Domingos de Oliveira

The documentary is a tribute to Theater based on the trajectory of Clarice Niskier who made her job her own lifestyle. As a central axis, interviews with the three directors with whom Clarice developed long partnerships: Domingos Oliveira, Eduardo Wotzik and Amir Haddad. Through an intimate and sensitive look, the film reveals her passion for the craft, her life experience, her poetic worldview, her spiritual and intellectual search, pains, joys, losses and gains. Clarice makes the black box the more than perfect symbol of her own Universe: the Theater.

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Conducted from interviews with personalities who lived with Leila Diniz (1945-1972), the documentary is a record of an era and, above all, it rescues the participation in Brazilian culture of the actress who opened the way for the sexual revolution during the dark years of the dictatorship.

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The trajectory and artistic imagery of actor and director Zbigniew Ziembinski (1908-1978), precursor of modern theater in Latin America and master of generations of Brazilian actors. The polyphonic montage builds on vast unpublished material, covering half a century of performances, teletheaters and interviews by Zimba, as he was known – before and after fleeing Poland, on the eve of the invasion of Warsaw – and recreates fragments of Wedding Dress , a play by Nelson Rodrigues which the Polish-Brazilian director won a revolutionary montage in 1943.

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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.

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On the first day of the year, multiple characters meet in a sumptuous country house nearside Rio de Janeiro. From dawn till dusk, they all face their crisis and limitations, and search for a meaning for their lives.

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Documentary about the cinema that formed the Paissandu Generation, in the 60s, and the cultural and social impact of that period for the country's history.

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The psychoanalyst Inês intends not to be lovingly involved with anyone else. However, she ends up falling in love with two men at the same time, unaware that they are father and son.

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Divided in five segments, "Todo Mundo Tem Problemas Sexuais" follows the story of different couples, each having various problems in bed.

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A look into the life and mind of Brazilian playwright and filmmaker Domingos Oliveira through his daily activities and artistic deeds.

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David, a man in his twillight years, lives all by himself and decides to invite two childhood friends for a day at his house in Petrópolis, where they spend hours talking about the past.

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Ana Laura is a 40 year-old, good looking and well-informed TV News Anchor who's also a cocaine addict. Facing her career decline as the channel she works in starts to give more space to younger professionals, she faces a night of unusual events as she dives further into drug abuse.

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Célio Rocha believes he was assigned by God Himself a difficult mission: to persuade his childhood friend Otávio Sabóia, a corrupt entrepeneur in the construction business, to give away all his possessions to the poor.

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Four actresses in their mid-forties get together in the afternoon to write a play about their own experiences. But the director isn't satisfied with the outcome.

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Cabral is a 60 year old playwright who's married to Glorinha, an actress who's 20 years younger than him. They've been together for half of her live, and now they're getting bored...

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The film tells a little of the history of Brazil immersed in the caricature of the conditions of making cinema in this country. Flora and Carlos Manoel fall in love. She, from a family linked to the Monarchy, and he, a republican activist, live their love in the last days of the monarchy, without knowing that the end of the empire would also mean the end of their romance.

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In Rio de Janeiro, at the end of the millennium, a group of mostly middle-aged friends share their lives and experiences with each other.

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Documentary that addresses, through the testimony of directors and actors, the work of Dib Lutfi, considered one of the greatest photographers of Brazilian cinema.

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Cabral is a writer who decides to spend his summer writing a series about love stories. It is then that he begins to look back over his life and his works. He is married to Glorinha, a woman twenty years younger than him, with whom he has a daughter, the young Samanta. Glorinha dreams of having a second child, but Cabral rejects the woman's desire, creating a stalemate between the two.

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In Rio de Janeiro, a successful yet underpaid young accountant lives with his pregnant wife in small apartment in middle class neighborhood of Copacabana. Unsatisfied with their way of life, the couple decides to accept the offer of becoming housekeepers of a rich man's vacation residence in a beach town.

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At the heart of an upper-middle class family resides a bizarre love triangle. Two men, one woman. An essay on the various possibilities and rituals of recent freedom, Os Demónios da Liberdade is also a manifest of sexual freedom. But the demons are still around.

