IFFR 2000

Júlio Bressane

The film that established Bressane's name as one of the most inventive 'auteurs' in Brazilian cinema. The then-prevailing conventions are broken in this episodic story about the desperate path of two vandals (one is black, the other white, in a 'black &amp; white' film) and their easy-going crimes.

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O anjo nasceu

Julio Bressane

Fictitious musical about the history of popular Brazilian music. The most important singers/composers such as Gilberto Gil, Gal Costa, Edu Lobo, Raphael Rabello, Chico Buarque and Caetano Veloso are not just present as actors, but is also responsible for the soundtrack.

O Mandarim

This film caused a stir in 1969, not just because of its content, but largely because of the daring and bare-bones approach to the content. These days the film is regarded as a classic of Brazilian cinema. The title is: 'Killed my family and went to the cinema'.

Matou a família e foi ao cinema

Light, fresh, passionate cinematographic fable about a young inhabitant of Rio, Miramar, who arms himself with a 16mm camera and decides to film everything that moves. Incomparable, dynamic film about growing up, with ever-present self-mockery.

Miramar

Using sober means yet great inventiveness, Bressane evokes the concrete and spiritual world of the Holy Hieronymous and in doing so makes a very original, stylish and above all very visual film.

Sao Jerônimo

Bressane created an imaginary encounter between three 20th-century geniuses, in which he portrayed the composer Lamartine Babo (a role by Caetano Veloso), the revolutionary author Oswald De Andrade and subversive reporter Joao Do Rio. Imaginative film comprises a mixture of erudite and popular elements.

IFFR 2025
30 Jan – 9 Feb 2025