Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva
Also Known As: Lula
Biography: Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva (born 27 October 1945), known simply as Lula, is a Brazilian politician who served as President of Brazil from 1 January 2003 to 1 January 2011. He is a founding member of the Workers' Party (PT – Partido dos Trabalhadores) and ran for president three times unsuccessfully, first in the 1989 election, then again in 1994 and 1998. Lula achieved victory in the 2002 election, and was inaugurated as president on 1 January 2003. In the 2006 election he was elected for a second term as president, which ended on 31 December 2010. Succeeded by his former Chief of Staff, Dilma Rousseff, he left an enduring mark on Brazilian politics in the form of Lulism. Description above from the Wikipedia article Luis Inácio Lula da Silva, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Caetés, Pernambuco, Brazil
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Mais um Dia na Natureza
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8 Presidentes 1 Juramento: A História de um Tempo Presente
Overview: The movie is a collage and comentary of varied third party footage on news relating to each and every one of the eight Presidents of Brazil who took office since the end of the military government, from José Sarney to Jair Bolsonaro.
Genres: Documentary
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Release Date: 2021-11-18
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Toninho 20 anos: a verdade é demais para nós?
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Release Date: 2022-08-05
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South of the Border
Overview: A road trip across five countries to explore the social and political movements as well as the mainstream media's misperception of South America while interviewing seven of its elected presidents.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2009-09-07
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Women Metalworkers
Overview: In the late seventies, a group of Brazilian documentary filmmakers traveled to the ABC region in the suburbs of São Paulo with the purpose of recording a wave of worker strikes taking place in response to the negligence of the increasingly powerful and abusive automotive industry. Documenting striking women metal workers, Olga Futemma and Renato Tapajós’ Trabalhadoras Metalúrgicas is a particularly vigorous work among the films produced during this moment in São Paulo worker history. Scenes filmed during the first Congress of Metallurgical Women of São Bernardo and Diadema in 1978 are intercut with images documenting the appalling working conditions against which the women featured in the congress were striking.
Genres: Documentary
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Release Date: 1978-06-06
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A Symphony for a Common Man
Overview: As head of the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons, Brazilian diplomat José Bustani became an obstacle in America’s march to war with Iraq. Ousted from his position, he now revisits the chilling events that marked a turning point in global power structures.
Genres: Documentary
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Release Date: 2022-09-15
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Beyond Citizen Kane
Overview: Beyond Citizen Kane (1993) is a British documentary film directed by Simon Hartog, produced by John Ellis, and broadcast on Channel 4. It details the dominant position of the Rede Globo media group in the Brazilian society, discussing the group's influence, power, and political connections. Globo's president and founder Roberto Marinho came in for particular criticism, being compared with fictional newspaper tycoon Charles Foster Kane, created by Orson Welles for the 1941 film Citizen Kane. According to the documentary, Marinho's media group engages in the same Kane wholesale manipulation of news to influence the public opinion.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-09-01
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The Coup d'État Factory
Overview: Brazil has a long tradition of coup d'états. These coups would have not been viable without the support of the big media, particularly TV Globo. Two Brazilian journalists in the UK reveal the manipulative tactics of these organisations.
Genres: Documentary History
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2022-09-08
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Trabalhadores: Presente!
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Release Date: 1979-05-01
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Brasil, Ame-o ou Chore
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Release Date: 2022-06-22
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Chão de Fábrica
Overview: Documentary on the history of syndicalism in Brazil.
Genres: Documentary
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Release Date: 2018-09-21
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A Luta do Povo
Overview: Short documentary on workers' movement in Brazil in the 1970s, such as the Movement Against Famine, and the policial repression against demonstrators and activists.
