Jorge Bodanzky

As Cores e Amores de Lore (2025)

Directed by Jorge Bodanzky, As Cores e Amores de Lore tells the story of German painter Eleonore Koch, Volpi's only disciple who, having settled in Brazil since World War II, lived freely and intensely, always dedicated to her art. Based on a series of mee ...

Limites do Diáfano (2024)

A compilation of some of the Super-8 materials shot by Jorge Bodanzky during the Brazilian military dictatorship, blending domestic footage, experiments with the cinematographic medium, and the traces, in an amateur format, of some of his thematic and styl ...

Amazônia, a Nova Minamata? (2022)

Babenco: Tell Me When I Die (2020)

Besieged by cancer and nearing the end, the genius Argentine-Brazilian filmmaker Héctor Babenco (1946-2016) asks Bárbara Paz, his wife, for one last wish: to be the protagonist of his own death. ...

Utopia, Distopia (2020)

Jorge Bodanzy appeals to the emotional memories of the period he spent studying at the University of Brasilia to show us a tableau of youth in the 1960s, with their dreams and expectations, their hardships, and interrupted projects. ...

Ruivaldo, O Homem que Salvou a Terra (2019)

In Brazil, in the State of Mato Grosso do Sul, in the region of the Rio Taquari, the increasing and continuous silting of the rivers has led to the overflow of waters and the flooding of lands over the years, causing significant changes in the lives of its ...

O Clique Único de Assis Horta (2015)

Documentary about the Minas Gerais photographer Assis Horta, who immortalized the architectural heritage and society of Diamantina. The great impulse of his career came in 1943, with the Consolidation of Labor Laws, promulgated by Getúlio Vargas. By makin ...

Pandemonium (2010)

In the middle of the River, Between Trees (2009)

Filmmaker Jorge Bodanzky gives some classes to local communties at Alto Solimões in the Amazom and collect the results. ...

À Margem do Concreto (2007)

Documentary about homeless people squatting in São Paulo, Brazil. ...

Navigating the Amazon: A Voyage with Jorge Mautner (2006)

In March 2006, the team for the Navegar Amazônia project left the Jandiá Channel in Macapá, bound for Belém. On board a regional boat, adapted with a modern multimedia laboratory, were the project team and thirty persons, including musicians and filmma ...

Once Upon a Time There Was Iracema (2005)

A making-of directed by Bodanzky himself, the documentary discusses the language of the film Iracema - Uma Transa Amazônica 30 years after it was made, gathering interviews with the authors, actors, critics and the filmmakers themselves. ...

À propos de "Tristes Tropiques" (1991)

The film evokes the stay in Brazil of Claude Levi-Strauss, an ethnologist, who stayed there from 1934 to 1938. His stay gave rise to the book "Tristes Tropiques". Based on images taken in 1935 and today, his statements reconstruct his intellectual journey ...

Ôrí (1989)

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

A Igreja dos Oprimidos (1986)

Documentary that tells several stories: of the struggle of rural workers in Conceição to recover their union; of Dona Mariquinha, widow of a murdered squatter and her miraculous effort to survive with her six children; de Rosa and community work in the O ...

Terceiro Milênio (1981)

August, 1980. Evandro Carreira, a Brazilian senator leaves his party's office in Manaus to visit his constituents in the state of Amazonas. Interviews with farmhands, loggers, explorer Paulo Lucena, Brazilian and Peruvian Indians and a representative of th ...

Jari (1979)

Documentary filmed in the Jari Project area – multinational enclave, located between Pará and the then Federal Territory of Amapá, on the occasion of the visit made to the Project by the Parliamentary Commission of Inquiry about the devastation of the ...

Os Mucker (1979)

In 1873 in Rio Grande do Sul, a group of peasants come together to form a community of brothers, arousing the enmity of the rest of the population. They are immigrants from the German region and develop a communitary social model, having the Bible as a cod ...

Iracema (1976)

A girl from the countryside goes to the city of Belém to take part in the Círio de Nazaré celebrations. Led to prostitution, she wishes to move to the wealthiest Southeast region of Brazil. In a dance club, she meets a truck driver that transports wood. ...

Gitirana (1975)

Yesterday, the inhabitants of the Nordeste had to abandon their land for lack of water. Today, floods are driving them out... Deprived of their roots, the people continue to remain faithful to their traditions and beliefs, while progress is imposed by the ...

Folias do Divino (1974)

Industriearbeiter in Deutschland – Industriearbeiter in Brasilien (1974)

A parallel of the life and work of two Volkswagen workers, one in Brazil and the other in Germany, who perform identical functions in assembling the VW Beetle. ...

