Gilberto Gil

It explores the last two years of Brazilian singer Cazuza's life, from his AIDS diagnosis until his death. Nilo Romero, Cazuza's music producer and th...

It explores Rita Lee's personal life and her creative process, revealing her musical talent and her ability to transform on stage. Rita herself guides...

During Rio's Carnival, a street cleaner struggles with the loss of his sister and his work obligations. Amid the celebrations, he finds a lost child a...

Just before her departure, Rita Lee writes a farewell letter to her three children and her husband and musical partner, Roberto de Carvalho, in which ...

The documentary narrates the life of Toquinho, one of the greatest Brazilian artists, a musician who transcends the barriers of time and language with...

An irresistible journey through the universe of the singer and composer that revolutionized the song in Brazil and influenced generations of musicians...

70 years ago, a visionary management in education and culture as a political strategy for the dissemination and development of Bahia gave rise to an a...

New York, 2010. Jeff Harris, a music journalist, sets out to uncover the truth about Francisco Tenório Júnior, a young Brazilian samba-jazz pianist wh...

The documentary that began together with Mestre Môa do Katendê before his political murder, tells the life story of this capoeirista and founder of Af...

The backstory and legacy of Brazilian rock band Os Paralamas do Sucesso is examined in this fascinating music documentary. With previously unseen foot...

Discover the history of the Chic Show ball, an iconic black music party in São Paulo. The event was a milestone in the life of São Paulo. Held in hall...

A white man, yet forged in the samba de engraxate that had its main stronghold in downtown São Paulo, Germano Mathias became an icon of a musical styl...

For this behemoth, Bressane took his opera omnia and edited it in an order that first adheres to historical chronology but soon starts to move backwar...

The documentary celebrates the poetic legacy of Lupicínio Rodrigues, investigating the musical contribution and historical context of this composer bo...

“Breaking Myths” aims to open the world’s eyes to the fragile and “catastrophic masculinity” of Brazil’s current President Jair Bolsonaro, a fanatical...

The film is an unprecedented and exclusive testimonial of Maria Bethânia from director and screenwriter Carlos Jardim, interspersed with rare footage ...

Against the backdrop of a turbulent era in Brazil, this documentary captures Pelé's extraordinary path from breakthrough talent to national hero. Mixi...

Through clippings, the film draws a narrative line between the construction of racism in Brazil and the United States, having as base the European inv...

On March 16, 2020, in Brasília, an anonymous and unknown Haitian challenged the head of the nation: “Bolsonaro, it’s over. You are not president anymo...

The documentary goes through works composed by the Bahian musician between 1968 and 1987. Brazilian musician Gilberto Gil, one of the most well-known ...

Singer, composer, actor and painter, Dorival Caymmi was a multiple artist, but what they may not know is his pioneering work in introducing candomblé ...

The documentary addresses the project, which took 30 years to complete, about the recording of 44 songs created for each poem in Mensagem, one of Fern...

In 1976, Gilberto Gil traveled to Lagos (Nigeria) with the purpose of participating in the Second Festival of Black Art and Culture. The event had the...

A view of Brazil's 2018 Presidential Elections, held in October of that year. The polarizing Election led to the rise of far-right President Jair Bols...

The life and career history of singer and percussionist Jackson do Pandeiro, whose originality and unusual rhythmic quality influenced several promine...

Participants recall a series of festivals held on a farm in Brazil during the '70s and '80s that evolved into liberating celebrations of music.

Chico and Ana move to an apartment in São Paulo. As they unpack Ana found a cassette tape. It's a mix-tape that Clarisse made 20 years earlier to her ...

In 1996, filmmaker André Luiz Oliveira started preproduction of Viva o Povo Brasileiro, a film adaptation of the novel by João Ubaldo Ribeiro. Princip...

Dorival Caymmi was one of the inventors of the Bahian imagination. In his 94 years of life, Caymmi composed, sang, wrote, illustrated and thought abou...