Genres: Documentary
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Release Date: 1980-09-30
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A Day in the Life
Overview: The documentary tracks 19 hours of broadcasting from several brazilian TV channels making live surfing between channels. The result was edited latter.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2010-10-28
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The Boys from Brazil: Rise of the Bolsonaros
Overview: This documentary tells of the extraordinary rise of Jair Bolsonaro, from relative obscurity to the ultimate seat of South American power. Told through intimate interviews with some of those closest to him including his eldest son Flávio, former government ministers, as well as his opponents, explore Bolsonaro’s brilliant yet ruthless journey to the presidency, with high-stakes drama, guns and God.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2022-08-30
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Lula: Bastidores da Vitória
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Release Date: 2022-08-06
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8/1 – A Democracia Resiste
Overview: Unpublished images and exclusive testimonies from the main figures in power who tell how they faced the coup threat of January 8, 2023, a recent trauma in the country's history and revealing something that still remains hidden.
Genres: Documentary
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Release Date: 2024-01-07
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580 Dias
Overview: Reporter Joaquim de Carvalho reconstructs the 580 days of Lula's unjust imprisonment, with exclusive testimonials from those who closely followed the former president's day-to-day life from the concentration at the ABC Metallurgical Union, the presentation to the Federal Police, the flight to Curitiba, prison until release. Documentary shows unprecedented backstage. The direction is by Joaquim de Carvalho and Patri Salgado, with images by Eric Monteiro and photography by Ricardo Stuckert and Vigília Lula Livre.
Genres: Documentary
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Release Date: 2022-09-04
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The Visit
Overview: In 1982, a young Lula embarks on a campaign trip to Recife where intimate moments from the leader’s trip are captured on Super 8. THE VISIT was resurrected from original archival Super 8 footage from 1982 and edited over 42 years later to create a short film that offers a unique glimpse into the early political life of future Brazilian president Luiz Inácio da Silva as he engages with party colleagues and passionate activists in an effort to strengthen their party against the military dictatorship.
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Acidente de Trabalho
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Release Date: 1977-09-18
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Não Nasci para Deixar meus Olhos Perderem Tempo
Overview: The fading of composer Zé Keti’s career. The sad portrait of Brazilian Congress closed in 1977. The pain of a mother who lost her 15-year old daughter run over by a car. The Brazilian Presidents since Castelo Branco. Characters and settings registered through the keen and sensitive perspective of photographer Orlando Brito, in a career spanning 50 years as a professional. From the political sidelines to the lives of Brazilians from the interior, Brito recalls experiences and discusses the role of the photographer and the pain of registering someone’s grief.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2019-07-10
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Intermissions
Overview: Intermissions follows Lula during the hectic election campaign for the presidency in 2002. Lula gave filmmaker João Moreira Salles and his crew complete access, and the result is an intimate documentary of what went on behind the scenes. Sometimes, Lula is afraid that he will lose his freedom as president. Combined with Lula's candor, the film's observational style provides some very special insight into one of Brazil's most popular leaders.
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Release Date: 2004-11-19
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ABC of a Strike
Overview: 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. The gripping film captures the negotiations between the labor unions and the factory bosses and shows the birth of the region’s Worker’s Party, as well as the emergence of its charismatic leader, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva. Rising from extreme poverty, Lula gained national prominence as a union activist during the late 70s and early 80s. After being jailed during his time as a union leader, he eventually becomes Brazil’s president from 2003 to 2010.
Genres: Documentary
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Release Date: 1990-02-15
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My Friend Hugo
Overview: Oliver Stone presents a tribute to a friend one year after his death, the friend in question was the Venezuelan leader, Hugo Chávez. The documentary covers the time Stone and Chávez spent while making "South of the Border", when they developed a close relationship; and the testimonies from South America leaders and people close to Chávez to talk about their views on the man and the politician and share some personal stories they had with him.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-03-05
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Ulysses Cidadão
Overview: The life and work of deputy Ulysses Guimarães based on news reports, interviews and testimonies.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1993-01-02
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Rotten Boy
Overview: The life and trajectory of José Rodrigues Mao Jr., history professor, unionist, singer and founder of the band Garotos Podres, an iconic Brazilian punk band from the 80s.
Genres: Documentary
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Release Date: 2021-10-21
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O Evangelho Segundo Teotônio
Overview: Passages from the life of former Alagoan senator Teotônio Vilela, with emphasis on the process of his formation as a public figure, from his childhood as a mill boy to the final stage, with his famous campaign for the democratic restoration of the country. At this point, he was a man on the brink of death, already victimized by the cancer that would kill him.
