Joel Yamaji

The Diary of Simonton (2012)

Lyrical evocation of passages from the diary of Ashbel Green Simonton who, in 1859, arrived in Brazil with the purpose of dividing his faith amidst anguish, doubt and nostalgia for the lost unity, laying the foundations of Presbyterianism in the country. ...

Um Grão De Claridade: No Percurso de Osman Lins (2010)

In the city of São Paulo, two women visit the places where the pernambucano writer Osman Lins lived. Current residents do not allow them to enter these places. Excerpts from two of the author's main novels written in São Paulo - Avalovara e A rainha dos ...

A Ira (2002)

Two sisters living their lifes. ...

Impressions for Clara (1998)

Remembrance of things past. ...

São Paulo: Symphony and Cacophony (1994)

An ode of love and hatred to the city of São Paulo. Composed of fragments of films, it follows characters in their natural habitat: the streets. ...

São Paulo, Cinemacity (1994)

Mixing new images to existing São Paulo movies takes, the documentary presents the city from the perspective of five main attributes: transformation, anonymity, crowd, precariousness and dimension. ...

O Espectador que o Cinema Esqueceu (1991)

Documentary about Waldemar Iglésias, a man living in Sorocaba, Brazil, who has been to the movies on a daily basis for 58 years. He talks about his childhood, his dreams, his favorite actors and actresses and the classic movies and cartoons. ...

Cafundó (1986)

Ana (1982)

An existential profile of primitivist painter Ana Moisés in her atelier in Embu, on the outskirts of São Paulo. ...

Roma Amor (1981)

Seen, Not Seen (2014)

A dialogue between the auteur's memories and the images he shot and kept during his long film career - sketches of live that were never shown, never seen, never edited. ...