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- DirectorEvgeny AfineevskyStarsHis Beatitude SviatoslavSaid IsmagilovBishop AgapitA documentary on the unrest in Ukraine during 2013 and 2014, as student demonstrations supporting European integration grew into a violent revolution calling for the resignation of President Viktor F. Yanukovich.
- DirectorAsif KapadiaStarsAyrton SennaReginaldo LemeJohn BisignanoA documentary on Brazilian Formula One racing driver Ayrton Senna, who won the F1 world championship three times before his death at age 34.
- DirectorJuliano Ribeiro SalgadoWim WendersStarsSebastião SalgadoWim WendersLélia Wanick SalgadoThe life and work of photographer Sebastião Salgado, who has spent forty years documenting societies in hidden corners of the world.
- DirectorJoão Moreira SallesStarsSantiago Badariotti MerloDocumentary about Santiago, a peculiar man who used to work for the director and his parents as a butler. The material was filmed in 1992 but, for some strange reason, the director felt he couldn't edit it and put it aside. In 2005 he remembers the unfinished film and starts its edition.
- DirectorEduardo CoutinhoStarsFernando JoséThe daily lives and routine of 37 families living in a huge 12-story building in Copacabana, Rio de Janeiro: their drama, aspirations, intimate revelations, loneliness, dreams...
- DirectorEduardo CoutinhoStarsEduardo CoutinhoElizabeth TeixeiraFerreira GullarA filmmaker returns to Northeast Brazil after twenty years to resume his film (a profile of assassinated peasant leader João Pedro Teixeira) which was shut down by a right-wing military coup in 1964.
- DirectorArnaldo JaborStarsFernando GarciaJerry AdrianiValéria AmarDocumentary about middle-class people in Rio de Janeiro, in the sixties, when Brazil was going through a hard period in its history, with the military coup and the following dictatorship. Interviews with people in the street disclose their fears, aspirations and political alienation.
- DirectorEduardo CoutinhoDocumentary on poor people living in two slums in Rio de Janeiro, on the occasion of New Year's Eve.
- DirectorEduardo CoutinhoStarsMarília PêraAndrea BeltrãoFernanda TorresFollowing a newspaper ad, ordinary women tell part of their life stories to director Eduardo Coutinho, which are then re-enacted by actresses, blurring the barriers between truth, fiction and interpretation.
- DirectorEduardo CoutinhoStarsEduardo CoutinhoThe late director Eduardo Coutinho sits down and talks with young Brazilian students in his last documentary.
- DirectorEduardo CoutinhoThe documentary follows Theodorico Bezerra, known as The Emperor of Backwoods. A landowner and politician from Rio Grande do Norte, he was known as a fierce and rigid boss, who commanded his employees through a series of unusual set of rules.
- DirectorEduardo CoutinhoStarsMarília PêraFernanda TorresA film starting from naught. With no prior research, no characters, no sites, nor specific themes, a film team arrive to the hinterland of Paraíba state in northeastern Brazil in search of people with stories to tell. In the village of São João do Rio do Peixe they come to Sítio Araçás, a rural community of 86 families, mostly relatives. With a girl from Araçás as mediator, the residents, in their majority, elderly, tell their life story, marked by popular catholicism, by a hierarchy, by a sense of family and honor - in a world fast disappearing.
- DirectorEduardo CoutinhoStarsSonia AbrãoMarcelo AdnetAmaury Jr.The documentary is a selection of images on network television that Coutinho recorded for 24 hours. It was never released in theaters because of issues related to copyright and image.
- DirectorNelson Pereira dos SantosStarsÁtila IórioMaria RibeiroOrlando MacedoA poor family in the Northeast of Brazil (Fabiano, the father; Sinhá Vitória, the mother; their 2 children and a dog called Baleia) wander about the barren land searching for a better place to live, with food and work. But the drought and misery destroy their hopes.
- DirectorJorge FurtadoStarsPaulo JoséCiça ReckziegelDouglas TraininiThe ironic, heartbreaking and acid "saga" of a spoiled tomato: from the plantation of a "Nisei" (Brazilian with Japanese origins); to a supermarket; to a consumer's kitchen to become sauce of a pork meat; to the garbage can since it is spoiled for the consumption; to a garbage truck to be dumped in a garbage dump in "Ilha das Flores"; to the selection of nutriment for pigs by the employees of a pigs breeder; to become food for poor Brazilian people.