Genres: Documentary
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Release Date: 1984-01-01
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Noises From The Agora
Overview: Football, betting, agriculture, technology, conspiracy theories and the second round of one of the most turbulent elections in the history of Brazilian politics. The daily political debate in a small newsstand in the interior of Rio Grande do Sul and the sound, visual and spatial noises of the contemporary agora.
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Brizola - Tempos de Luta
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Release Date: 2007-10-19
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Déjà Vu - O Primeiro Ano do "Novo" Governo Lula
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Release Date: 2023-11-15
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Lula Presidente: Da perseguição política à esperança renovada
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Release Date: 2022-12-31
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Born To Be Blind
Overview: Three blind sisters, Regina, Maria and Conceição, earn their living by singing in front of churches, in Brazil... They tell their amazing stories, full of drama, heartache, rape, poverty, death and hope.
Genres: Documentary
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Release Date: 2003-11-29
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Visita, Presidente
Overview: The 580 days that president-elect Lula, from Workers Party, spent in prison are the subject of the documentary "Visita, Presidente". The feature brings together unpublished stories of figures who were beside him in prison.
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Release Date: 2022-12-28
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Muda Brasil
Overview: The documentary recalls the political reopening of the country, and narrates in detail the events that culminated in the election of Tancredo Neves as the first civilian president after 20 years of military dictatorship.
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Release Date: 1985-03-18
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Lula
Overview: An intimate and revelatory portrait of one of the world’s most influential political figures, Lula explores the rise, fall and triumphant return of beloved Brazilian leader Luiz Inácio “Lula” da Silva, chronicling his extraordinary journey in 2022 to regain the Brazilian presidency after spending nineteen months in prison.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2024-05-19
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Cartas da Mãe
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Release Date: 2003-01-02
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Zona Eleitoral
Overview: Humorous short about the 1989 Brazilian presidential election.
Genres: Documentary
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Release Date: 1990-01-01
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Linha de Montagem
Overview: Documentary about the strikes that took place in São Bernardo do Campo, in the State of São Paulo, Brazil, circa 1979/1980. That moment was of utmost importance, since it revealed a Union leader, Luís Inácio "Lula" da Silva, who would later become President of Brazil. It was also the moment when PT, the Workers' Party, became a relevant political force in Brazil.
Genres: Documentary
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Release Date: 1982-05-03
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Lula Golbery Odebrecht da Silva
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De Quanta Terra Precisa o Homem?
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Release Date: 2022-10-20
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Apocalypse in the Tropics
Overview: When does a democracy end and a theocracy begin? In Apocalypse in the Tropics, Petra Costa investigates the increasingly powerful grip Christian evangelical leaders hold over politics in Brazil. She gains extraordinary access to the country’s top political leaders, including President Lula and former president Bolsonaro, as well as to Brazil’s most famous televangelist: a magnetic pastor who aspires to play puppet master to the far-right leader.
Genres: Documentary
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Release Date: 2025-07-11
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Josué de Castro - Por um Mundo sem Fome
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Release Date: 2004-01-01
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Greve
Overview: A documentary about the 1979 workers strike.
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Release Date: 1979-09-01
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Que Ninguém, Nunca Mais, Ouse Duvidar da Capacidade de Luta dos Trabalhadores
Overview: The documentary covers the first phase of the brazilian metalworkers' strike in 1979. It was made to be shown to the workers during the truce between the two phases of the strike, with the aim of mobilizing them for the second phase. The film shows the large assemblies, with more than 100 thousand metalworkers, in the Vila Euclides field, in São Bernardo do Campo; the mobilization for a vigil at the Union; the resulting street conflicts and the triumphant return of the board, headed by Lula, in the great assembly in which the truce was proposed.
Genres: Documentary
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Release Date: 1979-04-08
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Atos: A campanha pública de Lula
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Release Date: 2004-07-01
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Democracia em Preto e Branco
Overview: Brazilian soccer players Sócrates, Casagrande and Vladimir lead a historic movement in sports by adopting a democracy within their team, making a statement against the country's military dictatorship.
