The House of Sand

The House of Sand

A woman is taken along with her mother in 1910 to a far-away desert by her husband, and after his passing, is forced to spend the next 59 years of...

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Just Like Our Parents

Just Like Our Parents

Rosa is in her late 30s, a child of the 1970s with divorced parents. She lives with her own family in São Paulo. Overwhelmed by an eruption of...

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Neville D'Almeida: Chronicler of Beauty and Chaos

Neville D'Almeida: Chronicler of Beauty and Chaos

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

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Letter Beyond the Walls

Letter Beyond the Walls

Letter Beyond the Walls reconstructs the trajectory of HIV and AIDS with a focus on Brazil, through interviews with doctors, activists, patients...

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Garden of War

Garden of War

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...

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Consideração do Poema

Consideração do Poema

Carlos Drummond de Andrade's poetry is read by exponents of Brazilian culture, such as Chico Buarque, Caetano Veloso, Adriana Calcanhoto, Fernanda...

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The Peephole of Love

The Peephole of Love

An innocent working girl finds a hole in her wall through which she can see the action in the next apartment, where a prostitute meets her bizarre...

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O Barato de Iacanga

O Barato de Iacanga

Participants recall a series of festivals held on a farm in Brazil during the '70s and '80s that evolved into liberating celebrations of music.

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Navigating the Amazon: A Voyage with Jorge Mautner

Navigating the Amazon: A Voyage with Jorge Mautner

In March 2006, the team for the Navegar Amazônia project left the Jandiá Channel in Macapá, bound for Belém. On board a regional boat, adapted with...

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Palavra (En)Cantada

Palavra (En)Cantada

Palavra (En)Cantada makes a journey in the history of the Brazilian songbook with a look at the relationship between poetry and music, sewing...

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Canções do Exílio: A Labareda que Lambeu Tudo

Canções do Exílio: A Labareda que Lambeu Tudo

Caetano Veloso, Gilberto Gil, Jards Macalé and Jorge Mautner recall important moments during the military dictatorship the befell in Brazil from...

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Chico Science: Um Caranguejo Elétrico

Chico Science: Um Caranguejo Elétrico

Dunas do Barato

Dunas do Barato

A rescue of the history of Ipanema beach in the 1970s, when the construction of a pier changed the landscape and created fertile soil for a...

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Jorge Mautner: Son of the Holocaust

Jorge Mautner: Son of the Holocaust

The film follows the birth of Jorge Mautner up to his 17 years. He was born in Brazil shortly after his parents fled the Holocaust. Raised by a...

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Black Fragments of Samba - Gilberto Gil, Serene Passion

Black Fragments of Samba - Gilberto Gil, Serene Passion

Gilberto Gil talks with friends and share his thoughts, influences and reveal his impact on brazilian music and vision of the black people.

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Manguebit

Manguebit

Mangue Beat, a musical and aesthetic movement which emerged in Pernambuco in the 1990s, transformed the visibility of the peripheries and cultural...

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Party

Party

A harmonicist, a pool player, and his old assistant get invited as entertainers at a fancy dinner party but have to wait in the lobby for what...

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Álbum de Música

Álbum de Música

Portrait of various figures in Brazilian pop music.

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Carnaval na Lama

Carnaval na Lama

Rogério Sganzerla’s lost film. The only existing copy was lost in 1992 and the negatives are lost. It tells about the history of Betty Bomba, an...

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Antes que Eu me Esqueça

Antes que Eu me Esqueça

"Before I Forget" is a short film by Jairo Ferreira. It was filmed in 1977, during the release of the book of the same name of Roberto Bicelli. The...

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