João Moreira Salles Movies

João Moreira Salles' "Nelson Freire" is a film-documentary about the great Brazilian pianist, who is certainly among the five great pianists...

Conceição and Presto, an interracial couple, ask Presto's brother for his signature as a guarantor of the financial request supposed to...

A touching documentary about artist Franz Krajcberg who moved from his home country to Brazil and started a life of environment activist.

A film that began from zero. Without any previous research, characters, locations or established themes, a film crew arrives at the Paraiba backlands...

Made from interviews with young Brazilian students by filmmaker Eduardo Coutinho before his death (in February 2014), the film seeks to understand...

A portrait of conteporary China from Tai-chi-chuan to chinese arts.

Tribute to the Carioca poet Ana Cristina Cesar, with quotes from Charles Baudelaire, Sylvia Plath, Czeslaw Milosz, T. S. Eliot, Armando Freitas...

A personal essay which analyses and compares images of the political upheavals of the 1960s. From the military coup in Brazil to China's Cultural...

César Benjamin was arrested in August 1971 during student protests against the Brazilian military dictatorship. Although he was a juvenile, he...

Six people, one family, ten years later. Dois Tempos resumes the narrative of the lives of the Braz, created in 2000, in the documentary A...