Movies: Walter Salles

On 17 May 1931, the young director Mário Peixoto released his masterpiece "Limite" in a premiere in Capitólio Theater in Rio de Janeiro to astonished audiences bewildered by the impressive and poetic images. Considered by many viewers the best Brazil...

Teenager Joana feeds her soul with literature and rock. In 1979, when amnesty is granted in Brazil, she's forced to move with her family from Paris back to the country she barely remembers. Back in the city she was born in, and where her father was f...

Analía’s mother sends her to Buenos Aires to deliver some handicrafts. She is expected to return home quickly to the country town where she is to take on her family’s hairdressing salon. But by chance an address mix-up leads her to a Muslim community...

A portrait of conteporary China from Tai-chi-chuan to chinese arts....

In the bucolic countryside of Brazil, Marcelo, an easygoing cowboy at a cattle farm lives for one passion: rodeos. One tragic incident affects him deeply. Little by little he overcomes the trauma and is ready to dream again....

Conceição and Presto, an interracial couple, ask Presto's brother for his signature as a guarantor of the financial request supposed to assure them an apartment in Leblon, the whitest neighborhood in Rio de Janeiro. The process proves to be much hard...

A documentary about the fathers of Bossa Nova: João Gilberto and Antonio Carlos Jobim....

The story of a family who has their lives crushed by the tragedy of the floods in Mariana (Minas Gerais, Brazil)...

Brazilian singer-songwriter Caetano Veloso reflects on his imprisonment in 1968, during the military dictatorship....

The six-minute film is shot in just two locations: an old movie theater in the city of Miguel Pereira (RJ) and a multiplex in the New York City Center, in the Rio de Janeiro neighborhood of Barra da Tijuca. In front of the old movie theater, the embo...

This short film was part of the feature film "Chacun Son Cinéma (Each One With His Own Cinema)", in which 36 directors celebrate the 60th anniversary of the Cannes Film Festival....

The documentary “Vozes de Paracatu e Bento” shows how the cities of Paracatu de Baixo and Bento Rodrigues live after the collapse of the Samarco dam, in Minas Gerais. A story of belonging, passion and resistance is drawn on screen through the testimo...

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The trajectory of Branca, a 3 years old Brazilian, and Marcos. They never met in life before seeing themselves on screen. Branca travels to Cuba, her father homeland, in the anniversary of the revolution....

When the inmate Maria do Socorro Nobre reads an article about the Polish artist Franz Krajcberg in Veja magazine, she decides to write a letter to him. Socorro was sentenced to more than twenty-one years in a prison for women in Salvador, Bahia, whil...

A touching documentary about artist Franz Krajcberg who moved from his home country to Brazil and started a life of environment activist....