Brazilian documentaries (or foreign docs about Brazil) - excluded the very bad ones
Brazilian fiction movies in these lists:
Great movies about/in Rio de Janeiro
Movies about Northeastern Brazil
Some nice Brazilian movies
See also my list Brazilian movies: up to three films for each state.
There is also the list of my favorite documentaries, including the ones not from Brasil.
Add: "Preto contra branco" (https://youtu.be/r_xkDHHGWx8 ), "A linha imaginária" (https://youtu.be/uY4CN1H7z0g ), "Elas da Favela" (https://youtu.be/Re8DQ0t1BbA ), ""Feminino cangaço", and "Retomada", documentary about Brazilian cinema by Karim Akadiri Soumaïla, "Trem, trilhos, Trump" - I tive it a 7 (https://cultura.estadao.com.br/blogs/marcelo-rubens-paiva/trem-trilhos-trump/).
I would also like to add "De um Fernando para o Brasil", from [link=]Luccas Soares[/link] - a short film which is well filmed but has chosen a quite stupid and boring hippie guy who just repeat a supposedly rebel contentional wisdom as if it were the smartest view (I give it a 6).
Also add: "Pacto para a liberdade: uma breve história de Pedro Aleixo"
To be added: Adriana Sager's doc "Central"
Great movies about/in Rio de Janeiro
Movies about Northeastern Brazil
Some nice Brazilian movies
See also my list Brazilian movies: up to three films for each state.
There is also the list of my favorite documentaries, including the ones not from Brasil.
Add: "Preto contra branco" (https://youtu.be/r_xkDHHGWx8 ), "A linha imaginária" (https://youtu.be/uY4CN1H7z0g ), "Elas da Favela" (https://youtu.be/Re8DQ0t1BbA ), ""Feminino cangaço", and "Retomada", documentary about Brazilian cinema by Karim Akadiri Soumaïla, "Trem, trilhos, Trump" - I tive it a 7 (https://cultura.estadao.com.br/blogs/marcelo-rubens-paiva/trem-trilhos-trump/).
I would also like to add "De um Fernando para o Brasil", from [link=]Luccas Soares[/link] - a short film which is well filmed but has chosen a quite stupid and boring hippie guy who just repeat a supposedly rebel contentional wisdom as if it were the smartest view (I give it a 6).
Also add: "Pacto para a liberdade: uma breve história de Pedro Aleixo"
To be added: Adriana Sager's doc "Central"
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- DirectorJorge FurtadoStarsPaulo JoséCiça ReckziegelDouglas TraininiThe ironic, heartbreaking and acid "saga" of a spoiled tomato: from the plantation of a "Nisei" (Brazilian with Japanese origins); to a supermarket; to a consumer's kitchen to become sauce of a pork meat; to the garbage can since it is spoiled for the consumption; to a garbage truck to be dumped in a garbage dump in "Ilha das Flores"; to the selection of nutriment for pigs by the employees of a pigs breeder; to become food for poor Brazilian people.
- DirectorSebastián BednarikAndrés VarelaStarsMilton BarretoLuis Batlle BerresRafael BayceMaracaná football stadium was built to the World Cup finals in 1950, when everyone in Brazil was certain they would win. They lost 1-2 to Uruguay and went into a national depression. Then the chance is there again, more than 60 years later.
- DirectorLeo BittencourtSATELLITES is a documentary about the passion for soccer told through the points-of-view of characters who were following somehow the final match of the Brazilian Soccer Cup. The film moves the focus from the game to the field's margins, to the fans, to outside the stadium. The movie intends to capture the tension, atmosphere and charm of a final match. SATELLITES translates, based on images captured during that game, the sensation of being at the stadium watching the game with no images of the game itself.
- DirectorEduardo CoutinhoStarsFernando JoséThe daily lives and routine of 37 families living in a huge 12-story building in Copacabana, Rio de Janeiro: their drama, aspirations, intimate revelations, loneliness, dreams...
