Gilberto Gil

Kopenawa: Sonhar a Terra-Floresta (2026)

3 Obás de Xangô (2025)

The friendship between Jorge Amado, Dorival Caymmi, and Carybé, artists who were largely responsible for creating an image of the culture of Bahia that persists to this day, and who believed that the strength of their work lay in documenting what they saw ...

Nas Ondas de Dorival Caymmi (2024)

The film reveals the creation of poet Dorival Caymmi's musical works with testimonies from researchers, journalists and friends who lived with him and were able to enjoy his wisdom and talent. ...

Toquinho Maravilhoso (2024)

The documentary narrates the life of Toquinho, one of the greatest Brazilian artists, a musician who transcends the barriers of time and language with his sensitivity. A story that shapes Brazilian popular music. ...

Dorival Caymmi - Um Homem de Afetos (2024)

An irresistible journey through the universe of the singer and composer that revolutionized the song in Brazil and influenced generations of musicians, paving the way for movements such as Bossa Nova and Tropicália. ...

A Última Vanguarda (2024)

70 years ago, a visionary management in education and culture as a political strategy for the dissemination and development of Bahia gave rise to an artistic vanguard that still impacts Brazilian culture today. ...

They Shot the Piano Player (2023)

New York, 2010. Jeff Harris, a music journalist, sets out to uncover the truth about Francisco Tenório Júnior, a young Brazilian samba-jazz pianist who disappeared in Buenos Aires on March 18, 1976. ...

Môa, Mother Africa Roots (2023)

The documentary that began together with Mestre Môa do Katendê before his political murder, tells the life story of this capoeirista and founder of Afoxé Badauê, intertwined with the rise of black cultural manifestations in Bahia, based on a last inter ...

Bios: Os Paralamas do Sucesso (2023)

The backstory and legacy of Brazilian rock band Os Paralamas do Sucesso is examined in this fascinating music documentary. With previously unseen footage, access to present-day rehearsals, and a visit to where it all began, TV presenter Roberta Martinelli ...

Chic Show (2023)

Discover the history of the Chic Show ball, an iconic black music party in São Paulo. The event was a milestone in the life of São Paulo. Held in halls across the city in the 1970s and 1980s, the show became a meeting point for black culture and opened u ...

Germano Mathias - O Catedrático do Samba (2023)

A white man, yet forged in the samba de engraxate that had its main stronghold in downtown São Paulo, Germano Mathias became an icon of a musical style that mixed a lot of "malandragem" and poetry. We follow Germano as he recounts his life, journey, and b ...

The Long Voyage of the Yellow Bus (2023)

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 backwards and forward. The various pasts – the 60s, the 80s, the 2000s – comment on each other in a way that ...

Lupicínio Rodrigues, Confessions of a Sufferer (2022)

The documentary celebrates the poetic legacy of Lupicínio Rodrigues, investigating the musical contribution and historical context of this composer born in Rio Grande do Sul and author of hits that surpass generations. ...

Breaking Myths (2022)

"Breaking Myths" aims to open the world's eyes to the fragile and "catastrophic masculinity" of Brazil's current President Jair Bolsonaro, a fanatical far-right politician who can best be described as the Brazilian Donald Trump — and who is up for a seco ...

Maria: Ninguém Sabe Quem Sou Eu (2022)

The film is an unprecedented and exclusive testimonial of Maria Bethânia from director and screenwriter Carlos Jardim, interspersed with rare footage of rehearsals and concerts by the singer throughout her 57-year career. Actress Fernanda Montenegro narra ...

O Presidente Improvável (2022)

Gilberto Gil: Um Deus em seu Jardim (2021)

Arraial do Gil (2021)

Pelé (2021)

Against the backdrop of a turbulent era in Brazil, this documentary captures Pelé's extraordinary path from breakthrough talent to national hero. Mixing rare archival footage and exclusive interviews, this documentary celebrates the legendary Brazilian fo ...

Amor e Sorte com Gilberto Gil (2020)

De Cabral a George Floyd: Onde Arde o Fogo Sagrado da Liberdade (2020)

Through clippings, the film draws a narrative line between the construction of racism in Brazil and the United States, having as base the European invasion of the continent, police violence, the genocide of the black people, the massacre of indigenous peop ...

