Thomaz Farkas, Brazilian 2003

About the Hungarian photographer, an exponent of the history of the Brazilian documentary, directed by filmmaker Walter Lima Junior and sponsored by Petrobras.

ABC of a Strike 1990

ABC of a Strike captures the 1979 metal workers strikes outside of São Paulo. The footage sat untouched until after the death of highly-regarded director Leon Hirszman in 1987, by which time the material had a new relevance. The gripping film captures the negotiations between the labor unions and the factory bosses and shows the birth of the region’s Worker’s Party, as well as the emergence of its charismatic leader, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva. Rising from extreme poverty, Lula gained national prominence as a union activist during the late 70s and early 80s. After being jailed during his time as a union leader, he eventually becomes Brazil’s president from 2003 to 2010.

Certas Palavras com Chico Buarque 1980

The life and work of Brazilian singer-songwriter, guitarist, composer, playwright, writer and poet Chico Buarque de Hollanda.

Colonel Delmiro Gouveia 1979

In the beginning of the 20th Century, in the Northeast of Brazil, one of the first Brazilian industrialists is persecuted because he refuses to sell his business to a British company.

Instrumentos da Música Popular Brasileira - O Berimbau 1978

Andiamo In’merica – Os Italianos No Brasil 1978

A documentary about Italian immigration in Brazil.

O Picapau Amarelo 1973

The Viscount of Sabugosa is locked in the library writing an encyclopedia about the characters in children's fables. Dona Benta receives a letter from little Thumb, written on a rose petal, in which he, realizing that the inhabitants of the world of fables are forgotten in the books on the shelves, requests that everyone live in Sítio do Picapau Amarelo. Emília and the children love the idea, and Dona Benta says yes. They move

Tatu Bola 1971

Expedito, after being abandoned by his parents, became Zefa's adopted son until he became a man and started earning his living as an independent fisherman. As soon as he finds out that Zefa is very ill, Expedito runs back home and finds his adoptive mother in agony. At the edge of the bed, a mysterious woman, who claims to be Death, sits.

Paraíso, Juarez 1971

The painter Juarez Paraíso describes the assembly of panels at the entrance of the Cinema Tupi, in Salvador, explaining their meaning.

Beste 1970

Deformed form by which the word "beast" (medieval weapon) is pronounced in the north of the Brazilian state of Bahia and was still present in the cultural memory of the region.

O Engenho 1970

The process of production of rapadura in the Brazilian state of Ceará.

A Morte do Boi 1970

Viva Cariri 1970

The confrontations and conflicts between the city of Padre Cicero's pilgrims and the attempts to develop the region.

Os Imaginários 1970

A Vaquejada 1970

In the interior of Paraíba a tournament between cowboys who must demonstrate mastery in knocking an ox down by the tail while they ride.

Lavra Dor 1968

A debate about the agrarian reform in Brazil, in free and poetic form, showing the countrymen's struggles and hardships, and rural unionism issues after the military coup, kind of a nonlinear interpretation of Mário Chamie's poem "Lavra-Lavra".

Viramundo 1965

Viramundo shows the saga of the northeastern migrants that arrive in São Paulo, beginning with a train arriving and ending with a train leaving São Paulo in a cycle repeated every day. Viramundo's aim was to question why the military coup d'état in Brazil happened without any popular resistance or revolution or reaction of the society.

Memória do Cangaço 1964

The origins of "cangaço", armed brigands in the Northeast between 1935 and 1939, interviews with some survivors of the fighting, police and outlaws movement. Interspersed with testimonials, authentic sequences of films made in 1936 by Benjamin Abraham, an Arab peddler who managed to film the famous band of Virgulino Ferreira da Silva, the "Lampião".

Bahia of All Saints 1961

Salvador, Bahia, Brazil, during the dictatorship of Getúlio Vargas. Outlaw Tonio is involved in a conflict between strikers and the police. His mistress tries to keep him from his companions, but he steals her belongings to help the persecuted. Dissatisfied, she denounces him, compromising him politically.