- DirectorVincent CarelliTatiana AlmeidaErnesto de CarvalhoStarsCelso AokiMyriam Medina AokiOriel BenitesA analysis about the violence and the struggle suffered by the Guarani Kaiowá group, one of the biggest Indian populations of Brazil.
- DirectorPedro von KrügerStarsTantinho da MangueiraThe Mangueira slum is the scenario where Tantinho and the old samba composers remember stories about the slums and samba.
- DirectorMaria RamosStarsDilma RousseffJair BolsonaroJosé Eduardo CardozoThe Trial documents the trial of Dilma Rousseff, focusing on the defense team, who struggles to prove her innocence against a majority vote by a Congress riddled with corruption. A tale of betrayal and corruption, the film presents Rousseff's personal story: herself imprisoned and tortured by the country's former military dictatorship, she now faces impeachment accused of fiscal crimes. Rousseff declares herself innocent and accuses the right-wing opposition of perpetrating a parliamentary coup d'état. The Trial witnesses how the impeachment triggers a profound political crisis in Brazil. It looks at the collapse of the democratic institutions and at the economic and geopolitical interests at the very heart of this crisis. The film offers a behind-the-scenes look at this historical moment. The filmmaker was granted unique access to the defense team, to deputies and senators and to President Rousseff herself. Ramos' technique is wholly observational, without interviews and narrations. The camera captures physical and conversational interactions in private and political spheres while offering viewers a glimpse of the outdoor mass demonstrations.
- DirectorLúcia MuratStarsPhilippe de BrocaMichael CainePhilippe ClairFantasies and clichés about Brazil and Brazilians as reinforced by international films, even those actually shot in Brazil. This documentary features interviews with non-Brazilian directors, writers and stars who have been involved in some of those films.
- DirectorKátia LundJoão Moreira SallesStarsNilton CerqueiraCarlos Luis GregórioPaulo LinsDocumentary about urban violence in Brazil, especially in Rio de Janeiro. Policemen, drug dealers, and shantytown dwellers get trapped into a daily war that knows no winners.
- DirectorJorge FurtadoStarsEduardo CardosoUrsula CollischonnJosé Roberto de ToledoDiscussion about journalism today in Brazil, inspired by the play "The Staple of News" (by Ben Jonson, published in 1631)
- DirectorPaulo Henrique FontenelleStarsCarlos DieguesJoão GoulartPaula MorenoAn account of the mysterious death of a former president of Brazil whose deposition led to the Military Revolution in Brazil in 1964, seeking to clarify obscure facts in the country's history at that time.
- DirectorCamilo TavaresStarsAuro de Moura AndradeRobert BentleyJúlio de Sá BierrenbachProvides evidence of manipulation and investment funding from the U.S. government to carry out the Brazilian military coup that occurred in 1964.
- DirectorJosé PadilhaFelipe LacerdaStarsSandro do NascimentoRodrigo PimentelLuiz Eduardo SoaresOn June 12, 2000, a young man with a gun took the passengers aboard Bus 174 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil hostage. This documentary examines the event itself, the resulting media frenzy, the police response, and the perpetrator's background.
- DirectorErik de CastroThe saga of the First Group of Fighter Aviation of Brazil, which took part in the Second World War in the Italian skies, told by their own pilots. There are 23 interviews with veterans and their families, all of them illustrated by artist Júlio Zartos's drawings and mixed with images of that time, took by cameras hidden in Brazilian planes or borrowed from Aerospace Museum of Rio de Janeiro.
- DirectorAnna AzevedoRenata BaldiEduardo Souza LimaStarsJanoZuenir VenturaMeet Rio de Janeiro... through the eyes of Jano!
