Soundtrack: Gilberto Gil

Direction Andrucha Waddington

Cast Regina Casé · Lima Duarte · Stênio Garcia · Luiz Carlos Vasconcelos

Plot Darlene, earthy and unmarried, returns to the cane fields of Bahia with her young son. There, over time, she balances the pride, desire, jealousy, and tolerance of three men. Osias,...

Direction Rogério Sganzerla

Cast Caetano Veloso · Gilberto Gil · Joao Gilberto · María Bethânia

Plot João Gilberto receives Caetano Veloso, Gilberto Gil and Maria Bethania during the recording of his album Brasil.

Direction Nelson Pereira dos Santos

Cast Hugo Carvana · Sonia Dias · Anecy Rocha · Franca Teixeira

Plot The film chronicles the chaos that results when a prominent American Nobel Prize winner arrives in Bahía, with nothing but praise on his lips for a long-forgotten local writer-scientist named...

Direction Andrucha Waddington

Cast Gilberto Gil · Dominguinhos · Targino Gondim · Chiquinha Gonzaga

Plot Documentary 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.

Direction Walter Lima Jr.

Cast Anecy Rocha · Ênio Gonçalves · Hélio Fernando · Iracema de Alencar

Plot It is the year after World War 3 and the film follows the odyssey of a girl and her mother as they explore a devastated Brazil.

Direction Carlos Diegues

Cast Jonas Bloch · Zózimo Bulbul · Emmanuel Cavalcanti · Arduino Colasanti

Plot Palmares is a 17th-century quilombo, a settlement of escaped slaves in northeast Brazil. In 1650, plantation slaves revolt and head for the mountains where they find others led by the...

Direction Fernando Trueba · Javier Mariscal

Plot They Shot the Piano Player centers on a journalist from New York who sets out to investigate the story of “Tenório Jr,” a Brazilian piano prodigy who has vanished. The...

Direction Carlos Diegues · Tereza Gonzalez

Cast Guilherme Fontes · Milton Gonçalves · Taumaturgo Ferreira · Ana Beatriz Wiltgen

Plot The young Vinicius is a young saxophone player, from Rio's poor suburbs, facing an uncertain but perhaps promising future.

Direction Nelson Pereira dos Santos

Cast Grande Otélo · Julien Guiomar · Charles Baiano · Catherine Rouvel

Direction René Letzgus · Bernard Tournois

Cast Tunico Amâncio · Sérgio Cabral · Marcel Camus · Mariana de Moraes

Plot Investigation about the impact of Marcel Camus's film "Orfeu Negro", and its relationship with today's Brazil, illustrating the vitality of Brazilian music, such as the Samba and Bossa-Nova.

Direction Lula Buarque de Hollanda

Cast Gilberto Gil · Caetano Veloso · Chico Buarque de Hollanda · Rita Lee

Plot The documentary goes through works composed by the musician from Bahia between 1968 and 1987. Gil reveals his worldview and creative power in expansion at the beginning of his career...

Direction Guto Barra

Direction Rogério Sganzerla

Cast Helena Ignez · Paulo Villaça · Guará Rodrigues · Otoniel Serra