
Bressane’s first color film, shot in the home of the artist Elyseu Visconti. Read More »
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Ana (1982) Margarida Cordeiro, António Reis, Ana Maria Martins Guerra, Manuel Ramalho Eanes, Octávio Lixa Filgueiras

It is a sincere and naive film that combines the themes of nature-man, modernism-man in Rilke’s poets with a local narrative. Read More »
Hopefuls (2015) Ives Rosenfeld, Ariclenes Barroso, Sergio Malheiros, Julia Bernat

Junior, as he’s known since he’s essentially still a child, seems to be having a tough time getting on in life. Read More »
The Priest and the Girl (1966) Joaquim Pedro de Andrade, Helena Ignez, Paulo José, Mário Lago

In a small town in Minas Gerais, the arrival of a young priest causes a commotion in the conservative atmosphere of the place Read More »
Garrincha: Joy of the People (1963) Joaquim Pedro de Andrade, Heron Domingues, Garrincha

Documentary about the most famous dribbler in Brazilian Soccer (some say in Soccer’s history!) at the zenith of his career, showing classic scenes of 1958 and 1962 World Cup. Read More »
Cleópatra (2007) Júlio Bressane, Alessandra Negrini, Miguel Falabella, Bruno Garcia

Julio Bressane turns his sensual, color-filled set pieces to “Cleopatra,” Read More »
Bang Bang (1971) Andrea Tonacci, Paulo César Peréio, Abrahão Farc, Jura Otero

The actor of a film being made lives without distinction his own personal reality and his character’s fiction. Read More »
Goodbye, Father (1996) Luís Filipe Rocha, Afonso Pimentel, João Lagarto, Laura Soveral

For a 13-year-old boy like Filipe, the prospect of a summer vacation in the Azores with his father is like a dream come true. Read More »
Love Me Forever or Never (1986) Arnaldo Jabor, Fernanda Torres, Thales Pan Chacon

Young and recently separated couple meet in a modern house and start discussing their past relationship. Read More »
Twenty Years Later (1984) Eduardo Coutinho, Tite de Lemos, Ferreira Gullar

Eduardo Coutinho was filming a movie with the same name in the Northeast of Brazil, in 1964, when there came the military coup. Read More »