Zezé Motta Movies

A movie about Banda de Ipanema, one of Rio de Janeiro’s most traditional Carnaval blocks, and its founder Albino Pinheiro.

The life and work of Zezé Motta.

Carolina Maria de Jesus. Her favela diary was a success in 1960. Despite her recognition, she died forgotten and poor.

Poor people who live in the slums in Rio de Janeiro decide to occupy an empty apartment building in the rich part of the city. Meanwhile, a rich...

Cyrus, Tim and Erik were high school buddies and meet again ten years later. They spend the summer together in Brazil. All of them are occupied in...

Society's roles are reversed in this humored short film where Raimundo is the husband who is pregnant and takes care of the house while his wife...

Filmed over a five-year period, Chronically Unfeasible dissects Brazilian problems, using six people who meet in a restaurant in São Paulo as...

The filmmaker searches for his brother Max, who left his children without explanation. The brothers grew up in the Congo with their white father and...

A kingdom of fruits. A king with no strength to keep ruling. An orphan prince who does not accept his fate. A world at imminent risk. These are some...

A film on the feud between samba songwriters Noel Rosa and Wilson Batista.

Interviews and performances with black women on film, theater and television who narrate their lives, careers, discrimination and struggles in the...

A paradise for the eyes, the phrase defines the character's destination place, A Terra Sem Males. After walking through forests and ruins, she...

Through clippings, the film draws a narrative line between the construction of racism in Brazil and the United States, having as base the European...