- DirectorChaim LitewskiStarsHennig Boilesen Jr.Fernando Henrique CardosoJarbas PassarinhoA documentary about the controversial businessman Henning Boilesen Jr. and his involvement with the military regime as one of its most enthusiastic supporters, financing it and participating in the tortures of political prisoners. Those actions later culminated in his assassination in 1971 by members of militant groups opposed to the regime.
- DirectorCamilo TavaresHistories of Hunger in Brazil is a documentary that sets a timeline of hunger in the country. From Colonial Brazil, where the seeds of social inequalities were planted, to the recent public policies that culminated with Brazil finally exiting UN official World Map of Hunger, we portray how the confrontation of this evil on the part of the society and of the government took place.
- DirectorMarcelo MasagãoStarsFranz ReicheltA fascinating and poetical collage of countless images from the 20th century with the purpose of revealing matters of life and death during the era and its many social, cultural and political transformations, with the director making several statements on several issues, combining fact and fiction to compose his powerful mosaic of images along with the magnificent music of Wim Mertens. A true work of art that dares to make several questions about the human condition, its contradictions and ironies.
- DirectorPaulo Henrique FontenelleStarsDevendra BanhartArnaldo BaptistaLucinha BarbosaThe biography of Arnaldo Baptista, founder of Mutantes, has his narrative sewn by emotional testimonies by the artist. Packed with songs that marked the epoch, the film reveals the trajectory of one of the biggest names in Brazilian rock.
- DirectorLuiz BolognesiStarsPerpera SuruíEver since their first contact with the Western world in 1969 the Paiter Suruí, an indigenous people living in the Amazon basin, have been exposed to sweeping social changes. Smartphones, gas, electricity, medicines, weapons and social media have now replaced their traditional way of life. Illness is a risk for a community increasingly unable to isolate itself from the modernization brought by white people or the power of the church. Ethnocide threatens to destroy their soul. With dogged persistence, Perpera, a former shaman, is searching for a way to restore the old vitality to his village.
- DirectorSusanna LiraStarsDilma RousseffAna Bursztyn-MirandaMaria Aparecida Costa"The Virgin's Tower" - Memoires of a group of rebel women that were imprisioned by the Brazilian dictatorship in the 60's.
- DirectorWalter CarvalhoLeonardo GudelStarsRoberto CarlosPaulo CoelhoDaniel de OliveiraThe film tells the story of Raul Seixas, a Brazilian rock legend. The documentary unveils by rare archival images, meeting with family, conversations with artists, producers and friends, the trajectory of the artist, who died in 1989.
- DirectorGeneton Moraes NetoStarsAdemirAmarildoAugustoJournalist Geneton Moraes Neto interviews Brazilian international players who lost to Uruguayan national team in the finals of the World Cup 1950 in Maracanã stadium.
- DirectorEryk RochaIn the shadow of Rio's Maracana Stadium, a "favela league" of 14 teams compete in soccer. The film shows the importance of soccer in Brazilian culture.
- DirectorJoão JardimWalter CarvalhoStarsEvgen BavcarRaimunda da Conceição FilhaFelipeA sensitive statement about the importance of vision and our dependency on it, and on how malleable and adaptive is our soul.
- DirectorSimon HartogStarsLeonel BrizolaChico BuarqueWalter ClarkDetails the dominant position of the Rede Globo media group, the largest in Brazil, and discusses its influence, power and political connections.
- DirectorEduardo CoutinhoStarsMaria Socorro Morais AlvesJosé Alves BezerraZacarias Feitosa de MoraisThe Story of the workers who had participated of the striker movement in the Brazil with President Lula when he was a syndical leader
- DirectorIsa Grinspum FerrazStarsCarlos Augusto MarighellaLázaro RamosMiguel ArraesA documentary about the member of the brazilian Communist Party, Congressman elected by vote, and later on enemy number one of the brazilian dictatorship of 1964, Carlos Marighella.
- DirectorAna RieperA glance over the trajectory of the samba singer Clementina de Jesus (1901-1987). Revealed late, at the age 63, she became one of the biggest voices in samba and was considered the link between the Brazilian culture and the African roots.
