In Holy Tremor, Bárbara Wagner and Benjamin de Burca established a partnership with a gospel label in the city of Palmares, in Pernambuco, interested in dealing with the social and aesthetic aspects of the Pentecostal Church. The evangelic liturgy is especially musical in the region of Zona da Mata, marked the colonial economy of sugarcane plantations, and is inhabited by young...
This film seeks to rescue the role of filmmaker Neville D'Almeida by using many rare images, numerous interviews, vast archival and audiovisual material.
1982, o Brasil é palco de uma revoluo na cena cultural. Documentário composto por imagens feitas por Roberto Berliner durante a década de 80 que retrata a gerao responsável pela "usina de sonho", ou Circo Voador, como hoje é conhecido. Acontecimentos que passam pelo Arpoador, Lapa e vai até a Copa do México em 1986, marcam um novo cenário cultural brasileiro.
The Divine Divas are the icons of the first generation of Brazilian transvestite artists in the 1960's. One of the first stages to host men dressed as women was the Rival Theatre, ran by Américo Leal, the director's grandfather. The film shows the intimacy, the talent and the stories of a generation that revolutionized the sexual behavior and defied the moral of a time.
Chico Buarque is a constant presence in Brazil’s art scene and is part of its citizen’s popular culture. This wealth in music, poems, theatre and novels has been created over the last 50 years, and in this film Chico Buarque converses about his memories, shows, daily life, work methods, creative process—in short all his trajectory. The musician’s search for his German brother, ...
An abandoned tumbledown theater in the Brazilian outback is the initial setting of a film about cinema, with testimonials from filmmakers such as Béla Tarr, Gus Van Sant, Jia Zhangke, Karim Ainouz, Ken Loach and Lucrecia Martel.
Ten years after his tragic accident on the Imola circuit, he remains a hero; a source of inspiration and an example for many to follow. In this new film, personal recollections from Formula One drivers and from relatives and friends give a passionate insight into his genius, his complicated personality and a deeper understanding of his motivation and deep commitment to motor ra...
In 1975, after the Carnation Revolution, Portugal abandoned their East Timor colony in the island of Timor. The locals proclaimed self-independents, but a couple of days later Indonesia invaded and occupied the East Timor lands. The East Timorese people was humiliated, murdered and slaughtered along twenty-four years, but resisted and fought for their independence. In 1999, the...
