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...
A short documentary that chronicles the events of the strike that took place at the metallurgic Companhia Siderúrgica Nacional (CSN) in November 1988, which claimed the lives of three workers when the army and police forces invaded the place.
In this 2009 film about a theater production in Moscow, Brazilian filmmaker Eduardo Coutinho (1933-2014) explores the porous boundary between fact and fiction. He invites the Brazilian theater group Galpo to perform their version of Anton Chekhov’s play Three Sisters—in just three weeks’ time. The three sisters of the play—Irina, Olga and Masha—are living in a provincial town,...
A documentary by Eduardo Coutinho about a hired-gun from Brazil’s Northeast.