Eduardo Coutinho Movies

Documentary on poor people living in a slum in Rio de Janeiro, on the occasion of New Year's Eve of 1999.

Eduardo Coutinho was filming a movie with the same name in the Northeast of Brazil, in 1964, when there came the military coup. He had to interrupt th...

A panorama of the Brazilian black experience, starting with the figure of the semi-illiterate popular artist and employee of a salt mine Gabriel Joaqu...

A conversation with Brazilian documentary filmmaker Eduardo Coutinho about his work and methods.

In 1965, a year after the military coup in Brazil, an oasis of freedom opened in the country's capital. The Brasília Film Festival: a landmark of cult...

This film shows people with constant psychological and social conflicts: the violence among outlaws, conflicts between man and woman, police and socie...

Made from interviews with young Brazilian students by filmmaker Eduardo Coutinho before his death (in February 2014),the film seeks to understand how...

A story inspired by the life of one of the most remarkable figures in Brazilian popular culture, João Francisco dos Santos (1900-1976). In turn, bandi...

An overview of brazilian spirituality and religions.

A documentary on Cosme Alves Netto (1937-1996),former head of the Cinematheque of the Museum of Modern Arts at Rio de Janeiro.

Follows the story of Opinião, a theatre group created in 1964 during the early Brazilian dictatorship period to oppose the government through artistic...

Documentary that shows the events that culminated in the deposition of President João Goulart, on March 31, 1964, and the implementation of the milita...

Chronicles the life of a 17 year-old girl living in the upper-class Rio de Janeiro neighbourhood of Ipanema. Márcia lives a life of parties and spend...

The Method shows and reveals the knowledge and tools used by great documentary filmmakers on the challenge of representing the reality.

The story of Rio de Janeiro’s movie theaters and the radical transformation they have endured since the invention of Cinema.

Documentary that addresses, through the testimony of directors and actors, the work of Dib Lutfi, considered one of the greatest photographers of Braz...

How much theatricality is there in an interview-based documentary? On one side, someone answers. On the other side, someone asks questions – usually a...

The audience follows the creative process of the filmmaker Eduardo Coutinho in the documentary, from the research phase until the end of the filming o...

From cinema-verite; pioneers Albert Maysles and Joan Churchill to maverick movie makers like Errol Morris, Werner Herzog and Nick Broomfield, the worl...