Paulo Gil Soares
2021
Brasil Verdade
Paulo Gil Soares, Geraldo Sarno
Pelé, Vicente Feola
In the late 1960s, Thomas Farkas imported equipment suitable for direct sound, and released a collection of documentaries called "Brasil Verdade" ("True Brazil"), after the Military Coup d'État took place in Brazil, which happened without any popular resistance or revolution or reaction of the society. The five short films are directly related to this fact and its consequences to the country.
True Brazil
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
Memória do Cangaço
Paulo Gil Soares
Paulo Gil Soares
The origins of "cangaço", armed brigands in the Northeast between 1935 and 1939, interviews with some survivors of the fighting, police and outlaws movement. Interspersed with testimonials, authentic sequences of films made in 1936 by Benjamin Abraham, an Arab peddler who managed to film the famous band of Virgulino Ferreira da Silva, the "Lampião".
Memória do Cangaço
Um Homem e Sua Jaula
Paulo Gil Soares, Fernando Coni Campos
Hugo Carvana, João Carlos Barroso
The painter Tino, in professional and political crisis, receives a telegram from his mother-in-law, Selma, announcing her return from Europe. After his wife's death, Tino continues living with Selma, with whom he had ambiguous relations, which he now wants to sever. Weak at this impossible love, he asks the maid Enedina to lock him in his room. There, he revives memories through letters, notes and photographs. Selma's son João is waiting for her at the airport and dreams of loving fulfillment in his own mother's arms.
A Man and His Cage
A Cabra na Região Semi-Árida
Rucker Vieira
Paulo Gil Soares
On the dry ground of the caatinga and on the rocky slopes of the sertão, the goat survives. Organic parts of the country landscape, linked to the economy of certain regions, provide milk, meat and skin for export.
A Cabra na Região Semi-Árida
