A documentary made to coincide with Niemeyer's 100th birthday. The renowned architect talks about his long life, his inspirations, and his aspirations towards a just Brazil, and the ways he tried to help that along in his spectacular and beautiful buildings.
The story of the University of Brasília, since it was only a project in Darcy Ribeiro's head until the fateful events in August 1968 when its campus was invaded by the police, during the military dictatorship, thus putting an end to its independence.
O Universo Graciliano
The fading of composer Zé Keti’s career. The sad portrait of Brazilian Congress closed in 1977. The pain of a mother who lost her 15-year old daughter run over by a car. The Brazilian Presidents since Castelo Branco. Characters and settings registered through the keen and sensitive perspective of photographer Orlando Brito, in a career spanning 50 years as a professional. From the political sidelines to the lives of Brazilians from the interior, Brito recalls experiences and discusses the role of the photographer and the pain of registering someone’s grief.
Itinerário de Niemeyer
Documentary about the people who came from all over Brazil to work in the construction of the city of Brasilia, their stories, and the abuse and humiliation they suffered in the process.
Brizola - Tempos de Luta
Documentary about the birth of bossa-nova, in Brazil, and the major stars of this musical style.
Chico e as Cidades
Vladimir Carvalho's Cinema of Inequality marked the documentary filmmaker's trajectory over decades of activity. Considered one of the most important Brazilian documentary filmmakers in activity, his images influenced the emergence of Cinema Novo and the new Brazilian documentary years later. Quando a Coisa Vira Outra covers the most important films made by Vladimir, revealing where ideas come from to show the true reality of a country.
Murilo Peres and Pedro Barros get a once-in-a-lifetime pass to roll on the fabled curves of some undisputed masterpieces of modern architecture. Oscar Niemeyer remains one of the most important architects in modern history. The Brazilian visionary, who died in 2012 aged 104, elevated modern architecture beyond the realms of function and created buildings that are works of art and express the highest attributes of humanity. His work with reinforced concrete in particular created new architectural forms and possibilities, eschewing the tyranny of angles to create waves and swooping arches of such soaring beauty that they represent nothing less than physical poetry.
Brasília, Uma Sinfonia
Lucio Costa is one of the rare personalities in the history of Brazil who allows him to cross his individual history with nation-building in a very natural and open way. The documentary narrates, through the trajectory of the architect and urban planner Lucio Costa, the process of "formation" of modern Brazilian architecture.
Jaime Lerner - Uma História de Sonhos
It starts in the Indian tabas, goes through colonial architecture and arrives in the Brazilian capital. The film follows a script left by Alberto Cavalcanti, after a trip to Brasilia in 1978.
Chronicles the life of military lieutenant, later communist militant and Brazilian politician Luiz Carlos Prestes.
A documentary about the design of cities, which looks at the issues and strategies behind urban design and features some of the world's foremost architects, planners, policymakers, builders, and thinkers.
Documentary about the works
The testimony of an artist who continues to believe in the socialist ideal. The story of a man who loves women.
A documentary on Brazilian poet and composer Vinicius de Moraes, made by his daughter a few months before his death.
"Zanine, Ser do Arquitetar" portrays the life, thought and achievements of José Zanine Caldas - a self-taught architect of projection in the 60s, of salutary, brilliant and humanitarian work. It is a document about the thought and look of a simple man, yet sophisticated in his art, who was ahead of his time.
Jorge Bodanzy appeals to the emotional memories of the period he spent studying at the University of Brasilia to show us a tableau of youth in the 1960s, with their dreams and expectations, their hardships, and interrupted projects.
Brascuba
Mixed with fiction and documentary, the film relives the interviews conducted by the writer Clarice Lispector published in the magazines "Manchete" and "Fatos and Fotos" in the 1970s.
The first images of the new capital of Brazil, Brasília!
On a trip across the country, director Alberto Renault visits residential architecture in a meeting with architects and residents.
