Kiko Goifman

Bixa Travesty (2019)

A portrait of transgender musician and artist Linn da Quebrada, who uses her body and performances as weapons to fight sexism, homophobia, and racism. ...

The Destruction of Bernardet (2016)

Jean-Claude Bernardet, Brazil's most important living film critic, is old and sick, but tries to reinvent himself through his long disintegration. Shifting between fiction and documentary, A Destruição de Bernardet uses unusual tools to trigger his memor ...

Periscópio (2015)

Élvio and Eric live alone in a small apartment without talking to anyone else. The relationship between the two deteriorates until one day, mysteriously, a periscope appears in the room. ...

Look at Me Again (2012)

Syllvio Luccio is a transsexual male being transformed in the middle of the Brazilian dry lands, a region of high temperatures, poverty and where male's virility is extreme. ...

FilmeFobia (2008)

The making of an unfinished film about phobias. Says the director. Behind the screens, he discusses at length (with e.g. Coffin Joe) about the aesthetic boundaries of the project: volunteers under controlled circumstances become immersed in their phobias i ...

Amapô (2008)

Through a life story the film deals with issues related to human rights, such as the right to difference. The character's life is presented from others, otherness as a logic. The spectators complete the senses and gradually realize that this is a homosexua ...

Phedra (2008)

A documentary about actress Phedra D Córdoba, Cuban and transsexual who lives in downtown São Paulo. ...

Menino Aranha (2008)

33 (2004)

Kiko Goifman always knew he was adopted. At age 33 he finally decides to undertake a journey to find his biological mother, and film it as a documentary. He starts off with the few facts he knows, aided by two private detectives, his adoptive mother, and h ...

A Turma da Limpeza (1999)

This video, directed at children, merges clay animation and real images to show the various dimensions involving urban waste: trash and sweeping the streets, and household waste, composting and recycling of materials. The gang formed by Vassourinha, Dr. Ba ...

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. ...

The Destruction of Bernardet (2016)

Jean-Claude Bernardet, Brazil's most important living film critic, is old and sick, but tries to reinvent himself through his long disintegration. Shifting between fiction and documentary, A Destruição de Bernardet uses unusual tools to trigger his memor ...

A Descent Into Coffin Joe's Hell (2010)

Documentary about José Mojica Marins made by film students. ...

33 (2004)

Kiko Goifman always knew he was adopted. At age 33 he finally decides to undertake a journey to find his biological mother, and film it as a documentary. He starts off with the few facts he knows, aided by two private detectives, his adoptive mother, and h ...