Genres: Documentary
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Release Date: 2014-10-18
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The Trial
Overview: The impeachment and removal from office of Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff in 2016 was triggered by a corruption scandal involving, among others, her then vice-president Michel Temer. Director Maria Augusta Ramos follows the trial against Rousseff from the point of view of her defence team. This is a courtroom drama that unfolds slowly: the appearances of the various parties gradually turn the proceedings into something akin to theatre. Inside the courtroom, grand emotions are played to full effect whilst, on the other side of the doors, lobbyists and supporters pace the corridors. Meanwhile, outside, in front of Brasília’s modernist government buildings, demonstrators are chanting like a Greek chorus. Only the main character, Rousseff herself, remains professional and aloof.
Genres: Documentary
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Release Date: 2018-05-17
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Lower House
Overview: During 2016, a film crew embeds inside the Brazilian Congress while lawmakers plot to overthrow the country's elected president, Dilma Rousseff.
Genres: Documentary
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Release Date: 2018-11-22
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The Next Victim
Overview: A TV reporter tries to find out who is killing prostitutes in a São Paulo neighbourhood.
Genres: Horror Action Thriller Crime
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Release Date: 1983-05-10
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The Edge of Democracy
Overview: A cautionary tale for these times of democracy in crisis—the personal and political fuse to explore one of the most dramatic periods in Brazilian history. With unprecedented access to Presidents Dilma Rousseff and Lula da Silva, we witness their rise and fall and the tragically polarized nation that remains.
Genres: Documentary
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Release Date: 2019-01-24
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Todo Poderoso: O Filme - 100 Anos de Timão
Overview: Todo Poderoso: O Filme - 100 anos de Timão tells the saga of a team that was born from the hands of five workers to become a real social phenomenon. Rescues images never before seen footage as the first of Corinthians in 1929, plus historic interviews of the first team's idols, as Neco, Del Debbio, Baltazar and Luizinho. Brings together for the first time, the major superstars that recall the glories of these 100 years of history through more than 200 goals. It features unreleased song of Bid, Rappin Hood and Negra Li composed especially for the film's official centenary of Timão.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2010-07-30
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Brazil: The Great Jump Backward
Overview: Brazil enters a great political turmoil after president Dilma Rousseff has been ousted through an impeachment process.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2016-01-01
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Darcy, um Brasileiro
Overview: Darcy Ribeiro was a renowned anthropologist, politician and writer. In this documentary, Maria Maia seeks to expose a bit of his personality with testimonials from friends, collaborators and speeches by Darcy himself.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2013-05-19
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Imagens de um Sonho
Overview: Composed of videos published on YouTube by Petrobras contractors, the film explores an important chapter in the country through fragments of working life inside and outside the factory. With their own hands, the working class registers - over a decade (2008-2018) - the joys and disappointments of their journey.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2019-07-10
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Encantado, le Brésil désenchanté
Overview: Considered for a few years the “country of the future”, Brazil has seen since 2013 a deep disenchantment between the middle and popular classes that culminated with the rise of Jair Bolsonaro to the Presidency in 2018. Enchanted portrays this recent Brazilian history from a homonymous neighborhood of the Rio suburb transfigured by the 2016 Olympics. From Rio to Paris, a political and poetic testimony of Brazil through the eyes of the first generation of the popular class to study abroad.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2018-09-29
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Citizen Lula
Overview: The filmmaker has shot for 16 years Lula da Silva's trajectory on politics which took him to the Presidency of Brazil. Through unique indie filmmaking, we observe the path that takes him to get elected, reelected, impeachment of his successor and colleague Dilma Rousseff, and Lula's incarceration process that paved the way to Jair Bolsonaro's presidential triumph in 2018.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2021-07-20
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El Odio
Overview: "El odio" describes the discrediting campaign against Lula da Silva and the Workers' Party in Brazil, demonstrating how this process led Jair Bolsonaro to the presidency. Conducted by Argentine documentary filmmaker Andrés Sal.lari, also details the participation of Judge Sergio Moro, the media and Washington in the entire operation.
