Gilberto Gil

The documentary narrates the life of Toquinho, one of the greatest Brazilian artists, a musician who transcends the barriers of time and language ...

New York, 2010. Jeff Harris, a music journalist, sets out to uncover the truth about Francisco Tenório Júnior, a young Brazilian samba-jazz ...

The backstory and legacy of Brazilian rock band Os Paralamas do Sucesso is examined in this fascinating music documentary. With previously unseen ...

The film is an unprecedented and exclusive testimonial of Maria Bethânia from director and screenwriter Carlos Jardim, interspersed with rare ...

Against the backdrop of a turbulent era in Brazil, this documentary captures Pelé’s extraordinary path from breakthrough talent to national ...

Through clippings, the film draws a narrative line between the construction of racism in Brazil and the United States, having as base the ...

Participants recall a series of festivals held on a farm in Brazil during the ’70s and ’80s that evolved into liberating celebrations ...

Chico and Ana move to an apartment in São Paulo. As they unpack Ana found a cassette tape. It’s a mix-tape that Clarisse made 20 years ...

In 1996, filmmaker André Luiz Oliveira started preproduction of Viva o Povo Brasileiro, a film adaptation of the novel by João Ubaldo Ribeiro. ...

Dorival Caymmi was one of the inventors of the Bahian imagination. In his 94 years of life, Caymmi composed, sang, wrote, illustrated and thought ...

Originally from Bahia and considered today one of the most globalised musical movements in the world, Axé is a musical rhythm that carries in its ...

The lives of Luhli and Lucina, two especially important artists in the alternative cultural scene during the 1970s. In a time when transgression, ...

Through rare and precious footages and gigs with great artists such as Gilberto Gil, Gal Costa, Hermeto Pascoal, Djavan, Nara Leao, Luiz Gonzaga, ...

This documentary highlights the evolution of Brazil’s Circo Voador venue from homespun artists’ performance space to national ...

A look of the 21st century for one of the most important cultural movements in Brazilian history. The production brings a mix of interviews, ...

The film follows the birth of Jorge Mautner up to his 17 years. He was born in Brazil shortly after his parents fled the Holocaust. Raised by a ...

In his film Rua Aperana 52 Júlio Bressane describes the invention of a landscape, the topology of a corner of Rio de Janeiro. The film consists ...

Year-end special brought together three interpreters of Brazilian popular music – Gilberto Gil, Caetano Veloso and Ivete Sangalo – to ...

In the 1970s, “festivals” were incredibly popular in Brazil, as they were recorded before a live studio audience, and usually ...

“Duetos” is the sixth compilation by Brazilian musical artist Ivete Sangalo, released on May 5, 2010 by Universal Music. The ...

Hello, Hello, Terezinha! is a feature-length documentary about the country’s biggest communication phenomenon. Politically incorrect, ...

This documentary from filmmaker Guto Barra takes you beyond the 1960s bossa nova hit “The Girl from Ipanema” to explore how samba, ...

RiP!: A Remix Manifesto is a 2008 open source documentary film about the “the changing concept of copyright” directed by Brett Gaylor.

Documentary about Brazilian poet Waly Salomão, for whom life was always a fictional film and poetry was a way to expose any naturalistic ...

A host of personalities reminisce about the life and work of songwriter, lawyer, and congressman Humberto Teixeira — aka “Baião ...

Documentary about the 68-generation, told through the story of the newspaper “O Sol”, one of the first vehicles of the alternative Brazilian ...

The life and work of one of the most controversial Brazilian musicians, having as its backdrop Tom Zé’s 2005 European Tour. The documentary ...