Maria Rita Kehl

Um Filme para Beatrice (2024)

'How are women doing in Brazil?'. It is this intriguing question, posed by an Italian journalist, that Helena Solberg tries to answer through elements of her films, from the 1960s to the present day. Along the way, encounters with figures such as Heloisa T ...

Endless June - Brazil’s New Political Culture (2019)

An overview of Brazil's riots of June 2013, which were the beginning of a great political change that would take the country in the following years. ...

October (2019)

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

O Muro (2017)

Envisioned in the midst of the greatest political crisis in Brazil's history, this documentary investigates the polarization that has unprecedentedly inflamed a country in which miscegenation and cordiality are considered to be founding myths and its paral ...

The Long Trip (1984)

A trip throught brazilian 60's/70's hippie universe. ...

Hysteries (1983)

Interspersed with documentation of dancer Juliana Carneiro da Cunha's "Possession" performance, which draws from Christian mysticism, in the filmmaker's words this experimental short is about "the psychic suffering of women in a patriarchal society". ...

Boca Aberta (1985)

A discussion on Brazilian cinema, focusing on São Paulo's Boca do Lixo production pole. ...

Ecos Urbanos (1982)