Bumba Meu Boi - Patrimônio da Humanidade

Amo, Poeta e Cantador

Pelé, a retired nurse, revisits his memories as a performer in the Boi Tira-Teima group from Caruaru, Pernambuco. Between longing for the past and the impossibility of celebrating Carnival in the present, he imagines what it would be like to return to Carnival one last time.

Rally dos Sertões 2003 - 11º Rally Internacional dos Sertões

Morro das Ilusões

S.O.S Bairro da Caema

After losing her husband, 65-year-old midwife Betânia is persuaded by her daughters to leave her remote village. She moves near the sand dunes of Lençóis Maranhenses in northern Brazil and ventures a new beginning.

The June Festival is approaching, when the bumba-meu-boi is traditionally celebrated in São Luís. Codó is the “miolo”, the dancer who brings the enchanted bull to life. Yet he finds himself under pressure from the end of his lease, the loss of his job contract, and the progres­sion of his father’s Alzheimer’s, whom he cares for alone.

O boizinho de São João

Sítio do Picapau Amarelo: As Peripécias do Saci

123 Semillas de Nim

A pinball story told by pinball people.

A documentary about pinball. “Let’s enter the magic world of pinball. From its early beginnings, through the golden years in post-war decades. Until its unfortunate decline in the nineties, and beyond… Let’s visit the manufacturers, let’s meet the designers, let’s take a closer look at the techniques, let’s meet the players, the collectors and the experts.”

Filhos de Gandhy

Join Savage Films on an adventure in search of the best highball boulders on the West Coast of North America. Phenomenal cinematography takes you to five new world-class locales: Red Rocks NV, Leavenworth WA, Squamish BC, Cody WY, and Castle Rocks ID. Western Gold provides a thrilling view of the bouldering experience when climbers commit to harder moves higher and higher off the ground. From the hardest to the tallest the West Coast has to offer, get ready to see something new.

15 years after they first took the world by storm, a new musical about the girls called Viva Forever! is about to hit the West End. The programme looks at the creative process behind the show that is produced by Judy Craymer and written by Jennifer Saunders in collaboration with the Spice Girls themselves.

Samuel Fuller discusses his career as a filmmaker, illustrated by plenty of clips.

A documentary from Erkki Karu, one of the earliest pioneers of Finnish cinema: This government-produced propaganda film introduces the nature, sports, military, agriculture and capital of Finland.

Two young women put out a sex ad, reply to and meet the men, and document the response.

How Walter Gropius's decision to relegate Anni Albers to the weaving class of the Bauhaus created the greatest textiles artist the world has ever known.

Filmed in a village where girls outnumber boys times three. A young woman in a traditional outfit, dedicated to spinning and combing wool, swaddling a newborn, drying clothes on the grass: her monologue and popular music accompany her gestures precise, immemorial. A simple and moving ethnographic film.