- DirectorLeon HirszmanStarsGianfrancesco GuarnieriFernanda MontenegroCarlos Alberto RiccelliUnion leader's son doesn't want to engage in a strike, because his wife is pregnant, thus disregarding his father's tradition of political activism.
- DirectorCao Guimarães
- DirectorCao GuimarãesStarsDomingos Albino FerreiraDocumentary about Domingos Albino Ferreira, aka Dominguinhos da Pedra, a man who's been living alone for 41 years in caves in the State of Minas Gerais, Brazil.
- DirectorMarcelo GomesCao GuimarãesStarsPaulo AndréSílvia LourençoJean-Claude BernardetLoosely based on Edgar Allan Poe's story of the same name, Marcelo Gomes and Cao Guimaraes, two of the most interesting filmmakers working in Brazil today, have crafted an elegant, parsimonious, and formally impeccable story of Juvenal, a lonely train driver in Belo Horizonte, and his encounter with Margo, a station controller. Emphasizing the theme of alienation in Poe's story and revealing Guimaraes's work as a visual artist, the two directors opted for an unusual, perfectly square aspect ratio, which intriguingly makes the film resemble a Polaroid. Juvenal and Margo, who each embody a different form of urban solitude, have been brought together in this beautifully composed ode to friendship.
- DirectorRodrigo SiqueiraPedro de Almeida, garimpeiro de 81 anos de idade, comanda como mestre de cerimônias o velório, o cortejo fúnebre e o enterro de João Batista, que morreu com 120 anos. O ritual sucede-se no quilombo Quartel do Indaiá, distrito de Diamantina, Minas Gerais. Com uma canequinha esmaltada, ele joga as últimas gotas de cachaça sobre o cadáver já assentado na cova: "O que você queria taí! Nós não bebeu ela não, a sua taí. Vai e não volta pra me atentar por causa disso não. Faz sua viagem em paz". Dessa maneira acaba o sepultamento de João Batista, após 17 horas de velório, choro, riso, farra, reza, silêncios, tristeza. No cortejo, muita cantoria com os versos dos vissungos, tradição herdada da áfrica. Descendente de escravos que trabalhavam na extração de diamantes, nas Minas Gerais do tempo do Brasil Império, Pedro é um dos últimos conhecedores dos vissungos, as cantigas em dialeto banguela cantadas durante os rituais fúnebres da região, que eram muito comuns nos séculos 18 e 19. Garimpeiro de muita sorte, Pedro já encontrou diamantes de tesouros enterrados pelos antigos escravos, na região de Diamantina. Mas, o primeiro diamante que encontrou, há 70 anos, o tio com quem trabalhava o enterrou e morreu sem dizer onde. Depois disso, vive sempre em uma sinuca: para reencontrar o diamante só se invocar a alma de seu tio João dos Santos. "É um diamante e tanto, você precisa ver que botão de mágoa." Ao conduzir o funeral de João Batista, Pedro desfia histórias carregadas de poesia e significados metafísicos, que nos põem em dúvida o tempo inteiro: João Batista tinha pacto com o Diabo?; O Diabo existe?; estamos sozinhos, ou as almas também estão entre nós?; como Deus inventou a Morte? A atuação de Pedro e seus familiares frente à câmera nos provoca pela sua dramaturgia espontânea, uma auto-mise-en-scène instigante. No filme, não se sabe o que é fato e o que é representação, o que é verdade e o que é um conto, documentário ou ficção, o que é cinema e o que é vida, o que é africano e o que é mineiro, brasileiro.
- DirectorCarlos NaderStarsNilson de PaulaJaneLicianeEveryman's starting point is the most essential of all questions: what is the meaning of life? From there on, the film establishes an unexpected bond between scenes of the final 20 years of a Brazilian truck driver's real life and ficcional scenes of Carl Dreyer's Danish masterpiece, "The Word" (Ordet), considered one of the 25 best movies of all times.