A film starting from naught. With no prior research, no characters, no sites, nor specific themes, a film team arrive to the hinterland of Paraíba state in northeastern Brazil in search of people with stories to tell. In the village of So Joo do Rio do Peixe they come to Sítio Araás, a rural community of 86 families, mostly relatives. With a girl from Araás as mediator, the...
Documentary about singer Maria Bethania's 60th birthday celebration in her hometown, Santo Amaro da Purificao, and her performance on a show in Salvador.
Tits - A Vida Até Parece Uma Festa (lit. Tits - Life Even Looks Like a Party) is a 2008 documentary featuring the career of the Brazilian rock band Tits since its beginning. The documentary features the tapes recorded by Branco Mello when he earned his VHS camera in the early 1980s. The album was awarded the 2009 VMB Award of Musical Movie/Documentary of the Year.
When the inmate Maria do Socorro Nobre reads an article about the Polish artist Franz Krajcberg in Veja magazine, she decides to write a letter to him. Socorro was sentenced to more than twenty-one years in a prison for women in Salvador, Bahia, while Franz is a tormented artist that lost his family and lived his childhood in a ghetto in Poland but survived the holocaust. Franz...
Speaking on the telephone with the Hungarian Consulate, the filmmaker asks: "Does someone whose grandfather is Hungarian have the right to obtain a Hungarian passport" The question apparently sounds strange. "Yes - It's possible... But, why do you want a Hungarian passport" The filmmaker asks for the list of necessary documents, but the officer woman still doesn't understand ...