Director Olivier Jahan offers an glimpse into The Director's Fortnight, a sidebar of the Cannes Film Festival conceived by a...
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2008
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A Brazilian astrophysicist who has spent most of his adult life in America returns to his home country to accept a...
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Director, Screenwriter
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2006
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Director
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2006
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2005
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Director, Screenwriter
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2003
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Legendary Brazilian director Carlos Diegues recasts the tragic myth of Orpheus in the shantytowns of Rio de Janeiro during...
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Director, Screenwriter
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2000
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Based on a popular Brazilian novel by Jorge Amado, this lively drama slyly comments upon Brazilian society while telling a...
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Co-producer, Director, Screenwriter
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1996
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In this drama, the lives of the people who dub the voices in movies and television shows from foreign countries are explored....
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Director, Screenwriter
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1990
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Dede (Guilherne Fontes) is a Brazilian teen who lives with his middle-class grandparents who are members of the local...
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Producer
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1989
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In this highly stylized Brazilian drama a sax player fondly remembers one wonderful night spent with his life's love and...
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Director, Screenwriter
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1988
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Quilombo de Palmares was a real-life democratic society, created in Brazil in the 17th century. This incredibly elaborate...
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Director, Screenwriter
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1986
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Director, Screenwriter
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1979
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When a wealthy Rio socialite takes a poor lad away from the slums to be her boy-toy, the result, far from being a Cinderella...
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Book Author
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1979
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A lively comedy-drama that pokes holes in everyone's expectations of retirement and old age, Chuvas de Verao stars...
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Director, Screenwriter
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1978
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The uncommonly sexy, clever and ambitious slave Xica Da Silva won her independence and much more in mid-19th-century Brazil...
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Director, Screenwriter
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1976
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As the players in this dark drama move across the screen, they symbolize aspects of the human psyche and society that force...
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Director, Screenwriter
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1975
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A journalist is tortured by police in the wake of political and social chaos, and the information he reveals leads to the...
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Director, Screenwriter
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1969
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This drama takes an ironic look at Rio de Janeiro where a seedy underside co-exists with the city of picture-postcard...
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Director
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1966
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This Brazilian film was made in 1963 but was not released until 1972 because there was a military coup in Brazil in 1963,...
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Director, Screenwriter
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1963
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Director
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1960
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