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Helena Ignez (Salvador, May 23, 1939) is a Brazilian actress and filmmaker.
Helena was born in Salvador, Bahia and was attending her second year of law school when she fell in love with theater and decided to study the Dramatic Arts at the Federal University of Bahia. At the time, the Bahian theater scene was breaking with traditional Brazilian theater and experiencing strong influence from the young vanguard. She first appeared on the screen in Glauber Rocha's short film "Pátio".
Helena acted in a few films associated with the Cinema Novo movement, such as "A Grande Feira" (1961), "Assalto ao Trem Pagador" (1962), and "O Padre e a Moça" (1966) before playing Janete Jane in O Bandido da Luz Vermelha by Rogério Sganzerla. After this film, she would perform in some most significant films in the Cinema Marginal movement, which directly opposed the critically acclaimed Cinema Novo -- the most remarkable being her role as Ângela Carne e "Osso in A Mulher de Todos" (1969).
She also was a financial partner of Rogério Sganzerla and fellow Cinema Marginal filmmaker Júlio Bressane in the short-lived, although prolific, Belair production company. Between 1968 and 1970, Sganzerla and Ignez made almost a dozen films together and were also married and had two children -- one of which would become actress Djin Sganzerla.
As a filmmaker, Ignez has directed 7 films, the most notable being "Luz das Trevas" (2010), a sequel to Sganzerla's debut feature "O Bandido da Luz Vermelha" (1968).
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23 January 2023
A film about love, also a memoir, about the trip made in the 1970s to Morocco by Jarda Ícone, an artist, sexologist, and octogenarian rocker, as she defines herself, and Lírio Terron, a human rights activist.
20 March 2003
At 84 years of age, Lúcia Rocha admitted herself to a hospital in São Paulo to undergo heart tests.
01 January 2003
Helena Ignez's first film as a director is a homage to American architect and contemporary artist Vito Acconti, who made an urban intervention over a bridge in São Paulo, transforming that space for it to be used as shelter by nearby homeless people.
26 November 2023
In 2018, Brazil’s 1988 Constitution turned thirty. Known as the Citizen Constitution, it was a landmark in the history of Brazil, the outcome of across-the-board engagement of society in its preparation.
24 January 2019
Ana, a Portuguese actress, dives into Brazil's current atmosphere of identity and political crisis while trying to portray in a feature film the colourful life of famous singer and actress Carmen Miranda, who helped define Brazil's identity.
27 September 2018
A film in which dream and reality intertwine, A Moça do Calendário tells the story of inácio, 40, married, without a permanent job.
20 December 2013
Employee exploited by her employer changes her life by winning the lottery.
23 August 2013
One day away of Marcelo's wedding, the tailor, the groom and his father will have to correct much more than the suit's measures.
05 August 2017
Marcos returns home after a few years away.
27 October 2013
Ugly, Me? is a film manifesto made from a workshop for actors called Characters in Search of a Movie, in 'La pa', 'Rio De Janeiro', extended to Paris and 'Kerala' (India).
03 June 2008
The human body in 5 parts.
01 January 1970
Two maids decide to rebel against the society that oppresses them and start murdering their own mistresses.
01 January 1994
A fantastic tale in the brutal reality of a slum. The life of a boy with the rare gift of flying. By
24 October 1969
Ângela Carne e Osso (Angela Meat and Bone), a young nymphomaniac, lives surrounded by delinquents, and exerts intense allure on them, dominating them all with her erotic power.
23 September 1974
The painter Tino, in professional and political crisis, receives a telegram from his mother-in-law, Selma, announcing her return from Europe.
12 July 2019
Experimental movie about Rio de Janeiro's Museum of Modern Art's Movie Archive (Cinemateca).
09 April 1970
Spider, a banker, lives with three women. This tycoon is a caricature of Brazil's bourgeoisie, his trajectory is the starting point for an essay on the mental underdevelopment of Brazilian elites, in which black humor sets the tone for sharp criticism.
06 October 2013
A study that unwraps a paradisiac scenery, reaching the subjects of Brazility and its force in the change of habits, breaking taboos and bringing out a magical and original reality throught its characters.
10 May 2005
A short documentary on Belair, an independent Brazilian film company that lasted for only five months in 1970.
