Caetano Veloso

The city of São Paulo, as seen through the lenses of 13 directors. (imdb)

Fabricating Tom Zé is a documentary that portrays the life and work of one of the most controversial Brazilian musicians, having as its backdrop Tom Zé's 2005 European Tour. The documentary mixes different video, film and animation formats in order to show a detailed vision of Tom Zé's personal musical universe, in which a guitar and a vacuum cleaner have the same melodic importance...

Documentary about singer Maria Bethânia's 60th birthday celebration in her hometown, Santo Amaro da Purificação, and her performance on a show in Salvador. (imdb)

Documentary about Brazilian pop diva Maria Bethânia, in one of her first shows in Rio de Janeiro. The film also show scenes of her daily life and meetings with other musicians.

Documentary on Doces Bárbaros' 1976 tour,a group formed by some of the greatest stars of Brazilian music. (imdb)

The fictional encounter in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (in the 30s) between popular songwriter Lamartine Babo and inconoclast poet and playwright Oswald de Andrade. (imdb)

The history of Brazilian popular music in the 20th Century, focusing specially on the life and works of intriguing singer Mário Reis, a loner who, with his special way of singing - whispering and softly saying the words - in a time when singers with potent voices ruled, was in a way a forerunner of Bossa Nova style. (imdb)

An allegory about Brazil's history and the struggle for power since the 1930 Revolution until the advent of the TV. (imdb)

Documentary about Brazilian songwriter and poet Vinicius de Moraes, showing his life, work, family, friends, and love-affairs.

Compilation of some of the best moments in the career of Brazilian comedy group "Os Trapalhões", with scenes from their previous films, also telling the story of each individual artist.

A fragmented style, patchwork of interviews with Caetano Veloso's friends, mixed with conversations, thoughts, scenes of dance and literature excerpts. (imdb)

Behind the scenes of recording Joao Gilberto's Brazil, in 1981, with the presence of Caetano Veloso, Gilberto Gil and Maria Bethania in the studio. Dorival Caymmi, Ary Barroso, Grande Otelo and Eros Volúsia in rare performances, and Orson Welles, in Carnival, complete this short, which presents a singular image of the country. (sganzwelles.blogspot.com)

A Night in 67 is an invitation to relive one particular festival that changed Brazilian music and marks the explosion of the Tropicália music movement, the night names like Caetano Veloso, Gilberto Gil, and Os Mutantes became idols.

A group of eleven women organize a soccer team, as a manifesto against machismo. (imdb)

Documentary about samba musician from Bahia Clementino Rodrigues, aka Riachão. (imdb)

The movie, a mockumentary, tells the story of Agamenon, a brazilian journalist of the newspaper O Globo than lived and noticed a lot of important moments in 20th century's history and interviewed some of the most important personalities of the period.

A biopic about the life and work of Raul Seixas, the most important brazilian rock star.

Set against the turbulent atmosphere of the 1960s, Tropicália is a feature length documentary exploring the Brazilian artistic movement known as tropicália, and the struggle its artists endured to protect their right to freely express revolutionary thought against the violent repression of the Brazilian government. (imdb)

The greatest stars of music from the state of Bahia, Brazil, got together in an unforgettable musical event in Termas de Caracalla, Rome, between 21 and 31 August 1983. In adition to the musical numbers, there are backstage scenes, rehearsals and interviews. (imdb)

Exiled in London, Jorge Mautner, Caetano Veloso and Gilberto Gil perform an experimental work on exile, poetry and more interesting appears on the agenda. According to the director, Jorge Mautner, it is "a fable-musical-philosophical slapstick-which depicts much in the first place, the longing of Brazil."

Experimental film on Brazilian avant-garde artist Helio Oiticica and his works, specially Parangolé.

Muscial documentary showing the life and songs of the great brazilian musician Gilberto Gil.

Documentary about amazing brazilian musician Rogério Duprat, main orchestrator of Tropicália, his rehearsals with Gal Costa, Os Mutantes, Gilberto Gil and Caetano Veloso. There's also the first performance of his 1958 "5 Pieces for a Solo Cello" and pieces of the only recording of "Organismo", serial work inspired by a Décio Pignatari's poem. (imdb)

Jairo, intellectual and distracted, and Su, the super fan, are the central duo of this musical comedy. He holds an unintelligible speech and works for an important social media agency, which receives the difficult task of discovering "the secret formula" used by the idol Gilberto Gil to win the audience. She, in love with the star, does not miss a single show.

The documentary narrates the trajectory of Jorge Mautner after his parents - a Catholic Austrian from Yugoslavian origin and an Austrian Jew - flee Nazism in Germany during World War II and arrive in Rio de Janeiro in Brazil, in the early 1940s. His birth in the city, his contact with Brazilian culture through a young black woman who worked as a nanny for his family and sang for him sambas and chants of Candomblé, his trip to São Paulo, his stay in New York in the 1960s, his partnerships with

Brazilian poet Torquato Neto, born in Piauí, lived passionately through fracturous times and worked in several fields, including music, journalism, and cinema. He was an active participant in the revolution of Tropicália and marginal art, which changed the course of Brazilian culture in the 1960s and 1970s. The writer of "Geléia Geral" with Gilberto Gil, "Mamãe, Coragem" with Caetano Veloso, and "Let's Play That" with Jards Macalé, Neto committed suicide on his 28th birthday.

A trip through the popular Brazilian music genre originated in the state of Bahia. (imdb)

In this 7-hour-plus behemoth, Bressane re-edits his complete works, moving backwards and forwards between decades. The '60s, the '80s and the 2000s comment on each other in a way that sheds light on the director's themes and obsessions. (imdb)

One of the most daring and radical shows presented in brazilian television: “Abertura”. It was broadcasted between February and October, 1979 with weekly editions, presented by brazilian filmaker Glauber Rocha. The video is a compilation of characters, statements and interviews about the political and cultural situation of the country during the final stages of the Military Dictatorship.