Cristina Amaral Movies

Two tales of migration. In the first, after a tailings dam disaster floods her hometown, rural worker Joana (55) moves to São...

Person is a documentary about the life and work of filmmaker Luiz Sérgio Person. The documentary brings the reconstruction of the history of...

A musical about a woman who hates music.

Immersive documentary in the film editing process. Twenty Brazilian cinema editors expose the nuances of this art, its secrets and processes.

Zu, a twelve-year-old boy on the way to buy flour for his mother, winds up in the clutches of armed paramilitary narcotics officers.

A look at the Brazilian black movement between 1977 and 1988, going by the relationship between Brazil and Africa.

The São Silvestre Road Race is a famous long-distance running event held yearly in the city of São Paulo, Brazil, on December 31st. The...

Aurélia is a young black woman who works at a factory and lives in a working-class neighborhood in São Paulo, whose boyfriend...

Five friends meet for lunch. Nothing could be more mundane, but for some reason, no one stayed for dessert.

"Confluências" presents ways of celebrating and other ways of life in the Saco-Curtume quilombo, in the rural area of São João do...

In the 1950s, while radio is slowly being surpassed by television as the leading broadcast medium, Tito Balcárcel, a voice actor, becomes...

Silmara, an industrial worker and a woman of exuberant beauty, supports her arsonist father and gets involved with two different pop stars, from whom...

A reflection on books and culture through testimonies and images from the Rio de Janeiro's National Library. In this work commissioned by the...

Bené spent many years looking for his spiritual evolution in a small country town. He has made great progress and is fully integrated into the...

In 1965, a year after the military coup in Brazil, an oasis of freedom opened in the country's capital. The Brasília Film Festival: a landmark...

Experimental documentary about the life and work of obscure samba musician Vassourinha (1923-1942), born in São Paulo, who only recorded six...