Bruno Jorge
Directing
Biography
Since 2003, filmmaker Bruno Jorge has made very independently over 20 films of different genres, including short/medium/feature-length, influenced by visual arts, experimental cinema and etnography. Among the various shortfilms we could mention "Setback" (best film at Festival do Rio, Lab Competition Clermont-Ferrand), Justiça ao Insulto (Cannes, Rotterdam), "November, December" (IDFA) , "Catuçaba", "Moins que demain" and "Barões" (all 3 premiered in Visions du Réel). In 2013 the French Cinematheque honored Bruno with a retrospective of his shortfilm work. Some feature-length documentaries are "What I could be if I were" (best film at ABD, Semana dos Realizadores), "Piripkura" (Human Rights prize at IDFA, best film at Festival do Rio/Docville/Cartagena among others) and the newest movie "The invention of the Other", premiered at Festival de Cinema de Brasília 2022 (best film by official jury).
Known For
A cautionary tale for these times of democracy in crisis—the personal and political fuse to explore one of the most dramatic periods in Brazilian history. With unprecedented access to Presidents Dilma Rousseff and Lula da Silva, we witness their rise and fall and the tragically polarized nation that remains.
The Edge of Democracy
The last two surviving members of the Piripkura people, a nomadic tribe in the Mato Grosso region of Brazil, struggle to maintain their indigenous way of life amidst the region's massive deforestation. Living deep in the rainforest, Pakyî and Tamandua live off the land relying on a machete, an ax, and a torch lit in 1998.
Piripkura
In 2019, the Brazilian government coordinates the largest and riskiest expedition of the last decades into the Amazon rainforest to search for a group of isolated indigenous people in vulnerability and promote their first contact with non-indigenous. Bruno Pereira, who would later be murdered in the same region and turned into an international symbol in favor of the indigenous and the forest, leads the expedition.
The Invention of the Other
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Contratempo
Filmmaker Bruno Jorge makes an autoethnography by filming the characters who crossed his path during the years he lived with his family in a small rural village in the interior of Minas Gerais.
Useless Utensils
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Justiça ao Insulto
In the months preceding the birth of his first child, filmmaker Bruno Jorge records the personal routine he builds with his wife, photographer Fernanda Preto. From memories of the past, an intimate diary and anxieties of the present, Bruno develops with formal rigor a unique and unprotected film-process.
O que eu poderia ser se eu fosse
Musical-visual chronicle of a small bar in a simple street in Manaus, where the brega dictates his own setbacks.
Contratempo
Every year, the most important folk festival in Brazil takes place on the island of Parintins, in the heart of the Amazon rainforest. As the celebration is prepared, faith, ritual and religious syncretism begin to reveal themselves as the invisible forces shaping the spectacle. Blending observation and myth, the film unfolds as a fairytale documentary, where reality gradually takes on the texture of legend. At its center is the mythical figure of the Bumbá Ox, a symbol born from the deep coexistence of different peoples – Indigenous communities, Black Africans and Europeans – whose traditions merge in the Amazon to form a unique Brazilian cosmology.