Gilberto Gil - Concerto de Cordas & Máquinas de Ritmo (2020)

Encontros Tropicais (2020)

Gilberto Gil Antologia Vol.1 (2019)

The documentary goes through works composed by the Bahian musician between 1968 and 1987. Brazilian musician Gilberto Gil, one of the most well-known members of the Tropicália generations, revisits some of his most famous works on this documentary. ...

Dorivando Saravá, o Preto Que Virou Mar (2019)

Singer, composer, actor and painter, Dorival Caymmi was a multiple artist, but what they may not know is his pioneering work in introducing candomblé into Brazilian popular music. Recreating in a poetic way concepts present in Caymmi's work and life, the ...

Mito e Música: A Mensagem de Fernando Pessoa (2019)

The documentary addresses the project, which took 30 years to complete, about the recording of 44 songs created for each poem in Mensagem, one of Fernando Pessoa's most emblematic books. ...

Refavela 40 (2019)

In 1976, Gilberto Gil traveled to Lagos (Nigeria) with the purpose of participating in the Second Festival of Black Art and Culture. The event had the participation of approximately fifty thousand Afro-descendant and Diaspora artists. After the trip, Gil r ...

October (2019)

A view of Brazil's 2018 Presidential Elections, held in October of that year. ...

Jackson: Na Batida do Pandeiro (2019)

The life and career history of singer and percussionist Jackson do Pandeiro, whose originality and unusual rhythmic quality influenced several prominent artists in Brazilian popular music. With unpublished testimonies from professional colleagues and famil ...

1964: Brazil between weapons and books (2019)

We question the most unquestionable period in our history. The result was an international investigation with part of secret attempts, discovery of Soviet documents and a lot of investigation by the Brazilian media. It was all under our eyes. ...

O Barato de Iacanga (2019)

Participants recall a series of festivals held on a farm in Brazil during the '70s and '80s that evolved into liberating celebrations of music. ...

All Love Songs (2018)

Chico and Ana move to an apartment in São Paulo. As they unpack Ana found a cassette tape. It's a mix-tape that Clarisse made 20 years earlier to her husband Daniel. Albeit separated by time, both stories will cross paths in a unique way. ...

O Outro Lado da Memória (2018)

In 1996, filmmaker André Luiz Oliveira started preproduction of Viva o Povo Brasileiro, a film adaptation of the novel by João Ubaldo Ribeiro. Principal photography went on for nine years, but the production was shut down after a series of unfortunate ev ...

Dê Lembranças a Todos (2018)

Dorival Caymmi was one of the inventors of the Bahian imagination. In his 94 years of life, Caymmi composed, sang, wrote, illustrated and thought about his Bahia, even far from it. His family, partners, friends and fans remember his history, which made him ...

Smetak (2018)

Tropicália: 50 Anos (2017)

Dunas do Barato (2017)

A rescue of the history of Ipanema beach in the 1970s, when the construction of a pier changed the landscape and created fertile soil for a generation of artists and sportsmen. ...

Torquato Neto - Every Hour of the End (2017)

The story of Brazilian poet Torquato Neto, who lived passionately through fracturous times and worked in several fields, including music, journalism, and cinema. He was an active participant in the revolution of Tropicália and marginal art, which changed ...

Eu, Meu Pai e Os Cariocas (2017)

Axé: Music of a People (2017)

Originally from Bahia and considered today one of the most globalised musical movements in the world, Axé is a musical rhythm that carries in its essence a good part of all the musical and cultural syncretism of Bahia. The documentary brings together inte ...

Pitanga (2016)

This documentary investigates the aesthetic, political and existential trajectory of emblematic Black Brazilian actor Antônio Pitanga. His career spans over five decades, and he has worked with iconic Brazilian filmmakers Glauber Rocha, Cacá Diegues and ...

Beard, Hair & Stache (2016)

Afonsinho, Paulo Cézar Caju and Nei Conceição started their careers in the mid-1960s, a time of strong political repression in Brazil. Originally teammates of a celebrated generation of the Botafogo football team superstars, they did not give up their f ...

Rio 2016 Olympic Opening Ceremony: A New World (2016)

With fireworks forming the word "Rio" in the sky and supermodel Gisele Bundchen shimmering to the tune of "The Girl from Ipanema," Rio de Janiero welcomed the world to the first Olympic Games in South America with a serious message underlying the celebrati ...

