Películas de Ferreira Gullar

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

To celebrate the life and the work of a multifaceted creator – playwright, poet, partner of the most important names of Brazilian pop music...

The episode dives into the mystical universe of Carlos Pertius, the son of a family of French immigrants, hospitalized at the age of 29. After facing...

A documentary made to coincide with Niemeyer's 100th birthday. The renowned architect talks about his long life, his inspirations, and his...

Short documentary about the ideology of publicity and mass medias.

Documentary on the view, testimonies and times of Darcy Ribeiro, since military dictatorship.

Eduardo Coutinho was filming a movie with the same name in the Northeast of Brazil, in 1964, when there came the military coup. He had to interrupt...

The world post-World War II and its transformations; the utopias that were created and the barbarity that have marked it. The dismantling of the...

Statistics, interviews and historical information on illiteracy and inequality in land distribution in Brazil's countryside.

ABC of a Strike captures the 1979 metal workers strikes outside of São Paulo. The footage sat untouched until after the death of...

An experimental film on Brazilian avant-garde artist Helio Oiticica and his works, especially the Parangolés.

This film shows people with constant psychological and social conflicts: the violence among outlaws, conflicts between man and woman, police and...

In 1967, de Andrade was invited by the Italian company Olivetti to produce a documentary on the new Brazilian capital city of Brasília....

Documentary that shows the events that culminated in the deposition of President João Goulart, on March 31, 1964, and the implementation of...

Documentary about Brazilian poet Carlos Drummond de Andrade, and the many facets of his work.

João Goulart (known as Jango) had been democratically elected president of Brazil, but was expelled from office after the coup of April 1,...

O Aleijadinho, a study of the work of Antonio Francisco Lisboa, the architect whose cathedral de Andrade had assisted in the restoration of more than...

In hopes of unraveling the causes and cure for various forms of insanity, a psychiatrist in Brazil created the Museum of Images from the Unconscious...

Directed by Sérgio Bernardes Filho, "Desesperato" tells the story of a writer (Raul Cortez) who leaves his home to carry out literary research...

Latest images of the artist still alive, an unprecedented composition, testimonies of friends, family and icons of Brazilian culture.

Documentary about the trajectory of the Brazilian journalist, writer and politician Fernando Gabeira. With testimonies of Armínio Fraga,...

During the Brazilian military government, journalist Estêvão is sent from Rio de Janeiro to Brasilia to cover the important statement of...

Chronicles the life of military lieutenant, later communist militant and Brazilian politician Luiz Carlos Prestes.

"Life and work of the Maranhense poet Sousândrade (1833-1902), illustrated with engravings on Brazilian history, from the discovery to the...

An allegory about Brazil's history and the struggle for power since the 1930 Revolution until the advent of the TV.

Follows the story of Opinião, a theatre group created in 1964 during the early Brazilian dictatorship period to oppose the government through...

A documentary on Brazilian poet and composer Vinicius de Moraes, made by his daughter a few months before his death.

Between 1974 and 1976, while researching for his filme "S. Bernardo", Leon Hirszman shot three documentary shorts produced by the Brazilian Ministry...

Between 1974 and 1976, while researching for his filme "S. Bernardo", Leon Hirszman shot three documentary shorts produced by the Brazilian Ministry...

An affective approach to the relationship between Mário Pedrosa, one of the greatest art critics of the 20th century, and some of the most...

Darcy Ribeiro was a renowned anthropologist, politician and writer. In this documentary, Maria Maia seeks to expose a bit of his personality with...

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...

Mixed with fiction and documentary, the film relives the interviews conducted by the writer Clarice Lispector published in the magazines "Manchete"...

A panorama of the Brazilian black experience, starting with the figure of the semi-illiterate popular artist and employee of a salt mine Gabriel...