Movies: Silvio Tendler

The film deals with the process of globalization based on the thought of geographer Milton Santos, who through his ideas and practices, inspires the debate about Brazilian society and the construction of a new world. Santos discusses his views on the...

Documentary about Brazilian filmmaker Glauber Rocha, one of the most important names in the Cinema Novo, with interviews with some of his friends and colleagues....

Documentary about Brazilian history, from 1945 until the 70s, focusing on president Juscelino Kubitschek, his political rise, his philosophy of economical development, his gigantic project ......

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 of cultural and political resistance. Its story is that of Brazilian cinema itself....

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The story of João "Jango" Goulart, the Brazilian left-wing president deposed by the military....

The intense life of Ferreira Gullar, one of the most influential poets in Brazil, is revisited by his personal friend Silvio Tendler, based on his most acclaimed work: Poema Sujo. In addition to addressing other poems by Gullar, the documentary also ...

Built as a letter to JK in his centenary, the film shows what remained in the memory of Brazilians 26 years after his passing in a car accident in August 1976....

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Chronological profile of Brazil's student activism, from the 30s to the occupation of UNE's headquarters in Rio de Janeiro, 2007....

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A documentary on Cosme Alves Netto (1937-1996), former head of the Cinematheque of the Museum of Modern Arts at Rio de Janeiro....

The film shows the resistance movement of the residents of Favela do Vidigal against the removal order, an important chapter in the history of Rio de Janeiro in the 1970s....

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In 2000 a group of homeless people decide to go to a shopping mall to protest, to confront the misery of the excluded middle-class consumption....

How is it possible to boost ways of leading one's life? What are the differences between the interpretation of life, from the scientific conception and the biblical conception? The reflection and the question about what would be the concepts of soul ...

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In a small island convulsed by the 1959 revolution, Santiago Álvarez used the Seventh Art as a political weapon and created an aesthetic that became a reference in the documentary field. Santiago, who called himself a permanent traveler through histo...

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