Jean-Claude Bernardet

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Jean-Claude Bernardet OMC (Charleroi, August 2, 1936) is a Brazilian film theorist, film critic, filmmaker and writer. Born in Belgium, he spent his childhood in Paris and as a 13-year-old departed to Brazil with his family, there he was naturalised Brazilian citizen in 1964. Born : 2nd-Aug-1936

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Cama Vazia

The death machine needs to maintain its longevity to expand and profit.
Released : 18th-Apr-2023

The Screenwriter

32 renowned Brazilian screenwriters of the contemporary Brazilian cinema talk about their creative processes. From the concept of script to their agreements and disagreements, going through their experiences with filmmakers, their reaction to the finished film, critic, and even controversies on auteurism.
Released : 1st-Jan-2012

Copo Vazio

In the center of the city, Alain seeks to fill his void, while Miguel needs a place to stay.
Released : 16th-Nov-2018

O Cineasta das Platéias

This documentary, produced by the Mazzaropi Institute, shows movie scenes, testimonials of researchers, historians, intellectuals, and popular artists. As a bonus, it shows parts of Mazzaropi's last appearance on TV, on Hebe Camargo Show.
Released : 1st-Jan-2002

Person

Person is a documentary about the life and work of filmmaker Luiz Sérgio Person. The documentary brings the reconstruction of the history of the São Paulo filmmaker through the personal journey of his daughter, Marina. Through interviews with friends, family, and people who worked with Person, she seeks to discover more than dates and biographical data.
Released : 10th-Aug-2007

The Man of the Crowd

Juvenal is a metro driver from Belo Horizonte. Margô, a station controller. Both live in a state of complete solitude – each in a particular way. Juvenal refuses to be alone and strolls through the streets of this metropolis taking comfort by mingling with the anonimous crowd. Margo seeks relief in the virtual world of social networks where she struggles to establish long lasting relations with real persons.
Released : 29th-Sep-2013

Amizade

Released : 1st-Jan-2009

1968 - Without Losing Tenderness

The story of the University of Brasília, since it was only a project in Darcy Ribeiro's head until the fateful events in August 1968 when its campus was invaded by the police, during the military dictatorship, thus putting an end to its independence.
Released : 25th-May-2001

Que Viva Glauber!

Released : 1st-Jan-1991

Pingo d'Água

One country, three completely different cities. People move seeking a change not only territorially, but also - and mainly - internally. Traveling brings them closer to themselves, immersed in a universe with a poetic look like life.
Released : 19th-Sep-2014

Hamlet

Released : 20th-Oct-2022

Enigma de um Dia

A museum worker - the watchman - motivated by the homonymous painting by Giorgio De Chirico, is introduced, through everyday life, into the metaphysical universe of the Italian painter.
Released : 6th-Mar-1996

Território Crítico

Released : 1st-Jan-2001

FilmeFobia

The making of an unfinished film about phobias. Says the director. Behind the screens, he discusses at length (with e.g. Coffin Joe) about the aesthetic boundaries of the project: volunteers under controlled circumstances become immersed in their phobias in order to film the fear on their faces.
Released : 11th-Dec-2008

Sweet Thieves

After assaulting a Hollywood film crew, a group of residents of a community in Rio de Janeiro decided to produce a film that would express the reality of Brazil - with the theme of Inconfidência Mineira.
Released : 26th-May-1977

Plano B

Released : 21st-Apr-2014

Hamlet

From the murder of his father by his uncle, Hamlet is forced to confront its own contradictions and the world around him. In a deconstruction of itself, Hamlet delves into the eternal question of the meaning of existence. Set in a large metropolis, Hamlet is a free adaptation of William Shakespeare's tragedy.
Released : 11th-Jun-2015

Periscópio

Élvio and Eric live alone in a small apartment without talking to anyone else. The relationship between the two deteriorates until one day, mysteriously, a periscope appears in the room.
Released : 27th-Aug-2015

Cantando no Chuveiro

Released : Unknown

A Navalha do Avô

Bruno is a young men from São Paulo who is proud of his growing beard. When his grandfather can no longer go to his usual barber, Bruno has to learn to shave with a straight razor in order to help his grandfather stay 'sharp'.
Released : 11th-Aug-2013

Fome

Released : 17th-Sep-2015

Travessia

The crossing of generations under the influence of military dictatorship and political openness. Documentary highlights the role of the organizers of the March for the Family with God for Freedom in 1964. Based on stories of life under the military dictatorship, stories and reflections of people who had a significant participation in that period, whether for or against the coup.
Released : 24th-Oct-2009

The Man in the Box

Released : 1st-Jun-1994

Orgy or The Man Who Gave Birth

A countryman kills his father and heads for the big city. On his way, he meets the most bizarre and allegorical types: a robber, a drag queen who thinks he's Carmen Miranda, a black king, a fallen black angel, a priest, two whores, a pregnant cowboy, among others.
Released : 2nd-Aug-1970

