Jorge Bodanzky Movies

Yesterday, the inhabitants of the Nordeste had to abandon their land for lack of water. Today, floods are driving them out... Deprived of their...

In 1965, a year after the military coup in Brazil, an oasis of freedom opened in the country's capital. The Brasília Film Festival: a landmark...

Besieged by cancer and nearing the end, the genius Argentine-Brazilian filmmaker Héctor Babenco (1946-2016) asks Bárbara Paz, his wife,...

The film warns us about the world's water crisis and the international greed for the Amazon Forest, the largest fresh water reservoir on the planet....

A making-of directed by Bodanzky himself, the documentary discusses the language of the film Iracema - Uma Transa Amazônica 30 years after it...

Symbolic film from the Underground Movement of Brazilian Cinema (Cinema Marginal) about a woman, three men and some apes. In the director's own...

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

A girl from the countryside goes to the city of Belém to take part in the Círio de Nazaré celebrations. Led to prostitution, she...

Segment "Prólogo": interviews and scenes with some of the most important filmmakers of the "Boca do Lixo" of São Paulo. Segment "A...

Jorge de Oliveira is an Afro-Brazilian poet who works in a publicity agency in São Paulo. Torn between his rich white lovers and his black...

Marquinhos is in his early 20s and lives in Copacabana with his petits bourgeois parents and older brother. He doesn't have a job, he doesn't go to...

Documentary that tells several stories: of the struggle of rural workers in Conceição to recover their union; of Dona Mariquinha, widow...

Filmmaker Jorge Bodanzky gives some classes to local communties at Alto Solimões in the Amazom and collect the results.

Zuza Homem de Mello opens the doors of his home to share part of his history with music. Showcasing his vinyl and CD collection and exploring various...

Documentary about the Minas Gerais photographer Assis Horta, who immortalized the architectural heritage and society of Diamantina. The great impulse...

The story of a fakir who works in a decadent circus. He and his colleagues do weirder numbers each day to attract audience, and warrant their...

A woman asks her boyfriend for his mother's heart as a proof of love. Another, a kleptomaniac, has an affair with a TV professional. And a young man...

Documentary about race car driver Emerson Fittipaldi