O Novo Cinema Pernambucano
Films by the new wave of Pernambuco directors: Cláudio Assis, Lírio Ferreira, Marcelo Lordello, Gabriel Mascaro, Marcelo Gomes, "Daniel Aragão", Sergio Oliveira, Renata Pinheiro, Kléber Mendonça Filho, Hilton Lacerda, Leonardo Lacca, Camilo Cavalcante, Paulo Caldas and Juliano Dornelles.
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- DirectorCláudio AssisStarsMatheus NachtergaeleJonas BlochLeona CavalliShort stories revolving around a bar and a hotel in Recife, unveil a mosaic of exotic characters living in the Brazilian underground.
- DirectorCláudio AssisStarsFernando TeixeiraCaio BlatMatheus NachtergaeleA man gets obsessed by a teenage girl, who is exploited by her own grandfather, who sometimes takes her to a gas station to show her naked to whomever pays him some money.
- DirectorCláudio AssisStarsIrandhir SantosJuliano CazarréMatheus NachtergaeleZizo (Irandhir Santos) é um poeta inconformado e anarquista, que banca a publicação de seu tablóide. Em seu mundo próprio, onde o sexo é algo tão corriqueiro quanto fumar maconha, ele conhece Eneida (Nanda Costa). Zizo logo sente um forte desejo por Eneida, mas, apesar de seus constantes pedidos, ela se recusa a ter relações sexuais com ele. Isto transtorna a vida do poeta, que passa a sentir falta de algo que jamais teve.
- DirectorCláudio AssisStarsMarcelia CartaxoArtur de MaiaClarice FantiniThe rite of passage from youth that has poetry as its guiding light, and prose as its basis.
- DirectorPaulo CaldasLírio FerreiraStarsDuda MambertiLuiz Carlos VasconcelosAramis TrindadeA Lebanese photographer living in Brazil in the '30s manages to take pictures of Lampião, a legendary Brazilian outlaw, kind of a tropical Robin Hood.
- DirectorLírio FerreiraStarsGuilherme WeberGiulia GamJosé DumontWeatherman from a TV network goes back to his hometown, Vale da Rocha, a place in Northeast Brazil, devastated by the drought. He is forced to face the geographic elements and his own memories.
- DirectorLírio FerreiraHilton LacerdaStarsPaulo AutranChico BuarqueSérgio CabralDocumentary on the life and times of one of the most prominent Brazilian samba composers, Cartola (Angenor de Oliveira).
- DirectorLírio FerreiraStarsRicardo Cravo AlbinBelchiorMaria BethâniaMusical documentary chronicling the life and work of Humberto Teixeira: composer, lawyer, politician, and creator of copyright laws protecting Brazilian artists. Also known as "The Doctor of Baião," he is celebrated for his popular classics, among them the "anthem of drought," "Asa Branca."
- DirectorLírio FerreiraStarsDaniel de OliveiraCaroline AbrasSandra CorveloniTwenty two years ago, an arid, volcanic and island paradise nestled in the middle of the South Atlantic, a nine year old boy, Pedro was separated from his sister, Raquel. Rosa, their mother, fearful of a forbidden attraction between them, decides to send his son, not daughter, for the continent. The boy was taken by Kaleb, the rider of an old circus, passing by the island. On the mainland, Kaleb instructed the boy in circus arts and spirit, where the former islet became Zolah the Bullet Man. BLUE BLOOD begins when Zolah and the circus back to paradise. The circus is established as an island within an island, and the most solitary of these isles Zolah himself, a beautiful man who seduces everyone and everything, yet remains deeply lonely, because he could not love anyone.
- DirectorLírio FerreiraStarsAlessandra NegriniAntonio Haddad AguerreGuilherme WeberCicero is a 12-year-old boy who finds his father dead in the bathroom, victim of a massive heart attack. The boy's mother, who spends long periods away from home, returns to Sao Paulo, interrupting the filming of her film in the Amazon rainforest. Cicero convinces her to take a long trip across the northeast of the country to bring his father's ashes to his hometown.
- DirectorMarcelo LordelloStarsMaria Luiza TavaresGeórgio KokkosiElayne de MouraCris, aged 12, and her older brother are left at the side of the road by their parents. Very quickly the punishment turns into an even greater challenge. "Eles Voltam" (They'll Come Back") follows Cris as she attempts to find her way back home. It is a journey through a series of different realities, guided by the people that inhabit them. A modern day fable, filled with realistic overtones, and the story of Cris's self-discovery.
