Jorge Bodanzky Movies

Besieged by cancer and nearing the end, the genius Argentine-Brazilian filmmaker Héctor Babenco (1946-2016) asks Bárbara Paz, his wife,...

A girl from the countryside goes to the city of Belém to take part in the Círio de Nazaré celebrations. Led to prostitution, she...

The story of a fakir who works in a decadent circus. He and his colleagues do weirder numbers each day to attract audience, and warrant their...

Marquinhos is in his early 20s and lives in Copacabana with his petits bourgeois parents and older brother. He doesn't have a job, he doesn't go to...

In 1965, a year after the military coup in Brazil, an oasis of freedom opened in the country's capital. The Brasília Film Festival: a landmark...

Jorge de Oliveira is an Afro-Brazilian poet who works in a publicity agency in São Paulo. Torn between his rich white lovers and his black...

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

Paranoia, guilt, misery, and technology in the developing country. A fragmented narrative, distorted frames, shouts, and noises. The Nazis take over...

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

Segment "Prólogo": interviews and scenes with some of the most important filmmakers of the "Boca do Lixo" of São Paulo. Segment "A...

The film warns us about the world's water crisis and the international greed for the Amazon Forest, the largest fresh water reservoir on the planet....

A brief look at the traditional Bexiga, am important neighborhood in the early 20th century with the massive arrival of Italian immigrants who felt...

In 1873 in Rio Grande do Sul, a group of peasants come together to form a community of brothers, arousing the enmity of the rest of the population....

Jorge Bodanzy appeals to the emotional memories of the period he spent studying at the University of Brasilia to show us a tableau of youth in the...

The Viscount of Sabugosa is locked in the library writing an encyclopedia about the characters in children's fables. Dona Benta receives a letter...