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29 Jan – 8 Feb 2026

Overview of articles

  • Orgia (ou: O homem que deu cria)

    Celebrated novelist Trevisan’s sole feature is a radical, plotless re-envisioning/critique of Cinema Novo, recounting the journey of a deranged youth
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  • O vampiro da cinemateca

    Free-flowing essay/diary/fiction work in Super-8 featuring many of São Paulo’s film luminaries in candid, often bizarre, always political moments comp
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  • Snuff – Vitímas do prazer

    One of the biggest box-office successes of its era, Cunha’s William Castle-like production deals with two American filmmakers who come to Brazil and a
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  • Fuk Fuk à Brasileira

    A class-conflict satire featuring little-person actor Chumbinho as a domestic-cum-slave who escapes the home of his wealthy employers to go on dream-l
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  • Festa na Boca

    Candeias, the most exhaustive chronicler of the Boca do Lixo, submits this ‘report’ on a lively party thrown on New Year’s Eve, 1976, reflecting the…
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  • HISTÓRIAS que só existem quando lembradas

    Beautifully photographed fable about a ghost village where no one has died since 1976, where old people are stuck in their memories – until the…
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  • Girimunho

    Deep in the hinterland of Brazil, in the sleepy town of São Romão, magic and everyday events are juxtaposed in this beautiful debut to c
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  • A margem

    Truck-driver turned director Candeias fled the commercial filmmaking scene to be able to tell this neo-realistic story of São Paulo’s underprivileged
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  • Sudoeste

    Nunes’ debut takes the viewer to a magical village on Brazil’s coast in breathtaking black-and-white cinemascope. Clarice dies and is reborn, rides th
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  • Dois

    Naturally shot fiction about growing up. A boy and girl have a fun day in the park, revising their maths with friends. Then she gets…
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