Helena Ignez Movies

"Portraits and excerpts from Brazilian films from all times. Actors, directors and images that affirm cinema."

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...

For this behemoth, Bressane took his opera omnia and edited it in an order that first adheres to historical chronology but soon starts to move...

Released from the Mental Health Wing of São Paulo State Penitentiary after forty years, the sadistic undertaker Zé do Caixão is...

Orson Welles goes to Brazil to shoot his documentary It's All True.

Daniel is a taxi driver who’s married to Adalgisa. When she starts acting in low-budget movies, he forbids her from seeing their son, Joaquim....

In this animated fairy-tale Filly, a lesbian fairy with nimble fingers, seduces women by day dressed as a boy. But at night something strange happens...

A marginal version of Brecht’s piece, “Baal”.

Follows the story of Opinião, a theatre group created in 1964 during the early Brazilian dictatorship period to oppose the government through...

Two maids decide to rebel against the society that oppresses them and start murdering their own mistresses.

Two years of research and visits to collections, cinematheques and museums; almost seventy interviews that generated 30 hours of recorded material;...

A film in which dream and reality intertwine, A Moça do Calendário tells the story of inácio, 40, married, without a permanent...

Bressane’s first color film, shot in the home of the artist Elyseu Visconti. Part of it is missing sound and final editing because the director...

A film about love, also a memoir, about the trip made in the 1970s to Morocco by Jarda Ícone, an artist, sexologist, and octogenarian rocker,...

Isabel is a babysitter pregnant of her own child and can't wait to be a mother. Until she meets Joana.

Ângela Carne e Osso (Angela Meat and Bone), a young nymphomaniac, lives surrounded by delinquents, and exerts intense allure on them,...

Collective film with five segments around the works and life of brazilian writer Oswald de Andrade.

A documentary on the restoration of Rogério Sganzerla's 1970 film "Copacabana, Mon Amour".

Based on true events in Rio de Janeiro, in 1960, when a gang having the infamous outlaw Tião Medonho as a leader performed a sensational...

After relocating to Tokyo, a Brazilian writer begins a new novel, provoked by her experiences in Japan and by one of the last scenes she witnessed in...