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When a chinese merchant brings to a neighbourhood of Luanda a peculiar holy plastic figure of Our Lady, a mourning mother will seek peace, a committed barber starts a new cult and a stray kid will look for revenge for his lost friend.Read More »
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The role of the evangelical movement on Jair Bolsonaro’s rise to the presidency is explored with commentary from leading figures across the Brazilian political spectrum, including Bolsonaro’s left-wing successor Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva and televangelist Silas Malafaia, a close associate of Bolsonaro.[7] The documentary shows Malafaia to have had a defining influence on Bolsanaro, while mustering support from Brasil’s evangelical movement, in the path to Bolsanaro losing the 2022 presidential elections and in the protests and attempted insurrection that followed.Read More »
Young congressman Miguel Horta represents a party that is directly opposed to the present government. He slyly switches parties in order to gain favor with those in power — seriously compromising his own ideals and ethics in the process.Read More »
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A Raiz do Coração (A Root of the Heart) is a Portuguese film set in the Lisbon during the festivities of Saint Anthony, the patron saint of lovers and the old town. The story is about Cato, a nationalist politician who is charismatic and unscrupulous. He obsessively pursues Silvia, a mystical and mysterious young transvestite whom he meets at the festival. When Silvia runs into Vicente, a policeman who arrests transvestites and threatens them, Silvia must look towards blackmail to save herself. Compromising photos of Cato start to emerge among opposition parties and he must do all in his power to save his political career.Read More »
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After the huge critical and box-office acclaim of the allegoric, iconoclast political satire “Macunaíma” (1969), director Joaquim Pedro de Andrade raised funds in Brazil and Italy (through RAI-TV) to make “Os Inconfidentes”, a politically and artistically ambitious (though low budget) film that tries to reassess historically the most important political event in colonial Brazil – the ill-fated plotting of a coup d’état by a group of Brazilian military officers, poets and intellectuals aiming to overthrow the Portuguese Crown and establish a Brazilian Independent Republic in 1789, inspired by the success of the U.S. independence.Read More »
This 1998 documentary was the first feature by documentary filmmaker Sérgio Tréfaut, later to direct Fleurette, Lisboetas and Viagem a Portugal, and is a look at the Portuguese Revolution of 1974 and its follow-up period as seen by some the filmmakers and photographer that accompanied it in real time.
The film brings together period footage from many different sources and new interviews. Glauber Rocha, Robert Kramer, Thomas Harlan or Sebastião Salgado are some of those interviewed or that have contributed footage to the project.Read More »
This is one of Noronha da Costa’s films in which the “fictional” component is most visible. D. Jaime or the Portuguese Night, like the rest of Noronha da Costa’s films, is part of the gothic films (Terence Fisher’s work was one of his great influences), and in it he shows the different variations around the “specular bodies”, which evolve into luminous magic and into sensual and sensory incandescence. At the same time, we witness a series of ironic and erotic, or historical, views of wicked virgins and laughable sadists, all resurrected from German and British romanticism, while the scenery is no longer Portuguese.Read More »
João and Hugo end their 10-year relationship but stay best friends. As they start dating again, uncontrollable emotions arise, contrasting the planned perfection of their breakup.Read More »
The film follows the parallel lives of two brothers of Danish ancestry in the pampas of the Brazilian-Argentine-Uruguayan rural area. The rough life these gauchos lead means they must share all aspects of their lives. Suddenly, enter A Intrusa (The Intruder). How is this new element in their lives to be shared? (by ElianaG@IMDb)
Based on the short story “La intrusa” by Jorge Luis Borges.Read More »