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Discover the history of the Chic Show ball, an iconic black music party in São Paulo. The event was a milestone in the life of São Paulo. Held in halls across the city in the 1970s and 1980s, the show became a meeting point for black culture and opened up space for funk, soul, rap and pagode, among other rhythms. The party welcomed names such as Tim Maia, Sandra de Sá, Gilberto Gil, Djavan, Bebeto and Carlos Dafé, as well as international artists such as Kurtis Blow, Betty Wright and James Brown.
Arthur Bispo do Rosario's past is practically unknown. It is only known that he was black, a sailor and a boxer. In 1938 he was admitted to ColĂ´nia Juliano Moreira after a mystical delusion.
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Trem do Soul follows the timeline tracing a memorial and affective cartography of a young, black and peripheral movement that stirred hearts, bodies, minds and even uniforms in the 1970s in the metropolitan region of Rio de Janeiro.
A sensory journey in the city of Rio de Janeiro with street vendors and street artists as characters in this urban cartography in which past and present are crossed.
One story. Two stories... One body: proteins and absorptions that develop the human physique.
Developed as an offshoot of the Goethe-Institut Artistic Residency.
The Brazilian State made Stella do PatrocĂnio ill and transformed her into a psychiatric patient, but she reinvented her existence with her words: prophetic and philosophical poetry.
“On one side of the Atlantic” is about the first of a series of movies where a dialogue is proposed between the filmmaker Milena Manfredini and her artistic and affective references. These are movies where the director spears on the sea letters in an attempt to blur geographical, earthly finite and temporal barriers. This release is also destined towards the filmmaker Christopher Harris.
A tribute to Laudelina de Campos Mello, a pioneer in the fight for domestic workers' rights in Brazil. A Black activist and tireless campaigner, she founded the first domestic workers' union, facing historic challenges to improve working conditions and gain recognition for thousands of women.
A search film that focuses on the origins, memories and ancestry of Mãe Celina de Xangô, an important Yalorixá in the city of Rio de Janeiro.
