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- DirectorDaniel AugustoStarsJúlio AndradeRavel AndradeFabiana GugliA chronicle of Paulo Coelho's rise from his troubled life to become one of the most influential writers in Brazilian history.
- DirectorMiguel Gonçalves MendesStarsJoão AfonsoÀngels BarcelóPilar del RíoA documentary on Nobel Prize Winner José Saramago and his feelings over his wife, his country and life, as a whole.
- DirectorRita Azevedo GomesStarsMário BarrosoLuís Miguel CintraTânia DinisThe film was inspired by the letters exchanged between two leading Portuguese poets, Sophia de Mello Breyner Andresen and Jorge de Sena, during the exile of the latter (1957-78). Through their poetry and their letters, the film builds a dialogue between longing and belonging, the "desire to fill years of distance with hours of conversation". At the same time, it establishes a correspondence with our own lives fictionalized under the ties and entanglements that hold us together.
- DirectorManoel de OliveiraStarsLima DuarteLuís Miguel CintraRicardo TrêpaThe story of Father Antonio Vieira, a 17th-century Portuguese priest who lived in Brazil and worked for better treatment of the Indians and to abolish slavery.
- DirectorMiguel Faria Jr.StarsMaria BethâniaRicardo BlatM.S. BomDocumentary about Brazilian songwriter and poet Vinicius de Moraes, showing his life, work, family, friends, and love-affairs.
- DirectorNelson Pereira dos SantosStarsCarlinhos BrownSérgio Buarque de Hollanda FilhoAlvaro Buarque de HollandaDocumentary in two parts about Brazilian historiographer Sérgio Buarque de Hollanda.
- DirectorJosé Leitão de BarrosStarsPaulo MaurícioAmália RodriguesBarreto PoeiraCastro Alves is the great poet of the black slaves' liberation, in 19th century Brazil. Eugenia Camara is the wild actress who crosses the Atlantic and finds herself torn between two loves, in a whirlwind of passion.
- DirectorAdriana JacobsenSoraia VilelaA documentary about Joao Guimaraes Rosa's stay in Nazi Germany. The film captures the experience of the Brazilian vice-consul in Hamburg between 1938 and 1942, at the height of the Nazi regime and during the first years of the World War II. Using his writings from that time, as well as archive pictures, documents, survivors testimonies, and an unpublished interview with him, the film reveals new biographical aspects of one of the greatest writers in Brazilian history.
- DirectorDjalma Limongi BatistaStarsVictor WagnerFrancisco FarinelliViétia ZangrandiThe film follows Manuel Maria du Bocage, 18th-century poet, as he travels through the world from orgy to orgy and from excess to excess.
- DirectorAna CarolinaStarsWaly SalomãoRuth EscobarMarília GabrielaThe life of irreverent poet Gregório de Mattos, who lived in Bahia, Brazil, in the 17th century. Nicknamed Mouth of Hell, he used his transgressive poetry against the élite of the time.
- DirectorFilipe GontijoFabiano O'SilvaStarsLirinha AntonioThe life and thought a libertarian writer who name's the movie, one of the most popular authors in Brazil. The animation is inspired by the rhymes and illustrations etched into wood a common art form from Brazil's hinterland, where the writer came from.