- DirectorBeth FormagginiStarsClaudio GuerraEduardo PassosIvanilda VelosoA historic meeting between two personally antagonistic figures: Evangelical Bishop Claudio Guerra, responsible for murdering and incinerating opponents of the Brazilian military dictatorship, and Eduardo Passos, a psychologist and human rights activist.
- DirectorJosé PadilhaStarsRobert BorofskyJesus CardozoNapoleon A. ChagnonThe field of anthropology goes under the magnifying glass in this fiery investigation of the seminal research on Yanomami Indians. In the 1960s and '70s, a steady stream of anthropologists filed into the Amazon Basin to observe this "virgin" society untouched by modern life. Thirty years later, the events surrounding this infiltration have become a scandalous tale of academic ethics and infighting.A real war between anthropologists who studies Yanomami native people, with an extremely serious exchange of accusations of pedophily, genocide, fake data and harm against the investigated Indians.
- DirectorAna Luiza AzevedoJorge FurtadoStarsJorge FurtadoAnna Bella GeigerEulalie LigneulPrimavera das Neves, full name Primavera Ácrata Saiz das Neves was a Portuguese translator, journalist and writer, who worked and lived a good part of her life in Brazil, having signed most of her works as Vera Neves Pedroso.
- DirectorEduardo CoutinhoStarsMarília PêraFernanda TorresA film starting from naught. With no prior research, no characters, no sites, nor specific themes, a film team arrive to the hinterland of Paraíba state in northeastern Brazil in search of people with stories to tell. In the village of São João do Rio do Peixe they come to Sítio Araçás, a rural community of 86 families, mostly relatives. With a girl from Araçás as mediator, the residents, in their majority, elderly, tell their life story, marked by popular catholicism, by a hierarchy, by a sense of family and honor - in a world fast disappearing.
- DirectorCavi BorgesLuciano VidigalStarsAlexandre RodriguesLeandro FirminoRoberta RodriguesA film documentary about the fate of the young actors of the award winning film City of God by Fernando Meirelles and Katia Lund. It shows how their lives unfolded after the film's worldwide success.
- DirectorMargarita Hernandez PascualDecember 1965, in the heyday of the Cold War. Ernesto Che Guevara disappears from the international public scene. Under a fake identity and with a transformed face, the Argentinian guerrilla commander fools the CIA and hides in Dar-es-Salaam, Tanzania, and afterwards in Prague. Meanwhile, the Cuban intelligence services prepares his next destiny. Three former Cuban secret service agents that accompanied Che in this trip reveal for the first time all the details of this operation.
- DirectorMaria RamosStarsFátima Maria ClementeCarlos EduardoMaria Ignez KatoThe daily routine at a Brazilian court, including the people who work there: lawyers, judges and accused.
- DirectorCaue AngeliCarlos Juliano BarrosMauricio Monteiro FilhoThe work mediated by digital apps and platforms is growing worldwide. But the advance of the "gig economy", called in Brazil "uberization", has aroused debates about the precariousness and intensification of work.
- DirectorSusanna LiraStarsMussumAlcioneRenato AragãoThe trajectory of musician and comedian Mussum as vocalist of the group "Os Originais do Samba" and later in cinema and TV as a member of "Os Trapalhões", a group that revolutionized the way of making humor on Brazilian television.
- DirectorSandra KogutStarsLászló BodroghközyMária BodroghközyGyörgy FábriSpeaking on the telephone with the Hungarian Consulate, the filmmaker asks: "Does someone whose grandfather is Hungarian have the right to obtain a Hungarian passport?" The question apparently sounds strange. "Yes - It's possible... But, why do you want a Hungarian passport?" The filmmaker asks for the list of necessary documents, but the officer woman still doesn't understand why she wants to become Hungarian. The idea took place on her mind: she is going to ask for the Hungarian nationality. She didn't say a word to anyone but she wouldn't give it up. The administrative process - the request for a passport - is the guiding line of the film. And the filmmaker faces essential questions: what is nationality? What's the use of a passport? What is our heritage? How do we construct our own history and identity?
