Jean-Claude Bernardet Movies

Jean-Claude Bernardet, Brazil’s most important living film critic, is old and sick, but tries to reinvent himself through his long...

This documentary, produced by the Mazzaropi Institute, shows movie scenes, testimonials of researchers, historians, intellectuals, and popular...

Jean feels trapped in the logic of longevity that the pharmaceutical industry imposes on him and decides to plan a conscious suicide. He invites...

In the miserable Northeastern Brazil, a ruthless land Baron wants to throw a poor farming community out of their land.

From the murder of his father by his uncle, Hamlet is forced to confront its own contradictions and the world around him. In a deconstruction of...

A countryman kills his father and heads for the big city. On his way, he meets the most bizarre and allegorical types: a robber, a drag queen who...

Bil is an elderly man who works as an office boy for a firm in São Paulo, as he does not pay for a bus ticket and takes a preferential line at...

São Paulo, 1984. Agostinho, an old and tired Physics professor, is married to Januária, a retired school principal. In his classes, he...

Experimental documentary short that debates over Rogério Sganzerla's Brazilian cult classic "The Red Light Bandit".

Henrique is a filmmaker who has made films that hardly anyone saw. A marginal for lack of choice.

Bruno is a young men from São Paulo who is proud of his growing beard. When his grandfather can no longer go to his usual barber, Bruno has to...

Luan works as an application bikeboy and faces dilemmas and prejudices in his daily delivery journey in a big city. Without hesitating, he dreams of...

Former political activist receives compensation from the Brazilian government for the disappearance of her husband, victim of the repression...

An intellectual, his questions and contradictions. How to think and act politically these days?

The death machine needs to maintain its longevity to expand and profit.

32 renowned Brazilian screenwriters of the contemporary Brazilian cinema talk about their creative processes. From the concept of script to their...

An old man stuck in a wheelchair has a red ball for only distraction. He throws it harder and harder, higher and higher, until it finally slips from...