Mateus Aleluia

Between scenes from his concert in São Paulo's oft-inaccessible Theatro Municipal, rapper and activist Emicida celebrates the rich legacy of Black Brazilian culture.

Orin: music for the Orixás is a documentary by Henrique Duarte, supported by the FGM Art Every Day edict. The feature film deals with the importance of candomblé terreiros music, its rhythms, songs, traditions and influence in Brazilian music.

Component of the vocal trio “Os Tincoãs”, the singer and composer Mateus Aleluia developed his musical career between Brazil and Angola. Back in Brazil around the 2000s he retakes his artistic production in an acclaimed solo career. Following the process of composition of his second album, the documentary “Aleluia, The Infinite Song” addresses in the construction of the imagery around the artist’s life and work.

Through clippings, the film draws a narrative line between the construction of racism in Brazil and the United States, having as base the European invasion of the continent, police violence, the genocide of the black people, the massacre of indigenous peoples, religious violence, the criminalization of funk music, structural racism in art and education, the importance of quota policy and the need urgent historical repair as a commitment by the Brazilian state to the black people.

The story of the Candeal favela in Salvador de Bahia, Brazil, where musician Carlinhos Brown carries out social and cultural initiatives that protect and enrich the lives of its inhabitants every day.

Singer, composer, actor and painter, Dorival Caymmi was a multiple artist, but what they may not know is his pioneering work in introducing candomblé into Brazilian popular music. Recreating in a poetic way concepts present in Caymmi's work and life, the documentary revelation of the artist from his own lines, mined in old magazines.

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