Paulo Caldas Movies

1942, in the middle of Northeastern Brazil, two very different men meet along the road: Johan, an aspirin salesman avoiding the German draft, and...

Passages showcases Brazilian films in which the utilisation of artforms and media such as literature, painting, theatre, music, photography, radio...

A documentarist is convinced by her son to travel to Brazil's Northeast so she can throw his dad ashes at São Francisco river.

A documentary that focuses on two young male inhabitants of Recife (statistically, the fourth worst city in the world to live in) who have both...

Seventy critics and filmmakers discuss cinema around the conflict between the artist and the observer, the creator and the critic. Between 1998 and...

"O Corneteiro Lopes" is a story of love and courage. The city of Salvador is under siege by Brazilian troops, however, they lose strength in the...

A Lebanese photographer living in Brazil in the '30s manages to film the band of Lampião, a legendary Brazilian bandit.

A film that portrays the anguish of an artist on the day of the presidential elections in Brazil in 2018.

Jéssica is a teenager from Brazilian Northeast. After being abused by her stepfather, she runs away to Recife, where starts to work with...

Mangue Beat, a musical and aesthetic movement which emerged in Pernambuco in the 1990s, transformed the visibility of the peripheries and cultural...

Roberta is a renowned classical pianist battling a chronic kidney disease. However, an unexpected encounter with Father José will forever...

Flavia Ribeiro meets 8 female ex-offenders with whom she helped as a volunteer in the Women's Chain, city of Santos. Together, in a inhospitable and...

In 1965, a year after the military coup in Brazil, an oasis of freedom opened in the country's capital. The Brasília Film Festival: a landmark...

Edmundo is the caretaker of a ranch in São Paulo. He lives isolated in nature. His mother's presence haunts him with poetry and memories of...

The trajectory of one of the greatest circus masters in Brazil, Zé Wilson, returning to his hometown, in the hinterland of Alagoas, when,...