Exu - Além do Bem e do Mal

Pierre Fatumbi Verger: Messenger Between Two Worlds

December 1998 •Portuguese

Inspired by the life of the french-born photographer and ethnographer, Pierre Verger, the movie follows his journey between Bahia, Brazil and Benin, Oriental Africa, showing places and people he met and his life study project: the Candomblé culture.

Orun: O Mundo dos Orixás

Invalid date •Portuguese

Fora da Caridade Não Há Salvação

June 2023 •Portuguese

Por Trás do Congá

March 2023 •Portuguese

ENCRUZILHADAS DO SOM

March 2023 •Portuguese

The documentary adresses the meaning of music and the musical diversity present in Umbanda (a Brazilian religion with afroindigenous roots). With interviews with four umbandistas from Fortaleza - Ceará, Crossroads of the Sound pays reverence to the enchanted dimension where the sounds cross each other to make the spirits dance.

Desagradável

May 2013 •Portuguese

Some people seem to have come into the world to confuse, annoy, swim against the current, like the guys from Gangrena Gasosa, the first and only Sarava Metal band of the universe. "Desagradável" covers all the 23 years of the band. A special reunion of people that stirred the underground scene of 90's until today. All the legends detailed in a film that will show the most shameful chapters in history of Brazilian Rock. Jello Biafra, Jão and João Gordo, BNegão, Marcelo D2, Anjo Caldas, Dado Villa-Lobos, Rafael Ramos, Fabio from Garage, Marcos Bragatto, Tom Leão, Pedro Só, Adilson Pereira, Larry Antha and the former members (more than 15!) recalls the regrettable moments that Sarava Metal happened in their lives. Archive images, photos and videos to prove, once for all, that "Home Saint makes miracles too".

Batchan

March 2020 •Portuguese

Teachings of an Issei. Advice, spirituality and challenges.

Do Que Aprendi Com Minhas Mais Velhas

March 2017 •Portuguese

SAMBANCESTRAL

November 2024 •Portuguese

Preto Velho na Lagoinha

March 2016 •Portuguese

Documentary about the preparation of a popular celebration of "Dia do Preto Velho", one of the most important rituals from the Umbanda in Brazil.

Arreda Homem Que Chegou Mulher

October 2021 •Portuguese

Documentary about terreiro women in Fortaleza who occupy the highest positions in the hierarchy, subverting the patriarchal tradition of religious communities.

Encontro das Águas

August 2017 •Portuguese

This short film follows the journey of Rosane Pires and Iara Viana, during the preparations for their wedding, as well as the civil and religious ceremonies.

Exú Não É O Diabo

June 2025 •Portuguese

Words with Gods

November 2014 •English

The first of four installments in the groundbreaking Heartbeat of the World anthology film series. Comprised of several short films by some of the world's most exciting directors, Words with Gods follows the theme of religion - specifically as it relates to an individual's relationship with his/her god or gods...or the lack thereof. In Words with Gods, each director recounts a narrative centered around human fragility, as well as environmental and cultural crises involving specific religions with which each has a personal relationship; including early Aboriginal Spirituality, Umbanda, Buddhism, the Abrahamic faiths, Hinduism, and Atheism. An animated sequence by Mexican animator Maribel Martinez is woven through each of the film segments, with each segment narratively connected as a feature-length film.

Casulo

Invalid date •Portuguese

Amor de Ori

February 2017 •Portuguese

Oxum goes to the river every day to fill his jug with water. One day, a woman in red clothes crosses his path and changes her life forever.

Ylê Xoroquê

October 1981 •English

The process of formation of the person and its identity from an African conception of the world. The orixás (gods), linked to the forces of nature, are equal to people, and are not transcendent. of the person with their orixá, within the family and the culture. Filmed in a Candomblé terreiro of Bantu origin.

James Paul McCartney

April 1973 •English

«James Paul McCartney» is a 1973 television special produced by ATV and starring English musician Paul McCartney and his then current rock group Wings. It was first broadcast on 16 April 1973 in the United States on the ABC network, and was later broadcast in the United Kingdom on 10 May 1973. «James Paul McCartney» was McCartney's first such special since the Beatles' 1967 television film «Magical Mystery Tour» and was intended to showcase his versatility as an artist and entertainer.

Utterance: The Music of Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan

January 1990 •English

Short documentary about Pakistani musician, Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan (1948-1997), leading exponent of Sufi devotional qawwali singing.

Everything I See Is Mine

December 2017 •Spanish

In 1918, two important events took place in the City of Buenos Aires: an unexpected snowfall and the visit of Dadaist star Marcel Duchamp. The artist who dared to paint a moustache on the Mona Lisa touched Buenos Aires soil, getting around the restrictions of World War I and having as his only contact with the other members of the movement the handwritten letters in which he described the strange customs of the Argentinians. Through the endless possibilities of fiction, Everything I See Is Mine reconstructs Duchamp's days among visits to the Palermo lakes and the ritual of mate.