A reconstruction of the filmmaker’s parents’ path through political struggle in Brazil and life in exile. A generation of leftist activists, their ideals, and the failure of a utopia.
The work of a special unit of the “pacifying police” in the run-up to the World Cup in Rio. Patrols, surprise raids, negotiations and a tight-knit Favela community.
Housemaids in Brazil are part of the family. Adolescents talk to women who are like mothers to them but are not allowed to have private lives. The sociogram of a society.
A line takes a stroll along the urban highways of São Paulo.
A fictitious letter to an uncle who moved far away. Memories of a childhood and descriptions of the present life of a city in upheaval, full of imagination and metaphors.
Long shots of a prison yard: everyday life behind bars.
A Tupinambá warrior fighting against Portuguese colonialist, in slave revolts and the resistance against the military regime – 600 years of Brazilian history in a breathtaking animation.
In the outskirts of Belo Horizonte: a Hare Krishna follower and a football supporter, a transsexual and a philosopher. The human condition, on the edge of fiction.
Caetano Veloso, Gilberto Gil and the revolutionary musical style called Tropicalismo in unknown archive footage and memories of other artists. Swing your hips, baby!
