Movies: Damião Lopes

From saved memories of a long journey, a letter is sent to the future. Alone, away from home and on the eve of her 30th birthday, a Brazilian is on a journey through Africa. In the letter to her daughter, she tells of encounters with women living in ...

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In a small city in northeastern Brazil, a poor family goes though many hardships and pains while seeking a better life....

Inspired by Jorge Luis Borges’ The Disinterested Killer Bill Harrigan, Garoto follows a young couple who find themselves in an enchanted place where they experience an amorous and spiritual adventure....

Metro station. The tracks creak before we hear the sound of the train arriving. The wagons introduce themselves, one by one, as the train starts to brake. Amongst the hundreds of people it brings, there’s a boy with a backpack. Following his trajecto...

Letrux is one of the most inventive artists of the new Brazilian music scene. "Viver é um frenesi❞ is a medium-length documentary that follows the artist in São Pedro da Aldeia (RJ/BR), a small coastal town where she isolated herself during the Covi...

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The film portrays the trajectory and life of the “Agudá” people today. This is a group of descendants of Africans enslaved in Brazil, who returned to their homeland with the end of slavery, and also descendants, Brazilian and Portuguese, of slave tra...

Birth, life and death of a carnival sculpture. Linked to the mythology of the Orixás, a metaphor of creation based on the Babalotim doll, a boy idol who has lived through many carnivals....

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In the film, indigenous peoples tell the dramas and the danger of contamination of rivers and waters by mercury from mining. The animation is available with narration in two indigenous languages (Yanomami and Munduruku), in addition to Portuguese. Th...

Tião, 5 years old, seeks to understand the events involving his family at that time. Including his mother's illness that takes her away from him....

Workers on the outskirts of Rio de Janeiro are experiencing moments of transformation in their routines. An instant of dreams, fantasy and escape from reality as a counterpoint to the sameness of everyday life....