The story of Brazilian poet Torquato Neto, who lived passionately through fracturous times and worked in several fields, including music, journalism, ...

Originally from Bahia and considered today one of the most globalised musical movements in the world, Axé is a musical rhythm that carries in its esse...

This documentary investigates the aesthetic, political and existential trajectory of emblematic Black Brazilian actor Antônio Pitanga. His career span...

Afonsinho, Paulo Cézar Caju and Nei Conceição started their careers in the mid-1960s, a time of strong political repression in Brazil. Originally team...

With fireworks forming the word “Rio” in the sky and supermodel Gisele Bundchen shimmering to the tune of “The Girl from Ipanema,” Rio de Janiero welc...

The lives of Luhli and Lucina, two especially important artists in the alternative cultural scene during the 1970s. In a time when transgression, love...

Rogério Duarte is one of the most important names in Tropicália, a Brazilian cultural movement of the 1960s. The plastic artist was one of the first t...

In 1982, the Arpoador Beach, in Rio de Janeiro, received the first "incarnation" of Circo Voador, a venue for artists of diverse aspects showing their...

Two of the biggest names in 20th century pop music together on stage, accompanied by their guitars. In "Two Friends, A Century of Music", Caetano Velo...

Based on the autobiography of noted music executive André Midani, André Midani — An Insider’s Story of Brazilian Music (2015) explores Brazilian music...

Through rare and precious footages and gigs with great artists such as Gilberto Gil, Gal Costa, Hermeto Pascoal, Djavan, Nara Leao, Luiz Gonzaga, amon...

A documentary on the restoration of Rogério Sganzerla's 1970 film "Copacabana, Mon Amour".

This documentary highlights the evolution of Brazil's Circo Voador venue from homespun artists' performance space to national cultural institution.

Gilberto Gil is among Brazil's most famous musicians, having influenced an entire generation in South America and beyond. Now in his seventies, he is...

Festive Land examines one of the largest and most extraordinary popular celebrations in the world, the week-long Carnival that brings more than two mi...

A look of the 21st century for one of the most important cultural movements in Brazilian history. The production brings a mix of interviews, concerts,...

Set against the turbulent atmosphere of the 1960s, Tropicália is a feature length documentary exploring the Brazilian artistic movement known as Tropi...

The film follows the birth of Jorge Mautner up to his 17 years. He was born in Brazil shortly after his parents fled the Holocaust. Raised by a nanny ...

In his film Rua Aperana 52 Júlio Bressane describes the invention of a landscape, the topology of a corner of Rio de Janeiro. The film consists of a s...

Year-end special brought together three interpreters of Brazilian popular music - Gilberto Gil, Caetano Veloso and Ivete Sangalo - to honour the Brazi...

Caetano Veloso, Gilberto Gil, Jards Macalé and Jorge Mautner recall important moments during the military dictatorship the befell in Brazil from 1964 ...

2012: Time For Change is a documentary feature that presents ways to transform our unsustainable society into a regenerative planetary culture. This c...

In the 1970s, "festivals" were incredibly popular in Brazil, as they were recorded before a live studio audience, and usually featured a number of eli...

"Duetos" is the sixth compilation by Brazilian musical artist Ivete Sangalo, released on May 5, 2010 by Universal Music. The collection brings togeth...

Based on the life of a legendary capoeira fighter from Bahia, "Besouro" spins a fantastic tale of a young Brazilian man of African descent in search o...

Hello, Hello, Terezinha! is a feature-length documentary about the country's biggest communication phenomenon. Politically incorrect, radical, renewin...

This documentary from filmmaker Guto Barra takes you beyond the 1960s bossa nova hit "The Girl from Ipanema" to explore how samba, Brazilectro and oth...

A Brazilian theatre group that through talent, irony and humour confronted the Brazilian violent dictatorship in the 1970s revolutionising the gay mov...

Loki brings the trajectory of Arnaldo Baptista from childhood, passing through the most successful phase as leader of the Mutantes, marriage to singer...

