Movies: Helena Ignez

Collective film with five segments around the works and life of brazilian writer Oswald de Andrade....

They live, they act, they love. Today they remember, they relive, they live through cinema and life....

A projectionist at a porn cinema in downtown São Paulo, makes his first film in Super8, an essay about the failure of a lifetime. The scenes from the films you watched intersect with the new images they capture, fiction and reality blending together,...

A road movie that follows a solitary man as he sets of on a journey to the south of Brazil. The strange characters and absurd situations he encounters along the way present an extraordinary portrait of human relations....

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In 1965, a year after the military coup in Brazil, an oasis of freedom opened in the country's capital. The Brasília Film Festival: a landmark of cultural and political resistance. Its story is that of Brazilian cinema itself....

A documentary short on Glauber Rocha's mother Lúcia....

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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....

A documentary on the restoration of Rogério Sganzerla's 1970 film "Copacabana, Mon Amour"....

Employee exploited by her employer changes her life by winning the lottery....

Young directors are filming “The Exhibitionist” in the middle of a farm in a paradise-like region. The film poetically investigates the Brazilian soul, with the Amazon as the center of the world, reflecting on existential issues, the right to sexual ...

A marginal version of Brecht’s piece, “Baal”....

Orson Welles goes to Brazil to shoot his documentary It's All True....

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...

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In rural Brazil, villagers battle wealthy land barons for the sake of their own survival....

Brazilian director Julio Bressane directs this religious biography on the life and work of Saint Jerome, the monk who first translated the Bible into Latin. Set both in the desert and in the posh confines of the Vatican, Jerome (Everaldo Pontes) agon...

A fantastic tale in the brutal reality of a slum. The life of a boy with the rare gift of flying. Based on a Will Eisner's story...

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