Jorge Mautner

Hired to entertain a party in a luxury home, in São Paulo, a musician, a snooker player, and an old decadent actor keep waiting downstairs, never being invited to the party upstairs to perform their acts. (imdb)

In a country with a strong oral culture such as Brazil, popular music can be a great bridge to the poetry and literature. The interest in promoting discussion and reflection on this theme was the starting point of the movie. (flixster.com)

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."

When Rosa's mother makes a surprising disclosure to her one day, she decides to break out of her usual obligations. In so doing she discovers that life holds many surprises in store for her. (imdb)

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

"Taking Iacanga" reveals the story behind a legendary music festival held in Brazil in the 70's and 80's. Under military law, open-air events were prohibited. Overcoming politic difficulties, the festival was the biggest hippie gathering in Brazil. It was considered the Brazilian version of Woodstock, with musical performances of brilliant Brazilian artists such as Gilberto Gil and João Gilberto.