Silvio Tendler

Brizola, Anotações para uma História (2024)

Justiça em Estado de Exceção (2024)

Saúde Tem Cura (2022)

A Bolsa ou a Vida (2021)

In the post-pandemic future of covid-19, will the centrality be the financial casino and the accumulation of wealth by an elite or a quality life for all, with less inequality? Did the minimal state show itself capable of serving the collective? How to gua ...

Chico Mário - A Melodia da Liberdade (2021)

Younger brother of Henfil and Betinho, Chico Mário became a great guitarist and discovered in music his way of expressing himself and looking at the world. ...

Nas Asas da Pan Am (2020)

Silvio Tendler goes through his life remembering the movements he was part of during the brazilian dictatorship and his adherence to socialism. ...

Em Busca de Carlos Zéfiro (2020)

Alma Imoral (2019)

How is it possible to boost ways of leading one's life? What are the differences between the interpretation of life, from the scientific conception and the biblical conception? The reflection and the question about what would be the concepts of soul (trans ...

Ferreira Gullar: Arqueologia do Poeta (2019)

The intense life of Ferreira Gullar, one of the most influential poets in Brazil, is revisited by his personal friend Silvio Tendler, based on his most acclaimed work: Poema Sujo. In addition to addressing other poems by Gullar, the documentary also includ ...

Santiago das Américas ou o Olho do Terceiro Mundo (2019)

In a small island convulsed by the 1959 revolution, Santiago Álvarez used the Seventh Art as a political weapon and created an aesthetic that became a reference in the documentary field. Santiago, who called himself a permanent traveler through history, r ...

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. ...

O Fio da Meada (2019)

A Sore Spot (2017)

By approaching the financial system and its contradictions, the film raises questions about one of the main discourses of the financial authorities: that we can not spend more than we collect. Through several interviews, it gives an overview of how capital ...

Haroldo Costa - O Nosso Orfeu (2015)

J. Carlos - O Cronista do Rio (2015)

Agricultura tamanho família: uma alternativa ao agronegócio (2014)

Privatizações - A Distopia do Capital (2014)

O Veneno Está na Mesa II (2014)

After impacting Brazil by showing the perverse consequences of the use of pesticides in O Veneno está na Mesa, director Sílvio Tendler presents the second film from a new perspective. Poison Is On The Table 2 updates and advances the approach to the curr ...

Militares da Democracia: Os Militares que disseram não (2014)

Os Advogados contra a Ditadura: Por uma questão de Justiça (2014)

O Veneno Está na Mesa (2011)

The film comes to show how we are eating poorly because of an agrarian model based on agribusiness. The danger is both for the workers, who manipulate the poisons, and for the entire population of the countryside and cities, who consume agricultural produc ...

Tancredo - A Travessia (2011)

Utopia and Barbarism (2009)

The world post-World War II and its transformations; the utopias that were created and the barbarity that have marked it. The dismantling of the dreaming generation of 1968 and the creation of new prospects in a globalized world. ...

Ou Ficar a Pátria Livre ou Morrer Pelo Brasil (2007)

Chronological profile of Brazil's student activism, from the 30s to the occupation of UNE's headquarters in Rio de Janeiro, 2007. ...

O Afeto Que Se Encerra Em Nosso Peito Juvenil (2007)

Personal records of characters of the student movement, of the youth's cultural activity, song. poetry, and theatrical plays made by militants in the past. ...

A Meeting with Milton Santos (2006)

The film deals with the process of globalization based on the thought of geographer Milton Santos, who through his ideas and practices, inspires the debate about Brazilian society and the construction of a new world. Santos discusses his views on the impor ...

Milton Santos - Por Uma Outra Globalização (2004)

Glauber Rocha - The Movie, Brazil's Labyrinth (2003)

Documentary about Brazilian filmmaker Glauber Rocha, one of the most important names in the Cinema Novo, with interviews with some of his friends and colleagues. ...

Oswaldo Cruz, o Médico do Brasil (2003)

JK – O Menino que Sonhou um País (2002)

Built as a letter to JK in his centenary, the film shows what remained in the memory of Brazilians 26 years after his passing in a car accident in August 1976. ...

Marighella: Retrato Falado do Guerrilheiro (2001)

The story, controversies, victories and defeats of Carlos Marighella, one of the leaders of the armed struggle against the military dictatorship in Brazil. ...

Milton Santos, Pensador do Brasil (2001)

The interview, held on January 4, 2001, was the last given by Professor Milton Santos, who died from cancer on June 24 of the same year. The geographer is gone, but his thoughts remains. Its political and cultural ideals inspire the debate on Brazilian soc ...

Castro Alves - Retrato Falado do Poeta (1999)

Josué de Castro, Cidadão do Mundo (1994)

Jango (1984)

The story of João "Jango" Goulart, the Brazilian left-wing president deposed by the military. ...

O Mundo Mágico dos Trapalhões (1981)

Compilation of some of the best moments in the career of Brazilian comedy group "Os Trapalhões", with scenes from their previous films, also telling the story of each individual artist. ...

The JK Years: A Political Trajectory (1980)

Documentary about Brazilian history, from 1945 until the 70s, focusing on president Juscelino Kubitschek, his political rise, his philosophy of economical development, his gigantic project ... ...

Favela do Papa (2023)

The film shows the resistance movement of the residents of Favela do Vidigal against the removal order, an important chapter in the history of Rio de Janeiro in the 1970s. ...

Nas Asas da Pan Am (2020)

Silvio Tendler goes through his life remembering the movements he was part of during the brazilian dictatorship and his adherence to socialism. ...

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. ...

Em Busca de Carlos Zéfiro (2020)

The Method (2019)

The Method shows and reveals the knowledge and tools used by great documentary filmmakers on the challenge of representing the reality. ...

Vozerio (2015)

New forms of insurgency and unrest on the fragments of the actions of some artists and activists. The recording of confrontation has its strongest expression in the performance. We see echoing clashes in a series of images. The cry begins before the other ...

Tudo Por Amor ao Cinema (2015)

A documentary on Cosme Alves Netto (1937-1996), former head of the Cinematheque of the Museum of Modern Arts at Rio de Janeiro. ...

Sinais de Cinza, A Peleja de Olney Contra o Dragão da Maldade (2013)

A Arte do Renascimento - Uma Cinebiografia de Silvio Tendler (2013)

Ser Tão Cinzento (2011)

Hiato (2008)

In 2000 a group of homeless people decide to go to a shopping mall to protest, to confront the misery of the excluded middle-class consumption. ...

Vladimir Carvalho, Conterrâneo Velho de Guerra (2004)