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Jards Anet da Silva (Rio de Janeiro, March 3, 1943), known as Macalé, is a Brazilian composer, singer and actor, known for his influential role in Brazil's tropicália movement in the 1960s.
Total trailers found: 53
20 March 2003
At 84 years of age, Lúcia Rocha admitted herself to a hospital in São Paulo to undergo heart tests.
16 September 1974
Documentary on one of Brazil's most controversial personalities: Getúlio Vargas, an ex-president.
23 September 2016
This documentary investigates the aesthetic, political and existential trajectory of emblematic Black Brazilian actor Antônio Pitanga.
01 January 1982
Successful businessman, Paulo Chupadinha send his wife to a convent every year to really enjoy Brazil’s carnival.
27 May 1966
Documentary about Maria Bethânia, at the very beginning of her career as a singer, when she arrived in Rio da Bahia to replace Nara Leão in the show Opinião.
01 January 1980
Documentary about Flamengo, one of the most popular soccer teams in Brazil
01 January 2001
A short film made with unused footage from The Red Light Bandit and Carnaval na Lama.
14 December 2021
It portrays the work of Carlos Filho, Cafi, a photographer from Recife, who for more than 40 years has dedicated himself to recording a large part of the events of dance, theater and Brazilian popular music.
11 October 2017
The story of Brazilian poet Torquato Neto, who lived passionately through fracturous times and worked in several fields, including music, journalism, and cinema.
10 June 2019
Participants recall a series of festivals held on a farm in Brazil during the '70s and '80s that evolved into liberating celebrations of music.
01 January 2008
This film shines a light at the story of Jards Macalé, polemic artist and controversial character of Brazilian culture over the last four decades.
21 May 1974
An ubiquitous folk singer narrates the tale of a young boy, who apparently becomes immune to gunfire after his mother arranges for him to have an amulet bearing Ogum's blessings.
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.
14 September 2016
Afonsinho, Paulo Cézar Caju and Nei Conceição started their careers in the mid-1960s, a time of strong political repression in Brazil.
01 January 1976
As filmmaker Jairo Ferreira shoots his life and friends in Super 8mm he also becomes the vampire of the Cinemateca Brasileira in São Paulo.
01 January 1992
A documentary chronicling the life and works of Brazilian poet, songwriter, journalist and avant-garde filmmaker Torquato Neto, from his beginnings to his suicide at the age of 28.
25 January 2000
Poetic documentary about brazilian musician Walter Franco.
21 August 1987
Adelina Gomes, a poor girl, daughter of peasants, with a primary education and some manual training, shy and submissive to her mother, had never had a boyfriend until she was 18 years old, when she fell in love with a man who was not accepted by her mother.
01 January 1986
Tropicália was a Brazilian cultural movement that occurred between 1967 and 1968, inspired by Oswald de Andrade's anthropophagic ideals, pop art and the concretism.
19 October 2017
Guitarist Lanny Gordin was one of the fundamental characters in the transformation of Brazilian music from the 1960s onwards.
06 April 2022
Discover the trajectory of the artist Rubens Gerchman between 1963 and 1978. Learn more about the are
09 August 2008
Short film based on sambas by Moreira da Silva and Jards Macalé, and on Macalé's arrest by the Brazilin military government in the 1970s, while he was touring with Moreira.
26 April 2018
In early summer, a group of students in Rio das Ostras decide to collectively produce an arts festival.
25 October 2017
A rescue of the history of Ipanema beach in the 1970s, when the construction of a pier changed the landscape and created fertile soil for a generation of artists and sportsmen.
06 April 2007
Documentary on the life and times of one of the most prominent Brazilian samba composers, Cartola (Angenor de Oliveira).
02 January 2011
Caetano Veloso, Gilberto Gil, Jards Macalé and Jorge Mautner recall important moments during the military dictatorship the befell in Brazil from 1964 to 1985.
05 July 2011
This film documents in depth the life and artistic trajectory of the musician and poet Itamar Assumpção.
01 July 2018
Dorival Caymmi was one of the inventors of the Bahian imagination. In his 94 years of life, Caymmi composed, sang, wrote, illustrated and thought about his Bahia, even far from it.
15 February 1990
ABC of a Strike captures the 1979 metal workers strikes outside of São Paulo. The footage sat untouched until after the death of highly-regarded director Leon Hirszman in 1987, by which time the material had a new relevance.
19 September 2015
The boy Francisco spent his days accompanying his father at work, or rather, on the roads. The man is a driver of the imposing Big Jet, a pickup truck used to clean the city's cesspools without basic sanitation.
03 October 2024
Released in 1966 by Vinicius de Moraes and Baden Powell, the record Os Afro-Sambas is one of Brazil's most revered.
16 January 2025
A sound and visual journey that portrays the life and work of singer and composer Luiz Melodia. The Poet of Estácio himself tells us, in the first person, his trajectory as a black boy born on the hill until his transformation into one of the greatest artists in the history of MPB.
01 January 2011
In the 1970s, in the midst of a military dictatorship, composer Jards Macalé and filmmaker Luiz Carlos Lacerda (Bigode) shared a house in Rio de Janeiro - which became a center of convergence for musicians, filmmakers and writers, and where they performed classic films and songs of Brazilian culture.
02 November 2012
Documentary about the singer Bezerra da Silva and the relation with his composers.
27 July 2007
A group of young people is in a bar to drink, and they are trying to choose a story for the movie they are decided to make, but their characters are not very satisfied with the results of it.
22 October 2020
"Todas as Melodias" is a sensible journey throught the life and works of one of Brazilian music's biggest artists, Luiz Melodia.
09 June 1978
At Pedrinho's request, Dona Benta begins to tell the legend of the Minotaur. In the middle of the story, a strange visitor appears on the farm and takes Aunt Natácia to some unknown place.
30 July 1977
When a prominent U.S. Nobel Laureate arrives in Salvador, Bahia, the city with the largest black population in Brazil, he stirs emotions by championing a long-forgotten local writer named Pedro Archanjo, who believed that humanity would be improved only through miscegenation.
22 October 2022
The documentary celebrates the poetic legacy of Lupicínio Rodrigues, investigating the musical contribution and historical context of this composer born in Rio Grande do Sul and author of hits that surpass generations.
09 April 2015
Cléo is making her first film, inspired by french cinema and the nouvelle vague.
01 January 1972
A colorful feature film that mixes exile with the figure of the poet Rimbaud and the feminist revolution.
01 January 1987
In hopes of unraveling the causes and cure for various forms of insanity, a psychiatrist in Brazil created the Museum of Images from the Unconscious in 1952.
15 June 2024
Partner of Aldir Blanc and creator of the Samba do Trabalhador, Moacyr Luz is followed by Tarsilla Alves' cameras for a week.
