Paulo Emílio Sales Gomes

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. ...

Ibiúna, Primavera Brasileira (2019)

The clandestine congress of the National Union of Students, held in October 1968, resulted in the collective arrest and registration of 700 students who opposed the dictatorship. ...

Festejo Muito Pessoal (2017)

Cinema Novo (2016)

A deep investigation, in the way of a poetic essay, on one of the main Latin American movements in cinema, analyzed via the thoughts of its main authors, who invented, in the early 1960s, a new way of making movies in Brazil, with a political attitude, alw ...

Ao Sul do Meu Corpo (1982)

São Paulo, late 30's. Alberto is an intellectual and professor who announces to his friend and pupil Polidoro he won a scholarship to study in Paris. In Paris Polidoro receives a letter in which Alberto announces that he married Helena. Polidoro returns t ...

Paulo Emilio (1980)

Tem Coca-Cola no Vatapá (1975)

Nitrato (1974)

Nitrato expresses the ambiguities and contradictions of the Cinemateca Brasileira. The film deals with the richness of its collection, the recognition of international entities, and explores what its relationship to the general public was like. Nitrato als ...

Acaba de Chegar ao Brasil o Bello Poeta Francez Blaise Cendrars (1972)

Reconstitution, through photos, films and texts, of the arrival in Brazil of the poet Cendrars, in 1924. Tributes received, visits throughout the country and the desire to make a "100 percent Brazilian film". Testimonials from figures who lived with the in ...

Paulo Emílio encontra Giuseppe Ungaretti no Instituto de Estudos Brasileiros, 1966 (1966)

Gimba, Presidente dos Valentes (1963)

Duas Vezes com Helena (2001)

The affectionate relationship between mentor Alberto and his favorite pupil Polydoro is disturbed by Alberto's marriage to Helena, with life-changing and long-lasting consequences for all of them. ...

Tem Coca-Cola no Vatapá (1975)

Memories of Helen (1969)

Couple whose marriage is at stake delve into the past, with the help of a diary and some home movies. In these movies, Helena, the woman's suicidal friend, has an important role. ...

Capitu (1968)

Adaptation of Machado de Assis's classic novel "Dom Casmurro". Bentinho and Capitu are friends since childhood and end up marrying. But Bentinho destroys his life when he starts suspecting Capitu has an affair with his best friend and that his son is not r ...