Alegria, Viva o Bloco Não é Não

Filhos de João, O Admirável Mundo Novo Baiano

July 2011 •Portuguese

A panorama of Brazilian popular music from the 60s and 70s through the musical group Novos Baianos. A retrospective of the community lifestyle adopted by its members and the influence inherited from singer João Gilberto.

Artesanato do Samba

January 1974 •Portuguese

The making of the samba school parades, with the construction of the great cars, the decorations being spread all over the city and the hand-crafted tailoring of the costumes by apt hands that stitch together colourful and glowing materials.

Biografía de un carnaval

January 1983 •Spanish

Memória em Verde e Rosa

June 2016 •Portuguese

The Mangueira slum is the scenario where Tantinho and the old samba composers remember stories about the slums and samba.

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.

Arthur et les confettis

October 2023 •French

Los pueblos dormidos (por la Quebrada de Humahuaca)

June 1947 •Spanish

Documentary about the kolla people living in North Western Argentina.

Nao ’t Zuuje

January 2018 •Dutch

Het Geheim van Carnaval

February 2023 •Dutch

É o Boi

February 2024 •Portuguese

"É o Boi" is a documentary that narrates the origins, portrays the present and discusses the perspectives of carnival in the city of Porto Ferreira/SP. Celebrating a tradition that already is already 90 years old, the film is mainly made up of images taken during the Porto Ferreira's carnival and interviews with people who fight daily to keep this unique and at the same time typically Brazilian cultural manifestation alive. Made over almost a decade, "É o Boi" also portrays critical moments of this carnival in the countryside of São Paulo, including disagreements with public authorities that almost led to the carnival being banned and the impacts of the Covid-19 pandemic on the organization of celebrations.

82 Minutos

October 2015 •Portuguese

Nossa Escola de Samba

January 1965 •Portuguese

A year in the life of a samba school, from the first rehearsals to the parade on the avenue.

Sou Carnaval de São Salvador

January 2019 •Portuguese

Carnaval Claudia Leitte: We Can Do It!

March 2021 •Portuguese

Sonho de um Carnaval

October 2003 •Portuguese

Cesta za tancem

January 2021 •Czech

A Raça Síntese de Joãosinho Trinta

October 2009 •Portuguese

Vivencial I

January 1974 •Portuguese

Short by Jomard Muniz de Britto

Heirs

Invalid date •Portuguese

Herdeiros (Heirs) is a documentary about samba, about carnival, about the power of a resistant tradition. Shot in Morro da Serrinha in Rio, the film tells the story of the cultural and musical heritage, of the African heritage of formerly enslaved people in Brazil today.

This Is Bate Bola (Somos Melhor Que Tem)

March 2019 •Portuguese

On the outskirts of Rio de Janeiro during its world famous Carnival, far from the beach and the touristic clichés, there is an explosive contest between neighbourhoods. This old form of carnival features teams of futuristic gladiators that are a surreal mixture of play and menace. A tradition that has its roots in ancient European carnival traditions and in African rituals, they look like visitors from another planet.