The Destruction of Bernardet

Jean-Claude Bernardet, Brazil’s most important living film critic, is old and sick, but tries to reinvent himself through his long disintegration. Shifting between fiction and documentary, A Destruição de Bernardet uses unusual tools to trigger his memory and to make him tell his story.
Released : 10th-Aug-2016

Compêndio da Vida de um Homem Gasto e o Seu Último Desejo Perante Ela

An old man stuck in a wheelchair has a red ball for only distraction. He throws it harder and harder, higher and higher, until it finally slips from his hand, hitting the floor and unleashing the hell…
Released : 21st-Aug-2014

Disaster Movie

Released : 1st-Jan-1979

Antes do Fim

Jean feels trapped in the logic of longevity that the pharmaceutical industry imposes on him and decides to plan a conscious suicide. He invites Helena to commit suicide to two. She, on the other hand, hesitates, knows that she will live well even if she needs to live alone, but she helps him in his intentions. The silence between them does not reveal distance, but intimacy. These are years of shared affection. Together, they will prepare all the details for the funeral. He dances death while she continues rehearsing life. In the process, the two realize that before the end, there is still a lifetime.
Released : 15th-Feb-2018

P.S. - Post Scriptum

Released : 23rd-Mar-1981

Bird Boy

Gabriel is installed next to a tree in a noble neighborhood of the city of São Paulo. Clarisse accompanies astonished and inert the treatment given to Gabriel, at the same time that leads a stagnant life and dependent of the mother.
Released : 1st-Jun-2018

Amador

Henrique is a filmmaker who has made films that hardly anyone saw. A marginal for lack of choice.
Released : 26th-Jan-2014

Em 97 Era Assim

A 15 year-old boy and his friends want to lose their virginity.
Released : 17th-Nov-2016

A Vermelha Luz do Bandido

Experimental documentary short that debates over Rogério Sganzerla's Brazilian cult classic "The Red Light Bandit".
Released : 11th-Aug-2009

The Prophet of Hunger

The story of a fakir who works in a decadent circus. He and his colleagues do weirder numbers each day to attract audience, and warrant their survival. The numbers resemble a horror-show and they get marginalized. Through fable and allegory, reality turns stronger and stronger, and more absurd.
Released : 13th-Jun-1969

Ensaio Sobre o Fracasso

A projectionist at a porn cinema in downtown São Paulo, makes his first film in Super8, an essay about the failure of a lifetime. The scenes from the films you watched intersect with the new images they capture, fiction and reality blending together, weaving a bridge between the past and the present.
Released : 31st-Jan-2020

Super Oldboy

Bil is an elderly man who works as an office boy for a firm in São Paulo, as he does not pay for a bus ticket and takes a preferential line at the bank. One day he gets involved in an unusual bank robbery.
Released : 1st-Jan-2016

Letter Beyond the Walls

Letter Beyond the Walls reconstructs the trajectory of HIV and AIDS with a focus on Brazil, through interviews with doctors, activists, patients and other actors, in addition to extensive archival material. From the initial panic to awareness campaigns, passing through the stigma imposed on people living with HIV, the documentary shows how society faced this epidemic in its deadliest phase over more than two decades. With this historical approach as its base, the film looks at the way HIV is viewed in today's society, revealing a picture of persistent misinformation and prejudice, which especially affects Brazil’s most historically vulnerable populations.
Released : 26th-Sep-2019

Nuvem Negra

Released : 14th-Jun-2019

Utopia, Distopia

Jorge Bodanzy appeals to the emotional memories of the period he spent studying at the University of Brasilia to show us a tableau of youth in the 1960s, with their dreams and expectations, their hardships, and interrupted projects.
Released : 8th-Sep-2020

Você tem Olhos Tristes

Luan works as an application bikeboy and faces dilemmas and prejudices in his daily delivery journey in a big city. Without hesitating, he dreams of a better future.
Released : 18th-Sep-2020

Die Farben der Vögel

The scientist Udo Gierer is on the trail of Theodor Koch-Grünberg, the famous Amazon researcher at the beginning of our century. While traveling on a river steamboat, he meets and becomes friends with 14 year old José Junior. He takes José with him on a flight over the rain forest and tells the boy about the importance of the Amazon as the lung of the world.
Released : 16th-Jun-1989

#eagoraoque

An intellectual, his questions and contradictions. How to think and act politically these days?
Released : 22nd-Oct-2020

The City of Pirates

A film director faces a complex situation in the production of his new film: Laerte, the protagonist of the story, begins to renegade her former characters, the Pirates of the Tietê. Lost in this situation and determined to be faithful to his whims after seeing the approach of death, the director decides to tell his drama mixing his persona with the story, creating a chaotic labyrinth between fiction and real life.
Released : 17th-Aug-2018

Candango: Memoirs from a Festival

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 cultural and political resistance. Its story is that of Brazilian cinema itself.
Released : 22nd-Oct-2020

Nunc et Semper

Released : 1st-Jan-1993

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