Yorimatã (2016)

The lives of Luhli and Lucina, two especially important artists in the alternative cultural scene during the 1970s. In a time when transgression, love and peace guided behavior, we discover the love of two women for art, their spiritual universe, their liv ...

Chico Science: Um Caranguejo Elétrico (2016)

Rogério Duarte, o Tropikaoslista (2015)

Rogério Duarte is one of the most important names in Tropicália, a Brazilian cultural movement of the 1960s. The plastic artist was one of the first to publicly denounce the tortures committed in the military regime. During the dictatorship, its politica ...

Circo Voador - A Nave (2015)

In 1982, the Arpoador Beach, in Rio de Janeiro, received the first "incarnation" of Circo Voador, a venue for artists of diverse aspects showing their art to the public. Months later, Circo landed at Lapa, the city's most bohemian neighborhood. Today, more ...

Two Friends, a Century of Music (2015)

Two of the biggest names in 20th century pop music together on stage, accompanied by their guitars. In "Two Friends, A Century of Music", Caetano Veloso and Gilberto Gil celebrate their 50 years of career by retaking the partnership on stage. In simple and ...

André Midani - An Insider’s Story Of Brazilian Music (2015)

Based on the autobiography of noted music executive André Midani, André Midani — An Insider's Story of Brazilian Music (2015) explores Brazilian music throughout his five-decade career through informal gatherings and jam sessions at his home, featuring ...

Dominguinhos (2014)

Through rare and precious footages and gigs with great artists such as Gilberto Gil, Gal Costa, Hermeto Pascoal, Djavan, Nara Leao, Luiz Gonzaga, among many others, "Dominguinhos" reveals this genius of Brazilian music, creator of a deeply authentic, unive ...

Copacabana, Mon Amour: A Restauração (2014)

A documentary on the restoration of Rogério Sganzerla's 1970 film "Copacabana, Mon Amour". ...

A Farra do Circo (2013)

This documentary highlights the evolution of Brazil's Circo Voador venue from homespun artists' performance space to national cultural institution. ...

Viramundo (2013)

Gilberto Gil is among Brazil's most famous musicians, having influenced an entire generation in South America and beyond. Now in his seventies, he is serving as Brazil's first black Minister of Culture. Preoccupied with many realities of the modern world ...

Festive Land: Carnival in Bahia (2013)

Festive Land examines one of the largest and most extraordinary popular celebrations in the world, the week-long Carnival that brings more than two million people to the streets of Salvador, the capital of Bahia, in northeastern Brazil. Carnival is the mos ...

Futuro do Pretérito: Tropicalismo Now! (2012)

A look of the 21st century for one of the most important cultural movements in Brazilian history. The production brings a mix of interviews, concerts, artistic interventions and actors in small sketches. An intersection of the social and artistic contexts ...

Tropicália (2012)

Set against the turbulent atmosphere of the 1960s, Tropicália is a feature length documentary exploring the Brazilian artistic movement known as Tropicália, and the struggle its artists endured to protect their right to freely express revolutionary thoug ...

Jorge Mautner: Son of the Holocaust (2012)

The film follows the birth of Jorge Mautner up to his 17 years. He was born in Brazil shortly after his parents fled the Holocaust. Raised by a nanny who introduced him to Candomblé, Mautner became a precursor of the Tropicália, contributing to the const ...

Aperana Street 52 (2012)

In his film Rua Aperana 52 Júlio Bressane describes the invention of a landscape, the topology of a corner of Rio de Janeiro. The film consists of a series of photographs taken between 1909 and 1955 by, among others, Bressane's parents at and around the a ...

Especial: Ivete, Gil e Caetano (2011)

Year-end special brought together three interpreters of Brazilian popular music - Gilberto Gil, Caetano Veloso and Ivete Sangalo - to honour the Brazilian woman. ...

O Velho Guerreiro Não Morrerá - O Cangaceiro de Lima Barreto 50 Anos Depois (2011)

Canções do Exílio: A Labareda Que Lambeu Tudo (2011)

Caetano Veloso, Gilberto Gil, Jards Macalé and Jorge Mautner recall important moments during the military dictatorship the befell in Brazil from 1964 to 1985. The film presents the events of the prison, life in exile and the return to the country. ...

