In the near future, in the country of Kali, a group of young terrorists carry out robberies, kidnappings and murders under the orders of a mysterious big boss known as "Entity" and are pursued by the pompous and inefficient Special Police.
Edson is having an affair with actress Maria do Rosário, who dreams of being a movie director. So he tries to get some easy money for her film, but is arrested and meets a police torturer instead.
Bressane's second London film, shot in six days in his apartment. "I had seen the French avant-garde films of the 1920's and naturally the title cites Breton. But underneath it can also be read in many ways. It is a cinema that is invented on the spur of the moment, like you invent an instrument to...
In a movie studio, the actors are getting made up and the crew is waiting to begin shooting the film. Grande Otelo, the bungling "king of the deck", and Marta Anderson, the blond and provocative star of the show, recite in the historical scenario of the chanchadas, the abandoned studios of...
Rogério Sganzerla’s lost film. The only existing copy was lost in 1992 and the negatives are lost. It tells about the history of Betty Bomba, an exhibitionist woman.
Movie director gets crazy while shooting a film, and goes to a mental institution. There, he leads a revolt, kidnapping a group of Human Rights activists and demanding a camera as ransom.
In a Rio de Janeiro after the catastrophe, only the hills were immune to a flood that left the asphalt submerged. While the Navy is rationing provisions and some are sacrificing themselves to avoid starvation, a diver goes to the bottom of the sea and finds a submerged civilization there.
Loosely based on an Oswald de Andrade screenplay, "Perigo Negro" is a segment of anthology film "Oswaldianas" which deals with a uprising soccer player who has his career spoiled by a unscrupulous gambler
The picture brings interviews with the participants of the 1st São Paulo Jazz Festival that occurred in Anhembi Conventions Palace in September 1978 and reunited musicians, composers and singers from all around the world.
An excerpt from Neville D'Almeida's debut feature "Jardim de Guerra" (1968), focusing on the Black Power speech made by a character played by Antonio Pitanga.
At same time as it dives into excess and violence of Brazilian reality, Curra Urbana tri to insert itself in anti ilusionist modern aesthetic reinstarting a dialogue from Jean Luc Godard and some of later Brazilian apropriators especially those of Cinema Marginal.
Slowly we recognize traces of a couple's history. Joana, living isolated in an apartment between books and mysteries searching for an "ideal world" and Jota living on the streets searching for a confrontation with the real and trying to give back the final word to the "other"..
A day in the life of a young man who aspires to be a filmmaker in Belo Horizonte. He is aware that there are many obstacle to shooting and the city is just one of them. He is not giving up, at least not without rebelling...
1972. A Kombi travels from Amsterdam to Goa, India. This journey is the raw material for Boom Shankar, the only film directed by Guará Rodrigues, a mythical character in Brazilian cinema, both as an actor and behind the camera, as an assistant to some of the greatest directors of the period. That...
