Brazil Movies

Narrated by anthropologist Terry Turner, this illuminating documentary looks at the dramatic changes effecting central Brazil's Kayapo Indians as...

Critical investigation of The World Bank and IMF. Too hot for PBS, but prime time TV everywhere else. Do the World Bank and IMF make the poor even...

The film reveals the astonishing beauty and profound ecological importance of the Pantanal: the largest tropical wetland on Earth, spanning over 17...

A short film that follows Tiana, a young woman navigating the fragile space between self-discovery and belonging in contemporary Brazil. After...

Bubu is a poet who has been committed to state institutions for the insane twelve times. He challenges the meaning of hospital-jails, hybrid...

Brazil's "Red Command" drug cartel is considered a plague by the government. But for the people of the favelas they control, Red Command *is* the...

Luiz, a dedicated brazilian runner, regularly trains at an old, run down race track out of town. During one of his particularly hard training...

Lost in the middle of nowhere, a pregnant Woman and a hopeful Man walk in search of Getting There, an unknown place where Hope reigns and the days...

Nia Archives wanders around Rio de Janiero

The Documentary tells the story of Jane Vanini from the author's reflections on her militancy-building process. Starting with the meeting of the two...

With the aim of finding Desire, so-and-so performs a ritual to go down in the depths of himself.

Video dedicated to the celebration of the centenary of Edison Carneiro’s birth, one of the great exponents of folklore studies in Brazil, whose...

The documentary follows oral accounts from people in the Cariri region of Paraíba and Pernambuco who have witnessed or heard stories about the...