Grande Otelo

For this behemoth, Bressane took his opera omnia and edited it in an order that first adheres to historical chronology but soon starts to move ...

The raft man Manuel Jacaré was swallowed by the sea when Orson Welles was filming It’s All True in 1942. The fact evokes memories of the ...

The film chronicles both the life and work of Brazilian author and engineer Euclides da Cunha and a failed attempt at directing his biopic in the ...

When major drug-dealer Boca de Ouro dies, a reporter interviews his ex-lover, now married with children and living in a poorhouse, to try to ...

Orson Welles acted in Brazilian culture and music by deeply researching Brazil’s historical geology, consciously completing a legendary ...

An overlook at the southern Rio de Janeiro neighborhoods, from the perspective of one of its most well-known places: Jardim de Alah, a group of ...

In 1988, the centenary of abolition of slavery in Brazil, Zózimo Bulbul made this powerful historical analysis of racial issues in his country. ...

Biography of one of the legendary names in the Samba genre of Brazilian music. Although he could hardly dance or play an instrument, he became ...

Jubiabá is a French-Brazilian film based on the homonymous novel by Jorge Amado. The film tells the story of the interracial love between the ...

A rock singer goes to Brazil to shoot a video, but winds up getting kidnapped and enduring a number of seemingly bizarre and hilarious events.

The life and work of Zezé Motta.

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

A brief history of origins of brazilian carioca samba and its types.

Brazilian multi-instrumentalist, composer and maestro, Paulo Moura, talks about his influences and show his passion for the samba.

Orson Welles goes to Brazil to shoot his documentary It’s All True.

Rich girl travels with her fiancé (a cousin) to the family farm, where they’re going to marry. But finds another cousin in love with her ...

The hero without character is back. Here, two Macunaímas encounter with one mission in common which is to leave the place they’re currently ...

Quilombo dos Palmares was a real-life democratic society, created in Brazil in the 17th century. This incredibly elaborate (and surprisingly ...

Account an important part of the history of Brazil, through its main character, Anayde Beiriz a poet, journalist and revolutionary and ...

A documentary on the influence that carnival has on the daily life of the Mangueira hill in Rio de Janeiro. It follows the manufacture of the ...

Fitzcarraldo is a dreamer who plans to build an opera house in Iquitos, in the Peruvian Amazon, so, in order to finance his project, he embarks ...

Fantasy comedy about Brazilian writer Oswald de Andrade, one of the most important icons of Modernism in Brazil. In the film, Oswald is played by ...

Homage to the great Brazilian samba songwriter Noel Rosa (1910-1937).