- DirectorGabriel MascaroThrough dialogues with the owners of penthouses in Rio de Janeiro, Sao Paulo and Recife, High-Rise explores the social and cultural mindset of the elite, and the phenomenon of the 'verticalization' of the Brazilian cityscape. This is a film about height, status and power.
- DirectorGabriel MascaroStarsDandara de MoraisGeová Manoel Dos SantosMaria Salvino Dos SantosThe August winds gust and a poetic duel between life, death, loss, memory, the wind and the sea ensues.
- DirectorGabriel MascaroStarsJuliano CazarréMaeve JinkingsJosinaldo AlvesIremar works at the rodeo in North East of Brazil. From his home, the truck used to transport the animals, he dreams of a future in the region's booming clothing industry.
- DirectorGabriel MascaroStarsDira PaesJulio MachadoAntonio PastichA woman uses her bureaucratic job to convince divorcing couples to stay together and is utterly committed to getting pregnant by her husband in a future of dance parties, ritualistic orgies and fundamentalist Christianity.
- DirectorMarcelo GomesStarsJoão MiguelPeter KetnathMadalena AcciolyA road movie about a German man who went to the Northeast of Brazil in 1942 to sell Aspirin.
- DirectorKarim AïnouzMarcelo GomesStarsIrandhir SantosA geologist is sent to an isolated region in the Northeast of Brazil to survey water sources, but begins to feel a a sense of abandonment and loneliness.
- DirectorMarcelo GomesStarsHermila GuedesW.J. SolhaJoão MiguelA woman tries to make a life for herself in a violent Brazilian city.
- DirectorMarcelo GomesCao GuimarãesStarsPaulo AndréSílvia LourençoJean-Claude BernardetLoosely based on Edgar Allan Poe's story of the same name, Marcelo Gomes and Cao Guimaraes, two of the most interesting filmmakers working in Brazil today, have crafted an elegant, parsimonious, and formally impeccable story of Juvenal, a lonely train driver in Belo Horizonte, and his encounter with Margo, a station controller. Emphasizing the theme of alienation in Poe's story and revealing Guimaraes's work as a visual artist, the two directors opted for an unusual, perfectly square aspect ratio, which intriguingly makes the film resemble a Polaroid. Juvenal and Margo, who each embody a different form of urban solitude, have been brought together in this beautifully composed ode to friendship.
- DirectorMarcelo GomesStarsJulio MachadoIsabél ZuaaRômulo BragaA partly fictional, partly historical account of the life of Brazil's national hero Joaquim José da Silva Xavier, alias Tiradentes.
- DirectorMarcelo GomesA small village in the Brazilian outback is considered the nation's capital of jeans. It's also a microcosm that depicts modern day capitalism and its transgressions.
- DirectorDaniel AragãoStarsChristiana UbachVinicius Faria ZinnMaeve JinkingsWhile burying his family's past, Dirceu meets a musician called Maria, and a breath of renovation emerges from this encounter. But the soul of a restless artist always takes the old dirt road. 'Good luck, sweetheart' is an anti-romance between sound and silence.
- DirectorDaniel AragãoStarsArthur CanavarroZécarlos MachadoSergio MaroneA young addict girl ends her time on rehab and returns to her hometown where she's welcomed by her family. Her father is running for mayor which is a surprise. Disenchanted with the politics and the things she sees, she decides to make some new changes in her life.
- DirectorSergio OliveiraRenata PinheiroStarsAdrián RuedaCharly SkywalkerReynaldo CubanoA road movie through Peru, Buenos Aires, São Tomé das Letras, Recife and São Paulo, but without a defined destination. It records the lifestyle of those who live free in the world; nomads in the subcontinent of Latin America.
- DirectorRenata PinheiroStarsNash LailaMaeve JinkingsSamuel VieiraShelly, a young dancer, dreams of becoming a singer at Brega, a romantic and sensually appealing musical scene in the Brazilian outskirts. inserted in a world where everything is disposable, like success, love, and human relationships, Shelly lives a difficult, tumultuous trajectory toward her desire to be famous. Jaqueline, her bandmate, a decaying experienced singer, is her mirror.
