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29 Jan – 8 Feb 2026

Overview of articles

  • Uma rua chamada triumpho (1969-1970)

    First part of two intimate essays on the communities inhabiting the Santa Efigênia neighbourhood in São Paulo, which helped to begin to create a mytho
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  • I Am Jesus

    Can you make a documentary portrait of a man who says he is Jesus? Fictional not, the directors found three Jesuses in different continents and…
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  • O pornógrafo

    A pop art portrait of the trials and tribulations of a young man hired to edit a porno rag run by a shady madame.
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  • O salão azul

    The beauty of simplicity. A look inside a hair salon in Maputo, Mozambique. Beautifully observed with delicate colour and light. That’s it. Well cut.
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  • O convite ao prazer

    One of the sexiest films in the history of Brazilian cinema. Filmmaker Khoury, known for his Antonioni-esque urban alienation dramas from the 1960s, c
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  • Vereda tropical

    Testing the contours of censorship (it was immediately banned), Andrade’s small erotic milestone centres on a man whose objects of desire are fresh fr
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  • Cerro negro

    Subdued, moving fiction about a young immigrant couple from Brazil in Lisbon. She visits him in prison.
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  • Lisboa-Província

    In this quietly poetic film, Maria do Céu returns beyond the Tagus to fertile, polyphonic Alentejo and a village she left forty-five years ago for…
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  • Incêndio

    ‘There must be a different solution than the one from hell’. Full unadulterated terror (and music). ‘The best class always ends with a lesson’.
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  • O estranho caso de Angélica

    Love is stronger than death in this charming, magical tale, which seems set both in the present and the 1950s. The 102-year-old Portuguese master show
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