An ambassador from an outer (and rich) space comes to visit a poor planet, where he ends up being kidnapped.
During a flight, passengers confront their aspirations, frustrations, fears, wishes and fears, mixing up reality and fiction.
In a fishing village, animosity grows between father and son, when the latter starts to desire his lover. In the midst of the tension, a co-worker dies and another teases about the dilemma.
Country boy arrives in Rio de Janeiro, looking for a better life, but he finds it extremely difficult to get a job, and even has to work as a pimp in order to survive.
Without any sounds, dialogues and with unknown actors, the images are the focus of this film. Images that want to awake, to question determinant moments, state of a system's languages, the morality of deaths, the immobility, the silence, among other subjects. Shot at the height of the Brazilian military dictatorship, it is an affront to the most diverse types of repression in that period.
"The possessed is a very poor woman, ravaged by delusions and ghosts, until, driven by mysterious voices, she suddenly becomes another person, young, beautiful, insinuating. Her exploits make her the subject of a police chronicle. She seduces teenagers, attacks men, she becomes an insatiable wolf who arouses the wrath of the whole community against her. Revenge is not slow and a group intends to stone her. But she manages to lure her pursuers to a strange place where she faces them in struggle. unequal and wins ". (Extracted from Guide to Movies, 55)
In the hinterland of Paraíba, the small wooden mills powered by animal traction, called “bolandeiras”, are doomed to disappear.
Focusing on aerial and terrestrial scenes, it shows the urbanization of Barra da Tijuca, in Rio de Janeiro, according to a project by urban planner Lucio Costa and architect Oscar Niemeyer.
The Land of São Saruê is a documentary movie that explores the beautiful landscapes and the unique culture of the land. It showcases the lives of the people living in São Saruê and their connection to the nature that surrounds them. From stunning natural beauty to vibrant traditions, the film captures the essence of this remarkable place.
Film in four segments: "Colagem", "Balanço", "Bandeira Zero" and "Sexta-Feira da Paixão, Sábado de Aleluia", having in common a strongly allegorical and gross protest tone in the approach of its subjects.
Among the films made in opposition to Brazil’s dictatorship (1964-85), Imagens, though silent, screams loudest. Through a series of abstract gestures and acts of violence against the body, punctuated by experimental Eisensteinian montage, it confronts the regime’s brutality and the silence imposed on anyone who spoke out against it.
A documentary short on the formation of the Brazilian city of Feira de Santana, located on the state of Bahia.
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