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30 Jan – 9 Feb 2025

Julio Bressane focus

Overview of films

  • Tabu

    Bressane created an imaginary encounter between three 20th-century geniuses, in which he portrayed the composer Lamartine Babo (a role by Caetano Velo

  • O Mandarim

    Fictitious musical about the history of popular Brazilian music. The most important singers/composers such as Gilberto Gil, Gal Costa, Edu Lobo, Rapha

  • O anjo nasceu

    The film that established Bressane’s name as one of the most inventive ‘auteurs’ in Brazilian cinema. The then-prevailing conventions are broken in th

  • Sao Jerônimo

    Using sober means yet great inventiveness, Bressane evokes the concrete and spiritual world of the Holy Hieronymous and in doing so makes a very origi

  • Matou a família e foi ao cinema

    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

  • Miramar

    Light, fresh, passionate cinematographic fable about a young inhabitant of Rio, Miramar, who arms himself with a 16mm camera and decides to film every