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Browse 7 movies from Lente Viva Filmes
A prodigy of stringed instruments, a pioneer of Bossa Nova, a modernizing master of the guitar: Aníbal Augusto Sardinha, better known as Garoto (1915-1955), is one of the hidden pillars of Brazilian music. Woven by rare archival material, personal diaries and testimonies, this documentary reveals his influence and the artistic conflicts of an avant-garde artist in the golden age of Brazilian radio.
Sep 2020
The most successful and famous bank robber in Chilean history. Now, convinced that he has been the victim of other people's mistakes, he decides to return to crime to take revenge for his fate.
Sep 2023
While out with his friends for fun one night in São Paulo, Leandro is confronted with glimpses of his own violence. The film is loosely inspired by the homophobic attack that occurred in the Paulista Avenue area, in which teenagers used fluorescent lamps as a weapon.
Aug 2014
"Negro em Mim" is an investigative documentary with black artists and thinkers in Brazil today. A portrait of a plural Brazil from the racial discussion promoted by a trip to 6 Brazilian cities. What do the Arts have to say about Black Brazil?
Oct 2020
"20 Centavos" is a feature-length documentary that portrays the social and political unrest triggered by the fight against the raise in the rates of public transport in Sao Paulo and follows all the developments, on a national scale, of these early protests. Its main characters are the streets, the public spaces taken by the voice of the protesters. Its speech is constructed by billboard after billboard, from claim to claim. The result is a portrait, with more than realistic textures, of zeitgeist, a spirit of an era unknown in Brazil, marking the emergence of a new form of political activism that comes from a deep crisis with the idea of representative democracy.
Jun 2014
On his first trip to the city, Panchito, a peasant boy, is lost in a fair in El Alto (Bolivia). Despite his efforts and those of the father, he ends up in an orphanage. During school civic hour, in which the more than a hundred years in which Bolivia lost the exit to the sea against Chile are remembered, he meets Pedro, a Chilean boy who lost his parents in Antofagasta (Chile). Panchito wants to return to his home in the countryside next to the father. Peter has the illusion that the sea is the immense blue door to the sky that will take him to his parents. This feeling unites them on a journey between the arid high plateau, with the whistle of the earthy wind, and the vigorous wind over the waves of the ocean. But fate is not always expected.
Sep 2019
Short transformative animation “O Canto do Cisne Negro” by Antônio Moreno and “Dança Brasileira” by Stil.
Jan 1974