Acting
A documentary following five actresses through Santa Catarina roads as they perform the play of the title.
Ivanilda seeks evidence to prove that her husband, who has disappeared since 1975, was arrested by the Brazilian government. Romildo searches for his brother's body in a cemetery in the suburb of Rio de Janeiro. Mothers cry for their children, murdered by the police in the slums. They belong to the group "Tortura Nunca Mais", which, interacting between a traumatic memory and oblivion, brings up the memory of recent events. They also reveal the selectivity of official history and build a political memory. They think of the past so that they can free the future from the ghosts they still chase in the present.
After the coup of 1964, the media conglomerate Diários Associados organized a campaign called "Gold for Brazil," exhorting the people to donate wealth to the military government. The symbol of the campaign was the wedding ring, sealing the union between the people and the State. The film picks up the trail of the millions collected, but never channeled back into society.
Neneide talks about female empowerment and how the group “Mulheres Decididas a Vencer” started working with bees in a settlement in Rio Grande do Norte. Izanete resists agribusiness that occupies extensive land in Rio Grande do Sul, where he produces ecological milk and bread for school meals. For Efigênia, gardening is therapy and working in the fields in Minas Gerais, independence. Maria dos Santos recalls struggles for land tenure and gender equality and against malnutrition in the quilombola areas of Bahia. Four seeds of solidarity economy, cooperativism, feminism, agroecology.
Sandra’s mother has been missing for days. Disoriented and without money, she asks Jorge, her distant half brother, for help. But he is going through a difficult situation: after recording a homophobic aggression, he is being threatened to not release the images.
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Documentary portrays the work of the Italian cinematographer, the official cameraman hired by the federal government to document the construction of BrasĂlia in the 1950s. The film brings to the public the official audiovisual archives of the construction of Brazil's capital designed by the architects Oscar Niemeyer and the urban planner Lucio Costa. The documentary is the result of the analysis of over 3000 feet and over 300 hours of rare footage produced form the 1950s to the 1970s, covering the period from the presidency of Juscelino Kubitschek to the military dictatorship established in 1964.
A prolific composer and one of the most celebrated poets in Brazilian music, Paulo César Pinheiro is the author of Canto das Três Raças and O Poder da Criação, among other samba, samba-enredo and song classics. Partner of Baden Powell, Tom Jobim and Edu Lobo, was created by Elis Regina, Clara Nunes and Maria Bethânia. Here, sitting on his couch, he reflects on human nature and leads a journey that evokes and involves big names in MPB, covering half a century of music, from the height of the festival era to the period of protest songs against the military dictatorship.
A biography of Paulo CĂ©sar Farias, better known as PC Farias. PC was treasurer of former President Fernando Collor de Mello and was directly involved in the process that culminated in Collor's impeachment, deeply shaking the recently restored Brazilian democracy. The film features the participation of dozens of people who knew and lived with Farias, abundant documentation and exclusive archive material, which reveals the intricacies of Brazilian politics, focusing especially on the relationships between capital, ideology, power and organized crime.
