Sementes: Mulheres Pretas no Poder

Sementes: Mulheres Pretas no Poder 2020

4.80

In response to Marielle Franco's execution, the 2018 elections turned into the biggest political upheaval led by black women that Brazil has ever seen, with candidacies in all states. In Rio de Janeiro, Mônica Francisco, Rose Cipriano, Renata Souza, Jaqueline de Jesus, Tainá de Paula and Talíria Petrone applied for the positions of state or federal deputy. The documentary accompanied these women in their campaigns, showing that a new way of doing politics in Brazil is possible, transforming mourning into struggle.

2020

Zé

2023

1

Brazil 1970. Zé walks away from his upper-middle-class life and joins the resistance against the military regime. Together with his partner Bete, he abandons public life to fight the system, while also raising two kids. Based on the life of José Carlos Novais da Mata-Machado who died under torture at the age of 27, falsely accused of betraying his companions.

2023

Strive, Strive, Strive

Strive, Strive, Strive 2021

10.00

Documentary film about the Brazilian football club Atletico Mineiro, but also about something intangible: football, its emotion and imperishable spirit.

2021

Éramos em Bando

Éramos em Bando 2020

1

The film accompanies Grupo Galpão during a period of social isolation. The actresses and actors were prevented from debuting in the theater for the 25th edition of the company, due to a worldwide pandemic for ten days for a first artistic experience in the virtual environment.

2020

Raw Session

Raw Session 2022

1

The artists of the collective As Talavistas, and Gabriela Luíza, join the artists Duca Caldeira, Dyony Moura, Jô Arllen and Vidrynha and design studio and method of filming inside a house. Two years later, SESSÃO BRUTA returns to exchange and immerses itself in a filmic game with fiction and narrative, with jokes and criticism, with close-ups and intimacy, with the presence and the remote. Cinema, culture are things taken as a perspective of link, claim, painting and stage. Refounding the scene as an idea and process, and its political and plastic implications.

2022

Eu sou o Rio

Eu sou o Rio 2017

1

A weekend in the life of Tantão, Brazilian musician and visual artist who estabilished himself as an icon to Rio de Janeiro's underground scene since the 1980s.

2017