Soul in the Eye

Bulbul made this powerful historical analysis of racial issues in Brazil in 1988, one hundred years after slavery was abolished there.

The process of transformation and empowerment of a young man, black and gay, whose account is mixed with testimonies of others.

A metaphor about slavery and the search for freedom through inner transformation, in a game of images inspired by concretism.

Bulbul’s tribute to Aniceto, port worker, samba composer and one of the founders of Império Serrano, Escola de Samba in Rio de Janeiro.

A short film about courage in ordinary daily life. Two transvestites waking up, dressing up and going outdoors.

A free-flowing capturing of the lives and loves of three friends in a close-knit community.

Faced with despair, Cecil blows on a Super Nintendo’s cartridge in his neighbourhood. His attempt to reboot the game of life.

Jerusa’s quiet and lonely days are suddenly disrupted by a visit of a young woman.

A collage of poetic performances leading through an audio-visual experience of being a black woman.

The story of a photo of a single mother, an absent father and a child shows the importance of a single image.

Michelle Mattiuzi’s ritual walk to the statue of slavery resistant leader Zumbi dos Palmares, downtown Rio de Janeiro.

Emmerson’s radical solution to get his film made, gradually gets out of hand. Frame narrative, playing with fiction and (cinematic) reality.

Visual essay as a form of resistance to invisibility, and an audiovisual experience about being and becoming a black woman.

Film on black female protagonism in the Candomblé Jeje Mahi tradition; investigating its roots in Benin and its links to Brazil.

The complexity of musician Fela Kuti’s life unravelled through the eyes of his biographer and friend, the African-Cuban Carlos Moore.

Bia, 18 years old and about to finish high school, faces other people’s expectations about her future. All Bia wants? Nothing.

A compelling performative audiovisual essay on the diasporic experience of reconnecting with the African continent to retrieve cultural origins.

Shrouded in moonlight and trapped by water scarcity, inhabitants are hypnotized by Yemaya, goddess of the sea.

Zózimo Bulbul’s fourth film explores neighbourhoods known as 'Little Africa', places of black cultural resistance inhabited by freed enslaved.

Three friends who live on the outskirts of São Paulo. Amidst the challenges of becoming adults, an historic event changes their lives forever.

A couple is back living together, updating invisible forces of the past and expanding boundaries of everyday life.

Triggered by an unveiled family secret, Aline Motta’s ancestral quest confronts the traditional paradigms about miscegenation related to racism in Brazil.

About the everyday life of three students at a public university and the dilemmas of racial segregation in Brazilian society.

An elder married couple whose life is quite ordinary. Until one day a persistent wind in the backyard makes the normal extraordinary.

After Rita becomes queen of a samba school, she faces the dark forces in her internal and external world.

Separated by life, father and son are strangers to each other. When there is no communication, silence is a cry.

Juliana's inner journey: moving to a new town, starting a new job, making new friends and discovering a new life.

An intimate and poetic essay about the photographic memory of black families. Both a critical perspective and tender counternarrative.