Known for Acting
Film about the life and death of Octávio III, musical producer and actor.
Benjamim Zambraia is a young drunk who wanders around the city and is sometimes treated with pampering and sometimes with a beating by his parents (Helena Ignez and Otávio Terceiro). As in Chico's book, the boy is obsessed with a big stone.
Where are you, João Gilberto? sets out in the footsteps of German writer Marc Fischer who obsessively searched for the legendary founding father of Bossa Nova and last great musical legend of our time, Brazilian musician João Gilberto, who has not been seen in public for decades. Fischer described his journey in a book, Hobalala, but committed suicide one week before it was published. By taking up Marc Fischer's quest, following his steps one by one, thanks to all the clues he left us, we pursue João Gilberto to understand the history, the very soul and essence of Bossa Nova. But who can tell whether we will meet him or not?
Two men roam the night of Rio de Janeiro with two prostitutes in search of pleasure and violence.
A film of the literary hallucinations and existential dreams of the character João, who is also José and Joyce, anthropophagically enchanted by cinema in his two hours of life.
Cléo is making her first film, inspired by french cinema and the nouvelle vague.
They live, they act, they love. Today they remember, they relive, they live through cinema and life.
A documentary on prolific underground Brazilian filmmaker Rogério Sganzerla.
Shot in a single day, "Monstrolândia" follows the challenge of capturing Brazil's via crucis of winning the London Olympic Games.
A bank manager has a secret. He is compelled to bite society women hands.
An encounter between a young woman and an older man ends up in an unexpected way.
A group of friends come of age during the political turmoil that plagued Brazil in the 1960's and 70's. Together, these musicians form a band called "Os Desafinados" and become a part of the groundbreaking Brazilian musical movement called Bossa Nova
