Geraldo Sarno

The film shows us the stages of a regional development effort, not always managing to overcome the myths of hunger and death. (cinemateca.gov.br)

1965. Waldo Vieira, a doctor and spirit medium who worked with the Chico Xavier, psycographs the novel "Christ Wait for You", dictated by the spirit of the French writer Honore de Balzac. Many years later, the book reaches the hands of the psychologist Osmar Ramos Filho. Newly arrived from Belgium, he spends the next decade to study the book.

In the late 60's, Thomas Farkas imported equipment suitable for direct sound, and released a collection of documentaries called "Brasil Verdade", after the Military Coup d' État in Brazil. His financial investment has never returned. The object of the segment "Viramundo" was to question why the Military Coup d' État in Brazil happened without any popular resistance or revolution or reaction of the society. He comes out to alienation mainly caused by the religion.

Project Thomaz Farkas Sérgio Muniz (segment "O Rastejador") Geraldo Sarno (segments "Casa de Farinha" and "Padre Cícero") Paulo Gil Soares (segments "Erva Bruxa" and "Jaramantaia")

the art business in the north of Brazil

Geraldo Sarno tries to understand, in this documentary, why people leave the Northeastern region in Brazil way to São Paulo.

Portrait of the holy space in a ritual of candomblé, an Afro-Brazilian religion.

Documentary about the arid brazilian northeast

When bandits take Sertânia town, Antão gets wounded, arrested and left to die. The events are projected by fever dreams from Antão's delirious mind.