Movies: Heitor Villa-Lobos

A young Venezuelan idealist flees his native land to escape a revolution. Hoping to find peace, he goes to the mountains and the forests of the Amazon. There he encounters Rima, the Bird Girl, an orphan living a life of nature, who is feared by a loc...

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Documentary about the birth of bossa-nova, in Brazil, and the major stars of this musical style....

Follows the story of Opinião, a theatre group created in 1964 during the early Brazilian dictatorship period to oppose the government through artistic performances. Considered the first left-wing response to the dictatorship, the group gathered now f...

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In Rio de Janeiro, Gilberto (Celso Guimarães) is a talented artisan engaged of Marina (Lídia Mattos), working in a pottery factory. He is hired by the millionaire widow Luciana (Carmem Santos) to perform a restoration in her castle in Correas, a dist...

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A brief look at Amazonas, its population, their costumes, the rich nature and its importance to Brazil and the world....

O Descobrimento do Brasil (The Discovery of Brazil) is an impressive historical epic recreating Álvares Cabral’s voyage to the New World in 1500, with a score especially written by the renowned composer, Heitor Villa-Lobos. One of the earliest exampl...

Against all advice, a destitute Brazilian old man marries a nineteen-year-old girl. Because he can’t give her any children, he moves to the interior to make money, so she will at least have a good life. When he returns, he is told she has a three-yea...

Swain is inspired by Nathaniel Hawthorne’s Fanshawe, features a dreamlike narrative of a young man’s ritualized rejection of heterosexuality, as a mysterious woman in white gossamer pursues him through a ruined landscape....

Curitiba is a maze of ideas, people and contradictions. This short-film shows that perspective of the city, with its statues, ghost buses, brokens sidewalks and capybaras....

A semi-autobiographical film about an adolescent relationship, about emotional illiterates of a particular age and milieu. Structured as a series of fragments – so called “shards of memory” – the film follows the progressive dissolution of the affair...

The only musician to perform at the Modern Art Week of 1922, composer Villa-Lobos was the object of the biggest boos at that event. After that, he decided to spend some time in Paris, where he met characters like Jean Cocteau, Andres Segovia, Arthur ...

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Film installation depicting aerial landscape photography at Sebastião Selgado's Amazônia exhibition. Accompanied with 'Erosão - Origem do Rio Amazonas' by Heitor Villa-Lobos....

“The Little Dominos Jingle Bells” was made to celebrate the centennial of the work “Children’s Carnival” of one of Latin America’s most celebrated composer, Heitor Villa-Lobos. His musical play consisted in explore the folklore behind this brazilian ...

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