cinema novo

Our story begins with Macunaima’s miraculous birth to an old woman in a tiny jungle settlement. Born fully grown, he discovers his ...

n a town in the interior of Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil, the wealthy farmer Elói Dantas (Álvaro Guimarães) decides to increase his patrimony even ...

Brazil, 1594. The Tupinambás natives are friends of the French and their enemies are the Tupiniquins, friends of the Portuguese. A Frenchman is ...

In vivid images, the documentary-like story of a drover and his family in the northern badlands of Brazil during the drought. A family in the ...

Set in the drought-plagued Brazilian badlands of the 1940s, Black God, White Devil explores the climate of superstition, physical and spiritual ...

Mauricio do Valle reprises his role as Antonio das Mortes, the troubled hitman from Black God, White Devil. A new incarnation of Cangaceiro ...

Eldorado, a fictitious country in Latin America, is sparkling with the internal struggle for political power. In the eye of this social ...

Cinema Novo is a movie-essay that investigates poetically the most important movement of Latin American cinema, through the thoughts of its main ...

A group of armed soldiers is sent to the Northeast of Brazil in an attempt to stop a famine-struck population from invading and stealing a food ...