2012: Time for Change (2010)

2012: Time For Change is a documentary feature that presents ways to transform our unsustainable society into a regenerative planetary culture. This can be achieved through a personal and global change of consciousness and the systemic implementation of ec ...

A Night in 67 (2010)

In the 1970s, "festivals" were incredibly popular in Brazil, as they were recorded before a live studio audience, and usually featured a number of elimination rounds. They also formed the springboard for the career of many a big-name stars, such as Chico B ...

Ana Carolina - Multishow Registro Ana Car9lina + Um: 9+1 (2010)

Duetos (2010)

"Duetos" is the sixth compilation by Brazilian musical artist Ivete Sangalo, released on May 5, 2010 by Universal Music. The collection brings together 16 duets that Ivete made throughout her career, from 1999 to 2009. It's an opportunity for fans to be c ...

Gilberto Gil, the Power of Music (2010)

Gilberto Gil – Fé Na Festa (2010)

Hello, Hello, Terezinha! (2009)

Hello, Hello, Terezinha! is a feature-length documentary about the country's biggest communication phenomenon. Politically incorrect, radical, renewing, Chacrinha changed Brazilian television forever and expressed a Brazil that was around it, but was not p ...

Beyond Ipanema (2009)

This documentary from filmmaker Guto Barra takes you beyond the 1960s bossa nova hit "The Girl from Ipanema" to explore how samba, Brazilectro and other Brazilian music styles have long captivated audiences and influenced musicians around the world. Mixing ...

Dzi Croquettes (2009)

A Brazilian theatre group that through talent, irony and humour confronted the Brazilian violent dictatorship in the 1970s revolutionising the gay movement worldwide and changing theatre and dance language to an entire generation. ...

Loki: Arnaldo Baptista (2009)

Loki brings the trajectory of Arnaldo Baptista from childhood, passing through the most successful phase as leader of the Mutantes, marriage to singer Rita Lee and then separation. He also goes through the depression that devastated his life after the grou ...

RiP!: A Remix Manifesto (2008)

RiP!: A Remix Manifesto is a 2008 open source documentary film about the "the changing concept of copyright" directed by Brett Gaylor. ...

Permanent Pan-Cinema (2008)

Documentary about Brazilian poet Waly Salomão, for whom life was always a fictional film and poetry was a way to expose any naturalistic pretention. His convictions affected many friends like Antonio Cícero, Caetano Veloso and Carlos Nader, who documente ...

The Man Who Bottled Clouds (2008)

A host of personalities reminisce about the life and work of songwriter, lawyer, and congressman Humberto Teixeira — aka "Baião Doctor" — the author of such classic Brazilian popular songs as "Asa Branca". A musical film about the baião, a movement i ...

Beth Carvalho Canta o Samba da Bahia (2008)

Jards Macalé - Um Morcego na Porta Principal (2008)

This film shines a light at the story of Jards Macalé, polemic artist and controversial character of Brazilian culture over the last four decades. Author of songs such as "Vapor Barato" and "Movimento dos Barcos", a partner in crime of poet Waly Salomão, ...

Cidade do Samba (2007)

Por Toda Minha Vida: Elis Regina (2006)

O Sol - Caminhando contra o vento (2006)

Documentary about the 68-generation, told through the story of the newspaper "O Sol", one of the first vehicles of the alternative Brazilian press, produced daily for six months, in the 1960s. The newspaper spoke of culture, politics and education through ...

Gal - from Tropicalism to the Present Day (2006)

The film has Gal's career as its guiding principle, drawing a parallel with the movement of which the singer was the muse and one of the main interpreters, and reaching the present day. ...

Fabricating Tom Zé (2006)

The life and work of one of the most controversial Brazilian musicians, having as its backdrop Tom Zé's 2005 European Tour. The documentary shows a detailed vision of Tom Zé's personal musical universe, in which a guitar and a vacuum cleaner have the sam ...

Nenhum Motivo Explica a Guerra (2006)

Afroreggae Cultural Group DVD containing a concert and a documentary about the group's social and cultural work at the favelas in Rio de Janeiro. ...

