Catalogue des films par mot-clé
Erling Söderström | France | 1997 | 52 mn
At the border between Brazil, Peru and Paraguay, deep into the Amazonian forest, there live a still unknown people : the Korubos. They fight fiercely for their survival and defend bitterly their territory with their traditional arms. Sidney...
Jean-Claude Guiter | France | 1997 | 52 mn
The samba which emerged in the early twentieth century in Rio de Janeiro, Sao Paulo, and Bahia is primarily dance-oriented music. Since that time, all the major lyricists and composers of Brazilian music have played and sung sambas. This genre...
Jean-Claude Guiter | France | 1997 | 50 mn
One of the most popular Brazilian show is taking place in a small town called Barretos and is assembling more then 1 million people. This fair goes on for 10 days and is playing a tribute to the "peaos boiadeiros", the Brazilian cow-boys who made...
Alejandro Valenti | France | 1997 | 57 mn
In Brazil, just before the industrial revolution, coffee is so important in the economy that after the economic cycles of sugar canes and gold, it merges as the new basic product of the country. Ranking second after petrol in the world trade...
Jean Timmermann | Belgique | 1997 | 52 mn
In the Brazilian Amazon, the agrarian issue is more than ever a topical subject. The pressure by the landless peasants increases and opposes them to the landowners of the latifundios and the police force. The peasants don't have a choice and...
Soly Levy | France | 1996 | 56 mn
Brazilian society have made street kids the public enemy number 1. In Rio de Janeiro, there is a murder per hour. They are between four and ten thousand children sleeping in the street. Most of them are Blacks, from poor social background. Every...
Albert Knechtel | France | 1996 | 70 mn
Xuxa is 18. For the past nine years he's lived in the streets of São Paulo. To him, the third largest city in the world is a hell-hole. His daily life consists of stealing - or doing nothing or participating in one of the numerous projects...
Fatima Sampaio, André Ligeon-Ligeonnet | France | 1996 | 42 mn
Terezinha, aged 10, was on her way to school one day when she was killed by a stray bullet in the Pirambu district of Fortaleza, in Brazil, during a fight between rival gangs... This film examines the way of life of these child gangs. The...
Sylvain Luini, Roger Le Guen | France | 1996 | 50 mn
An island as big as Switzerland... in Brazil, situated just below the Equator, where the Amazone meets the Ocean, a place of wind and rain. The combination of these elements gatters together multiple forms of life. The wet season is almost over...
Joaquim Pinto | France, Portugal | 1996 | 40 mn
Four young "Blacks" in Rio de Janeiro's favelas there are few alternatives : a life of underpaid casual work or fast money and a short life as a cocaine trade soldier. But Berzo, a former shoe shine boy, saw a way to escape the destiny of the...