Geraldo Sarno

Sertânia (2020)

When bandits take the town of Sertânia, Antão gets shot, arrested, and left to die. Bleeding out, Antão's delirious mind begins to recall the events that led up to the incident through a sequence of increasingly unreliable fever dreams. ...

A Linguagem do Cinema II (2016)

A 10-part documentary about 10 Brazilian filmmakers: Caca Diegues, Cao Guimarães, Edgard Navarro, Eduardo Nunes, Eryk Rocha, Luiz Carlos Barreto, Lucia Murat, Ricardo Miranda, Rosemberg Cariry and Walter Goulart. ...

Balzac's Last Novel (2011)

Documentary about the reminiscence of Balzac's works, spiritually and scientifically the documentary shows the strenght of this important work of French literature through the years. ...

Tudo Isto Me Parece um Sonho (2008)

Ana Carolina no País do Cinema (2001)

Documentary about the film director Ana Carolina. ...

A Linguagem do Cinema (2001)

A 10-part documentary about 10 Brazilian filmmakers: Linduarte Noronha, Jorge Furtado, Ruy Guerra, Murilo Salles, Paulo Caldas, Walter Salles & Daniela Thomas, David Neves, Julio Bressane, Ana Carolina and Carlos Reichenbach. ...

50 minutos e 23 segundos com Júlio Bressane (2000)

Deus é um Fogo (1987)

A Terra Queima (1984)

O côco do Macalé (1982)

Eu Carrego um Sertão Dentro de Mim (1980)

Colonel Delmiro Gouveia (1979)

In the beginning of the 20th Century, in the Northeast of Brazil, one of the first Brazilian industrialists is persecuted because he refuses to sell his business to a British company. ...

Plantar nas Estrelas (1978)

Iaô: A iniciação num terreiro Gege Nagô (1976)

A documentary on the Afro-Brazilian religion of Candomblé and its rites. ...

Espaço Sagrado (1975)

Short documentary film about the afrobrazilian religion Candomblé. ...

Segunda-Feira (1975)

Casa Grande e Senzala (1974)

O Picapau Amarelo (1973)

The Viscount of Sabugosa is locked in the library writing an encyclopedia about the characters in children's fables. Dona Benta receives a letter from little Thumb, written on a rose petal, in which he, realizing that the inhabitants of the world of fables ...

Semana de Arte Moderna (1972)

Padre Cícero (1971)

A short documentary that presents the legacy of Padre Cícero, an important priest for the Juazeiro do Norte community, who managed to bring progress and new developments to the town after a miracle to brought plenty of attention to the region. ...

Monteiro Lobato (1971)

Casa de Farinha (1970)

Documentation of the production of cassava flour, a basic component in northeastern Brazilian food. ...

O Engenho (1970)

The process of production of rapadura in the Brazilian state of Ceará. ...

Jornal do Sertão (1970)

A Cantoria (1970)

In May 1969 at Tres Irmãos Farm, Caruaru, PE: Lourival Batista and Severino Pinto, two singers by profession, meet for a challenge. This film documents some moments of the Cantoria. ...

Viva Cariri (1970)

The confrontations and conflicts between the city of Padre Cicero's pilgrims and the attempts to develop the region. ...

Os Imaginários (1970)

Pilgrims from the Northeast have the habit of buying images of characters in whom they identify exemplary behavior. By carving wood to shape these figures, the imaginary artists, artisans who make images of typical characters from the traditional Northeast ...

Vitalino/Lampião (1969)

From the clay used to make tiles or clay clay, an image of Lampião, the king of Cangaço, begins to emerge through the work of ceramicist Manuel Vitalino dos Santos. According to the artist, son of Mestre Vitalino, the most famous clay artisan in the Nort ...

Dramática Popular (1969)

True Brazil (1968)

In the late 1960s, Thomas Farkas imported equipment suitable for direct sound, and released a collection of documentaries called "Brasil Verdade" ("True Brazil"), after the Military Coup d'État took place in Brazil, which happened without any popular resi ...

The Outsiders (1968)

Guilherme, who has the police on his trail for having been involved with a niece of the mayor of his city, runs away with the girl after receiving threats. On the other side is "Papo Amarelo": a bandit from Rio de Janeiro who spends the rest of his problem ...

Satan's Feats in the Village of Take-and-Bring (1967)

In the village of Leva-e-Traz, the discovery of a oil field is responsible for a mass evasion of the townspeople. Left are the old and incapable for the extraction job. When the local priest announces he, too, is leaving the town, Satan emerge thrilled wit ...

Auto de Vitória (1966)

Roda & Outras Estórias (1965)

A Brazilian film, inspired by local publications known as literatura de cordel, that chronicled political, social and cultural events, as well as containing folk tales. ...

Viramundo (1965)

Viramundo shows the saga of the northeastern migrants that arrive in São Paulo, beginning with a train arriving and ending with a train leaving São Paulo in a cycle repeated every day. Viramundo's aim was to question why the military coup d'état in Braz ...

El acoso (1965)

A mercenary from the Bay of Pigs invasion escapes in search of protection and is taken in by a peasant woman who ignores his identity. ...

La decisión (1963)

Santiago de Cuba, 1956. Pablo, a young mulatto with a deep poetic sensibility, studies at the university. He loves María, who, despite her parents' wealthy position, is not accepted in high society because of the color of her skin. ...

Dois Sertões (2023)

The work and life of the important Brazilian filmmaker Geraldo Sarno are intimately revealed during the filming of the series "Sertão de Dentro" and the feature film "Sertânia". ...

Cinema Novo (2016)

A deep investigation, in the way of a poetic essay, on one of the main Latin American movements in cinema, analyzed via the thoughts of its main authors, who invented, in the early 1960s, a new way of making movies in Brazil, with a political attitude, alw ...

Reviramundo (2014)

Tudo Isto Me Parece um Sonho (2008)

Eu Carrego um Cinema Dentro de Mim (2008)

Milagrez (2008)

Documentary on "Antonio das Mortes", Glauber Rocha's 1969 film. ...

Depois do Transe (2006)

The documentary "Depois do Transe" covers the entire process of creating the masterpiece "Entranced Earth", which was released and awarded at the Cannes Film Festival in 1967. "Entranced Earth" charmed the world and won great admirers such as filmmaker Mar ...