Vinicius de Moraes (2005)

To celebrate the life and the work of a multifaceted creator – playwright, poet, partner of the most important names of Brazilian pop music and, above all, an enlightened character of the Brazilian cultural history - director Miguel Faria Jr. gathered an ...

Maria Bethânia: Música é Perfume (2005)

Brazilian singer Maria Bethania has a 40-year singing career. A documentary shows her concerts and famous family. ...

Looking for Black Orpheus (2005)

Documentary about Marcel Camus' 1959 film Black Orpheus, its cultural and musical roots, and its resonance in Brazil today. ...

Phono 73: A Country and its Music (2005)

The biggest Brazilian historical festival of all time. The great cast of the 1973 Phonogram (now Universal Music) meets in three nights to protest against the curtailment of freedom of expression in those dark years of the dictatorship. With the images res ...

Gilberto Gil : Electroacústico (2004)

MTV Ao Vivo: Ivete Sangalo - 10 Anos (2004)

Live performance by brazilian singer Ivete Sangalo recorded at Salvador, Brazil, presented by MTV. ...

Born To Be Blind (2003)

Three blind sisters, Regina, Maria and Conceição, earn their living by singing in front of churches, in Brazil... They tell their amazing stories, full of drama, heartache, rape, poverty, death and hope. ...

Agostinho da Silva - A Living Thought (2003)

Life and legacy of Agostinho da Silva. Traversing the biographical journey, the life and work of the Luso-Brazilian philosopher, this work has testimonies from himself and various personalities of Portugal and Brazil that allow us to unravel his personali ...

Outros (Doces) Bárbaros (2002)

Almost thirty years after the first reunion of Doces Bárbaros (four of Brazil's major popular music stars: Caetano Veloso, Gilberto Gil, Gal Costa and Maria Bethânia), the artists involved decided to get together again for limited concerts in São Paulo ...

Viva São João! (2002)

Composer Gilberto Gil accompanies filmmaker Andrucha Waddington to the Northeast of Brazil. Among the rural communities in the region, Gil and Waddignton participate in the Catholic celebration of Saint John's Day with music and dance. Waddington also anal ...

Gilberto Gil: Kaya N'Gandaya (2002)

Gilberto Gil's 2002 album combines Brazilian pop with roots reggae. Featuring 11 of Bob Marley's greatest hits recorded in Tuff Gong Studios, Kingston, Jamaica. Includes special guest appearances from members of Bob Marley & The Wailers group. 16 tracks. W ...

Rogério Duprat - Vida de Músico (2002)

Documentary about amazing Brazilian musician Rogério Duprat, main orchestrator of Tropicália, his rehearsals with Gal Costa, Os Mutantes, Gilberto Gil and Caetano Veloso. There's also the first performance of his 1958 "5 Pieces for a Solo Cello" and piec ...

Samba Riachão (2001)

Documentary about samba musician from Bahia Clementino Rodrigues, aka Riachão. ...

Brazil's Maria Bethânia (2001)

This is a journey of friendship, an Argentinian is going to rediscover his continent while searching for his friend from Bahia. And while the work, the records and the career of this great lady of Brazilian music are well known, the starting point, the tra ...

Toquinho (2001)

O Cinema Segundo Vladimir Carvalho (2001)

The documentary presents an overview of Vladimir Carvalho's cinematographic career, from the very beginning, as a co-writer of "Aruanda" (1960), directed by Linduarte Noronha, to the present day. With Vladimir himself as the main narrator and illustrated b ...

Multishow Ao Vivo - Brasil (2001)

Brésil: La Révolution Tropicaliste (2001)

A documentary on the amazing Brazilian music movement known as Tropicália. ...

I Want (2000)

Two kids merrily play make-believe inside their house, unaware of the inequality that exists in the world. ...

Pierre Fatumbi Verger: Messenger Between Two Worlds (1998)

Inspired by the life of the french-born photographer and ethnographer, Pierre Verger, the movie follows his journey between Bahia, Brazil and Benin, Oriental Africa, showing places and people he met and his life study project: the Candomblé culture. ...

Ed Mort (1997)

A detective is hired by a mysterious woman to find her missing husband, a master of disguises, and important industry executive. ...

