City of God – 10 Years Later investigates what happened to the actors who took part in the award-winning film directed by Fernando Meirelles and Katia Lund. This documentary shows what City of God’s worldwide success meant to their lives. Were the actors prepared for the film’s success? Did the social background of some of them prove stronger than the opportunity that came their way?
Silvana is a tired woman. The world no longer belongs to her, the invisible bothers her, the daily life oppresses her. What she wants sometimes is to abandon everything and go back home.
Experimental movie about Rio de Janeiro's Museum of Modern Art's Movie Archive (Cinemateca).
An encounter of novelist Lúcio Cardoso and poet Murilo Mendes haunting ghosts with their characters.
A tribute to Pier Paolo Pasolini's centenary. The film tells of his visit to Rio de Janeiro in 1970, returning from Argentina in the company of singer Maria Callas, when he met the young soldier Joaquim.
Vidigal Hill, 1977. A runaway group of bandits engage in a complex love triangle in the brink of the news that the corrupt Rio de Janeiro mayor decided to make everyone move out of Vidigal, aided by police forces.
We are in the Sahara, in Rio de Janeiro, but it could be Beirut!
Documentary about the world of hip hop and the daily life of those who seek to survive from music in Brazil, all set in the traditional neighborhood of Lapa Carioca.
Cléo is making her first film, inspired by french cinema and the nouvelle vague.
It tells the story of the musicians who revitalized Lapa, from the end of the 90s, in meetings on the small stage of "Bar Semente". The documentary is a historical record of a stronghold of cultural effervescence that remained in the affective memory of Rio de Janeiro.
It is a realistic musical documentary, mixing the old and the new, exchanging chronological positions, creating a suggestive carousel for the audience. A tribute to Sérgio Ricardo's cinematographic work narrated through the assembly of scenes and tracks taken from the 7 films he directed. In this anthology, the most recurrent theme in the author's work is portrayed: the struggle of the oppressed worker who finds love, music and the community his escape valve.
Arthur Bispo do Rosario's past is practically unknown. It is only known that he was black, a sailor and a boxer. In 1938 he was admitted to Colônia Juliano Moreira after a mystical delusion.
Two brothers are reunited in Lisbon to throw their father's ashes in three places in Portugal. This journey opens up affective issues between the brothers, where the past and the present refer to each other.
Bianca manages a precarious living as a talented but underemployed actress in Rio de Janeiro, performing for private events dressed as movie icons. Troubled by the belief that she has missed her big break, Bianca's situation is upturned by an audition that leads to a rare opportunity.
A soldier coming home after the Paraguay War meets a theater group. A shock between war and art.
Mateus is a video store clerk that deals with several weird clients everyday while he dreams to be a filmmaker like Tarantino.
Poetic reconstruction of the unfinished film, directed by writer Lúcio Cardoso, from Minas Gerais, in 1949, in the fishing village of Itaipu / Niterói, based on recovered scenes and excerpts from the film diary. The documentary shows the process of a writer struggling with the desire to make a film.
DJ Marlboro is considered by many to be the creator of funk carioca and remains one of the genre's leading promoters. This movie chronicles Marlboro's journey with firsthand accounts from the DJ himself and extensive archival footage.
A self-portrait short film by veteran Brazilian filmmaker Sylvio Lanna.
