Eryk Rocha

Documentary about Glauber Rocha's exile in Cuba in 1971 and 1972

The film follows Expedito, a brooding 65-year-old. Each day, he brings flowers to his mother's grave, returns to his apartment to take his medicine and watches construction workers create a gigantic, noisy monstrosity across the street. Then he wanders, gazing obsessively at beautiful women and listening through his earphones to the radio, as the alienating chaos of Rio de Janeiro registers on his nervous system. (!fIstanbul)

Cinema Novo is a movie-essay that investigates poetically the most important movement of Latin America cinema, through the thoughts of its main auteurs: Nelson Pereira dos Santos, Glauber Rocha, Leon Hirszman, Joaquim Pedro de Andrade, Ruy Guerra, Walter Lima Jr., Paulo César Saraceni, among others. (imdb)

In the shadow of Rio's Maracana Stadium, a "favela league" of 14 teams compete in soccer. The film shows the importance of soccer in Brazilian culture. (imdb)

Eryk Rocha's edgy, impressionistic chronicle of the nocturnal encounters of a Rio cab driver vividly captures the strange unpredictability of a rapidly changing world.