Eryk Rocha Movies

With her radical voice, visceral improvisation, and unmistakable rasp, Elza Soares created a language all her own and crossed generations,...

On the edge of the Transbrasiliana highway, Edna lives in a land in ruins, built on massacres.

She menage to save from a fire a bunch of pictures and a diary written by hand. Those words and faces becomes the last traces left from the man she...

A documentary about the creative process of Arrigo Barnabé

In order to invent a region, it is necessary to create its culture, preferably with the help of cinema. Inspired by the book and play “A...

An eye-opening he said/she said perspective on timbó fishing, a traditional practice of the Indigenous Yanomami people that involves the...

Drylands could be anywhere, just as Marcélia Cartaxo could be many women (including herself). The actress is placed in a situation in which...

A film like a monument: Luz nos Trópicos is a tribute to the rich greens of the Amazon and the forests of New England in winter, celebrating...

Intervalo Clandestino is a documentary that seeks to translate the state of mind of the Brazilian people in the face of the country's social and...

Reviewing home videos, filmmaker Paula Gaitán constructs a curious narrative about her youth while talking to her children. A filmic note in...

Documentary about Indigenous peoples' profound connection to nature and their struggle against deforestation, a grave threat to their way of life and...

With a constellation of black voices and presences, the short film takes a dizzying journey between ancestral and contemporary territories. On this...

A Yanomami woman watches a shaman prepare the Yãkoana, food for the spirits. Based on the narrative of a young indigenous woman, the...

When the flowers of the Mari tree bloom, dreams arise. The words of a great shaman lead to an oneiric experience through the synergy between cinema...

A man shaves under the watchful eye of a cat. His beard becomes a cat and the cat a beard. The film merges the two concepts of chimera: as a noun, it...

Documentary about the relationship between filmmaker Glauber Rocha and Cuba.

Igor is a teenager with a lot of potential and energy, but without the motivation to stay in school. His case reflects the situation in which many...

Vera and Gabriel, an elderly couple, navigate through past and present, telling their own life story. Their remembering, rendered in images from...

Music about becoming women in the contemporary world, their emancipation and struggles

Expedito is a retired man who has lost ties with life. Among other anonymous ones, he walks around the city of Rio de Janeiro witnessing conflicts of...