Cavi Borges

White House (2025)

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 t ...

Muro das Vertentes (2024)

Mulheres em Auschwitz (2024)

A woman, played by Patricia Niedermeier, finds and revisits texts and objects by women who lived through the horrors of the Holocaust and re-invents these memories in her own body. ...

Bambuá (2024)

Eu Sou O Cinema, O Cinema Sou Eu (2024)

Na Terra De Marlboro (2024)

DJ Marlboro is considered by many to be the creator of funk carioca and remains one of the genre's leading promoters. This movie chronicles Marlboro's journey with firsthand accounts from the DJ himself and extensive archival footage. ...

Viagens (2024)

Celebrazione (2023)

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. ...

Bye Bye Amazonia (2023)

Neville D'Almeida's "Bye Bye Amazônia" tackles on the problems that plague the world's biggest rainforest and its native people. ...

Ensaios Sobre Yves (2023)

Octávio III - O Imperador (2023)

Film about the life and death of Octávio III, musical producer and actor. ...

Baile Soul (2023)

Luzes, Mulheres, Ação (2022)

No synopsis ...

Não sei quantas almas tenho (2022)

A vampire movie. ...

Obsessão (2022)

O Cinema é Minha Vida (2021)

In the dressing room of the French cinema, minutes before attending a lecture, François Truffaut recalls his trajectory ...

João por Inez (2021)

Inez Cabral portrays her father, João Cabral de Melo Neto, in the year of the centenary of the birth of the "poet of precision", renovator of Brazilian poetic language. ...

Me Cuidem-se! (2020)

The lives of eight people, of different ethnicities, creeds, professions and social groups, living in the cities of Rio de Janeiro, São Gonçalo and Nova Iguaçu during the first 9 months of the pandemic. ...

Benjamim Zambraia e o Autopanóptico (2020)

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. ...

Mulher Oceano (2020)

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 witnessed in Rio de Janeiro: a female swimmer tearing up the horizon with powerful strokes in the wide, open sea. Those ...

Forofina – Um Filme a Ser Feito (2020)

Built from images of 1970s Africa, "Forofina" is a rehersal for Sylvio Lanna's next feature-length film. ...

Sopros na Pele (2020)

Sensations on the skin during a pandemic. ...

Vislumbres (2020)

An intimate and fictional tour through the cravings contained and corroded words of the writers Clarice Lispector and Maria Telles Ribeiro. ...

Rio de Topless (2020)

Topless muse in Rio de Janeiro, Ana Paula Nogueira uses the ban on bare breasts and her story to debate freedom and feminism in the city that exported thongs and which has the false reputation of being libertarian. ...

A Maldita (2019)

On March 1, 1982, the city of Niterói enters history and hosts one of the most important cultural movements: a so-called Rock 80 Generation. Radio Fluminense FM, known as "A Maldita", goes on the air, mixing irreverence, daring and creativity with its pro ...

Sofá (2019)

Joana D'Arc, a former public school teacher in Rio de Janeiro, tries to recover her home, lost to the City Hall. The trajectory is shared by the pirate fisherman Pharaó, from Guanabara Bay. ...

Manifesto de um Cineasta (2019)

The striking and sinuous shadow that intertwines with the conceptual imaginary moment reproduced on screen, runs over without mercy to everyone who is attached to old concepts and prejudices conceived in the residual decadent imagination of society in a gl ...

Na Rota do Vento (2019)

It is a realistic musical documentary, mixing the old and the new, exchanging chronological positions, creating a suggestive carousel for the audience. A tribute to Sérgio Ricardo's cinematographic work narrated through the assembly of scenes and tracks ...

Lavender (2019)

During carnival Flaviana lives a pretty difficult dilemma; how to disguise from her last night lover who refuses to get out of her shower? ...

In Memoriam: O Roteiro do Gravador (2019)

Experimental movie about Rio de Janeiro's Museum of Modern Art's Movie Archive (Cinemateca). ...

Neville D'Almeida: Chronicler of Beauty and Chaos (2019)

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

Fado Tropical (2019)

Two brothers are reunited in Lisbon to throw their father's ashes in three places in Portugal. This journey opens up affective issues between the brothers, where the past and the present refer to each other. ...

Dreaming of Braddock (2019)

The failed actor Rui inherits a millionaire apartment from his father and decides to put the sale on to realize his dream. Rui wants to star in a remake of a famous film by Chuck Norris fighting in Vietnam. At the same time he must try to sell the apartmen ...

Bring me the Head of Carmen M. (2019)

Ana, a Portuguese actress, dives into Brazil's current atmosphere of identity and political crisis while trying to portray in a feature film the colourful life of famous singer and actress Carmen Miranda, who helped define Brazil's identity. ...

