Meu Amigo Lorenzo 2024

The story of the musical friendship between veteran musician/filmmaker André Luiz Oliveira and Lorenzo Barreto, a boy with autism, over 15 years.

Procura-se Meteorango Kid: Vivo ou Morto 2021

Meteorango Kid – O Herói Integalático, by André Luiz Oliveira, is a cult movie made in Bahia, awarded at the 1969 Brasília Festival and censored by the dictatorship. Meteorango Kid: alive or dead is a documentary about the film and its effects on the lives of other artists. André Luiz and musician Tuzé de Abreu, in the company of friends from the generation who used to go crazy, guide us in this search and reveal the mysteries of the invention of this iconic character of countercultural youth.

Candango: Memoirs from a Festival 2020

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.

Mito e Música: A Mensagem de Fernando Pessoa 2019

The documentary addresses the project, which took 30 years to complete, about the recording of 44 songs created for each poem in Mensagem, one of Fernando Pessoa's most emblematic books.

O Outro Lado da Memória 2018

In 1996, filmmaker André Luiz Oliveira started preproduction of Viva o Povo Brasileiro, a film adaptation of the novel by João Ubaldo Ribeiro. Principal photography went on for nine years, but the production was shut down after a series of unfortunate events. This documentary retells that story, repurposing the fictional footage and chronicling the work both in front and behind the scenes.

O Cristo de Vitória da Conquista 1980

The Fountain - A Sculpture - A Monument 1970

Here is another short by André Luiz Oliveira, this time it's a charming documentary on brazilian sculptor Mario Cravo Jr. and his fountain project. What makes the documentary interesting beyond its topic is Oliveira's unusal approach, he tells the story of the sculpture project only through sometimes psychedelic pictures and music/noise without conventional narration.

Meteorango Kid, Intergalactic Hero 1969

In Bahia, in the late '60s, the alienated college student Lula spends his time protesting in the university, but without political orientation, wandering on the streets, smoking grass, trying to be an actor and having sex. Meanwhile, a common young man stalks women on the streets trying to have intercourse with them.

Sweet Bitterness 1968

Here is a cinema marginal short by the director of Meteorango Kid André Luiz Oliveira that tells the tragic story of a street seller of sweets.