- DirectorAndrucha WaddingtonStarsGilberto GilDominguinhosTargino GondimDocumentary about the popular celebrations in honor of St. John in Brazil, in this case, in the Northeast part of the country, where the celebrations are more traditional and widespread.
- DirectorRoberto MaderOperation Condor was a secret agreement between the military dictatorships of the Southern Cone in the 1970s, with the knowledge of the CIA. These governments to shared information and violently repressed suspected left-wing subversives.
- DirectorMurilo SallesStarsRoberto BaggioBebetoDennis BergkampA movie about the 1994 FIFA World Cup, played in the USA for the first time in history.
- DirectorJon BlairStarsLeonardo TorresDione Dos SantosMarcio da Silva LimaRio de Janeiro. September, 2008. Three men stalk the gloomy back-alleys of the city's notorious slums. Spiderman, a 28-year-old drug lord, embarks on a routine patrol through the shadowy streets of Coréia, the sprawling slum he controls. Inspector Leonardo Torres, a muscle-bound operative from Rio's drug squad, inches through the alleys of another shantytown, shots ringing out around him. And Pastor Dione, an evangelical preacher intent on ending Rio's drug conflict, trawls the slums for lost souls. With unprecedented access to some of Rio's most wanted men, Dancing with the Devil in the City of God tells the story of Rio's drug war through the eyes of three men locked into one of the bloodiest urban conflicts on earth.
- DirectorMicael LangerCalvito LealCláudio ManoelStarsRicardo Cravo AlbinChico AnysioBoninhoA documentary about the life, controversial career, and decline of one of the greatest Brazilian singers and showmen, Wilson Simonal.
- DirectorLeandra LealStarsRogériaJane di CastroDivina ValériaThe Divine Divas are the icons of the first generation of Brazilian transvestite artists in the 1960's. One of the first stages to host men dressed as women was the Rival Theatre, ran by Américo Leal, the director's grandfather. The film shows the intimacy, the talent and the stories of a generation that revolutionized the sexual behavior and defied the moral of a time.
- DirectorBelisario FrancaBetween 1972 and 1975, the Brazilian Army sent thousands of soldiers on a secret mission to the heart of the Amazon Forest to exterminate the Araguaia Guerilla, Brazil's most radical opposition movement to the dictatorial Military Govt.
- DirectorRodrigo AlzuguirSusanna LiraMuriel AlvesStarsClara NunesThis first-person-narrated film explores the trajectory of the singer Clara Nunes, who conquered Brazil and several countries across the world.
- DirectorNelson HoineffStarsJerry AdrianiAlcioneCristina Azul
- StarsJames A. FitzPatrickThis Traveltalks short showcases the sights and sounds of Rio de Janeiro, emphasizing its Portuguese influence.
- DirectorSilvio TendlerStarsVagner Freitas de MoraesEduardo FagnaniSamuel Pinheiro Guimarães IIVery important content! Brazil has been stolen, that is the truth. The film brings many brilliant testimonies that challenge conventional wisdom wisdespread in media. Watch it here: https://youtu.be/A8As8mFaRGU
- DirectorMarianna Brennand FortesStarsHermila GuedesFrancisco Brennand is an eighty-five year odl, painter, sculptor and ceramist from Brazil. He lives and works isolated in an open-air museum set in an old ceramic roofing tile factory that belonged to his father. Based on his diaries, written over the past 60 years, the film narrates the artist's journey from the moment he moved into the factory until today.
- DirectorMarco Antônio Pereira
- DirectorTheresa JessourounA walk behind the scenes of the drums of a samba school, an orchestra that conducts one of the greatest shows in the world. Centered on the battery of Mangueira, and narrated by Elmo dos Santos, son of the founder of the school's battery, the documentary focuses on an exuberant universe of musicality and passion for percussion.
