Helena Ignez

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 ...

A film about love, also a memoir, about the trip made in the 1970s to Morocco by Jarda Ícone, an artist, sexologist, and octogenarian rocker, as ...

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 ...

Benjamim Zambraia is a young drunk who wanders around the city and is sometimes treated with pampering and sometimes with a beating by his ...

After relocating to Tokyo, a Brazilian writer begins a new novel, provoked by her experiences in Japan and by one of the last scenes she ...

Helena Ignez is one of the main female figures of Brazilian cinema. She developed a new style of acting. Nowadays, she directs independent films. ...

“All Paulos in the World” is a cinematographic essay about Paulo José, one of the greatest artists in Brazil, in the year in which he ...

Young directors are filming “The Exhibitionist” in the middle of a farm in a paradise-like region. The film poetically investigates the Brazilian ...

Isabel is a babysitter pregnant of her own child and can’t wait to be a mother. Until she meets Joana.

A documentary on prolific underground Brazilian filmmaker Rogério Sganzerla.

Between February an May of 1970, Julio Bresane and Rogerio Sganzerla made 7 films for their company Belair that were forbidden by the Brazilian ...

A road movie that follows a solitary man as he sets of on a journey to the south of Brazil. The strange characters and absurd situations he ...

Released from the Mental Health Wing of São Paulo State Penitentiary after forty years, the sadistic undertaker Zé do Caixão is back on the ...

A short documentary on Belair, an independent Brazilian film company that lasted for only five months in 1970.

A customs agent, Dr. Amnésio, examines some reels of film, a documentary Orson Welles made about Brazil, and tries to confiscate the material. ...

Documentary about Brazilian filmmaker Glauber Rocha, one of the most important names in the Cinema Novo, with interviews with some of his friends ...

A short film made with unused footage from The Red Light Bandit and Carnaval na Lama.

Brazilian director Julio Bressane directs this religious biography on the life and work of Saint Jerome, the monk who first translated the Bible ...

A fantastic tale in the brutal reality of a slum. The life of a boy with the rare gift of flying. Based on a Will Eisner’s story

Daniel is a taxi driver who’s married to Adalgisa. When she starts acting in low-budget movies, he forbids her from seeing their son, Joaquim. ...

Loosely based on an Oswald de Andrade screenplay, “Perigo Negro” is a segment of anthology film “Oswaldianas” which deals ...

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

Three artists from São Paulo – Leda Catunda, Leonilson and Ciro Cozzolino – talk about their work and the rebirth of painting through ...