RiP!: A Remix Manifesto is a 2008 open source documentary film about the "the changing concept of copyright" directed by Brett Gaylor.

Documentary about Brazilian poet Waly Salomão, for whom life was always a fictional film and poetry was a way to expose any naturalistic pretention. H...

A host of personalities reminisce about the life and work of songwriter, lawyer, and congressman Humberto Teixeira — aka "Baião Doctor" — the author o...

This film shines a light at the story of Jards Macalé, polemic artist and controversial character of Brazilian culture over the last four decades. Aut...

After being forced into a marriage and enduring a humiliating work routine in the hands of his father-in-law, Zé Araújo becomes the mythical Ojuara, a...

Documentary about the 68-generation, told through the story of the newspaper “O Sol”, one of the first vehicles of the alternative Brazilian press, pr...

The film has Gal's career as its guiding principle, drawing a parallel with the movement of which the singer was the muse and one of the main interpre...

The life and work of one of the most controversial Brazilian musicians, having as its backdrop Tom Zé's 2005 European Tour. The documentary shows a de...

Afroreggae Cultural Group DVD containing a concert and a documentary about the group's social and cultural work at the favelas in Rio de Janeiro.

To celebrate the life and the work of a multifaceted creator – playwright, poet, partner of the most important names of Brazilian pop music and, above...

Brazilian singer Maria Bethania has a 40-year singing career. A documentary shows her concerts and famous family.

Documentary about Marcel Camus' 1959 film Black Orpheus, its cultural and musical roots, and its resonance in Brazil today.

Documentary about Marcel Camus' 1959 film Black Orpheus, its cultural and musical roots, and its resonance in Brazil today.

The biggest Brazilian historical festival of all time. The great cast of the 1973 Phonogram (now Universal Music) meets in three nights to protest aga...

Live performance by brazilian singer Ivete Sangalo recorded at Salvador, Brazil, presented by MTV.

Three blind sisters, Regina, Maria and Conceição, earn their living by singing in front of churches, in Brazil... They tell their amazing stories, ful...

Life and legacy of Agostinho da Silva. Traversing the biographical journey, the life and work of the Luso-Brazilian philosopher, this work has testim...

Almost thirty years after the first reunion of Doces Bárbaros (four of Brazil's major popular music stars: Caetano Veloso, Gilberto Gil, Gal Costa and...

This film describes some of CC’s success stories and gives insight into where we’re headed.

Composer Gilberto Gil accompanies filmmaker Andrucha Waddington to the Northeast of Brazil. Among the rural communities in the region, Gil and Waddign...

Composer Gilberto Gil accompanies filmmaker Andrucha Waddington to the Northeast of Brazil. Among the rural communities in the region, Gil and Waddign...

Gilberto Gil's 2002 album combines Brazilian pop with roots reggae. Featuring 11 of Bob Marley's greatest hits recorded in Tuff Gong Studios, Kingston...

Documentary about amazing Brazilian musician Rogério Duprat, main orchestrator of Tropicália, his rehearsals with Gal Costa, Os Mutantes, Gilberto Gil...

Tempo Rei is the first audiovisual record of Gilberto Gil's vast work, celebrating the artist's thirty-year career, celebrated in 1996. Gil recalls hi...

Documentary about samba musician from Bahia Clementino Rodrigues, aka Riachão.

This is a journey of friendship, an Argentinian is going to rediscover his continent while searching for his friend from Bahia. And while the work, th...

The documentary presents an overview of Vladimir Carvalho's cinematographic career, from the very beginning, as a co-writer of “Aruanda” (1960), direc...

A documentary on the amazing Brazilian music movement known as Tropicália.

A true story that comically depicts the relationship between an ordinary woman and her three husbands, who live in the same house in a poor and arid s...

Two kids merrily play make-believe inside their house, unaware of the inequality that exists in the world.

