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?
This film seeks to rescue the role of filmmaker Neville D'Almeida by using many rare images, numerous interviews, vast archival and audiovisual material.
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.
Experimental movie about Rio de Janeiro's Museum of Modern Art's Movie Archive (Cinemateca).
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.
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.
Benjamim Zambraia is a young drunk who wanders around the city and is sometimes treated with pampering and sometimes with a beating by his parents (Helena Ignez and Otávio Terceiro). As in Chico's book, the boy is obsessed with a big stone.
Dé, Adrianim and Martins are three black teenagers from Chatuba, Rio de Janeiro. When Dé receives the news that Almerinda, his grandmother, is in the terminal phase of Alzheimer's disease, he decides to enjoy the last days of her life together with his two best friends.
An encounter of novelist Lúcio Cardoso and poet Murilo Mendes haunting ghosts with their characters.
In 1970, Brazil was in the throes of a military dictatorship that lasted 20 years. Persecutions, arrests, killings, kidnappings. The film Seventy rejoins 18 characters of this story, forty years later. The film mixes the excitement of revisiting the past with a vision, sometimes even good humored of everything they lived. Many years afterwards they relive their experience of pain, violence and survival, of rebuilding their own story and continuing to believe in the possibility of improving the world.
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.
Learn about the trajectory of student leader Marcos Medeiros and learn more about his exile in France and Cuba. In 1968, he joined the counterculture when political activism became an audiovisual expression of intervention in social reality.
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.
Xeu and Lidiane are going to have a child. She pressures him to sell his motorcycle and get another job. The news of the pregnancy and Xeu’s to a cousin in Maré brings instability to the relationship.
The memories of the trip made by the couple of artists Cavi Borges and Patrícia Niedermeier are transformed into an essay film. The scenery consists of landscapes located in Brazil, the United States, Germany, Syria, France and Hungary, where a series of choreographies and other performances created by the two are recorded.
A self-portrait short film by veteran Brazilian filmmaker Sylvio Lanna.
