Sonho de um Carnaval

Alegria, Viva o Bloco Não é Não

June 2024 •Portuguese

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.

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.

Los pueblos dormidos (por la Quebrada de Humahuaca)

June 1947 •Spanish

Documentary about the kolla people living in North Western Argentina.

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.

Testament of the Donkey

Invalid date •English

Documentary exploring the Carnaval de Laza, its ancient traditions and modern practitioners.

82 Minutos

October 2015 •Portuguese

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.

Sou Carnaval de São Salvador

January 2019 •Portuguese

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.

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.

Carnaval Claudia Leitte: We Can Do It!

March 2021 •Portuguese

Cesta za tancem

January 2021 •Czech

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.

Het Geheim van Carnaval

February 2023 •Dutch

Nao ’t Zuuje

January 2018 •Dutch

O Mundo de Arlindo

April 2022 •Portuguese

The documentary talks a little about the carnival experience that Arlindo Rodrigues had during his more than 25 years of artistic life.