- DirectorAlice de AndradeStarsAlfredo GuevaraJulia YipSantiago ÁlvarezThrough the files of Cuban cinema news program Noticieros ICAIC Latinoamericanos, the documentary shows the most relevant events of the second half of the 20th century as seen by the documentary filmmakers of the island. During three decades and under the general direction of Santiago Álvarez, these moviemakers witnessed almost everything: from the shivers of the Cold War to Bola de Nieve's piano solos; from the discovery of the killing fields in Cambodia to the Carnation Revolution in Portugal. In 2009, the original negatives of Noticieros ICAIC Latinoamericanos were declared part of the "world memory" by UNESCO.
- Recife, the hometown of football legend Rivaldo, is overrun by the 2014 World Cup, but also faces enormous social problems. This documentary provides a fascinating insight into the events and inhabitants of the town during the tournament.
- DirectorPedro AsbegRenato MartinsMaracanã was built for the first World Cup in Brazil in 1950. Initially, it had a democratic space called General. The record analyzes the recent works in the stadium and shows classic fans.
- DirectorAnna AzevedoAnna AzevedoMaracana Stadium, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil: a roller-coaster of ecstasy and drama, violence and passion. A theater performance. Football supporters christened 'geraldinos'.
- DirectorMiguel Faria Jr.StarsMaria BethâniaRicardo BlatM.S. BomDocumentary about Brazilian songwriter and poet Vinicius de Moraes, showing his life, work, family, friends, and love-affairs.
- DirectorMarco AltbergStarsEgon HeickAílton KrenakMarcos Terena
- DirectorJoão Moreira SallesStarsLuiz Inácio Lula da SilvaJosé DirceuLuís GushikenDirector João Moreira Salles and a small crew followed Presidential candidate Luís Inácio Lula da Silva's campaign in meetings, rallies, planes, TV debates, with his family, political allies and marketeers, from Sept.25 to Oct.28 2002, when he was officially elected President with 53 million votes, the first Brazilian President to come from the working classes (he is a former metalworker and union leader).
- DirectorSergio MachadoBrazilian documentary about the history of Brazil's biggest boxing rivalry between boxers Todo Duro and Holyfield.
- DirectorDebora Guimarães
- DirectorSylvio BackStarsCarlos Pussineri ScalaThe story of the so called Christian-Communist Republic of the Guaranis. Formed by jesuit missions in Brazil, Paraguay, Argentina and Uruguay, between 1610/1767, it congregated about 150,000 indians in almost fifty "Reductions" (the cities organized by the Jesuits). The Christian-Communist Republic of the Guaranis was decimated by attacks of expeditions and mercenaries, and served as excuse for the kings of Portugal and Spain to banish the Jesuits from America.This documentary is "old school", perhaps too conventional, but the information it provides is fantastic. High quality data and interviews. Deep historical, political, societal, anthropological, religious, urbanistic and economic analysis of Jesuit missions in South America.
- DirectorVictor LopesDocumentary about the sociologist and activist Herbert de Souza (1935-1997), the Betinho, who had fragile health, but the strength of the great idealists. He fought permanently against injustice and for life.
- DirectorMarcelo MachadoStarsGilberto GilCaetano VelosoSet against the turbulent atmosphere of the 1960s, Tropicália is a feature length documentary exploring the Brazilian artistic movement known as tropicália, and the struggle its artists endured to protect their right to freely express revolutionary thought against the traditional brazilian music of that time.
- DirectorGuillermo PlanelStarsAna BrancoAlexandre Brum SantosCustódio Coimbrahttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KkzP4-UqNB8
- DirectorEduardo AdesStarsAlex NicolaeffAlfredo Luiz Porto de BrittoAntônio Souza AguiarAt the heart of Rio de Janeiro's downtown, an empty square with a dry fountain and an underground parking. There was located the Monroe Palace, that once housed the Senate, and was mysteriously demolished forty years ago. A history of sabers and lions, military and architects, past and future.
