Eryk Rocha

A deep investigation, in the way of a poetic essay, on one of the main Latin American movements in cinema, analyzed via the thoughts of its main authors, who invented, in the early 1960s, a new way of making movies in Brazil, with a political attitude, always near to people's problems, that combined art and revolution.

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In Rio de Janeiro, close to the mythical Maracana stadium, venue for the grand final of the World Cup 2014, we find an ordinary football field in the Sampaio neighborhood. There, football happens as a genuine expression of Brazilian culture. With the games on Sundays, the annual slum football league has 14 teams. Each represents the colors and rituals of their community. Geração x Juventude contest the final.

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The life and work of singer, musician and actor Jards Macalé.

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Igor is a teenager with a lot of potential and energy, but without the motivation to stay in school. His case reflects the situation in which many students at risk of dropping out of school live. The short shows a day in the life of this aspiring actor and capoeirista, who lives in Morro dos Prazeres.

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La Rueda shows an everyday night in Pucallpa, a city located in the Peruvian Amazon. Colors, noises and lights are projected. Families transport their children to the amusement park. Fears, fantasies, joys and vertigo intertwine. A new world of sensations arises. The film dialogues with the most distant memories and drives of childhood and in the plots of affection between mothers and children.

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Expedito is a retired man who has lost ties with life. Among other anonymous ones, he walks around the city of Rio de Janeiro witnessing conflicts of others.

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The documentary is a journey into the open heart of South America, through the Brazilian forest toward Peru and Bolivia, where is the reality of people historically excluded from the political process of their countries and for the first time ever seek effective participation in shaping their own destiny.

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Intervalo Clandestino is a documentary that seeks to translate the state of mind of the Brazilian people in the face of the country's social and political reality. The film seeks to show the role of politics and its practical effects on citizens' lives. A broad reflection emerges in the anonymous voices surprised at random in the crowd. They are ordinary people, from different professions, with different visions, who speak to the camera about their impressions, desires and frustrations, discussing politicians, voting, corruption, distrust and the future of Brazil.

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A man shaves under the watchful eye of a cat. His beard becomes a cat and the cat a beard. The film merges the two concepts of chimera: as a noun, it is the result of imagination that tends not to come true; in Greek mythology, a figure with the hybrid appearance of two or more animals.

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Documentary about the relationship between filmmaker Glauber Rocha and Cuba.

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With a constellation of black voices and presences, the short film takes a dizzying journey between ancestral and contemporary territories. On this mystical journey, sound and image devours celebrate the black poetry that anchors memories and discovers futures.

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A documentary about the creative process of Arrigo Barnabé

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Down on his luck and recently divorced, Paulo has begun driving a cab around Rio, hoping he’ll make enough to send his ex money to support their ten-year-old son. He mostly works nights, so in addition to his encounters with a colourful variety of customers, colleagues, cops and others, he must cope with loneliness, fatigue and new faces in his life.

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A film like a monument: Luz nos Trópicos is a tribute to the rich greens of the Amazon and the forests of New England in winter, celebrating the indigenous peoples of continental America and flowing as a film as freely as a winding river.

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Music about becoming women in the contemporary world, their emancipation and struggles

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A deep investigation, in the way of a poetic essay, on one of the main Latin American movements in cinema, analyzed via the thoughts of its main authors, who invented, in the early 1960s, a new way of making movies in Brazil, with a political attitude, always near to people's problems, that combined art and revolution.

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In Rio de Janeiro, close to the mythical Maracana stadium, venue for the grand final of the World Cup 2014, we find an ordinary football field in the Sampaio neighborhood. There, football happens as a genuine expression of Brazilian culture. With the games on Sundays, the annual slum football league has 14 teams. Each represents the colors and rituals of their community. Geração x Juventude contest the final.

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She menage to save from a fire a bunch of pictures and a diary written by hand. Those words and faces becomes the last traces left from the man she one day knew and loved. Crossing mountains and roads, she tries to remake his steps. The places she vists bring people, gestures, memories and histories that slowly become part of her life.

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The life and work of singer, musician and actor Jards Macalé.

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Drylands could be anywhere, just as Marcélia Cartaxo could be many women (including herself). The actress is placed in a situation in which she encounters nature and other female figures, in some instances, her doubles. Out of these encounters spring other possibilities that operate in the world of representation, which, in the film originate from the same imaginary power as children's games in empty lots.

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A couple on a trip.

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Intervalo Clandestino is a documentary that seeks to translate the state of mind of the Brazilian people in the face of the country's social and political reality. The film seeks to show the role of politics and its practical effects on citizens' lives. A broad reflection emerges in the anonymous voices surprised at random in the crowd. They are ordinary people, from different professions, with different visions, who speak to the camera about their impressions, desires and frustrations, discussing politicians, voting, corruption, distrust and the future of Brazil.

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A man shaves under the watchful eye of a cat. His beard becomes a cat and the cat a beard. The film merges the two concepts of chimera: as a noun, it is the result of imagination that tends not to come true; in Greek mythology, a figure with the hybrid appearance of two or more animals.

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Documentary about the relationship between filmmaker Glauber Rocha and Cuba.

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