Genres: Documentary History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2019-04-17
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A, B, C, Brasil
Overview: Documentary about the resumption of the workers 'movement during and after 17 years of dictatorship, led by the metallurgists of ABC Paulista (Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva) that culminated in the creation of the Workers' Party - PT
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1980-05-01
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3 Meals
Overview: This documentary shows a country that has lifted 36 million people out of extreme poverty in 12 years.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2018-05-25
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The Inconclusive Independence
Overview: Documentary about the independence and history of Latin America.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2010-01-05
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Alvorada
Overview: The film narrates, from an intimate point of view, the daily life of President Dilma Rousseff in her official residence, the Palácio do Alvorada, while awaiting the verdict of the impeachment process. Portraying the hallways of the palace, designed by Oscar Niemeyer, we see the coming and going of political meetings, the daily routine of the kitchen, the exchange of guards, whispers and phone calls. We feel the growing tension of officials, advisers and former ministers.
Genres: Documentary History
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2021-05-27
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Golpe de Ouro
Overview: After the coup of 1964, the media conglomerate Diários Associados organized a campaign called "Gold for Brazil," exhorting the people to donate wealth to the military government. The symbol of the campaign was the wedding ring, sealing the union between the people and the State. The film picks up the trail of the millions collected, but never channeled back into society.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2021-04-08
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Latinoamérica, territorio en disputa
Overview: Documantary film on the dispute for the hegemony of the Latin American continent between conservative forces and popular movements.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2019-09-18
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Dia 30 em Atos
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Breaking Myths
Overview: “Breaking Myths” aims to open the world’s eyes to the fragile and “catastrophic masculinity” of Brazil’s current President Jair Bolsonaro, a fanatical far-right politician who can best be described as the Brazilian Donald Trump — and who is up for a second term this October. The story is told through the lens of the critically acclaimed Brazilian filmmaker and LGBTQ activist Fernando Grostein Andrade (“Abe” Sundance 19), who directed, wrote, and produced the feature alongside creative partner Fernando Siqueira as the first release under his production company in California, FilmSoul Studios.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2022-09-13
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Dias de Euforia
Overview: Record of the 1989 elections, when Brazil was divided between Lula and Fernando Collor. It brings together material gathered from the streets of São Paulo, television broadcasts, and support from artists like Djavan, Chico Buarque, Gilberto Gil, Lobão, and Leci Brandão. Additionally, it features footage of the marches and Lula's first interview after his electoral defeat. A work that recounts fragments of the struggle for democracy in the country.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-12-25
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Néstor, su huella
Overview: Nestor Kirchner was – along with Cristina Fernandez – the central figure of Argentine politics in the first years of the 21st century in Argentina. His Government and his political leadership starred in the brightest moment since the return of democracy in 1983, both in terms of memory, truth and justice, as well as breaking the infernal circle of debt and subjection to external powers, energetically reactivating the economy and employment, promoting science and technology and the expansion of rights. We will make this cinematographic narrative hand in hand and with the voices of the men and women who were affected by these policies, and whose lives changed thanks to them.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2022-10-17
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8 de Janeiro: O Dia que Abalou o Brasil
Overview: Just one week after the inauguration of the new president, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, supporters of his predecessor, Jair Bolsonaro, invaded and vandalized the headquarters of the three branches of government in Brasília: the National Congress, the Planalto Palace and the Supreme Federal Court. Unhappy with their defeat at the polls and guided by fake news and conspiracy theories, many of the pro-Bolsonaro invaders believed that the Armed Forces would overthrow the newly inaugurated government. The images of destruction made headlines around the world. In this special documentary, reporter Camilla Veras Mota and video journalist Giovanni Bello went to Brasília to speak with witnesses of what happened that day and, with the help of experts, piece together the pieces that made the January 8 attacks possible.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2023-07-05
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Minha Terra Estrangeira
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Genres: Documentary
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2025-04-05
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Libelu: Down With The Dictatorship
Overview: In the 1970s, they were championing the fight against Brazil’s military dictatorship. Forty years later, what’s left of Libelu? What does adult life have in store for you after the revolutionary youth?
Genres: Documentary History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2020-09-30
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