The series tells the story of the São Paulo International Film Festival, one of the most traditional cultural events in Latin America. For 48 years, the festival has showcased hundreds of films from all over the world, bringing vibrancy to the city. Filmmaker Marina Person provides an irreverent perspective, highlighting the exciting and unusual stories that have marked the festival’s journey of resistance. The series reveals the individuals who have embraced the challenge of organizing this significant cultural event in Brazil every year, despite often challenging conditions. We also delves into how the Mostra has grown to become one of the main festivals globally, shedding light on the changes in cinema, Brazil, and the world over the years.
In the late sixties, Spanish cinema began to produce a huge amount of horror genre films: internatio...
Filmed over five years, we follow Lily Jones, 20, as she transitions from male to female, leaves her...
The true stories that spawned the eerie tale of Damien, a small boy with an angelic face, whose very...
As Hong Kong's foremost filmmaker, Johnnie To himself becomes the protagonist of this painstaking do...
A journey through the work of Spanish filmmaker Juan Piquer Simón (1935-2011).
An investigation of how Hollywood's fabled stories have deeply influenced how Americans feel about t...
Ridley Scott's cult film Blade Runner, based on a novel by Philip K. Dick and released in 1982, is o...
Lissette's favorite aunt Adriana, who lives in Australia, is arrested in 2007 while visiting her fam...
Local filmmaker Woo Ming Jin and his crew traversed across Peninsular Malaysia and Singapore to find...
A documentary film that delves into the life and cinematic career of one of Japan's most prolific di...
Act of Violence Upon a Young Journalist is a film shot in 1988 and released on VHS in 1989; a myster...
A beautifully told story using archival footage to explore the life of Grande Otelo, a groundbreakin...
In "Diana: The Mourning After" Christopher Hitchens sets out to examine the bogusness of "a nation's...
"The Pig and the Society," symbolizes the stark contrast between the excesses of wealth and the plig...
A look at the life and work of Spanish filmmaker and film critic Fernando Méndez-Leite, as he writes...
It's war. War against an invisible enemy that is not as deadly as we are told. The world is changing...
An in-depth look at the race to develop, manufacture and distribute a vaccine for Covid-19 - which m...
A nostalgic journey through ’80s Sci-Fi-films, exploring their impact and relevance today, told by t...
Never-before-seen footage shows how our living in lockdown opened the door for nature to bounce back...
A documentary about film producer Hal Roach.