Milton Nascimento - A Sede do Peixe (1997)

In December 1997, in Rio de Janeiro, Minas Gerais composer Milton Nascimento brought together friends and career partners for the special "A Sede do Peixe" (The Thirst of the Fish). Featuring Caetano Veloso, Alcione, Skank, Nana Caymmi, and Gilberto Gil, t ...

Bahia de Todos os Sambas (1996)

Between August 23 and 31, 1983, at the "Circo Massimo", in Rome, there was a musical event that brought together artists from Bahia. This film brings a recording of the event, also featuring backstage, rehearsals, testimonies and some relaxing moments of t ...

Jorge Amado (1996)

Gilberto Gil: Tempo Rei (1996)

Tempo Rei is the first audiovisual record of Gilberto Gil's vast work, celebrating the artist's thirty-year career, celebrated in 1996. Gil recalls his artistic trajectory, recalls striking facts and reveals some intimacies. Completely filmed on film, it i ...

The Mandarin (1995)

The history of Brazilian popular music in the 20th Century, focusing specially on the life and works of intriguing singer Mário Reis, a loner who, with his special way of singing - whispering and softly saying the words - in a time when singers with poten ...

Gilberto Gil: Unplugged (1994)

This performance by Gilberto Gil was recorded live at Estúdio Frame in São Paulo on January 18, 1994, as part of the MTV Unplugged series. It was originally broadcast on MTV later that year and released in 1994 on CD, LP and cassette. In 2001, the concer ...

Maldito Popular Brasileiro: Arnaldo Dias Baptista (1993)

Beijoqueiro: Portrait of a Serial Kisser (1992)

The story of the portuguese serial kisser, who travelled the whole world searching famous people to kiss. ...

Torquato Neto, O Anjo Torto da Tropicália (1992)

A documentary chronicling the life and works of Brazilian poet, songwriter, journalist and avant-garde filmmaker Torquato Neto, from his beginnings to his suicide at the age of 28. ...

Chico, or the Country of the Lost Delicacy (1989)

A look into the 25 years of career of famous musician Chico Buarque and his influence in Brazilian culture. ...

Ôrí (1989)

A look at the Brazilian black movement between 1977 and 1988, going by the relationship between Brazil and Africa. ...

Hunting Season (1988)

Hunting Season deals with the wave of homosexual murders that plagued São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro in the 1980s. With street statements and cultural and artistic figures such, such as Zé Celso, Jorge Mautner, Roberto Piva and others. ...

Black Fragments of Samba - Gilberto Gil, Serene Passion (1987)

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

Talking Cinema (1986)

A fragmented style, patchwork of interviews with Caetano Veloso's friends, mixed with conversations, thoughts, scenes of dance and literature excerpts. ...

Infinita Tropicália (1986)

Tropicália was a Brazilian cultural movement that occurred between 1967 and 1968, inspired by Oswald de Andrade's anthropophagic ideals, pop art and the concretism. Twenty years later, this film revisits the movement and shows that Tropicalismo will never ...

Making of - Quilombo (1984)

Corações a Mil (1983)

University teacher investigates the life of a famous Brazilian musician, trying to discover the secret of mass communication through his songs and performances, while ultimately falling in love with one of his groupies. ...

Gilbertianas Brasileiras (1983)

Brasil (1981)

João Gilberto receives Caetano Veloso, Gilberto Gil and Maria Bethânia during the recording of his album Brasil. ...

Caterina Valente presents Brazilian music (1979)

Os Doces Bárbaros (1977)

The film records the commemorative tour of the ten years of the career of the Bahia singers Caetano Veloso, Gilberto Gil, Maria Bethânia and Gal Costa, who formed the group with the name of Doces Bárbaros (Sweet Barbarians), at the suggestion of Bethân ...

Gilberto Gil - Refazenda (1975)

In 1975 Gilberto Gil was releasing his album 'Refazenda', and talk a little about it in this interview. ...

Bahia de Todos os Santos (1974)

Passe Livre (1974)

Based on the life of the player Afonsinho, who was banned from playing football for growing his beard and hair and refusing to cut them. Fighting for his rights, the player managed to become the owner of his own transfer rights, that is, he obtained a "fre ...

Álbum de Música (1974)

Portrait of various figures in Brazilian pop music. ...

