Movies: Jards Macalé

  • 1974
    The Amulet of Ogum

    The Amulet of Ogum (1974)

    The Amulet of Ogum

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    An ubiquitous folk singer narrates the tale of a young boy, who apparently becomes immune to gunfire after his mother arranges for him to have an amulet bearing Ogum's blessings. As time goes by, he becomes a valuable member of a mobster's hit-team, ...

    The Amulet of Ogum
  • 2019
    O Barato de Iacanga

    O Barato de Iacanga (2019)

    O Barato de Iacanga

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

    O Barato de Iacanga
  • 2016
    Pitanga

    Pitanga (2016)

    Pitanga

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    This documentary investigates the aesthetic, political and existential trajectory of emblematic Black Brazilian actor Antônio Pitanga. His career spans over five decades, and he has worked with iconic Brazilian filmmakers Glauber Rocha, Cacá Diegues ...

    Pitanga
  • 2007
    Cartola: The Samba Legend

    Cartola: The Samba Legend (2007)

    Cartola: The Samba Legend

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    Documentary on the life and times of one of the most prominent Brazilian samba composers, Cartola (Angenor de Oliveira)....

    Cartola: The Samba Legend
  • 1987
    Images of the Unconscious

    Images of the Unconscious (1987)

    Images of the Unconscious

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    In hopes of unraveling the causes and cure for various forms of insanity, a psychiatrist in Brazil created the Museum of Images from the Unconscious in 1952. It gathered paintings and drawings made by mental patients from all over Brazil. Many of the...

    Images of the Unconscious
  • 2015
    Big Jet

    Big Jet (2015)

    Big Jet

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    The boy Francisco spent his days accompanying his father at work, or rather, on the roads. The man is a driver of the imposing Big Jet, a pickup truck used to clean the city's cesspools without basic sanitation. But the boy is more interested in the ...

    Big Jet
  • 2017
    Torquato Neto - Every Hour of the End

    Torquato Neto - Every Hour of the End (2017)

    Torquato Neto - Every Hour of the End

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    The story of Brazilian poet Torquato Neto, who lived passionately through fracturous times and worked in several fields, including music, journalism, and cinema. He was an active participant in the revolution of Tropicália and marginal art, which cha...

    Torquato Neto - Every Hour of the End
  • 2024
    Luiz Melodia - Within the Heart of Brazil

    Luiz Melodia - Within the Heart of Brazil (2024)

    Luiz Melodia - Within the Heart of Brazil

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    A sound and visual journey that portrays the life and work of singer and composer Luiz Melodia. The Poet of Estácio himself tells us, in the first person, his trajectory as a black boy born on the hill until his transformation into one of the greates...

    Luiz Melodia - Within the Heart of Brazil
  • 2015
    Cordilheiras no Mar: A Fúria do Fogo Bárbaro

    Cordilheiras no Mar: A Fúria do Fogo Bárbaro (2015)

    Cordilheiras no Mar: A Fúria do Fogo Bárbaro

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    Cordilheiras no Mar: A Fúria do Fogo Bárbaro
  • 2018
    Dê Lembranças a Todos

    Dê Lembranças a Todos (2018)

    Dê Lembranças a Todos

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    Dorival Caymmi was one of the inventors of the Bahian imagination. In his 94 years of life, Caymmi composed, sang, wrote, illustrated and thought about his Bahia, even far from it. His family, partners, friends and fans remember his history, which ma...

    Dê Lembranças a Todos
  • 1990
    ABC of a Strike

    ABC of a Strike (1990)

    ABC of a Strike

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    ABC of a Strike captures the 1979 metal workers strikes outside of São Paulo. The footage sat untouched until after the death of highly-regarded director Leon Hirszman in 1987, by which time the material had a new relevance. The gripping film capture...

    ABC of a Strike
  • 2011
    Canções do Exílio: A Labareda que Lambeu Tudo

    Canções do Exílio: A Labareda que Lambeu Tudo (2011)

    Canções do Exílio: A Labareda que Lambeu Tudo

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    Caetano Veloso, Gilberto Gil, Jards Macalé and Jorge Mautner recall important moments during the military dictatorship the befell in Brazil from 1964 to 1985. The film presents the events of the prison, life in exile and the return to the country....

    Canções do Exílio: A Labareda que Lambeu Tudo
  • 1977
    Tent of Miracles

    Tent of Miracles (1977)

    Tent of Miracles

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    When a prominent U.S. Nobel Laureate arrives in Salvador, Bahia, the city with the largest black population in Brazil, he stirs emotions by championing a long-forgotten local writer named Pedro Archanjo, who believed that humanity would be improved o...

    Tent of Miracles
  • 1992
    Torquato Neto, O Anjo Torto da Tropicália

    Torquato Neto, O Anjo Torto da Tropicália (1992)

    Torquato Neto, O Anjo Torto da Tropicália

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    A documentary chronicling the life and works of Brazilian poet, songwriter, journalist and avant-garde filmmaker Torquato Neto, from his beginnings to his suicide at the age of 28....

    Torquato Neto, O Anjo Torto da Tropicália
  • 2003
    Glauber Rocha - The Movie, Brazil's Labyrinth

    Glauber Rocha - The Movie, Brazil's Labyrinth (2003)

    Glauber Rocha - The Movie, Brazil's Labyrinth

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    Documentary about Brazilian filmmaker Glauber Rocha, one of the most important names in the Cinema Novo, with interviews with some of his friends and colleagues....

    Glauber Rocha - The Movie, Brazil's Labyrinth
  • 1976
    The Vampire of the Cinematheque

    The Vampire of the Cinematheque (1976)

    The Vampire of the Cinematheque

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    As filmmaker Jairo Ferreira shoots his life and friends in Super 8mm he also becomes the vampire of the Cinemateca Brasileira in São Paulo. In O VAMPIRO DA CINEMATECA Ferreira develops a poetic representation of his idea of “inventive cinema” without...

    The Vampire of the Cinematheque
  • 2001
    B2

    B2 (2001)

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    A short film made with unused footage from The Red Light Bandit and Carnaval na Lama....

    B2
  • 2015
    Um Filme Francês

    Um Filme Francês (2015)

    Um Filme Francês

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    Cléo is making her first film, inspired by french cinema and the nouvelle vague....

    Um Filme Francês
  • 2016
    Beard, Hair & Stache

    Beard, Hair & Stache (2016)

    Beard, Hair & Stache

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    Afonsinho, Paulo Cézar Caju and Nei Conceição started their careers in the mid-1960s, a time of strong political repression in Brazil. Originally teammates of a celebrated generation of the Botafogo football team superstars, they did not give up thei...

    Beard, Hair & Stache
  • 2011
    Daquele Instante em Diante

    Daquele Instante em Diante (2011)

    Daquele Instante em Diante

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    This film documents in depth the life and artistic trajectory of the musician and poet Itamar Assumpção. He was one of the pillars of a moment of Brazilian popular music that was conventionally called "Vanguarda Paulista". Starting from extensive res...

    Daquele Instante em Diante