Collection of 15 black and white documentary films produced between 1962 and 1963 by Jean Manzoni Institute for Research and Social Studies (IPES), the begining established in November 29, 1961 to, in essence, advertising aimed at destabilizing the government of Joao Goulart , which had recently assumed the presidency,…

The documentary film is a portrait of the life and work of Brasilian experimental filmmaker and plastic artist Luiz Rosemberg Filho. In favor of transgression, it prints formal freedom in their work, focusing on topics such as politics, sex and death. The artist remembers his childhood and explain how is tilted to the …

"Com as Próprias Maos" Recupera as lutas dos trabalhadores de quatro grandes empresas falidas para reergue-las por medio de autogestao e cooperativismo. Sao apresentadas as cooperativas Uniforja (SP), Cooperminas (SC), Catende-Ha…

In 1917, director Major Luiz Thomaz Reis travels with his associate, Marshall Cândido Mariano Rondon through the Center-West and North of Brazil, being the official cinematographer of the expedition. "Ao Redor do Brasil" is a foo…

Gregorio falls in love with a masked-woman during a carnival party. Luisette is a transvestite in search of affection. They spend a night of voluptuous together. In the following day, Gregorio takes Luisette to a charitable soccer game with his friends in which the men play in women’s clothes. She starts to play well a…

Adapted from his autobiography, the film recounts the story of Hiroito, The King of Boca do Lixo (a region in downtown S?o Paulo of the fifties where various nightclubs, strip joints, prostitution, bars, and drugs can be found). Hiroito was a well born bohemian and at the age of 21 was accused for the murder of his fat…

Dois Corregos (Two Streams) is a rites-of-passage film about three young women whose lives were marked in the summer of 1969 when they met Hermes, a political exile who had clandestinely returned to his country. The film starts in present-day Brazil when Ana Paula arrives with her lawyer at the small town of Dois Corre…