Heloísa Passos

The Edifício Wilton Paes de Almeida, nicknamed the “Pele de Vidro (Skin of Glass)” for its windowed façade, was the first building of its kind in South America, a shiny symbol of Brazil’s promising future.

다이아몬드 산업에 침투, 합성 보석의 실상을 파헤친다.대중의 인식을 바꿔놓을 산업계 내부자들의 증언이 담긴 탐사 다큐멘터리

다이아몬드 산업에 침투, 합성 보석의 실상을 파헤친다.대중의 인식을 바꿔놓을 산업계 내부자들의 증언이 담긴 탐사 다큐멘터리

Pilar, a young hotel maid, has her path crossed by Shin, a middle-aged South Korean guest. The plans of both go wrong and, despite everything that separates them, they end up getting closer and establishing a relationship of solidarity.

Teenager Joana feeds her soul with literature and rock. In 1979, when amnesty is granted in Brazil, she's forced to move with her family from Paris back to the country she barely remembers. Back in the city she was born in, and where her father was forcedly disappeared, she recovers pieces of memory from a fragmented childhood in Rio de Janeiro. Not everything is real, not everything is imagination. And as she remembers, Joana must write her own story in the present tense.

Heloisa receives a gift: a collection of super-8 films with images of enormous cataracts that once comprised the Seven Falls (Sete Quedas), a natural paradise destroyed by the construction of the world's largest hydroelectric plant, in the early 1980s. The construction of the plant, at the height of the Brazilian military regime, awakens memories of a past immersed in a political authoritarianism. The film starts from the relationship between Heloisa, the filmmaker, and her father, Alvaro, an engineer who had his moment of glory during the Brazilian military dictatorship. They question the political trajectory of Brazil.Projections and maps become the first bridges to connect with the past. However, it is the inescapable present that really strikes Alvaro and Heloisa as they position themselves on opposite sides.

Nalu lives with Ruben, her father, in a small country town near the Brazilian border with Uruguay. When Ruben realizes that his daughter is becoming a woman, an ambiguous closeness begins to develop between them.

Birdie used to live in the tree, but his nest’s been broken and he’s now living on the streets of Rio de Janeiro with all he needs to survive: two abandoned dogs and the cart from which he sells tropical fruits and a lot of dreams.

Five 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.

원치 않는 결혼이나 아동 노동 같은 세상의 부조리함과 맞닥뜨린 각기 다른 나라에 살고 있는 아홉 소녀의 이야기. 그러나 이 용감한 소녀들은 각기 직면한 장애물을 딛고 ‘교육’을 통해 굳건한 장벽을 넘어서서 세상을 향한 도전을 계속해나가는 모습을 보여준다. (2013년 제7회 여성인권영화제) 빈곤, 자연재해, 3세부터 시작되는 노예 노동, 물물 거래와 같은 결혼, 가족과 남자 형제를 위한 희생...... 특별할 것 없는 이유로, 또 영화에 언급되지 않는 다양한 이유로 소녀들은 여성으로 태어난 순간 ‘숙명’과도 같은 인생을 강요받는다. 그러나 소녀들이 ‘변화’하기 시작한다. 앤 해서웨이, 매릴 스트립 등 유명인의 나레이션이 불편한 사족으로 느껴질 정도로 매력적인 9명의 소녀들은 ‘교육’을 통해 인생의 주체성을 획득하려 한다. 이 용감하고 재기발랄한 소녀들의 도전은 숙연한 마음이 들 정도로 성스럽고 위대하다. 소녀들이여, 구경꾼일 필요가 있는가? 일어서라. 바로 지금이다.

Rânia is a teenage girl who lives on Santa Teresinha hill in the city of Fortaleza. Her busy days are also occupied by the dream of being a dancer. Rânia's best friend, Zizi, introduces her to 'Sereia da Noite', a local joint where fun, dance, money and sex rock the night. When Rânia meets the choreographer Estela, she will be torn between the possibility to make money in the nightclub and the will to become a "real dancer".

Van Oldenborgh's practice explores social relations through an investigation of gesture in the public sphere. Bete & Deise brings about a meeting between veteran telenovela actress and political activist Bete Mendes and Deise Tigrona, one of the most powerful voices in Baile funk, whose song Injeção was the basis for M.I.A.'s Bucky Done Gun.

Julia is a 35-year-old English Literature teacher struggling with depression as she tries to get her life back together again after her long, intense love affair with Antonia. Feeling totally abandoned after she and her enigmatic girlfriend broke up, Julia is thrown into a desperate, painful process. Her life and her values have been tinged with unbearable melancholy and her life's measure seems reduced to out-of-focus fragments of her memories. Her inner turmoil and conflicts hamper a process now made necessary - that of readapting to her new life. It is impossible for her to disguise her pain when she attempts to narrate emotions.