- DirectorSergio OliveiraRenata PinheiroStarsMaeve JinkingsDandara de MoraisMagali BiffBethania Wanderley (Maeve Jinkings) has to return to the place where she was born, a decadent sugar cane mill, to prevent the former cane workers from taking over the land. She will have to deal with her past and her prejudices.
- DirectorKleber Mendonça FilhoStarsAna Rita GurgelCaio AlmeidaMaeve JinkingsThe lives of the residents of a Brazilian apartment building and the security guards who get the job guarding the surrounding streets.
- DirectorKleber Mendonça FilhoStarsSonia BragaMaeve JinkingsIrandhir SantosClara, 65, lives her life to the fullest with her family and friends. A construction company wants her Recife oceanfront condo, as they've already bought all the other in the 3 story building. Clara's staying.
- DirectorJuliano DornellesKleber Mendonça FilhoStarsBárbara ColenThomas AquinoSilvero PereiraAfter the death of her grandmother, Teresa comes home to her matriarchal village in a near-future Brazil to find a succession of sinister events that mobilizes all of its residents.
- DirectorLeonardo LaccaStarsRita CarelliLaila PasSílvio RestiffePermanência portrays the story of a man who is going to present a photographic exhibition in Sao Paulo and stays in the house of an ex-girlfriend, who today is married to another man.
- DirectorHilton LacerdaStarsMaria de Jesus BaccarelliJesuíta BarbosaAriclenes BarrosoThe romance between a 18-year-old soldier and the cultural ringleader of an anarchist cabaret.
- DirectorHilton LacerdaStarsIrandhir SantosMaria BarreiraAriclenes BarrosoThe carnival is over. A young French woman was brutally murdered in the city of Recife. Officer Breno returns early from his vacation to investigate the crime, surprising his son with three friends staying at his home.
- DirectorCamilo CavalcanteStarsMarcelia CartaxoLeonardo FrançaDébora IngridThe History of Eternity is a synesthetic essay about love, desires and dreams. The entire narrative takes place in the same village with approximately 40 inhabitants in a desert landscape, a geographical point in northeastern Brazil with specific references in relation to time and space. A secluded place where everything happens at a measured pace, inspiring extremely visceral moments within the cycle that repeats itself eternally on the stage of human tragedy.
- DirectorCamilo CavalcanteEduardo GoldensteinEduardo NunesFive directors with five completely different cinematic styles go on an affectionate journey through each one of the five states bathed by the gigantic São Francisco River. Faith, passions, legends and the search for survival in the riverside communities of this river full of colors, which cuts through the dry hinterlands and flows into the exuberant sea of Northeastern Brazil.
- DirectorPaulo CaldasStarsNash LailaPeter KetnathHermila GuedesJéssica is a teenager from Brazilian Northeast. After being abused by her stepfather, she runs away to Recife, where starts to work with sexual tourism. Then, she meets Mark, a German tourist, and falls in love with him.
- DirectorPaulo CaldasStarsKarim AïnouzArrigo BarnabéJules Elting
- DirectorPaulo CaldasBarbara CunhaThe anguish of an artist on the day of the presidential elections in Brazil in 2018.
- DirectorJuliano DornellesStarsIara CamposArthur CanavarroOndina ClaisIn Rua do Brum, located in the Recife neighborhood, there is a famous atelier of plastic arts. This is the story of the owner of the place, a true artist from Recife.
- DirectorTiago MeloStarsValmir do CôcoJoana GatisMestre BarachinhaIn a vast, seemingly endless cane field, the sugarcane dances to the wind, like sea waves. PAI NANI, an Afro-Brazilian spiritual leader, carries out a religious act with five caboclos de lança - costumed dancers of the "maracatu rural". As the caboclos acquire supernatural powers, they embody entities and disappear. The city of Nazaré da Mata witnesses mysterious events. The population is startled with the ravaging supernatural phenomena. In an isolated house blended with the cane field lives the couple CATITA and Sister DARLENE. Catita plays parts on the local maracatu, but hides it from his wife. Darlene is an avid follower of Pastor BARACHINHA, a former maracatu master who turned himself to the evangelical religion and now is on a mission to cast the devil out of the maracatu and evangelize the whole city. Sister Darlene discovers that Catita is involved with maracatu and compels him to meet the Pastor and convert to Evangelicalism.