Guilherme Magalhães Vaz

Apiyemiyekî? addresses the genocide of the Waimiri-Atroari people in 1970s, when during the Brazilian dictatorship indigenous lands in the mid-west were invaded for the construction of the national road BR-174 and the installation of a mining company. Illustrations about the period, created by the indigenous population, including children, reveal a traumatic history, referring us to the present day.

CALYPSO traduce a una forma libre y experimental el Canto Quinto de la Odisea Homérica, con Calipso y Ulises viviendo el exilio de un mundo en colapso.

A delicate and tenacious writer, widowed three years ago, engages in frequent conversations with a parrot. However, she’s always observed by a large portion of raw meat.

In a spellbinding, textural blend of 16mm and HD video, Ana Vaz refracts the colonial history of Brazil and Portugal through objects, gestures, and contemporary customs.

This fantastic documentary seeks to rescue the Brazilian prehistoric records through popular culture, folklore and legends connected to it. A look at the origin of Brazilian history led by real characters, elders of Brazil’s interior, who keep the myths that have been passed down for centuries in small social groups. With texts by Bernardo Silva Ramos, one of the pioneers in the discovery and interpretation of rock art.

La educación sentimental se centra en la relación única entre Áurea, una solitaria maestra de 40 años, y un joven al que acaba de conocer por casualidad, uno de esos encuentros en los que abundan la mitología y la literatura. Un alma delicada que se siente atraída por una belleza que parece exigirla, molestarla y conmoverla. Eso la sacude por completo. Durante los días posteriores a su primera conversación, ella expondrá todos sus sentimientos a través de clases en las que él se dejará llevar. Hasta que un episodio inusual del pasado se revela y cambia todo.

Rio de Janeiro, 2012. 30 year-old Karine, 8 months pregnant, loses her husband in a senseless murder. She and her brother almost die, but are saved by Pastor Naldo, an evangelical pastor from the Church of Eden. Karine carries within her the conflict of salvation via the church or via the birth of her child.

In his film Rua Aperana 52 Júlio Bressane describes the invention of a landscape, the topology of a corner of Rio de Janeiro. The film consists of a series of photographs taken between 1909 and 1955 by, among others, Bressane's parents at and around the address used as a title. These are interlarded with scenes from films made between 1957 and 2005, bringing the total fictional time the film covers to almost a century; one hundred years in which the winding road featured in almost every shot structures the new landscape behind the Aperana, which means 'wrong road'. Rua Aperana 52 is autobiographical, as it is a landscape from Bressane's youth, but it is also not so; it is more a multi-subjective mythology of a place seen through all those films and photographs. Bressane refers to his editing as an intuitive form of thinking aimed at evoking moods which make the viewer the new witness of the fictional landscape. A fiction about a fiction,

A meditation and a reverie upon a city at once real and imagined. Conceptualized as a documentary on the ZUP buildings in France, the film has instead found form as poetic & expansive confrontation with the psychogeography of a contemporary Europe in crisis. A requiem for a city dreamt between its past and present.

Sacris Pulso departs from the dismemberment of another film, "Brasiliários". This film is an interpretation of Clarice Lispector's chronic "Brasília", her vision of the modernist capital, as it is the film which marks the encounter of my mother, playing Lispector, and my father, composer of the film's sound score. Through the juxtaposition of "Brasiliários" with a series of reassembled found footage, the film takes the form of a voyage of remembrance and imagination, of a past and future time dreamt between personal and collected materials, between memory and fiction.

En un pueblo aislado y agobiado por las lluvias torrenciales, los habitantes viven no solamente en la miseria, sino también hostigados por la represión política. Existe una guerra por el poder entre la familia que detenta el control económico de la región y el interventor enviado por el Gobierno central. Por si esto no fuera suficiente, aparecen panfletos anónimos pegados en las puertas de las casas, revelando las intimidades de sus moradores. En medio de este caos, surgen todo tipo de pasiones, traiciones y venganzas, sin que los implicados sepan dónde empieza la verdad y dónde acaba la mentira. Basada en la novela de Gabriel García Márquez La mala hora, la película cuenta una historia de amor y odio en la que el pasado y el futuro se confunden. (FILMAFFINITY)

En un pueblo aislado y agobiado por las lluvias torrenciales, los habitantes viven no solamente en la miseria, sino también hostigados por la represión política. Existe una guerra por el poder entre la familia que detenta el control económico de la región y el interventor enviado por el Gobierno central. Por si esto no fuera suficiente, aparecen panfletos anónimos pegados en las puertas de las casas, revelando las intimidades de sus moradores. En medio de este caos, surgen todo tipo de pasiones, traiciones y venganzas, sin que los implicados sepan dónde empieza la verdad y dónde acaba la mentira. Basada en la novela de Gabriel García Márquez La mala hora, la película cuenta una historia de amor y odio en la que el pasado y el futuro se confunden. (FILMAFFINITY)

A collage of newsreels, trailers, clips and other visionary and unseen fragments of sight and sound regarding the late plastic artist Helio Oititica.

Tres amigos, Hilda, Matilda y Gaspar, se encuentran en un pequeño apartamento del centro de la ciudad durante un fin de semana para hablar, beber y obtener placer. (FILMAFFINITY)

Ecology - the eco system, a nature reserve in the south of the country - RS (between the Mirim lagoons) shows the harmony between nature and animals.

"Seven women on motorcycles, through Via Dutra, go to the Baixada Fluminense, a microcosm of Brazil. Diving into the memory and questioning the behavior imposed on women, they seek to rescue the strength of the feminine. The new woman, born in the Brazilian land, incorporates the Amazons and Santa Guerreira. At his side, the new man, more loose and creative. Closing the cycle, the initial road is resumed. " (HBH / QC)

Young and rich executive living in Ipanema, Rio de Janeiro, leaves his wife and kids behind and goes to Porto Seguro, Bahia, to try and live as a fisherman with his mistress.

Rio's criminal underworld is run by an unexpected boss: a femme Queen with a taste for power and violence. But heavy lies the crown: what Queen can trust her subjects, however fabulous? When she sets up a stoolie to take the fall for her boy, a plot against Her Majesty arises!

Father Simão Bacamarte arrives in the small town of Serafim to investigate a certain phenomenon of madness.

Santamaria and Urtigo are two bandits on the run, one is white, the other black. Santamaria is a mystical visionary and believes in the imminent coming of a purifying angel. Urtiga, his inseparable companion, is a simple-minded and ingenious man who follows Santamaria around and participates in the crimes he commits. The two bandits take over a house after kidnapping its owner and his girlfriend.

Alfredo, un antiguo revolucionario que ha quedado ciego, sordo y mudo, y su hedonista esposa, reciben en su casa junto al mar la visita de otra pareja recién llegada de Nueva York: una frustrada pianista y su esposo, un ex-camarero de carácter indeciso.