The Demiurge (1972)

A colorful feature film that mixes exile with the figure of the poet Rimbaud and the feminist revolution. "It's super-intellectual. A fable-musical-philosophical-chanchada", Mautner says. He also affirms that the work focuses a lot on the longing for Brazi ...

Semana de Arte Moderna (1972)

O Tempo e o Som (1970)

Bahia, For Example (1969)

Through folklore manifestations and diverse artistic expressions, the film is a document that exalts and honors the Bahian culture. ...

brazil is thee haiti is (t)here (2020)

On March 16, 2020, in Brasília, an anonymous and unknown Haitian challenged the head of the nation: "Bolsonaro, it's over. You are not president anymore." This film poem counterpoints this situation with two military operations of Minustah (United Nations ...

The Assailant (2009)

Based on the life of a legendary capoeira fighter from Bahia, "Besouro" spins a fantastic tale of a young Brazilian man of African descent in search of his mission. ...

The Man Who Challenged the Devil (2007)

After being forced into a marriage and enduring a humiliating work routine in the hands of his father-in-law, Zé Araújo becomes the mythical Ojuara, an unconventional hero devoted to debauchery. ...

Looking for Black Orpheus (2005)

Documentary about Marcel Camus' 1959 film Black Orpheus, its cultural and musical roots, and its resonance in Brazil today. ...

Reticulum Rex (2003)

This film describes some of CC's success stories and gives insight into where we're headed. ...

Viva São João! (2002)

Composer Gilberto Gil accompanies filmmaker Andrucha Waddington to the Northeast of Brazil. Among the rural communities in the region, Gil and Waddignton participate in the Catholic celebration of Saint John's Day with music and dance. Waddington also anal ...

Me, You, Them (2000)

A true story that comically depicts the relationship between an ordinary woman and her three husbands, who live in the same house in a poor and arid small village of the Brazilian northeast. ...

Rio's Love Song (1994)

Four love stories which portray a wide gamut of emotions and desires against the backdrop of Rio de Janeiro. "Elephant's Stomp" : the story of a highway patrol officer who is infatuated with a mulatto dancer at a local nightclub. "Drao" : a publicity man a ...

Gilberto Gil: Unplugged (1994)

This performance by Gilberto Gil was recorded live at Estúdio Frame in São Paulo on January 18, 1994, as part of the MTV Unplugged series. It was originally broadcast on MTV later that year and released in 1994 on CD, LP and cassette. In 2001, the concer ...

Jubiabá (1987)

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 daughter of a rich Commander and Antonio Balduíno, a rascal, fighter and famous lover from Salvador. ...

Subway to the Stars (1987)

In this highly stylized Brazilian drama a sax player fondly remembers one wonderful night spent with his life's love and decides to find her again. He embarks upon a quest through the wild streets of Rio to find her. Along the way he meets an assortment of ...

Quilombo (1984)

Quilombo dos Palmares was a real-life democratic society, created in Brazil in the 17th century. This incredibly elaborate (and surprisingly little-known) film traces the origins of Quilombo, which began as a community of freed slaves. The colony becomes a ...

Corações a Mil (1983)

University teacher investigates the life of a famous Brazilian musician, trying to discover the secret of mass communication through his songs and performances, while ultimately falling in love with one of his groupies. ...

Tent of Miracles (1977)

When a prominent U.S. Nobel Laureate arrives in Salvador, Bahia, the city with the largest black population in Brazil, he stirs emotions by championing a long-forgotten local writer named Pedro Archanjo, who believed that humanity would be improved only th ...

Beste (1970)

Deformed form by which the word "beast" (medieval weapon) is pronounced in the north of the Brazilian state of Bahia and was still present in the cultural memory of the region. ...

Copacabana Mon Amour (1970)

Sônia and her homosexual brother are both believed by their mother to be possessed by the devil. She works as a prostitute in the streets of Copacabana and he's a servant who falls madly in love with his employer. ...

Viva Cariri (1970)

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

Brazil Year 2000 (1969)

Year 2000. Brazil was partially devastated by the Third World War. An immigrant family arrives in a small town, which they call "I Forgot." The trio is recruited by an indigenist to pretend to be indigenous during the visit of a general. In the dilemma of ...

Domingo no Parque (1968)

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 ...