bernardo Bertolucci

Jean-Louis Trintignant, Stefania Sandrelli

A weak-willed Italian man becomes a fascist flunky who goes abroad to arrange the assassination of his old teacher, now a political dissident.

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 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.

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.

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.

Neville D'Almeida: Cronista da Beleza e do Caos

Mario Abbade

Neville D'Almeida, Regina Casé

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

Tropico

Gianni Amico

Joel Barcellos, Janira Santiago

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.

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.

Jardim de Guerra

Neville D'Almeida

Joel Barcellos, Maria do Rosário

Edson is having an affair with a left-wing aspiring movie director during Brazil's military dictatorship years. He tries to get some easy money for her film, but ends up being arrested and tortured as his torturers suspect he's involved in a plot to overthrow the military government.

Sagarana, o Duelo

Paulo Thiago

Ana Maria Magalhães, Milton Moraes

Unable to endure the idea that he would go without punishment, a criminal's victim chases him the length and breadth of Brazil for a showdown.

Viagem ao Fim do Mundo

Fernando Coni Campos

Jofre Soares, Karin Rodrigues

During a flight, passengers confront their aspirations, frustrations, fears, wishes and fears, mixing up reality and fiction.

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.

Cinco Vezes Favela

Miguel Borges, Joaquim Pedro de Andrade

Zózimo Bulbul, Glauce Rocha

Five segments about the hardships faced by people living in slums on hills in Rio de Janeiro.