This short film follows Pelé, a retired nurse who looks back on his time as a Mateus in the century-old Bumba Meu Boi group, Boi Tira-Teima. As he builds a new boi for the festival, he revisits the defining moments of his journey as a performer, carnival artist, and son of Mestre Gerson, the group’s former patriarch. The film explores how the way we carry our memories of the past shapes who we become in the present.
A panorama of Brazilian popular music from the 60s and 70s through the musical group Novos Baianos. ...
The Mangueira slum is the scenario where Tantinho and the old samba composers remember stories about...
The making of the samba school parades, with the construction of the great cars, the decorations bei...
A Christmas story. The goat is the solution to the problems of a family in Recife, Brazil.
‘Joao Gomes: The Pitbull’ covers start of the midfielder’s second year in England as he experienced ...
Young lovers Orfeu and Eurydice run through the favelas of Rio during Carnaval, on the lam from a hi...
No measure of hellfire preaching can quell the boisterous and bawdy passions of Maracatu, an Afro-Br...
A documentary that focuses on two young male inhabitants of Recife (statistically, the fourth worst ...