2016年里约奥运会是第一次在南美洲举办的奥运会,在里约奥运会之前,种种困难和障碍没有阻止巴西人办好一届奥运会的决心,里约奥运会官方电影《休战的日子》是最新一部奥运官方电影,也是一部充满南美特色和巴西风情的纪录片,作品全面介绍了里约奥运会从筹备到成功举办的过程,面对国内政治分歧、经济困难、社会动荡等不利因素,巴西人终于实现了自己的目标,同时里约奥运会的成功举办也对当地社会生活产生积极的影响。本片集中展现了里约热内卢的城市魅力和巴西人民的热情,同时让为奥运会做出贡献的每一个人都能站在聚光灯下——从出租车司机到明星运动员,从开幕式上的舞者再到历史上第一个难民奥林匹克队的成员……每个人都得以讲述他们的故事。
Two young men coming from the same social background - the poor outskirts of Recife, one of the biggest cities in Brazil - become two opposite kind of citizens. One is a dangerous hit man, the other, a peaceful musician.
By night Recife looks like an attractive city. The documentary "The Little Prince's Rap Against the Wicked Souls" begins with a montage sequence of Recife at n...
Documentary about the rural population who earn their living as coal miners, thus helping to keep metallurgic activity going and contributing to the forest devastation in South America.
This documentary didn't click for me immediately. Except for a few screens of text the narrative is related entirely by the charcoal people and landscape. The situation the film conveys is stark...
This film seeks to rescue the role of filmmaker Neville D'Almeida by using many rare images, numerous interviews, vast archival and audiovisual material.
1982, o Brasil é palco de uma revoluo na cena cultural. Documentário composto por imagens feitas por Roberto Berliner durante a década de 80 que retrata a gerao responsável pela "usina de sonho", ou Circo Voador, como hoje é conhecido. Acontecimentos que passam pelo Arpoador, Lapa e vai até a Copa do México em 1986, marcam um novo cenário cultural brasileiro.
The Divine Divas are the icons of the first generation of Brazilian transvestite artists in the 1960's. One of the first stages to host men dressed as women was the Rival Theatre, ran by Américo Leal, the director's grandfather. The film shows the intimacy, the talent and the stories of a generation that revolutionized the sexual behavior and defied the moral of a time.
Chico Buarque is a constant presence in Brazil’s art scene and is part of its citizen’s popular culture. This wealth in music, poems, theatre and novels has been created over the last 50 years, and in this film Chico Buarque converses about his memories, shows, daily life, work methods, creative process—in short all his trajectory. The musician’s search for his German brother, ...