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.
The Mangueira slum is the scenario where Tantinho and the old samba composers remember stories about...
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...
During Carnival in São Paulo, a young man and young woman who knew each other as children meet again...
A year in the life of a samba school, from the first rehearsals to the parade on the avenue.
Curitiba, PR, December 8, 1959; at around five o'clock in the afternoon, Military Police sub-lieuten...
In order to study fashion in so-desired Paris, a young country girl who hates Carnival travels to Ri...
A Christmas story. The goat is the solution to the problems of a family in Recife, Brazil.
A documentary that focuses on two young male inhabitants of Recife (statistically, the fourth worst ...