- DirectorRoberto HenkinStarsFernando Collor de MelloCatherine Lestre de ReyMaria Verbena de SouzaMemory is an important part of our conscience and what makes us humans, living beings capable of remembering things, feelings, situations, good or bad, and evolve from that or keep some things as well. But apparently, when it comes to political memory people seem to have it flawed; and when it comes to film memory it's all disappearing over the years.
- DirectorDenise Godinho CostaBruno GrazianoHugo MouraStarsAndré BarcinskiKid BengalaPamela ButtIn 1982, almost five million people took theaters to see Erotic Things, the first Brazilian porn movie. The production is today considered a major episode in the history of Brazilian cinema because it was launched during the military dictatorship of the country. 30 years later, The First Time of Brazilian Cinema found the producers and actors to tell the inside story of this fascinating journey.
- DirectorSylvio BackCollage of more than 30 documentaries and fiction films, photographs and some sound recordings about the 1930 Brazilian Revolution, its origins and consequences.
- DirectorEvaldo MocarzelStarsCarlos EbertAriel GoldenbergA documentary on Down Syndrome patients
- DirectorEduardo CoutinhoStarsEduardo CoutinhoElizabeth TeixeiraFerreira GullarA filmmaker returns to Northeast Brazil after twenty years to resume his film (a profile of assassinated peasant leader João Pedro Teixeira) which was shut down by a right-wing military coup in 1964.
- DirectorGuillermo Planel
- DirectorSilvio Da-RinStarsBreno Augusto GuimarãesRio de Janeiro, May 1981. DOI-CODI, the body responsible for the repression during the days of Brazilian military dictatorship, organized the "Mission 115", which aimed to "observe" closely a show in honor of International Labor Day, in the show house Riocentro. However, the mission failed to highlight its main objective: to carry out a terrorist attack by incriminating leftist revolutionary groups and thereby sabotaging the country's re-democratization.
- DirectorJoão WainerStarsContardo CalligarisDemétrio MagnolliClóvis RossiIn the month of the Brazil World Cup, the documentary shows how the demonstrations against an increase in public transportation fares in São Paulo in June of 2013, evolved to national scale, reaching hundreds of cities. The movement took over one million people to the streets and it became an uprising against corruption, the lack of public services and the copious spendings on the World Cup. The film proposes a reflection on the changes conquered by protesters and asks the question: will tomorrow be bigger?
- DirectorMarcio CavalcanteStarsDani AlvesArmandinhoRubem BahiaBeautiful images and emotive testimonies.
- DirectorUgo GiorgettiStarsWalter AbrahãoFlávio AraújoJohnny CaldwellA documentary about the life of the greatest Brazilian boxer ever, Eder Jofre, who has been Bantamweight and Featherweight world champion. The film mixes footage of his fights and testimonies.Documentary about boxer Eder Jofre.
- DirectorTyrell SpencerChilean desert, Brazilian Amazon, Colombian Andes and Argentine Pampa. Four destinations in Latin America revisited through fragments of memories, reconstructed from rubble.
- DirectorFernanda PessoaStarsNeuza AmaralArlindo BarretoMário BenvenuttiA historical review of the military dictatorship in Brazil only trough images and sounds from films that belong to the pornochanchada genre, a kind of erotic film that was the most seen and most produced during that period.
- DirectorRicardo CalilRenato TerraStarsChico BuarqueGilberto GilCaetano VelosoA documentary which shows the greatness in the Festival de Música Popular Brasileira of 1967.
- DirectorLeon HirszmanStarsCandeiaCasquinha da PortelaPaulinho da ViolaThe history of Partido-Alto, a musical subgenre derived from Samba, with roots in the batucada of Bahia.
