Gilberto Gil

Afroreggae Cultural Group DVD containing a concert and a documentary about the group’s social and cultural work at the favelas in Rio de Janeiro.

Brazilian singer Maria Bethania has a 40-year singing career. A documentary shows her concerts and famous family.

Documentary about Marcel Camus’ 1959 film Black Orpheus, its cultural and musical roots, and its resonance in Brazil today.

The biggest Brazilian historical festival of all time. The great cast of the 1973 Phonogram (now Universal Music) meets in three nights to ...

The story of the Candeal favela in Salvador de Bahia, Brazil, where musician Carlinhos Brown carries out social and cultural initiatives that ...

Life and legacy of Agostinho da Silva. Traversing the biographical journey, the life and work of the Luso-Brazilian philosopher, this work has ...

Almost thirty years after the first reunion of Doces Bárbaros (four of Brazil’s major popular music stars: Caetano Veloso, Gilberto Gil, ...

Composer Gilberto Gil accompanies filmmaker Andrucha Waddington to the Northeast of Brazil. Among the rural communities in the region, Gil and ...

Gilberto Gil’s 2002 album combines Brazilian pop with roots reggae. Featuring 11 of Bob Marley’s greatest hits recorded in Tuff Gong ...

Documentary about amazing Brazilian musician Rogério Duprat, main orchestrator of Tropicália, his rehearsals with Gal Costa, Os Mutantes, ...

Tempo Rei is the first audiovisual record of Gilberto Gil’s vast work, celebrating the artist’s thirty-year career, celebrated in ...

Documentary about samba musician from Bahia Clementino Rodrigues, aka Riachão.

This is a journey of friendship, an Argentinian is going to rediscover his continent while searching for his friend from Bahia. And while the ...

The documentary presents an overview of Vladimir Carvalho’s cinematographic career, from the very beginning, as a co-writer of “Aruanda” ...

Inspired by the life of the french-born photographer and ethnographer, Pierre Verger, the movie follows his journey between Bahia, Brazil and ...

Between August 23 and 31, 1983, at the “Circo Massimo”, in Rome, there was a musical event that brought together artists from Bahia. ...

The history of Brazilian popular music in the 20th Century, focusing specially on the life and works of intriguing singer Mário Reis, a loner ...

A documentary chronicling the life and works of Brazilian poet, songwriter, journalist and avant-garde filmmaker Torquato Neto, from his ...

Record of the 1989 elections, when Brazil was divided between Lula and Fernando Collor. It brings together material gathered from the streets of ...

A look into the 25 years of career of famous musician Chico Buarque and his influence in Brazilian culture.

A look at the Brazilian black movement between 1977 and 1988, going by the relationship between Brazil and Africa.

Hunting Season deals with the wave of homosexual murders that plagued São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro in the 1980s. With street statements and ...

Gilberto Gil talks with friends and share his thoughts, influences and reveal his impact on brazilian music and vision of the black people.

A fragmented style, patchwork of interviews with Caetano Veloso’s friends, mixed with conversations, thoughts, scenes of dance and ...

Tropicália was a Brazilian cultural movement that occurred between 1967 and 1968, inspired by Oswald de Andrade’s anthropophagic ideals, ...

University teacher investigates the life of a famous Brazilian musician, trying to discover the secret of mass communication through his songs ...