Zózimo Bulbul
A Brazilian filmmaker, actor, producer and screenwriter, Jorge da Silva, better known by his stage name Zózimo Bulbul, is regarded as a household name of black Brazilian cinema. He was also the founder of Rio de Janeiro's Black Cinema Center ("Centro Afro Carioca de Cinema"). As an actor, he worked in over 30 features, and was directed by filmmakers such as Glauber Rocha (in "Terra em Transe"), Carlos Diegues ("Quilombo") and Antunes Filho ("Compasso de Espera"), becoming the first black man to play a main character in a Brazilian TV soap opera, in 1969's "Vidas em Conflito". His debut as a filmmaker was 1974's black and white short "Alma no Olho". With his work focusing in raising awareness to Brazilian black culture, Bulbul remained an active filmmaker until his death in 2013. His most well known film, as a director, is 1988's "Abolição", a lengthy documentary that gives critical thoughts on Brazil's 1888's ending of slavery and in what changed for the country's Black people over the course of a century.
Entranced Earth
as RepórterEldorado, a fictitious country in America, is sparkling with the internal struggle for political...
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Quilombo
as Stone ManQuilombo dos Palmares was a real-life democratic society, created in Brazil in the 17th century....
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Giselle
as JorgeSexy girl seduces all the members of her family. She indirectly causes the failure of his...
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The Girl from Ipanema
as Jovem na PraiaChronicles the life of a 17 year-old girl living in the upper-class Rio de Janeiro neighbourhood...
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The Godless Bandit
as AriranhaAfter the proclamation of the Republic, a group of fanatics in the sertão dreamed of and fought...
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5x Favela, Now by Ourselves
as uncreditedThe project '5 x slum, now by ourselves' gathered over 80 young people from Rio's favelas...
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The Suns of Easter Island
as HelvioSix people find a mysterious mark in the center of their left hand and all independently go to...
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The Girl and the Rapist
as PedroIn São Paulo, Vanessa who is normally spoiled rotten, is neglected and rejected by her mother,...
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The Forest
as ProcópioYoung man, of Portuguese nobility ascendancy, starts working in a rubber plantation in the...
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Our Lady Of Compassion
as JesusJoão Grilo is a backwoodsman who tries to get along at the expense of the powerful in the city,...
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Cinco Vezes Favela
as (segment "Pedreira de São Diego")Five segments about the hardships faced by people living in slums on hills in Rio de Janeiro.
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Proezas de Satanás na Vila de Leva-e-Traz
as uncreditedIn the village of Leva-e-Traz, the discovery of a oil field is responsible for a mass evasion of...
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The Naked Man
as uncreditedA man gets locked naked outside of his apartment.
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A Guerra dos Pelados
as VitorinoIn 1913, in the state of Santa Catarina, Brazil, the Government gives some lands to a foreign...
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The Palace of Angels
as EmbaixadorBárbara, a French girl living in São Paulo, and two friends decide to transform a little...
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Compasso de Espera
as Jorge de OliveiraJorge de Oliveira is an Afro-Brazilian poet who works in a publicity agency in São Paulo. Torn...
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Daughters of the Wind
as MarquinhosIn a small town in the State of Minas Gerais, Brazil, two sisters meet again after years apart.
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El Justicero
as uncreditedA shockingly irreverent follow-up to the rural austerity of Barren Lives, dos Santos’ Godardian...
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Soul in the Eye
as uncreditedInspired by Black Panther Eldridge Cleaver’s book Soul on Ice and dedicated to John Coltrane,...
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Pedreira de São Diogo
as uncreditedMen work in a quarry on the edge of a hill where a slum is located, of which they are residents....
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Natal da Portela
as uncreditedBiography of one of the legendary names in the Samba genre of Brazilian music. Although he could...
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Parceiros da Aventura
as Motorista da greveRio de Janeiro crooks rove about, performing petty tricks to survive, and get involved with a...
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Sagarana: O Duelo
as DemônioUnable to endure the idea that he would go without punishment, a criminal's victim chases him...
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Hung Up
as uncreditedA woman from a bourgeois family marries a loveless man. She remembers (or dreams?) a life of...
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Grande Sertão
as uncreditedCowboy Riobaldo is attracted to same sex Diadorim, not knowing that "he" is a girl dressed in...
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True Brazil
as uncreditedIn the late 1960s, Thomas Farkas imported equipment suitable for direct sound, and released a...
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In Evil Hour
as CarmichaelThe old servant and chronicler Dom Sabas tells how his desolate South American town is the scene...
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Improvised and Purposeful: Cinema Novo
as SelfOriginally produced for German TV, Improvised and Purposeful is a firsthand look at the "Cinema...
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Black Goddess
as uncreditedA Deusa Negra is a love story that spans two centuries. In 18th century Yorubaland, Prince...
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Ganga Zumba
as uncreditedThe life of a runaway slave who founded the Quilombo dos Palmares, an outlaw community of...
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Garden of War
as uncreditedEdson is having an affair with a left-wing aspiring movie director during Brazil's military...
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República da Traição
as uncreditedEuropean couple arrive at the Republic of Maraguaya with a strange mission. But the involvement...
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Exu Rei - Abdias do Nascimento
as HimselfThe African deity that brought in Brazil Together with the blacks, Exu is known as the orixá of...
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Samba no Trem
as Self / InterviewerA documentary about the celebration of the National Samba Day with the aim of preserving the...
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Paper and Sea
as João CândidoThe film narrates the imaginary encounter between João Cândido, leader of Revolta da Chibata and...
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Banda de Ipanema — Folia de Albino
as SelfA movie about Banda de Ipanema, one of Rio de Janeiro’s most traditional Carnaval blocks, and...
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Veja & Ouça - Maria Baderna no Brasil
as uncreditedIn 1850 the Italian dancer Maria Baderna arrives at Brazil, her fame and the scandals she...
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Referências
as SelfDuring a showing of rare Afro-Brazilian Cinema films at the Cinematheque of the Museum of Modern...
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Pureza Proibida
as ChicoBaby is found by nuns, who raise her inside the convent. When she grows up, she moves to a...
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Artesanato do Samba
as NarradorThe making of the samba school parades, with the construction of the great cars, the decorations...
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Renascimento Africano
as SelfThe film, shot in Dakar, Senegal, has testimonials from intellectuals, politicians and...
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República Tiradentes
as Self / InterviewerFilmed in a mini DV, the film "República Tiradentes" is an affective poetry, based on the...
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