Matinê Filmes

In the 1970s, in the midst of a military dictatorship, composer Jards Macalé and filmmaker Luiz Carlos Lacerda (Bigode) shared a house in Rio de Janeiro - which became a center of convergence for musicians, filmmakers and writers, and where they performed classic films and songs of Brazilian culture.

In the interior of Brazil, between the archaic and the contemporary world, a family lives its anguish in an atmosphere of desire and repression. Based on an argument by a master of the psychological introspection novel, the writer Lucio Cardoso.

Judoka, filmmaker, producer and cultural organizer Cavi Borges has built a career driven by the same restless energy on and off the mat. The documentary follows his path from sport to cinema and shows how he became a central figure in Brazilian independent filmmaking, producing films, creating spaces and connecting artists. Between fights, film sets and international festivals, a portrait emerges of someone who turns limitations into momentum and makes another way of producing cinema possible.

Poetic reconstruction of the unfinished film, directed by writer Lúcio Cardoso, from Minas Gerais, in 1949, in the fishing village of Itaipu / Niterói, based on recovered scenes and excerpts from the film diary. The documentary shows the process of a writer struggling with the desire to make a film.

The city of Rio de Janeiro in the films of Nelson Pereira dos Santos contextualized by critic Rodrigo Fonseca.

The pages of the artist Judith Malina's diary, imprisoned by the military dictatorship during the season of the Living Theater group in Brazil. The documentary chronicles the visit of the actress and her theatrical company to the country.