Cláudio Assis
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Biography: Cláudio Assis (Caruaru, December 19, 1959) is a Brazilian filmmaker. With a career that began with amateur shorts films shot on video, Assis eventually directed his debut feature film Amarelo Manga in 2002, which gained widespread national recognition. He has since directed other feature films and television series.
Department: Directing
Place of Birth: Caruaru, Pernambuco, Brazil
Adult: No
Birthday: December 19, 1959
Age: 65 years old
Gender: Male
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Neville D'Almeida: Chronicler of Beauty and Chaos
Overview: This film seeks to rescue the role of filmmaker Neville D'Almeida by using many rare images, numerous interviews, vast archival and audiovisual material.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2019-07-04
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Love Film Festival
Overview: Filmed over six years in four countries: Portugal, Brazil, Colombia and United States, this romantic drama tells the story of Luzia, a Brazilian screenwriter, and Adrian, a Colombian actor, that fall in love during a film festival in 2009 and will live a fragmented love story while competing in different film festivals around the world.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-10-05
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About Cinema
Overview: An abandoned tumbledown theater in the outback of Paraíba state is the initial setting of a film about cinema, which explores the testimonials of the novelist and playwright Ariano Suassuna and other filmmakers such as Ruy Guerra, Julio Bressane, Ken Loach, Andrzej Wajda, Karim Ainouz, José Padilha, Hector Babenco, Vilmos Zsigmond, Béla Tarr, Gus Van Sant and Jia Zhangke. They all respond to two basic questions: why do they make movies and why do they serve the seventh art. The filmmakers share their thoughts about time, narrative, rhythm, light, movement, the meaning of tragedy, the audience‘s desires and the boundaries with other forms of art.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2015-09-15
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Conceição
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Genres: Adventure Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2000-04-02
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Critic
Overview: Seventy critics and filmmakers discuss cinema around the conflict between the artist and the observer, the creator and the critic. Between 1998 and 2007, Kléber Mendonça Filho recorded testimonies about this relationship in Brazil, the United States and Europe, based on his experience as a critic.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2008-01-22
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Passages: Travelling in and out of Film through Brazilian Geography
Overview: Passages showcases Brazilian films in which the utilisation of artforms and media such as literature, painting, theatre, music, photography, radio and television, functions as a 'passage' to political and social reality.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2019-10-21
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Acqua Movie
Overview: A documentarist is convinced by her son to travel to Brazil's Northeast so she can throw his dad ashes at São Francisco river.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2019-10-17
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Candango: Memoirs from a Festival
Overview: 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 of cultural and political resistance. Its story is that of Brazilian cinema itself.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2020-10-22
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Cafi
Overview: 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. Recordings, concerts, tours and rehearsals by important artists passed through Cafi's lens.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2021-12-14
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