Jards Macalé

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

To entertain some thieves, a blind guitar player tells them the story of a man from the Northeast of Brazil, involved with criminals living in the suburbs of Rio de Janeiro, who allegedly had a "closed body", meaning that his body couldn't be hit by bullets or other weapons, by the wish of Ogum, one of the gods of Candomblé, a religion common in Brazil and Africa. (imdb)

A classic marginal movie by the acclaimed critical Jairo Ferreira.

Documentary about Brazilian pop diva Maria Bethânia, in one of her first shows in Rio de Janeiro. The film also show scenes of her daily life and meetings with other musicians.

Adapting the novel by Jorge Amado Bahia in the early 20th century, when the students of the Medical School defend the race of their African ancestors. Pedro is Archanjo Ojuobá, mulatto, capoeira, guitar player, drinker, and father of many children made with the most beautiful black, mulatto and white women.

A group of young people is in a bar to drink, and they are trying to choose a story for the movie they are decided to make, but their characters are not very satisfied with the results of it. (imdb)

Exiled in London, Jorge Mautner, Caetano Veloso and Gilberto Gil perform an experimental work on exile, poetry and more interesting appears on the agenda. According to the director, Jorge Mautner, it is "a fable-musical-philosophical slapstick-which depicts much in the first place, the longing of Brazil."

The rite of passage from youth that has poetry as its guiding light, and prose as its basis. (imdb)

Poetic documentary about brazilian musician Walter Franco.

In a delicate border between 'fiction' and 'reality', the surprising character of "Unheard­-of", Lanny Gordin projects himself between China, his birthplace, and Brazil, where he lives and developed his career as a guitar player since the Tropicalia movement. We are invited to share his world where the border between 'unreason' and 'sanity' acquires new shades.

Documentary about Flamengo, one of the most popular soccer teams in Brazil.

INFINITA TROPICÁLIA is a musical-theoretic film. Theoretical because it places the so-called Tropicalist Movement in the Oswaldian strand of Brazilian Modernism, revealing its assimilation and reproduction of the concepts of 'Cultural Anthropophagy'. Musical because it surprisingly re-presents all those songs generated by the ephemeral movement...