Synopsis
The story a famous Brazilian criminal, called The Red Light Bandit because he always used a red flashlight to break in the houses during the night. Working alone, he also used to rape his female victims.Read More »
Brazil
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Rogério Sganzerla – O Bandido da Luz Vermelha AKA The Red Light Bandit (1968) (HD)
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Ana Carolina – Das Tripas Coração (1982)
1981-1990Ana CarolinaBrazilComedyDramaFinancial and administrative problems in a religious school for girls force the Government to interfere. While waiting in the conference hall to communicate the fact to the school administrators, the intervenor falls asleep and a crazy dream begins, involving teachers, students and strange characters.Read More »
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Juliana Rojas – Sinfonia da Necrópole AKA Necropolis Symphony (2014)
Juliana Rojas2011-2020BrazilComedyMusicalIn the city of São Paulo, the routine of gravedigger apprentice Deodato changes when a new working girl arrives at the cemetery. Together, they must re-register the abandoned tombs, but strange events make the apprentice wonder about the consequences of messing with the dead.Read More »
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Laura Artigas & Pedro Gorski – Vilanova Artigas: O Arquiteto e a Luz AKA Vilanova Artigas: the Architect and the Light (2015)
Laura Artigas2011-2020ArchitectureBrazilDocumentaryPedro GorskiThe documentary rebuilds the life of the brazilian architect João Batista Vilanova Artigas. His relatives, friends, students and six of his major works tell the history of this iconic latinamerican modernist.Read More »
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Felipe M. Guerra – Deodato Holocaust (2019)
2011-2020BrazilDocumentaryFelipe M. GuerraFrom the makers of “FantastiCozzi”, a new documentary about the life and career of controversial Italian director Ruggero Deodato.Read More »
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Júlio Bressane & Rodrigo Lima – A longa viagem do ônibus amarelo AKA The Long Voyage of the Yellow Bus (2023)
2021-2030ArthouseBrazilDocumentaryJúlio BressaneRodrigo LimaQuote:
Starting with the screening of O Mandarim in 1996, Júlio Bressane became a regular at IFFR — one of its patron saints, one could even say, as many of his films were selected for later editions. In 2000, the festival honoured the cinema marginal paragon with one of the first comprehensive retrospectives on his work outside his native Brazil. It is, thus, more than fitting that Bressane’s extensive reflection on his six decades of filmmaking, The Long Voyage of the Yellow Bus, done in tandem with Rodrigo Lima, is one of IFFR 2023’s centrepieces!Read More » -
Breno Silveira – À Beira do Caminho AKA Along the Way (2012)
2011-2020BrazilBreno SilveiraDramaTo escape past traumas, a truck driver John decides to leave his hometown behind and travel cross the country. Alone and lonely he drives all over Brazil until John discovers hiding in his truck a motherless boy looking for his father. Reluctantly, John agrees to take the boy to the nearest town and, during the trip, he finally finds the courage to face his past.Read More »
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Ewerton Belico & Samuel Marotta – Baixo Centro AKA Outer Edge (2018)
Ewerton Belico2011-2020BrazilDramaSamuel MarottaFragments of an endless night, Robert and Teresa meet and get to know each other, and get separate by the force of oppression and the threat of death and disappearance that continually creeps in.Read More »
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Clarissa Campolina & Luiz Pretti – Enquanto estamos aqui AKA While We Are Here (2019)
Clarissa Campolina2011-2020BrazilDocumentaryDramaLuiz PrettiSynopsis
Two lives cross in New York. Lamis, a Lebanese woman, has just moved to the city and describes her impressions while the Brazilian man Wilson has already lived there for 10 years. We never see them on the screen, but their relationship is described in poetic Arabic and Portuguese voice-overs, which contrast starkly with the images, shot in New York, Berlin and Brazil. In this way, the film speaks literally to the imagination: the events take place between what we see and what we hear. This hybrid form of documentary, fiction, travelogue and letters makes this ‘film diary’ reminiscent of News from Home (1977) by Chantal Akerman. Whereas Akerman brings together two different worlds based on letters from her mother in Belgium and images of New York, While We Are Here adds macro and geopolitical issues, such as globalisation and migration, to this approach. The main thread remains intimate and human: desire, love, fear and memories.—International Film Festival RotterdamRead More »