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Erotic comedy in four episodes loosely inspired by the 'Black Book of Love' by Marquês de Sade, whose stories were merged and reassembled with different treatments in each episode.

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Portuguese television version of the jekyll and hyde story from 1972.

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Originally produced for German TV, Improvised and Purposeful is a firsthand look at the "Cinema Novo" movement (otherwise known as the 'Brazilian New Wave'). Director Joaquim Pedro de Andrade focuses on six Cinema Novo filmmakers working in Rio in 1967.

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A few weeks before Carnival, slum boys organize huntings for stray cats, whose leather can be used in Samba percussion instruments, like the Tamborim, a small drum.

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On a Sunday, the actors Maria Ribeiro, Fernanda Torres, Wagner Moura, Carolina Dieckmann, Sophie Charlotte, Mateus Solano, Alexandre Nero and Du Moscovis have lunch at one of their houses. The occasion gives way to an incredibly sincere debate on the art of acting, the profession and, above all, the doubts about love and life.

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In 1960s Rio de Janeiro, aspiring writer Felipe leads a life of wild parties held in an apartment in famous street Barata Ribeiro in Copacabana. There he and his friends enjoy freedom even in the midst of a complicated political moment.

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The film uses delicacy and humor to describe the authoritarian functioning of a typically Brazilian 1950 family in Rio de Janeiro. The family is headed by a matriarch anxiously waiting for the night to hear Carlos Lacerda. The intense emotional plot highlights the absurdity of the characters' behavior.

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On the first day of the year, multiple characters meet in a sumptuous country house nearside Rio de Janeiro. From dawn till dusk, they all face their crisis and limitations, and search for a meaning for their lives.

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The psychoanalyst Inês intends not to be lovingly involved with anyone else. However, she ends up falling in love with two men at the same time, unaware that they are father and son.

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Divided in five segments, "Todo Mundo Tem Problemas Sexuais" follows the story of different couples, each having various problems in bed.

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David, a man in his twillight years, lives all by himself and decides to invite two childhood friends for a day at his house in Petrópolis, where they spend hours talking about the past.

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Ana Laura is a 40 year-old, good looking and well-informed TV News Anchor who's also a cocaine addict. Facing her career decline as the channel she works in starts to give more space to younger professionals, she faces a night of unusual events as she dives further into drug abuse.

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Cabral is a 60 year old playwright who's married to Glorinha, an actress who's 20 years younger than him. They've been together for half of her live, and now they're getting bored...

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In Rio de Janeiro, at the end of the millennium, a group of mostly middle-aged friends share their lives and experiences with each other.

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Cabral is a writer who decides to spend his summer writing a series about love stories. It is then that he begins to look back over his life and his works. He is married to Glorinha, a woman twenty years younger than him, with whom he has a daughter, the young Samanta. Glorinha dreams of having a second child, but Cabral rejects the woman's desire, creating a stalemate between the two.

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In Rio de Janeiro, a successful yet underpaid young accountant lives with his pregnant wife in small apartment in middle class neighborhood of Copacabana. Unsatisfied with their way of life, the couple decides to accept the offer of becoming housekeepers of a rich man's vacation residence in a beach town.

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Erotic comedy in four episodes loosely inspired by the 'Black Book of Love' by Marquês de Sade, whose stories were merged and reassembled with different treatments in each episode.

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Portuguese television version of the jekyll and hyde story from 1972.

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A long time public servant is told by an angel that he will die at midnight of the following day.

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A volatile young man, Edu is a typical Rio de Janeiro middle-class kind, who flirts with multiple women at the same time. None of them, however, had managed to make him fall in love, until he met with mysterious Tatiana.

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When womanizer Paulo meets a friend’s fiancée, she changes the way he looks at the opposite sex. He falls in love, and believes she is in fact all women in one. Because of that, he has to face an important decision: to go on with his old life, or embrace this special relationship and become a monogamous man.

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Five segments about the hardships faced by people living in slums on hills in Rio de Janeiro.

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A few weeks before Carnival, slum boys organize huntings for stray cats, whose leather can be used in Samba percussion instruments, like the Tamborim, a small drum.

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