04 October 2009
Between February an May of 1970, Julio Bresane and Rogerio Sganzerla made 7 films for their company Belair that were forbidden by the Brazilian censorship that reveal today images of an unique freedom.
28 November 2012
Two days in the life of André Provisório, a man with many occupations: private detective, drug dealer, and incorrigible seducer.
16 August 1986
Three artists from São Paulo - Leda Catunda, Leonilson and Ciro Cozzolino - talk about their work and the rebirth of painting through pop, conceptual art and graffiti.
23 January 2021
An experimental trip about Brazil after H.O.
01 January 1997
"Portraits and excerpts from Brazilian films from all times. Actors, directors and images that affirm cinema.
01 January 2001
A short film made with unused footage from The Red Light Bandit and Carnaval na Lama.
24 July 2019
The feature-length documentary Fakir portrays the success of fakirism in Brazil, Latin America and France.
02 June 2021
A self-portrait short film by veteran Brazilian filmmaker Sylvio Lanna.
21 February 1992
Loosely based on an Oswald de Andrade screenplay, "Perigo Negro" is a segment of anthology film "Oswr
31 January 2020
A projectionist at a porn cinema in downtown São Paulo, makes his first film in Super8, an essay about the failure of a lifetime.
13 November 2009
A road movie that follows a solitary man as he sets of on a journey to the south of Brazil. The strange characters and absurd situations he encounters along the way present an extraordinary portrait of human relations.
22 March 1970
Rogério Sganzerla’s lost film. The only existing copy was lost in 1992 and the negatives are lost.
21 February 1992
Collective film with five segments around the works and life of brazilian writer Oswald de Andrade.
10 March 1961
The naive sailor Ron arrives in Bahia to visit the famous Água dos Meninos street market. There, however, he is passed behind by the prostitute Maria, lover of the bandit Chico Diabo, who stabs him.
31 January 2020
The narrative takes place in 1888 and tells the story of Lenita, a young woman, raised by her father, with an educated background, who disregards the existence of a man at his intellectual height.
14 October 2017
"All Paulos in the World" is a cinematographic essay about Paulo José, one of the greatest artists in Brazil, in the year in which he turns 80 years-old.
18 March 2021
An authentically marginal cinema created in Catholic university in Brazil. One of the most intriguing and imaginative moments in modern cinema in the voice of some of its select conspirators—with Carlos Reichenbach at the lead—, and through the most razing flow of images that can possibly be conceived.
19 March 2024
70 years ago, a visionary management in education and culture as a political strategy for the dissemination and development of Bahia gave rise to an artistic vanguard that still impacts Brazilian culture today.
13 February 1970
Sônia and her homosexual brother are both believed by their mother to be possessed by the devil. She works as a prostitute in the streets of Copacabana and he’s a servant who falls madly in love with his employer.
02 September 1962
Based on true events in Rio de Janeiro, in 1960, when a gang having the infamous outlaw Tião Medonho as a leader performed a sensational railroad hold-up on a train carrying a small fortune.
10 September 1999
Brazilian director Julio Bressane directs this religious biography on the life and work of Saint Jerome, the monk who first translated the Bible into Latin.
08 August 2008
Released from the Mental Health Wing of São Paulo State Penitentiary after forty years, the sadistic undertaker Zé do Caixão is back on the streets, haunted by ghostly visions and spirits of past victims but still set upon the goal that sent him to prison in the first place: finding a woman who can give him the perfect child.
01 January 1971
First film by Julio Bressane shot in exile, "Memoirs" is a film about a man who repeatedly kills the same type of woman in same places, the same way.
15 September 2025
Nosferatu arrives in a town escaping from Van Helsing. He brings not only his curse, but ghosts from his past.
15 May 2019
Follows the story of Opinião, a theatre group created in 1964 during the early Brazilian dictatorship period to oppose the government through artistic performances.
20 August 2025
An old man is tired of celebrating his birthday.
06 June 1978
Documentary on famous Brazilian actresses, female directors and the role of women in Brazilian film history.
17 September 2003
Documentary about Brazilian filmmaker Glauber Rocha, one of the most important names in the Cinema Novo, with interviews with some of his friends and colleagues.
07 May 2026
Cleo, a 43-year-old astronomer who is pregnant and emotionally fragile, is surprised by a visit from Nalu, her half-sister of Indigenous descent.
07 October 2007
A marginal version of Brecht’s piece, “Baal”.
