Ulysses Guimarães

Fernando Collor: The Maharajah Hunter

The rise and fall of Fernando Collor de Mello, Brazil's youngest president and the first president in the Americas to be impeached.

O Repórter do Poder

1964: Brazil between weapons and books

We question the most unquestionable period in our history. The result was an international investigation with part of secret attempts, discovery of Soviet documents and a lot of investigation by the Brazilian media. It was all under our eyes.

The Next Victim

A TV reporter tries to find out who is killing prostitutes in a São Paulo neighbourhood.

Não Nasci para Deixar meus Olhos Perderem Tempo

The fading of composer Zé Keti’s career. The sad portrait of Brazilian Congress closed in 1977. The pain of a mother who lost her 15-year old daughter run over by a car. The Brazilian Presidents since Castelo Branco. Characters and settings registered through the keen and sensitive perspective of photographer Orlando Brito, in a career spanning 50 years as a professional. From the political sidelines to the lives of Brazilians from the interior, Brito recalls experiences and discusses the role of the photographer and the pain of registering someone’s grief.

Muda Brasil

The documentary recalls the political reopening of the country, and narrates in detail the events that culminated in the election of Tancredo Neves as the first civilian president after 20 years of military dictatorship.

Zona Eleitoral

Humorous short about the 1989 Brazilian presidential election.

Uma História Inacabada, o Caso Rubens Paiva

The search for an end to the story of Rubens Paiva, kidnapped and killed by the military dictatorship.

Lobby do Batom

The most successful case of collective fight for women's rights in Brazil.

Nelson Carneiro: Knight of Democracy

In 2018, Brazil’s 1988 Constitution turned thirty. Known as the Citizen Constitution, it was a landmark in the history of Brazil, the outcome of across-the-board engagement of society in its preparation. In Congress, the parliamentarians best known for their involvement in this initiative were names that are still familiar today in Brazil’s political history: Ulysses Guimarães, Teotônio Vilela, Tancredo Neves and Nelson Carneiro.