Heitor Villa-Lobos Movies

A young Venezuelan idealist flees his native land to escape a revolution. Hoping to find peace, he goes to the mountains and the forests of the...

O Descobrimento do Brasil (The Discovery of Brazil) is an impressive historical epic recreating Álvares Cabral’s voyage to the New World...

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

Documentary about the birth of bossa-nova, in Brazil, and the major stars of this musical style.

Against all advice, a destitute Brazilian old man marries a nineteen-year-old girl. Because he can’t give her any children, he moves to the...

A brief look at Amazonas, its population, their costumes, the rich nature and its importance to Brazil and the world.

A semi-autobiographical film about an adolescent relationship, about emotional illiterates of a particular age and milieu. Structured as a series of...

Disney short.

The only musician to perform at the Modern Art Week of 1922, composer Villa-Lobos was the object of the biggest boos at that event. After that, he...

Swain is inspired by Nathaniel Hawthorne’s Fanshawe, features a dreamlike narrative of a young man’s ritualized rejection of...

In Rio de Janeiro, Gilberto (Celso Guimarães) is a talented artisan engaged of Marina (Lídia Mattos), working in a pottery factory. He...

Curitiba is a maze of ideas, people and contradictions. This short-film shows that perspective of the city, with its statues, ghost buses, brokens...

“The Little Dominos Jingle Bells” was made to celebrate the centennial of the work “Children’s Carnival” of one of...

Film installation depicting aerial landscape photography at Sebastião Selgado's Amazônia exhibition. Accompanied with 'Erosão -...