Olinda Só Riso

Christmas Goat

December 2016 •Portuguese

A Christmas story. The goat is the solution to the problems of a family in Recife, Brazil.

Today I Will Only Come Home Tomorrow

June 2024 •Portuguese

Each person is a Carnival and Marina knows which one she is. On the slopes of Olinda she seeks the ecstasy of carnival revelry, the music, the shouting, the heat, the joy, the love. Her journey is seen through the eyes of ten different characters, and for each of them a director lends their artistic view. But in the midst of so many people, marching bands, encounters and misencounters, how can we find Carnival?

Art

May 2022 •Portuguese

Mãos de Pedra

May 2014 •Portuguese

Black Out - A História Apagada no Palco da Arte

August 2024 •Portuguese

Drag Queens em Cena: A Expressão de Almas Artísticas

August 2024 •Portuguese

Ave Maria ou Mãe dos Sertanejos

January 2009 •Portuguese

Nação Zumbi Ao Vivo no Recife

March 2012 •Portuguese

Así Pasó

April 2021 •Portuguese

The Killer

September 2017 •Portuguese

In lawless badlands, reclusive Cabeleira sets out to discover the fate of his gunman father and grows to be a feared assassin himself.

Wallpaper

September 2023 •Portuguese

Azougue Nazareth

November 2019 •Portuguese

No measure of hellfire preaching can quell the boisterous and bawdy passions of Maracatu, an Afro-Brazilian burlesque carnival tradition with roots in slavery that takes place in the northeast state of Pernambuco. As the Falstaffian character Tiao, Valmir do Coco leads a nonprofessional cast of authentic Maracatu practitioners in a tale told through dance, music, and the supernatural, set in the sugarcane fields outside Recife.

The Little Prince's Rap Against The Wicked Souls

August 2000 •Portuguese

A documentary that focuses on two young male inhabitants of Recife (statistically, the fourth worst city in the world to live in) who have both reacted strongly to their situation. One has become a drummer in a rap/rock band. The other has killed forty-four people and is now in jail. Both use the term "Wicked Souls" to describe their enemies.

O Carnaval é de Pelé

December 2024 •Portuguese

This short film follows Pelé, a retired nurse who looks back on his time as a Mateus in the century-old Bumba Meu Boi group, Boi Tira-Teima. As he builds a new boi for the festival, he revisits the defining moments of his journey as a performer, carnival artist, and son of Mestre Gerson, the group’s former patriarch. The film explores how the way we carry our memories of the past shapes who we become in the present.

Recife no Centenário da Confederação do Equador

October 1924 •Portuguese

Bruscky: Um Autorretrato

April 2025 •Portuguese

Labuta

November 2022 •Portuguese

Chico Science e Nação Zumbi - Especial MTV

January 1995 •Portuguese

Pesado: Que som é esse que vem de Pernambuco?

October 2017 •Portuguese

Documentary about the heavy rock scene in Pernambuco.

Olho de Palha

March 2021 •Portuguese