Nilson Villas-Boas

Feito Torto pra Ficar Direito (2015)

O Último Kuarup Branco (2007)

The creation of the Xingu Indigenous Park is reassessed by indigenous peoples and anthropologists. Almost 50 years after the initiative, which had the decisive participation of the indigenist brothers Cláudio and Orlando Villas-Bôas, the older indigenous ...

A Mulher do Atirador de Facas (1984)

In a circus, the big act is that of the knife thrower, assisted by his wife. The couple takes risks in real life, in a show of great skill and coldness, which respects a blood treaty. ...

Ecos Urbanos (1982)

Verão (1983)

In a beach house, snapshots of a couple's relationship are interspersed with flashbacks to a political past that still threatens their lives. ...

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". ...

A Terceira Idade (1982)