An oddly-paced yet riveting plunge into covert histories, Filho’s Cannes award-winning work plays like a spectral puzzle—pulpy, sly, and quietly haunting, turning Brazilian political trauma into a carnivalesque memory piece.
The unsaid and the silences ring deafeningly in this Brazilian drama set in an island community, where generations of women have endured sexual abuse and exploitation, but one maturing teenager becomes cognizant of her fate.
Sweeping, intimate and emotional, Salles returns to form with his first fiction feature in 12 years as a close-knit family is irreversibly impacted by the Brazilian military dictatorship in the early 1970s.
Brazilian director Karim Ainouz looks back at his family’s history as he journeys to his late father’s Algeria in search of his roots in this poetic, experimental documentary that constantly surprises with its film form and language.
An extraordinary silent feature from Brazil set to a playlist of classical music, so unique, enigmatic and dreamlike that it still carves out new, profound possibilities for cinema.
A significant work of the Cinema Novo movement, one that dared to challenge the legitimacy of politics and religion as a poor farmer tries to seek salvation after killing his exploitative employer.
A Brazilian feature debut to savour, from the weathered beauty of rural villages to compelling performances by the cast as an Argentinian drug kingpin seeks refuge in the home of a family, causing tensions to simmer.
Shot in Congo with Jean-Pierre Leaud, Rocha’s avant-garde attack on Western imperialism on African soil may feel didactic at times, but it is fierce and uncompromising in its message of political self-determination.
An essential work of the Brazilian Cinema Novo movement, Rocha’s film may be difficult to get into at times, but its electrifying visual style and bold commitment to deconstructing politics and class remain revered.
A decades-spanning Brazilian melodrama about two sisters separated from each other—while it’s lushly-filmed and features strong performances, its repetitive nature and an underwhelming finale stop it from being a memorable film.
Eternality Tan 