ミネソタ州の小さな町にある本屋で、飼い主リンダと仲良く暮らすインコのブルー。読書家で人間顔負けの博識ぶりを誇る彼だが、屋内で育ったために飛び方を知らずにいた。そんな中、リンダのもとをブラジルの鳥類学者チュリオが訪問し、ブルーが絶滅危惧種のアオコンゴウインコだと告げる。絶滅回避のためにリオデジャネイロの研究施設へ来てほしいという頼みを受け、ブラジルへと向かうリンダとブルー。施設で出会った同じ種のジュエルに心ときめくブルーだが、施設に侵入した何者かによってジュエルと共に密売団へと引き渡される。
Young lovers Orfeu and Eurydice run through the favelas of Rio during Carnaval, on the lam from a hitman dressed like Death and Orfeu's vengeful fiancée Mira and passing between moments of fantasy and stark reality. This impressionistic retelling of the Greek legend of Orpheus and Eurydice introduced bossa nova to the world with its soundtrack by young Brazilian composers Luiz Bonfá and Antonio Carlos Jobim.
Discovering your wife is sleeping with your boss can make a man do strange things. For a Samba-obsessed London clerk, robbing a bank and boarding the first flight to Rio are just the beginning.
The biopic of Noel Rosa, one of Brazil's best poets and composers.
Where are you, João Gilberto? sets out in the footsteps of German writer Marc Fischer who obsessively searched for the legendary founding father of Bossa Nova and last great musical legend of our time, Brazilian musician João Gilberto, who has not been seen in public for decades. Fischer described his journey in a book, Hobalala, but committed suicide one week before it was published. By taking up Marc Fischer's quest, following his steps one by one, thanks to all the clues he left us, we pursue João Gilberto to understand the history, the very soul and essence of Bossa Nova. But who can tell whether we will meet him or not?
Two kung fu masters take on assassins in San Francisco's Chinatown.
Gilberto Gil talks with friends and share his thoughts, influences and reveal his impact on brazilian music and vision of the black people.
A short film of lovely poetic, observational elements and interviews with the famed samba singer/songwriter Nelson Antônio da Silva, whose adopted last name ‘Cavaquinho’ refers to the small guitar-like instrument that he played and used to compose his songs.
The Mangueira slum is the scenario where Tantinho and the old samba composers remember stories about the slums and samba.
