Tite de Lemos

The origins and activities of the Academy, culminating in the election of the first female academic: Rachel de Queiroz.

A documentary assembled upon visual records of cultural, political and economic events from 20th century Brazilian life.

The world of Alagoas poet Jorge de Lima, author of unforgettable verses, is in O Grande Circo Místico, from 1977, directed by João Carlos Horta.

Eduardo Coutinho was filming a movie with the same name in the Northeast of Brazil, in 1964, when there came the military coup. He had to interrupt the project, and came back to it in 1981, looking for the same places and people, showing what had ocurred since then, and trying to gather a family whose patriarch, a political leader fighting for rights of country people, had been murdered.

Oh de Casa!

João, a playboy, spends his last day as a single in a resort hotel, where he seduces a teenager and gets involved with the casino singer.

Visão do Nordeste

Born a fully grown black man in a village in the Brazilian jungle, Macunaíma later magically transforms into a white man before making an adventure-filled trip to the city of São Paulo. Once there, he becomes something of a dandy, falling in love with Ci, a revolutionary who dies in an accidental bombing. After robbing a ruthless industrialist, Macunaima returns to his village where he finds his newly acquired knowledge and possessions of little use.

Jornal do Sertão

It is the magazine that continues the Modern Art Week of 22.

Cordiais Saudações

Passe Livre

In May 1969 at Tres Irmãos Farm, Caruaru, PE: Lourival Batista and Severino Pinto, two singers by profession, meet for a challenge. This film documents some moments of the Cantoria.

During the Brazilian military government, journalist Estêvão is sent from Rio de Janeiro to Brasilia to cover the important statement of a minister, but takes the opportunity to deliver incriminating documents to another one.

Experimental film by Haroldo Marinho Barbosa.

Film portrait of Austrian intellectual, journalist and writer Otto Maria Carpeaux, who emigrated to Brazil to flee World Ward II, as his insights on the 1964 Brazilian dictatorship.