Movies: Lula Buarque de Hollanda

Inspired by the life of the french-born photographer and ethnographer, Pierre Verger, the movie follows his journey between Bahia, Brazil and Benin, Oriental Africa, showing places and people he met and his life study project: the Candomblé culture....

A film that depicts the everyday life and the beauty of Portela’s Old Folk – a group of veteran samba musicians who belong to one of Rio’s most revered samba schools, the one with the most first places and accolades in Rio’s Carnaval pageant. These o...

A satire about the dictatorship period in Brazil, in which communist militants try to steal the soccer World Cup Trophy from the players Pelé and Carlos Alberto Torres....

In December 1997, in Rio de Janeiro, Minas Gerais composer Milton Nascimento brought together friends and career partners for the special "A Sede do Peixe" (The Thirst of the Fish). Featuring Caetano Veloso, Alcione, Skank, Nana Caymmi, and Gilberto ...

Tempo Rei is the first audiovisual record of Gilberto Gil's vast work, celebrating the artist's thirty-year career, celebrated in 1996. Gil recalls his artistic trajectory, recalls striking facts and reveals some intimacies. Completely filmed on film...

Composer Gilberto Gil accompanies filmmaker Andrucha Waddington to the Northeast of Brazil. Among the rural communities in the region, Gil and Waddignton participate in the Catholic celebration of Saint John's Day with music and dance. Waddington als...

The daily life and development of young models of an agency located in the Jacarezinho favela, North Zone of Rio de Janeiro....

Envisioned in the midst of the greatest political crisis in Brazil’s history, this documentary investigates the polarization that has unprecedentedly inflamed a country in which miscegenation and cordiality are considered to be founding myths and its...

The documentary goes through works composed by the Bahian musician between 1968 and 1987. Brazilian musician Gilberto Gil, one of the most well-known members of the Tropicália generations, revisits some of his most famous works on this documentary....

Making-of about the recording and release of the album Tudo Ao Mesmo Tempo Agora (1991), with the brazilian rock group Titãs....

The documentary Black Rio! Black Power! looks at the influence of the Black Rio movement on culture, society and the struggle for racial justice in Rio de Janeiro and Brazil between the 1970s and 1980s. The film shows the movement's impact on music a...

National version of a series of short films made by American and European artists about the relationship between art and pornography, Destricted.br brings, in addition to videos, photographs, sculptures and paintings. Miguel Rio Branco, Adriana Varej...

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To escape past traumas, a truck driver João decides to leave his hometown behind and travel cross the country. Alone and lonely he drives all over Brazil until João discovers hiding in his truck a motherless boy looking for his father. Reluctantly, J...

Music manager has to get three of his artists together for a special show, but soon finds out it isn't an easy task....

This documentary portrays the trajectory of Brazilian singer and songwriter Marina Lima, an exponent of popular music with a career spanning over 40 years....

Considered one of the main Brazilian intellectuals, Heloisa Buarque de Hollanda — a member of the Brazilian Academy of Letters — left important marks on national thought and continues to be, at 84 years old, an active voice on the country's cultural ...

A man, who creates pasts for a living, struggles to find his own past while a mysterious woman takes a dangerous step....

Live concert that showcases the Brazilian singer Marisa Monte's exceptional talent and charisma. Recorded during her acclaimed 2001 tour, the DVD captures Monte's dynamic stage presence and her ability to blend various musical styles, including samba...