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Passages showcases Brazilian films in which the utilisation of artforms and media such as literature, painting, theatre, music, photography, radio and television, functions as a 'passage' to political and social reality.
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Na Ilha
Jul 25, 2019Documentary
Alvorada
Apr 13, 2021The film narrates, from an intimate point of view, the daily life of President Dilma Rousseff in her official residence, the Palácio do Alvorada, while awaiting the verdict of the impeachment process. Portraying the hallways of the palace, designed by Oscar Niemeyer, we see the coming and going of political meetings, the daily routine of the kitchen, the exchange of guards, whispers and phone calls. We feel the growing tension of officials, advisers and former ministers.
Documentary
Saudade
Oct 11, 2017Documentary
Acqua Movie
Oct 17, 2019A documentarist is convinced by her son to travel to Brazil's Northeast so she can throw his dad ashes at São Francisco river.
Drama
Mulheres da Boca
Sep 13, 1982Filmmakers Cida Aidar and Inês Castilho met as part of the feminist collective that edited the newspaper Nós Mulheres between 1976 and 1979. Filmed during 1981 in the Boca do Lixo region of São Paulo, infamous for its porn cinemas and brothels, the documentary fiction 'Mulheres da Boca' reveals the lives of sex workers on their own terms, as they are captured between seduction, play, and violence, against the backdrop of the corruption and abuse exercised by those who ran the Boca de Lixo.
Documentary
Boca
Oct 03, 2010Filmmakers Cida Aidar and Inês Castilho met as part of the feminist collective that edited the newspaper Nós Mulheres between 1976 and 1979. Filmed during 1981 in the Boca do Lixo region of São Paulo, infamous for its porn cinemas and brothels, the documentary fiction 'Mulheres da Boca' reveals the lives of sex workers on their own terms, as they are captured between seduction, play, and violence, against the backdrop of the corruption and abuse exercised by those who ran the Boca de Lixo.
Action
Verão
Aug 21, 1983In a beach house, snapshots of a couple's relationship are interspersed with flashbacks to a political past that still threatens their lives.
Drama
A Garota das Telas
Jan 01, 1988To pursue the woman of dreams, there are lovers capable of delving into a strange journey - through all the genres and styles that cinema has invented to represent the greatest of all arts: the art of passion.
Animation
Clandestina Felicidade
Jan 02, 1998
A História da Eternidade
Jul 26, 2014In a small village in the hinterland, three stories of love and desire are changing the emotional landscape of its residents. Characters of a romanesque world in which their conceptions of life are limited on one side by human instincts, on the other by a blind and fatalist fate.
Drama
Absence
Sep 27, 2014In a small village in the hinterland, three stories of love and desire are changing the emotional landscape of its residents. Characters of a romanesque world in which their conceptions of life are limited on one side by human instincts, on the other by a blind and fatalist fate.
Drama
A Garota das Telas
Jan 01, 1988To pursue the woman of dreams, there are lovers capable of delving into a strange journey - through all the genres and styles that cinema has invented to represent the greatest of all arts: the art of passion.
Animation
La Dolorosa
Aug 22, 2008The bride, the groom, the best man and a destructive passion. A wet dream turned into a nightmare. "La Dolorosa" is the second episode from "The Trilogy of Dream", an attempt by screenwriter/director Odilon Rocha to bring lyricism back to cinema.
Morte.
Jan 19, 2002Couple prepare their "great voyage" in all details, not forgetting the flowers, music and luggage.
Árido Movie
Apr 14, 2005Weatherman from a TV network goes back to his hometown, Vale da Rocha, a place in Northeast Brazil, devastated by the drought. He is forced to face the geographic elements and his own memories.
Drama
O Incrível Senhor Blois
Jan 01, 1984The art of Oscar Blois, a miniaturist artist - paint on pins, fleas, models on lamps - a character whose personal universe includes contacts with extraterrestrials, from whom he learned mathematical calculation that he applies in domino divination games
Fantasy
Deserto Feliz
Apr 23, 2007Jéssica is a teenager from Brazilian Northeast. After being abused by her stepfather, she runs away to Recife, where starts to work with sexual tourism. Then, she meets Mark, a German tourist, and falls in love with him.
Drama
Periscópio
Aug 27, 2015Élvio and Eric live alone in a small apartment without talking to anyone else. The relationship between the two deteriorates until one day, mysteriously, a periscope appears in the room.
Drama
FilmeFobia
Dec 11, 2008The making of an unfinished film about phobias. Says the director. Behind the screens, he discusses at length (with e.g. Coffin Joe) about the aesthetic boundaries of the project: volunteers under controlled circumstances become immersed in their phobias in order to film the fear on their faces.
Documentary
Durval Discos
Mar 27, 2002Durval and his mother Carmita live at the back of "Durval Discos", a record store they own in São Paulo, specializing in vinyl records. They lead a boring and unattractive life, until the day Durval hires a maid, Celia, to help his mother with the housekeeping. However, on her second day, Celia goes away leaving a 5-year-old child behind, Kiki, and a note promising to be back in a couple of days. Durval and Celia are charmed by the child at first, but soon they see some sad news about Celia and Kiki on TV that will change the whole situation.
Drama
Baile Perfumado
Aug 01, 1997A Lebanese photographer living in Brazil in the '30s manages to film the band of Lampião, a legendary Brazilian bandit.
Drama
O Crime da Imagem
Mar 10, 1992
Maracatu, Maracatus
Jan 01, 1995The cultural differences between the several generations of the rural maracatu: an afro-indigenous ritual which originated in the sugar mills of the state of Pernambuco.
Documentary
Infinita Tropicália
Jan 01, 1986Tropicália was a Brazilian cultural movement that occurred between 1967 and 1968, inspired by Oswald de Andrade's anthropophagic ideals, pop art and the concretism. Twenty years later, this film revisits the movement and shows that Tropicalismo will never die.
Documentary
Marighella
Aug 12, 2012This communist and parliamentarian leader was arrested and tortured, and became famous for having written the "Minimanual of the Urban Guerrilla". Greatest name of the left-wing militancy in Brazil in the 1960s, Carlos Marighella acted in the main political events of Brazil between the 1930s and 1969 and was considered enemy number one of the Brazilian military dictatorship. His life was a great act of resistance and courage.
Documentary
Nome Próprio
Jul 18, 2008Camila is in her mid-twenties and her life has been thrown into chaos ever since her boyfriend threw her out of their apartment during a bitter argument. Camila's ambition is to become a writer, and she posts regularly on her blog, entitled "Camila Jam." However, Camila wants to take her work into a different direction, and she throws herself head first into life in search of inspiration. As Camila struggles with alcohol, unsettled emotions and relationships with abusive men, it becomes increasingly obvious that her skills as a writer aren't all she needs to sort out if she wants to truly understand her life and her career.
Drama
Directed by Isa Grinspum Ferraz, the series O Povo Brasileiro proposes a deep dive into the history of Brazil to talk about historical, social and cultural formations that constitute the identities of the Brazilian people.
The production approaches from aspects of the native peoples to the formation of Brazil as a national unit, in a recreation of the literary narrative of the homonymous work written by the anthropologist Darcy Ribeiro.
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