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The art of Arrigo Barnabé, one of the pillars of the São Paulo experimental music scene during the 80's and author of critically acclaimed albums such as "Clara Crocodilo" (1980) and "Tubarões Voadores" (1984).
A film that mixes labyrinthine recent testimonies and historical images of the career of the tropicalista director, actor and playwright Zé Celso, of Teatro Oficina, one of the greatest personalities of the Brazilian arts of all time. The documentary acquired its main verb in four trips to key points in the trajectory of Zé: Bahia badlands, Cururipe Beach in Alagoas (where Bishop Sardinha was devoured), Epidaurus and Athens in Greece and his apartment in São Paulo.
Love stories unfold, based on songs by Chico Buarque.
Walter is an absent father and husband who works in a hospital without time for his family. His redemption happens when his wife sends him to the birthday cake for her daughter, but she does not know is that during the return trip home, the impossible will happen so that everything goes wrong.
An educational short film, “Cativeiro” addresses the trafficking of wild animals. In the plot, a father buys a bird and gives it as a gift to his family. The animal, taken from the wild by criminals, was trafficked without a band. The bird falls ill, and the daughter takes it to a CETAS (Wildlife Screening Center) in an attempt to save it.
In the style of a sitcom, with background laughter, the film addresses diversity and inclusion through the story of a young woman going for a job interview. Upon arriving at the location, she discovers that she will be interviewed by four people with Down syndrome.
This documentary takes us to know the residents, the internal organization and even the parties and cleaning efforts at Mauá Occupation, in São Paulo. The film reveals that the process of occupying, carried out by homeless movements, is similar to the method of civil disobedience used by Gandhi and Martin Luther King Jr.
"Eu Sou Você" is a short film made in Virtual Reality about sexual harassment in the workplace . The story takes place at a “happy hour" in a firm and shows some situations of harassment. Through Virtual Reality, the film "Eu Sou Você" puts the viewer to live in the body of other people and invites the viewer to experience and understand, as much as possible, how a woman feels when harassed and how the harasser behaves. It is a film that uses entertainment to focus on the positive transformation of the female and male audience.
The film shows the daily life of indigenous village Piyulaga, home of Waurá tribe --an ethnicity of 560 people who live at Xingu Park in Mato Grosso, Brazil. It also reveals how the indigenous community keeps its traditional culture while incorporating habits and technologies from the “white”.
An immersive journey through Brazilian nature, exploring its national parks and the Amazon rainforest. The viewer virtually visits locations such as the crystal-clear waters of the Sucuri river, the Mimoso Cave in the Pantanal, the Serra da Bodoquena National Park, the source of the Perdido river, the Itatiaia National Park with its waterfalls, and Marajó Island.
A satirical documentary portraying KISS' visit to Brazil in 1983 during their tour celebrating 10 years of the band and the album Creatures of the Night. Centered on the historic Morumbi Stadium show in São Paulo, the film captures the vibrant spirit of 80s rock youth.
This road movie documentary showcases reforestation efforts in the Amazon, specifically in the Alto Xingu region. Small farmers, city dwellers, and Indigenous peoples form a network of seed collectors organized by the Xingu Seed Network. With these seeds, large landowners are able to reforest areas on their properties.
Filming of the historical montage of Oswald de Andrade's play, where decadent millionaires, depraved children, corrupt and implacable capitalists are the characters interpreted by the Grupo Oficina, in a celebrated theatrical performance from 1967, fundamentally recorded in 1971 and released only in the 1980s.
Boca de Ouro was born in a back room of a dance hall, and his first crib was a bathroom sink where his mother left him. The boy grows up and becomes a feared and respected bookie—an almost mythological figure in the community where he lives. Fascinated by the story of the recently deceased criminal, journalist Caveirinha seeks out the criminal's ex-lover, D. Guigui, to gather material for an article. Her accounts of Boca reflect her emotional state.
This film documents in depth the life and artistic trajectory of the musician and poet Itamar Assumpção. He was one of the pillars of a moment of Brazilian popular music that was conventionally called "Vanguarda Paulista". Starting from extensive research which resulted in more than 250h of images and a dive into the personal universe of this incredible artist, Itamar comes up with a poetic, intuitive plot where facts and testimonies speak louder than preconceived ideas.
A reflection on the works and thinking of the last years of production by Torquato. Such as the magazine "Navilouca", the film "Terror da Vermelha", the column "Geleia Geral" and the controversial Cinema Novo X Marginal, among other passages important aspects of Brazilian culture in the 60s and 70s.
