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- DirectorJorge FurtadoJosé Pedro GoulartStarsJoão AcaiabeSirmar AntunesZé Adão BarbosaDorival, a man in jail, has only one wish: to take a bath. To achieve his objective, he defies the private, the corporal, the sargeant and, finally, the lieutenant in charge of the prison.
- DirectorArthur Omar[The Sound, or Treatise on Harmony] (1984) - 35mm - 16 min. A film about the desire of listening. An intermingling of voices from childhood, dreams, history, sex and politics. A visual essay about the universe of sounds. What is sound? What is the sound experience? Sound placed and replaced as Energy. Nothing more should be said. The final conclusion, while the spectator flies over an infinite sea, talks about spreading fragility open. That is the Sound.
- DirectorKleber Mendonça FilhoStarsVerônica AlvesIvan SoaresGabriela SouzaMother gives Daughter a box full of old, colored little vinyl records. Daughter may listen to them, but she should never, ever, play the green one.
- DirectorJoaquim Pedro de AndradeEduardo EscorelRoberto PalmariStarsJoana FommCássio R. MartinsDavid JoséComedy in 4 segments. In "Arroz e Feijão" (Rice and Beans), owner of a boarding-house seduces her young countryboy tenant. In "As Três Virgens" (The Three Virgins) three spinsters are influenced by the behaviour of their teenager niece, whom they are lodging. In "O Arremate" (The Purchase) a colonist turns his virgin daughter in to a landowner, to have his debts forgiven. And, finally, in "Vereda Tropical" (Tropical Trail), a man becomes sexually obsessed by a watermelon, to the point of having sexual intercourse with it. The stories are based on prize-winner short stories, from a Status Magazine contest.
- DirectorJoaquim Pedro de AndradeStarsFerreira GullarImages of Brasilia in its sixth year and interviews with different categories of people living in the capital. One question structures the documentary: could a fully planned city, created in the name of national development and the democratization of society, reproduce the inequalities and oppression that exist in other regions of the country?
- DirectorSergio BianchiStarsIsaac BavarescoAlbano CavallinMiguel Aires dos ReisA short documentary that deals about the problematic of native tribes who are being killed and exterminated by the local authorities, in the Mangueirinha reservation in the state of Paraná. Three tribes (Kaingang, Guarani and Xetá) are followed by the director where they their stories.
- DirectorJúlio BressaneStarsJúlio BressaneLeovegildo CordeiroNunes PereiraA parodical interview with Radar, a known pornochanchada film editor, conducted by a cine-club reporter (played by the film director) who analyzes the career of the other man - who edited hundreds of those films, at the same time he's presents his manifesto on the defense of those innocent and harmless entertainment for the masses.
- DirectorAdrian CooperShot in a hat factory in the early 20th century, the film evokes oppressive industrial production where abnormality becomes normal and the banal details of everyday life become expressions of human resistance.
- DirectorLeon HirszmanStarsFerreira GullarStatistics, interviews and historical information on illiteracy and inequality in land distribution in Brazil's countryside.
- DirectorZózimo BulbulMetaphor about slavery and the search for freedom through the internal transformation of being, in a game of images of concretist inspiration.
- DirectorRogério SganzerlaStarsVitor LoturfoMarcelo MagalhãesTwo teens decide to go to the movies. However, since their tastes are very strict, they end up not seeing any film.
- DirectorAloysio RaulinoStarsJose Luiz FrancaThe faces, gestures and talks from beggars and other crazed figures from São Paulo marginalized and underground streets are presented during the festivities of the Carnival season. The images are presented along with texts from philosopher Frantz Fanon.
- DirectorOzualdo Ribeiro CandeiasThe region of Boca do Lixo in São Paulo and the people from the cinematographic environment that circulated there are recorded in photographs by the director Ozualdo Candeias.
- DirectorJoaquim Pedro de AndradeStarsPaulinhoRiva NimitzHenrique CésarA few weeks before Carnival, slum boys organize huntings for stray cats, whose leather can be used in Samba percussion instruments, like the Tamborim, a small drum.
- DirectorIvan CardosoStarsCarlinhos do PandeiroPretaNildo da MangueiraExperimental film on Brazilian avant-garde artist Helio Oiticica and his works, specially Parangolé.
- DirectorJairo FerreiraA trip by journalist Jairo Ferreira to Amazonas, accompanying the theater group that writer Márcio Souza maintained in Manaus before dedicating himself exclusively to literature.
- DirectorGabriel Martins
- DirectorAloysio RaulinoStarsArnulfo SilvaArnulfo Silva, a former abandoned child, retells his childhood difficulties living on the streets.
- DirectorAloysio RaulinoLuna AlkalayThis documentary takes us on a ride through Marginal Tietê, an important avenue in São Paulo, Brazil, then recently opened to the public. The places it crosses and the people living nearby force the viewer to think about the core of this big city.
- DirectorArthur OmarCongo is an antidocumentary by Arthur Omar almost entirely built with signs that take the place of images.
- DirectorAloysio RaulinoDeutrudes Carlos da Rocha, 24 years old from Bahia, black, illiterate, is a car washer and lives in São Paulo. Through his testimony and also wielding the camera, he brings us closer to his experience and world view.
- DirectorHumberto MauroStarsHugo CarvanaOx cart is still part of the landscapes of Brazil' outback, a mixture of utility and poetry.
- DirectorJoel PizziniStarsNey MatogrossoAracy BalabanianRubens CorreiaFilm based on Manoel de Barros poetry. Story about poet's life in the swamp area of Brazil (Pantanal) and its wildlife; & his obsession with the sea and his new life in the big metropolis in Brazil.
- DirectorMarcos MagalhãesA hungry cat runs out of milk, and is convinced to take a certain soda. Will he be another victim of globalization? Does he have salvation?