Trapped inside an apartment in Sao Paulo, an actor and a director of videos explore mutual love. Adapted from Benjamin Schianberg character, in this book Marcal Aquino, "I receive the worst news of your beautiful lips."

브라질 리우데자네이루 외곽에 위치한 ‘자르딤 그라마초’에는 세계 최대 규모의 쓰레기 매립지가 있다. 이 거대한 쓰레기 더미에서 재활용 쓰레기를 주워 생계를 유지하는 사람들을 ‘카타도르’라 부른다. 타인의 눈에는 비참한 인생으로 보이지만 이들은 지독한 역경 속에서도 정직한 노동으로 살아간다는 자부심과 언젠가는 이 곳을 벗어날 수 있을 것이라는 꿈과 희망으로 하루하루를 살아나간다. 예술이 사람을 바꾸는 경험을 선사하고 싶었어요. 하지만 가능한 일일까요? 변화를 일굴 수 있을까요? 브라질 출신으로 미국 뉴욕에서 활동 중인 세계적인 사진 작가 ‘빅 무니즈’는 ‘카타도르’들이 수거한 쓰레기를 재료로 삼아, 이들이 모델로 등장하는 작품 제작을 기획한다. 예술과 인문학적 가치를 만들어내고, 하루 하루 힘겹게 살아가는 카타도르에게 변화를 주기 위해 빅 무니즈는 2년간 카타도르와 함께 생활하고 소통하면서 재활용 쓰레기를 활용해 카타도르의 초상이 담긴 작품을 만들기 시작한다. ‘빅 무니즈’와 함께 생전 처음으로 예술 작업을 하게 된 ‘카타도르’들은 작업이 진행될수록 쓰레기 속에 묻어 두었던 꿈과 희망, 그리고 인간의 존엄성을 되찾게 된다. 그리고 이들의 협업으로 탄생된 ‘쓰레기로 만든 작품(Pictures of Garbage)’은 환상적인 예술 작품이란 평가를 받으며 전세계적인 히트를 기록하게 된다.

José Renato, a 35-year-old geologist, is sent out on a solitary expedition to the hinterlands of northeastern Brazil. The purpose of the trip is to assess possible routes for a canal that will connect the area with the only major river in the region. As the field trip progresses, it becomes clear that Renato shares with those places the same emptiness, sense of abandonment and isolation.

On January 19, 1982, Lilian lives her first disappointment. She is fifteen and after waiting for a long time, she realises that she has been abandoned. Lilian returns home alone and on her way she understands what pain is. On January 19, 1982, Elis Regina died at the age of 36. And the whole city understands what loss is. That day, Lilian and the city are the same.

Through conversations held with fifty four of the most distinguished cinematographers working in Brazil and abroad over the last forty years, the documentary explores the working environment, the new tools and the different styles of the professional who controls the light and the shades behind the camera.

Follow the story of four "mother-girls" who became pregnant very early.

A documentary on Brazilian trombone player Raul de Souza who, since 1996, has lived in Paris and suffers because he goes unnoticed, unrewarded in his native land. With the sound of his trombone for a background, the film takes him back to Bangu, in Rio de Janeiro, and retraces his trajectory.

A documentary on Brazilian trombone player Raul de Souza who, since 1996, has lived in Paris and suffers because he goes unnoticed, unrewarded in his native land. With the sound of his trombone for a background, the film takes him back to Bangu, in Rio de Janeiro, and retraces his trajectory.

A documentary on Brazilian trombone player Raul de Souza who, since 1996, has lived in Paris and suffers because he goes unnoticed, unrewarded in his native land. With the sound of his trombone for a background, the film takes him back to Bangu, in Rio de Janeiro, and retraces his trajectory.

In 1908, Titoe leaves her country, Japan, to try her luck in Brazil. Her intention is just to get rich and return in five years. But life has other plans for her.

Documentary about the discovery of a ditch in a cemetery located in São Paulo, in which were found the carcass of Brazilian political prisoners who fought against the military dictatorship.

Documentary about the discovery of a ditch in a cemetery located in São Paulo, in which were found the carcass of Brazilian political prisoners who fought against the military dictatorship.

Documentary about the discovery of a ditch in a cemetery located in São Paulo, in which were found the carcass of Brazilian political prisoners who fought against the military dictatorship.

The daily routine of a streetwise office boy, waiting in long lines, having to deal with some fishy situations, listening to music, and meeting people.