José Celso Martinez Corrêa

Infinita Tropicália

Adilson Ruiz

Chiquinho Brandão, Gilberto Gil

Tropicália was a Brazilian cultural movement that occurred between 1967 and 1968, inspired by Oswald de Andrade's anthropophagic ideals, pop art and the concretism. Twenty years later, this film revisits the movement and shows that Tropicalismo will never die.

Milagrez

Paloma Rocha, Joel Pizzini

Glauber Rocha, Walter Goulart

Documentary on "Antonio das Mortes", Glauber Rocha's 1969 film.

Macumba Antropofaga

José Celso Martinez Corrêa

José Celso Martinez Corrêa

Based on Oswald de Andrade's Anthropophagous Manifesto, Macumba was a hit with the audience that participated and interacted more with the work at each presentation.

How Do You See Me?

Felipe Bond

Cássia Kis Magro, Tonico Pereira

How Do You See Me? is a Brazilian documentary feature that entwines both experienced actors and beginners to explore the hardships and the happiness that are inherent to the job when detached from the glam and glitz of the gossip industry, creating a diverse and comprehensive mosaic of what it means to be an actor in Brazil, a country so full of contradictions. The film brings forward a reality that the masses usually don't get to know: the men and women moved by a deep passion for acting and touching people. With Julio Adrião, Matheus Nachtergaele, José Celso Martinez, Cássia Kis, Nanda Costa, Babu Santana, Luciano Vidigal and Letícia Sabatella, among others.

Salve o Prazer!

Natara Ney, Lírio Ferreira

Cafi, Alceu Valença

Máquina do Desejo

Lucas Weglinski, Joaquim Castro

José Celso Martinez Corrêa, Paulo Maluf

In six decades, Teatro Oficina has done more than revolutionize theatrical language in the country: the aesthetic influence of José Celso Martinez Corrêa's company extends from Tropicalism to the renewal of Brazilian audiovisual languages ​​from the 1960s onwards. The film revisits a story that it involves personalities such as Caetano Veloso, Glauber Rocha, Lina Bo Bardi, Chico Buarque and Zé do Caixão, brings together scenic art, ecology, architecture and sexuality, and mixes art and life in the search for a Brazilian based language.

Palavra (En)Cantada

Helena Solberg

Adriana Calcanhotto, Arnaldo Antunes

Palavra (En)Cantada makes a journey in the history of the Brazilian songbook with a look at the relationship between poetry and music, sewing testimonials of great names of our culture, musical performances and amazing research of images.

Paulo Autran – O Senhor dos Palcos

Marco Abujamra

Paulo Autran, Adolfo Celi

A portrait of the evolution of theater in the 20th century and a deep reflection on the art of acting through the career of Paulo Autran (1922-2007), one of the greatest actors in Brazil.

Evoé! Retrato de um Antropófago

Tadeu Jungle

José Celso Martinez Corrêa, Maria Alice Vergueiro

A film that mixes labyrinthine recent testimonies and historical images of the career of the tropicalista director, actor and playwright Zé Celso, of Teatro Oficina, one of the greatest personalities of the Brazilian arts of all time. The documentary acquired its main verb in four trips to key points in the trajectory of Zé: Bahia badlands, Cururipe Beach in Alagoas (where Bishop Sardinha was devoured), Epidaurus and Athens in Greece and his apartment in São Paulo.

Glauber Rocha - The Movie, Brazil's Labyrinth

Silvio Tendler

Glauber Rocha, Orlando Senna

Documentary about Brazilian filmmaker Glauber Rocha, one of the most important names in the Cinema Novo, with interviews with some of his friends and colleagues.

25

José Celso Martinez Corrêa, Celso Luccas

Filmed in 16 mm, 25 (Vinte Cinco) is a production that involved the collaborative effort from people from Brazil, Mozambique, Portugal and France. It follows the decolonisation process of Mozambique (the aftermath of the colonial war and of the fall of the fascist dictatorship in Portugal, which collapsed on the 25th of April 1974) and the geopolitical organisation of both Africa and Mozambique (that became independent in the 25th of June, 1975.)

Fédro

Marcelo Sebá

Reynaldo Gianecchini, José Celso Martinez Corrêa

Twenty years after his debut as an actor, Brazil's sweetheart Reynaldo Gianechini meets his mentor, legendary director José Celso Martinez Corrêa for a first reading of Plato's Phaedrus.

Tropicália

Marcelo Machado

Gilberto Gil, Caetano Veloso

Set against the turbulent atmosphere of the 1960s, Tropicália is a feature length documentary exploring the Brazilian artistic movement known as Tropicália, and the struggle its artists endured to protect their right to freely express revolutionary thought against the traditional Brazilian music of that time.

O Rei da Vela

José Celso Martinez Corrêa, Noilton Nunes

Maria Alice Vergueiro, Renato Borghi

Filming of the historical montage of Oswald de Andrade's play, where decadent millionaires, depraved children, corrupt and implacable capitalists are the characters interpreted by the Grupo Oficina, in a celebrated theatrical performance from 1967, fundamentally recorded in 1971 and released only in the 1980s.

A$$untina das Amérikas

Luiz Rosemberg Filho

Nelson Dantas, Analú Prestes

A$$untina of the Amerikas is a musical comedy of a prostitute that, in 24 hours, wakes up, fights her mother, puts her son in anarchy, has a date with Santa Claus, a blue bear and two girlfriends. Then she finally meets her old millionaire lover. They spend their time to talk about everyday life and make love. Based on the novels of Fernando Henrique Cardoso and Wilhelm Reich.

Pitanga

Camila Pitanga, Beto Brant

Antônio Pitanga, Camila Pitanga

This documentary investigates the aesthetic, political and existential trajectory of emblematic Black Brazilian actor Antônio Pitanga. He career spans over five decades, and he has worked with iconic Brazilian filmmakers Glauber Rocha, Cacá Diegues and Walter Lima Jr. He was a prominent figurehead and outspoken activist during the Brazilian dictatorship, a period of unrest in Brazilian cinema. Pitanga deep dives into the world of Antônio and the history of Brazil. The documentary was directed by his daughter Camila Pitanga, one of widely recognised faces in Brazilian television and cinema right now. The film is also a poem, and a tender ode to fatherhood.