Reviver (2018)

Greg (Jorge Caetano) is a screenwriter hired to write a script about Maria Guaranis, a radical-style artist who has gone missing. As the author produces the script, he ends up identifying with Maria and getting lost in the creation process. ...

Camelôs (2018)

A sensory journey in the city of Rio de Janeiro with street vendors and street artists as characters in this urban cartography in which past and present are crossed. ...

Sigilo Eterno (2018)

Heróis (2018)

Semente da Música Brasileira (2018)

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 Ri ...

Quebranto (2018)

A film of the literary hallucinations and existential dreams of the character João, who is also José and Joyce, anthropophagically enchanted by cinema in his two hours of life. ...

Bandeira de Retalhos (2018)

Vidigal Hill, 1977. A runaway group of bandits engage in a complex love triangle in the brink of the news that the corrupt Rio de Janeiro mayor decided to make everyone move out of Vidigal, aided by police forces. ...

Eu Preciso Destas Palavras Escritas (2017)

Arthur Bispo do Rosario's past is practically unknown. It is only known that he was black, a sailor and a boxer. In 1938 he was admitted to Colônia Juliano Moreira after a mystical delusion. ...

Salto no Vazio (2017)

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 ...

Refugiados (2017)

Rosemberg - Cinema, Colagem e Afetos (2017)

The life and work of director Luiz Rosemberg Filho. ...

Pazucus: Island of Vomit and Despair (2017)

In the wild island of Pazúcus, everything is hopeless. Oréstia & Omar seek to harmonize their relationship in a camp and find themselves gradually oppressed by nature, which changes from paradisiac to hellish. Simultaneously, inside Carlos' intestines, f ...

Funk Brasil - 5 Visões do batidão (2016)

Guerra do Paraguay (2016)

A soldier coming home after the Paraguay War meets a theater group. A shock between war and art. ...

Estamos Vivos (2016)

Ainda me Sobra Eu (2016)

Even though he dies, he still has something left. Which side are you on? ...

The Mayor (2015)

The mayor of the city of Rio de Janeiro wants to go down in history. For this purpose, he decides to separate Rio from Brazil and create a new country. ...

Rosemberg 70 (2015)

Projeto Beirute (2015)

We are in the Sahara, in Rio de Janeiro, but it could be Beirut! ...

Um Filme Francês (2015)

Cléo is making her first film, inspired by french cinema and the nouvelle vague. ...

Outono (2014)

From a lifetime, a single memory has survived. Only one. ...

Rio em Chamas (2014)

A omnibus film about protests in Rio de Janeiro during 2013. ...

Ossos (2014)

City of God: 10 Years Later (2013)

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 ...

Seventy (2013)

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 w ...

A Mulher de Longe (2012)

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 wri ...

Duas, Uma (2012)

A body with different temporalities resizes the movements of the same choreography. ...

Craft (2011)

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 ...

Let's Make a Toast (2011)

On New Year's Eve, six friends reunite to celebrate the new year. As the night progresses, the revelry soon gives in to long-seated conflicts as well as joys and hopes for a better future. ...

Paraíso Aqui Vou Eu (2011)

Disillusioned teacher Sara and forgotten poet Francisco were once married and now decide to meet again to talk about their hopes and anxieties. The former couple ends up meeting the young Penelope who changes their lives with her free way of being. ...

House 9 (2011)

In the 1970s, in the midst of a military dictatorship, composer Jards Macalé and filmmaker Luiz Carlos Lacerda (Bigode) shared a house in Rio de Janeiro - which became a center of convergence for musicians, filmmakers and writers, and where they performed ...

A Distração de Ivan (2010)

Várias Vidas de Joana (2009)

Vida de Balconista (2009)

Mateus is a video store clerk that deals with several weird clients everyday while he dreams to be a filmmaker like Tarantino. ...

Vidigal (2008)

Engano (2008)

A man. A woman. A city. Two tracking shots. ...

Seven Minutes (2007)

In the favela, two drug dealers decide to meet to settle scores. ...

L.A.P.A. (2007)

Documentary about the world of hip hop and the daily life of those who seek to survive from music in Brazil, all set in the traditional neighborhood of Lapa Carioca. ...

Pretinho Babylon (2007)

A Rastafarian living in Greater Babylon. ...

Cinema Marginal (2006)

A short film about Brazilian underground filmmaking of the late 1960s and 1970s, known as the "Cinema Marginal" movement. ...

4 x Nós do Morro (2005)

Muro das Vertentes (2024)

Favela do Papa (2023)

The film shows the resistance movement of the residents of Favela do Vidigal against the removal order, an important chapter in the history of Rio de Janeiro in the 1970s. ...

Salto no Vazio (2017)

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 ...