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The Feira da Sulanca still exists as a famous market in Pernambuco, northeastern Brazil, that sells and exports items for the national clothing industry. While these markets were once an unfriendly place for women, who were struggling to make a living, Katia Mesel’s ‘Sulanca’ documents the economic revolution of the women of Santa Cruz do Capibaribe: seamstresses who, through collaboration and willpower, managed to make lives for themselves and change the socioeconomic landscape of Brazil’s most neglected region.
Mendy is a young Brookyln Hasid who leaves the strict rules of his insular and repressive community to join his childhood friend, Yankel, who is living securlary in Manhattan. Mendy's struggle to integrate his faith and traditions with the modern world are influenced by his growing friendship with Bianca, Yankel's free spirited Brazilian roommate.
Film inspired by a poem from João Cabral de Melo Neto and his life in Capibaribe.
In the miserable Northeastern Brazil, a ruthless land Baron wants to throw a poor farming community out of their land.
Life and work of the popular painter Bajado, interviews with Gilberto Freyre and João Câmara, scenes of daily life in the city that always inspired him.
An experimental reinterpretation of Brazilian traditions in which a battle is decided by cooperation rather than conflcit.
