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Fancy Pea is a Brazilian documentary produced, written and directed by Werner Schumann, in the year 1985, reporting facts about the life and work of the Brazilian writer, poet, translator and professor Paulo Leminski. The program was shown on TV in 1985 and 1989 (at the time of the death of the writer).

In 1965, a year after the military coup in Brazil, an oasis of freedom opened in the country's capital. The Brasília Film Festival: a landmark of cultural and political resistance. Its story is that of Brazilian cinema itself.