Silvio Tendler

Ousar Viver! Histórias da Maria

Maria Pimentel is one of us! A fierce activist, she was part of the founding of the Federation of Women of São Paulo in the early 1980s as a union leader and contributed to the formation of several women's associations in the state. The film, in partnership with Instituto Angelim and Caliban Cinema, tells the memories and stories of Lúcia Maria Pimentel, an activist who fought against the military dictatorship in Brazil from a young age. Committed to her country and her people, she was arrested, went underground and exiled, but returned to fight for redemocratization and social justice.

Favela do Papa

The film shows the resistance movement of the residents of Favela do Vidigal against the removal order, an important chapter in the history of Rio de Janeiro in the 1970s.

Nas Asas da Pan Am

Silvio Tendler goes through his life remembering the movements he was part of during the brazilian dictatorship and his adherence to socialism.

Candango: Memoirs from a Festival

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 of cultural and political resistance. Its story is that of Brazilian cinema itself.

The Method

The Method shows and reveals the knowledge and tools used by great documentary filmmakers on the challenge of representing the reality.

Vozerio

New forms of insurgency and unrest on the fragments of the actions of some artists and activists. The recording of confrontation has its strongest expression in the performance. We see echoing clashes in a series of images. The cry begins before the other ends.

Tudo Por Amor ao Cinema

A documentary on Cosme Alves Netto (1937-1996), former head of the Cinematheque of the Museum of Modern Arts at Rio de Janeiro.

Hiato

In 2000 a group of homeless people decide to go to a shopping mall to protest, to confront the misery of the excluded middle-class consumption.