
Jairo Ferreira
Directing
Known For

A psychiatrist experiments on four volunteers with LSD to examine '60s drug culture, soon unleashing an expert in depravity.
The Awakening of the Beast

One of the first Brazilian movies to conjecture about contraculture and its reflexes on the behaviour of a generation. A tribute to the late poet and friend Orlando Parolini.
Buccaneer Blood

Two groups of men fighting to conquer an automobile race bowl.
Corrida em Busca do Amor

Doralice is a simple minded woman romantically fascinated by marriage. However, when she is raped by a butcher, a friend advises her to become a prostitute - and she does it. After that, all her wishes and longings will curl up into a fascinating vortex.
The Woman Who Invented Love

Symbolic film from the Underground Movement of Brazilian Cinema (Cinema Marginal) about a woman, three men and some apes. In the director's own words: “a fable where realism and logic have no place, and in which sex is a translation of all the tortures, circumstances and violent actions.”
Gamal, O Delírio do Sexo
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O Homem do Corpo Fechado

50 years of Brazilian history seen from the point of view of a friendship among two intellectuals.
Buccaneer Soul

An unusual look at 1978 Brasilia Film Festival and the politics that make certain films fashionable or not.
Horror Palace Hotel

Transposition of the myth of Faust to modern Brazil. The heir to a bankrupt cigarette factory, amidst a personal crisis, leaves everything behind and heads for a supposed paradise he has seen in a tourist agency, where he believes he could find self-knowledge. In his search, he is inspired by a Mephisto-like character.
Movie Dementia

Young son of a millionaire, obsessed with collecting used women's underwear, a butler who manages the mansion where the young man lives while his rich father travels, and a cousin who arrives from the countryside, obsessed with sex, are the characters. The butler pretends to be the boss, but to maintain control of the situation he must convince the fetish heir to arrange a marriage.
A Primeira Noite de um Adolescente

An unemployed man gets a job as night watchman that puts him in the middle of the rising violence in his neighborhood.
O Vigilante

A documentary on Brazilian musician Mario Gennari and the bond between his music's sonority and the public space of the streets of São Paulo.
O M da Minha Mão

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Candeias: Da Boca pra Fora
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Mais Luz

Segment "Prólogo": interviews and scenes with some of the most important filmmakers of the "Boca do Lixo" of São Paulo. Segment "A Badaladíssima dos Trópicos x Os Picaretas do Sexo": shenanigans of a troubled fictional film production. Segment "Amor 69": Actress Maria Vargas is expected to appear nude in a scene, but ultimately refuses to do so.
Audácia!

A countryman kills his father and heads for the big city. On his way, he meets the most bizarre and allegorical types: a robber, a drag queen who thinks he's Carmen Miranda, a black king, a fallen black angel, a priest, two whores, a pregnant cowboy, among others.
Orgy or The Man Who Gave Birth

The Option centers on a group of rural women who cut sugar cane and live in ramshackle highway neighborhoods. For many, their only escape to a potentially better life is through prostitution, often with truck drivers.
The Option

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Ousadia

Two factory workers from the outskirts of São Paulo make a trip to a bathhouse close to the city.
Dreams in Life

A mockumentary (or is it a fake fiction?) about journalism.