87年嘎纳金棕榈提名。80年代巴西最佳社会写实题材故事片之一。The young Vinicius is a young saxophone player, from Rio's poor suburbs, facing an uncertain but perhaps promising future. One day his girlfriend suddenly disappears after a night of love under t…

十四世纪，大批非洲黑人被葡萄牙人奴隶绑架并贩卖到巴西的甘蔗园，在奴隶主的驱使和欺凌下辛苦劳作，屈辱度日。其中一些人不堪忍受，四散逃离，经过几个世纪，巴西个偏远山区形成了一个个黑人建立的逃奴堡，其中最为著名的便是坐落于巴西东北部棕榈地。逃奴堡宛如与世隔绝的独立王国，在这里，黑人们刀耕火种，自给自足，过着无忧无虑的生活。非…

Who is Sycorax? The first of all characters in William Shakespeare´s "The Tempest" to set foot on the island of the play.The problem is that Sycorax has no voice. She is barely mentioned by Prospero as a crooked, old, wicked witc…

First phase: CampobelloThe first phase happens in the 19 century and portrays the history of an improbable love but so strong, that neither death nor time is capable to shake. Lívia and Felipe are of distinct social classes: She is a humble, obliged young lady that lives in the city's convent while Felipe is a noble Ea…

Carlos Diegues's Orfeu brings the Orpheus myth (by way of the Vinicius De Moraes play, which also inspired Marcel Camus's gorgeous Black Orpheus) into the modern world of laptops and hip-hop, cell phones and street crime. Orfeu (Toni Garrido), Rio de Janeiro's samba king and a kind of god to his neighbors in the labyri…