O Homem Que Descobriu o Nu Invisível (1973)

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 ...

O Fabuloso Fittipaldi (1973)

Documentary about race car driver Emerson Fittipaldi ...

De Raízes e Rezas, Entre Outros (1972)

Bexiga, Ano Zero (1971)

A brief look at the traditional Bexiga, am important neighborhood in the early 20th century with the massive arrival of Italian immigrants who felt at home while developing their businesses and generating a great economy to São Paulo. But in the second ha ...

Pantanal (1971)

Caminhos de Valderez (1971)

Gamal, O Delírio do Sexo (1970)

Symbolic film from the Underground Movement of Brazilian Cinema (Cinema Marginal) about a woman, three men and some apes. In the director's own words: "a fable where realism and logic have no place, and in which sex is a translation of all the tortures, ci ...

The Prophet of Hunger (1970)

The story of a fakir who works in a decadent circus. He and his colleagues do weirder numbers each day to attract audience, and warrant their survival. The numbers resemble a horror-show and they get marginalized. Through fable and allegory, reality turns ...

Em Cada Coração um Punhal (1970)

A woman asks her boyfriend for his mother's heart as a proof of love. Another, a kleptomaniac, has an affair with a TV professional. And a young man becomes a sex symbol after an advertising campaign. ...

Viva Cariri (1970)

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

Copacabana Fools Me (1969)

Marquinhos is in his early 20s and lives in Copacabana with his petits bourgeois parents and older brother. He doesn't have a job, he doesn't go to school, he just lives on the spur of the moment, watches TV, plays soccer on the beach by day and goes out w ...

Compasso de Espera (1969)

Jorge de Oliveira is an Afro-Brazilian poet who works in a publicity agency in São Paulo. Torn between his rich white lovers and his black family and friends, Jorge's situation serves as a springboard to a discussion about racial issues in Brazil. ...

Hitler in the Third World (1968)

Paranoia, guilt, misery, and technology in the developing country. A fragmented narrative, distorted frames, shouts, and noises. The Nazis take over São Paulo: prison and torture of revolutionaries, a samurai lost in chaos, locked lovers, a dictator and h ...

Foundling-Bird (1968)

Fragments of fairy tales alternate with observations of children. Documentary and staged sequences are combined. There is no break and no contrast between reality, the children's behavior and the imagination; they merge into one another. ...

Embu (1968)

Auf der Suche nach dem Glück (1967)

In 8 miniatures, the search for happiness is approached from a different angle. Can you have a guinea pig as a husband? Can horses survive on Venus? How do you live with an alien woman? ...

As Cores e Amores de Lore (2025)

Directed by Jorge Bodanzky, As Cores e Amores de Lore tells the story of German painter Eleonore Koch, Volpi's only disciple who, having settled in Brazil since World War II, lived freely and intensely, always dedicated to her art. Based on a series of mee ...

Limites do Diáfano (2024)

A compilation of some of the Super-8 materials shot by Jorge Bodanzky during the Brazilian military dictatorship, blending domestic footage, experiments with the cinematographic medium, and the traces, in an amateur format, of some of his thematic and styl ...

Candango: Memoirs from a Festival (2020)

In 1965, a year after the military coup in Brazil, an oasis of freedom opened in the country's capital. The Brasília Film Festival: a landmark of cultural and political resistance. Its story is that of Brazilian cinema itself. ...

Utopia, Distopia (2020)

Jorge Bodanzy appeals to the emotional memories of the period he spent studying at the University of Brasilia to show us a tableau of youth in the 1960s, with their dreams and expectations, their hardships, and interrupted projects. ...

Rito do Amor Selvagem (2019)

The Age of Water (2018)

The film warns us about the world's water crisis and the international greed for the Amazon Forest, the largest fresh water reservoir on the planet. In addition to concentrating 20% of the world's drinking water, the Amazon is the region with the greatest ...

Once Upon a Time There Was Iracema (2005)

A making-of directed by Bodanzky himself, the documentary discusses the language of the film Iracema - Uma Transa Amazônica 30 years after it was made, gathering interviews with the authors, actors, critics and the filmmakers themselves. ...

Audácia! (1970)

Segment "Prólogo": interviews and scenes with some of the most important filmmakers of the "Boca do Lixo" of São Paulo. Segment "A Badaladíssima dos Trópicos x Os Picaretas do Sexo": shenanigans of a troubled fictional film production. Segment "Amor 69 ...