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Ozualdo Ribeiro Candeias (1918 – 2007) was a Brazilian screenwriter, editor, photographer, director of photography, actor, producer and filmmaker.
Candeias is believed to have been born in 1918, but was only registered in the town of Cajobi, in the state of São Paulo, in 1922. He worked in a number of jobs, from aeronautics sergent to truck driver. A self-taught filmmaker, he released his debut feature "A Margem" in 1967, a starting point for the Cinema Marginal movement (also dubbed Cinema de Invenção), which would forever change paradigms in the history of Brazilian cinema. Longing for distribution company for it, he turned to the Boca do Lixo, a block in downton São Paulo then known as a stronghold to independant filmmakers. A passionate advocate for the Boca, he paid homages to it in both short and feature films.
His work is composed of numerous shorts and feature-length films, mostly depiciting life of communities either in urban or rural Brazil dealing with life in poverty. Among the genres Candeias has worked with are horror, western, exploitation and drama, although his films are hard to categorize due to their experimental nature. Although a few of his features met commercial success, such as 1969s "Meu Nome É Tonho", Candeias' films had a notoriously small audience during his lifetime. "Caçada Sangrenta" (1974) and "A Freira e a Tortura" (1983), two of his features aimed at a more conventional public, emerged from a deal with producer/actor David Cardoso, who had previously starred in "A Herança" (1971), Candeias' take on Hamlet reimagined as taking place in rural Brazil. Candeias' picture "Aopção ou As Rosas da Estrada" (1981) won the Bronze Leopard at the Locarno Film Festival. His last feature, "O Vigilante" (1992), won the Special Jury Award at the 25th Brasília Film Festival, but was never distributed at the theatres.
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02 August 1970
A countryman kills his father and heads for the big city. On his way, he meets the most bizarre and allegorical types: a robber, a drag queen who thinks he's Carmen Miranda, a black king, a fallen black angel, a priest, two whores, a pregnant cowboy, among others.
08 June 1963
Tired of the constant abuse he suffers in his household, a boy runs away from home and goes on a series of sad and dramatic adventures, in which he finds the opportunity to show the power of his own voice.
24 May 1978
Two hitchhiking young women involve the men who give them a lift in a game of sex, telepathy and death.
17 February 1982
In a card game, Manelão loses his horse. Suffering from a venereal disease he looks for a pharmacist who colluded with a colonel.
01 November 1989
On the day of a bus strike, a bourgeois man takes a ride on a waste picker's wagon.
10 December 2020
Pyroclastic flows (also known as a pyroclastic cloud or pyroclastic wave) are the devastating result of some volcanic eruptions.
01 January 1985
A discussion on Brazilian cinema, focusing on São Paulo's Boca do Lixo production pole.
23 August 1971
Edmundo Scivano returns to his hometown after years of failure in his political career. Discredited, he seeks the support of his countrymen to get his life back on track, but finds only contempt and disappointment in his path.
17 June 1987
A travelogue through the remains of São Paulo failing 80s economy, including its in ruins film industry.
31 December 1976
A look into the Boca do Lixo, a square in downtown São Paulo known as a point for filmmakers, actors, and technicians who worked on low-budget films.
12 May 1974
A sculptor, protected by a millionaire woman, becomes suspect of her murder. He flees to the country, where a violent pursuit takes place.
01 January 1974
Man leaves the country and heads for the big city, where in middle of deprivation, he wins a lottery.
01 January 1976
Short film by Brazilian filmmaker Ozualdo Ribeiro Candeias.
01 January 1973
A look at Brás, one of São Paulo's main Italian districts from its start until the 70s.
01 October 1970
A psychiatrist experiments on four volunteers with LSD to examine '60s drug culture, soon unleashing an expert in depravity.
09 November 1964
Zé do Caixão is an undertaker in a small Brazilian town, searching for the perfect woman to bear him a superior child.
22 April 1968
An anthology divided in three segments, helmed by three of the most important Brazilian directors of the 20th century.
02 December 1968
Born and raised in the misery of Brazilian slums, Jorge becomes a luxury house burglar in São Paulo and gets nicknamed "The Red Light Bandit" by the sensationalist press.
05 November 1970
An experimental adaptation of Hamlet to Brazil's rural areas. Farmer's son returns home after his father's death and can't stand the thought of his mother marrying his uncle.
07 January 1967
On the banks of São Paulo's Rio Tietê, a poignant tale unfolds, featuring a tapestry of characters existing on the fringes of society.
07 March 1984
Chief of Police Rui, a happily married man of principles, is in charge of investigating Joana, a teacher who's accused of political crimes.
25 January 2025
Ozualdo Candeias was a grumpy truck driver. He never lost the verve of this strange form of freedom, trapped in the cab and facing the varied itineraries of the world.
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.
24 July 1969
As a child he was kidnapped by gypsies that raised him, without he ever knowing his parents. As a young man Tonho leaves the gypsies and go live by himself, meeting in his way a beautiful woman, who lost her brother, and a dangerous gang of violent criminals.
09 December 1973
Two factory workers decide to spend all of their pay on a Saturday night with two prostitutes, but things don't go as planned.
01 January 1971
A short film made from photos of Boca do Lixo, a bohemian and marginal neighborhood, and its people.
17 September 1990
In a single shot, mysterious characters discuss about a cockroach problem.
01 September 1992
An unemployed man gets a job as night watchman that puts him in the middle of the rising violence in his neighborhood.
06 April 2013
Using a mixture of film clips and interviews with Ozualdo Candeias himself the film tells the director's 40 year trajectory.
03 May 1993
A documentary short on Brazil's National Film Archive, the Cinemateca Brasileira, based in the city of São Paulo.
14 August 1992
In 1968, Candeias made five short films shot by him in the South American countries of Argentina, Paraguay, Bolivia, Colombia and Venezuela.
05 November 1981
The Option centers on a group of rural women who cut sugar cane and live in ramshackle highway neighborhoods.