- DirectorErnesto RodriguesStarsMatthew LlewellynTiago Petrik1932: A Medalha Esquecida
- DirectorEduardo AlbergariaMarco AndréLeonardo EddeDocumentary about the 100 years of the Paysandú Sport Club.
- DirectorMarc DourdinThe documentary tells the story of telecatch -or wrestling- in Brazil. With archive material, the movie rescues stories and characters from the sport's glory days, such as Achilles, Belo and Mr. Argentina. It also portrays the current scenario, with the top three teams: Gigantes do Ringue, Trupe do Trovão and BWF.
- DirectorJosafá VelosoStarsEduardo CoutinhoFrom a meeting with the director filmed in 2012 and vast archival material, A Treat of Coutinho proposes to look at the work of Eduardo Coutinho as a great whole. Would have one of the masters of Brazilian cinema always made the same film?
- DirectorJoão Moreira SallesA personal essay which analyses and compares images of the political upheavals of the 1960s. From the military coup in Brazil to China's Cultural Revolution, from the student uprisings in Paris to the end of the Prague Spring.
- DirectorEduardo CoutinhoStarsMarília PêraAndrea BeltrãoFernanda TorresFollowing a newspaper ad, ordinary women tell part of their life stories to director Eduardo Coutinho, which are then re-enacted by actresses, blurring the barriers between truth, fiction and interpretation.
- DirectorAlex Levy-HellerStarsGucia FiszmanJosef KleimanAleksandr LaksThe director goes on a journey to his grandfather's homeland, Transylvania, in search of an old watch his grandpa hid before the Nazis came to take the family to Auschwitz. The 70-minute documentary tells the story of immigrant Holocaust survivors who settled in Brazil after World War II. Through the pursuit by the film's director of the history of his Hungarian grandfather and ancestors, the memories of a dark time reappear in testimonials by survivors themselves. From Israel to Hungary, Poland, and Brazil, Heller tries to understand his family's past, discovering dark secrets along the way.
- DirectorPedro BialHeitor D'AlincourtStarsJosé Roberto AguilarSusanne BialElizabeth de FioreThe documentary narrates the trajectory of Jorge Mautner after his parents - a Catholic Austrian from Yugoslavian origin and an Austrian Jew - flee Nazism in Germany during World War II and arrive in Rio de Janeiro in Brazil, in the early 1940s. His birth in the city, his contact with Brazilian culture through a young black woman who worked as a nanny for his family and sang for him sambas and chants of Candomblé, his trip to São Paulo, his stay in New York in the 1960s, his partnerships with Gilberto Gil, Caetano Veloso and Nélson Jacobina, as well as his peak in the musical world are told by the film.
- DirectorOscar Rodrigues AlvesBranco MelloStarsArnaldo AntunesTony BellottoSérgio BrittoA documentary on rock band Titãs covering more than 20 years of their successful career. The film is composed by videos made by the band itself during several different tours and Tv footage. Instead of the usual type of documentary here the band present themselves in more intimate and exclusive moments.
- DirectorCarlos FaustoTakumã KuikuroLeonardo SetteA important female ritual approaches and a woman Indian rehearses the songs and dances.
- DirectorGeorgia Guerra-PeixeA documentary about the life in the slum Mangueira, where the famous samba school is located.
- DirectorNelson HoineffStarsCauby PeixotoMaria BethâniaAgnaldo RayolHistory of the singer Cauby Peixoto, an iconic figure in Brazilian music, who performed great successes from Bossa Nova to Rock'n Roll in the second half of the 20th century.
- DirectorEduardo CoutinhoStarsBenedita da SilvaMilton GonçalvesFerreira GullarAn essay on the imagination, cultural identity and prejudice against black people, focusing on the work of Gabriel Joaquim dos Santos, salt mine worker and semi-illiterate black artist who has built, in São Pedro d'Aldeia, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, the Casa da Flor (House of the Flower), made of objects found in the trash.