Movies: Walter Salles

A look into the 25 years of career of famous musician Chico Buarque and his influence in Brazilian culture....

Analía’s mother sends her to Buenos Aires to deliver some handicrafts. She is expected to return home quickly to the country town where she is to take on her family’s hairdressing salon. But by chance an address mix-up leads her to a Muslim community...

The story of a family who has their lives crushed by the tragedy of the floods in Mariana (Minas Gerais, Brazil)...

Peter Mandrake, a North-American photojournalist becomes embroiled in South America's dangerous underworld of pimps, drug gangs and arms smugglers when he sets out to find the killer of a local call girl....

Brazilian singer-songwriter Caetano Veloso reflects on his imprisonment in 1968, during the military dictatorship....

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Friends of the recently deceased Quincas take their pal's body on one last tour of his favorite spots in Brazil's Bahia....

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When the inmate Maria do Socorro Nobre reads an article about the Polish artist Franz Krajcberg in Veja magazine, she decides to write a letter to him. Socorro was sentenced to more than twenty-one years in a prison for women in Salvador, Bahia, whil...

Conceição and Presto, an interracial couple, ask Presto's brother for his signature as a guarantor of the financial request supposed to assure them an apartment in Leblon, the whitest neighborhood in Rio de Janeiro. The process proves to be much hard...

In the bucolic countryside of Brazil, Marcelo, an easygoing cowboy at a cattle farm lives for one passion: rodeos. One tragic incident affects him deeply. Little by little he overcomes the trauma and is ready to dream again....

Exclusive record of the filming of Central do Brasil in Vitória da Conquista in 1997. The ProVídeo Uesb team had access to the backstage, testimonies from the team, actors and director Walter Sales, keeping unique moments from one of the most emblema...

Marisa Monte's debut album concert. The show was recorded live at the Villa-Lobos Theater and featured special appearances by Ed Motta, Paulo Moura, and Nouvelle Cusine....

The documentary VINTE - RioFilme, 20 anos de cinema brasileiro is a celebration of these two decades of Brazilian cinema, revealing the role of RioFilme in its recent history. Created in late 1992, shortly after the impeachment of Fernando Collor and...

This short film was part of the feature film "Chacun Son Cinéma (Each One With His Own Cinema)", in which 36 directors celebrate the 60th anniversary of the Cannes Film Festival....

Chinese filmmaker Jia Zhangke returns to the shooting locations of his films, along with his actors, friends and close collaborators. Jia recalls the inspiration sources for his movies, such as Platform, Still Life and A Touch of Sin. The film is the...

A portrait of conteporary China from Tai-chi-chuan to chinese arts....

The documentary “Vozes de Paracatu e Bento” shows how the cities of Paracatu de Baixo and Bento Rodrigues live after the collapse of the Samarco dam, in Minas Gerais. A story of belonging, passion and resistance is drawn on screen through the testimo...

A touching documentary about artist Franz Krajcberg who moved from his home country to Brazil and started a life of environment activist....

A short film made for “Venezia 70 - Future Reloaded”. Vatican Square in 2005, Vatican Square in 2013, the voice of a woman searching for her mother....