Inspired by the life of the french-born photographer and ethnographer, Pierre Verger, the movie follows his journey between Bahia, Brazil and Benin, O...

A detective is hired by a mysterious woman to find her missing husband, a master of disguises, and important industry executive.

Between August 23 and 31, 1983, at the "Circo Massimo", in Rome, there was a musical event that brought together artists from Bahia. This film brings ...

The history of Brazilian popular music in the 20th Century, focusing specially on the life and works of intriguing singer Mário Reis, a loner who, wit...

Four love stories which portray a wide gamut of emotions and desires against the backdrop of Rio de Janeiro. "Elephant's Stomp" : the story of a highw...

The special record for the series Acoustic MTV meets classic in the repertoire of Gilberto Gil as "Stage" tern "," Weather King ", among others. Also ...

A documentary chronicling the life and works of Brazilian poet, songwriter, journalist and avant-garde filmmaker Torquato Neto, from his beginnings to...

Record of the 1989 elections, when Brazil was divided between Lula and Fernando Collor. It brings together material gathered from the streets of São P...

A look into the 25 years of career of famous musician Chico Buarque and his influence in Brazilian culture.

A look at the Brazilian black movement between 1977 and 1988, going by the relationship between Brazil and Africa.

Hunting Season deals with the wave of homosexual murders that plagued São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro in the 1980s. With street statements and cultural a...

Jubiabá is a French-Brazilian film based on the homonymous novel by Jorge Amado. The film tells the story of the interracial love between the daughte...

In this highly stylized Brazilian drama a sax player fondly remembers one wonderful night spent with his life's love and decides to find her again. He...

Gilberto Gil talks with friends and share his thoughts, influences and reveal his impact on brazilian music and vision of the black people.

A fragmented style, patchwork of interviews with Caetano Veloso's friends, mixed with conversations, thoughts, scenes of dance and literature excerpts...

Tropicália was a Brazilian cultural movement that occurred between 1967 and 1968, inspired by Oswald de Andrade's anthropophagic ideals, pop art and t...

Quilombo dos Palmares was a real-life democratic society, created in Brazil in the 17th century. This incredibly elaborate (and surprisingly little-kn...

University teacher investigates the life of a famous Brazilian musician, trying to discover the secret of mass communication through his songs and per...

University teacher investigates the life of a famous Brazilian musician, trying to discover the secret of mass communication through his songs and per...

João Gilberto receives Caetano Veloso, Gilberto Gil and Maria Bethânia during the recording of his album Brasil.

At Pedrinho's request, Dona Benta begins to tell the legend of the Minotaur. In the middle of the story, a strange visitor appears on the farm and tak...

The film records the commemorative tour of the ten years of the career of the Bahia singers Caetano Veloso, Gilberto Gil, Maria Bethânia and Gal Costa...

When a prominent U.S. Nobel Laureate arrives in Salvador, Bahia, the city with the largest black population in Brazil, he stirs emotions by championin...

In 1975 Gilberto Gil was releasing his album 'Refazenda', and talk a little about it in this interview.

Portrait of various figures in Brazilian pop music.

A colorful feature film that mixes exile with the figure of the poet Rimbaud and the feminist revolution. "It's super-intellectual. A fable-musical-ph...

Deformed form by which the word "beast" (medieval weapon) is pronounced in the north of the Brazilian state of Bahia and was still present in the cult...

Sônia and her homosexual brother are both believed by their mother to be possessed by the devil. She works as a prostitute in the streets of Copacaban...

The confrontations and conflicts between the city of Padre Cicero's pilgrims and the attempts to develop the region.

Through folklore manifestations and diverse artistic expressions, the film is a document that exalts and honors the Bahian culture.

Year 2000. Brazil was partially devastated by the Third World War. An immigrant family arrives in a small town, which they call "I Forgot." The trio i...

Viramundo shows the saga of the northeastern migrants that arrive in São Paulo, beginning with a train arriving and ending with a train leaving São Pa...