Eryk Rocha Movies

In order to invent a region, it is necessary to create its culture, preferably with the help of cinema. Inspired by the book and play “A...

Down on his luck and recently divorced, Paulo has begun driving a cab around Rio, hoping he’ll make enough to send his ex money to support...

A deep investigation, in the way of a poetic essay, on one of the main Latin American movements in cinema, analyzed via the thoughts of its main...

Documentary about Indigenous peoples' profound connection to nature and their struggle against deforestation, a grave threat to their way of life and...

Short film based on letters sent from The Brazilian Film Director Glauber Rocha to his former Assistant and friend, Jirges Ristum, father of the...

Vera and Gabriel, an elderly couple, navigate through past and present, telling their own life story. Their remembering, rendered in images from...

She menage to save from a fire a bunch of pictures and a diary written by hand. Those words and faces becomes the last traces left from the man she...

Documentary about the relationship between filmmaker Glauber Rocha and Cuba.

La Rueda shows an everyday night in Pucallpa, a city located in the Peruvian Amazon. Colors, noises and lights are projected. Families transport...

In Rio de Janeiro, close to the mythical Maracana stadium, venue for the grand final of the World Cup 2014, we find an ordinary football field in the...

The life and work of singer, musician and actor Jards Macalé.

At 84 years of age, Lúcia Rocha admitted herself to a hospital in São Paulo to undergo heart tests. Upon receiving the news about the...

Drylands could be anywhere, just as Marcélia Cartaxo could be many women (including herself). The actress is placed in a situation in which...

Maria is an actress who, during the rehearsals of the role of Jocasta for the theater, starts to live, in her personal life, the Mystery of Mary...

Reviewing home videos, filmmaker Paula Gaitán constructs a curious narrative about her youth while talking to her children. A filmic note in...

Expedito is a retired man who has lost ties with life. Among other anonymous ones, he walks around the city of Rio de Janeiro witnessing conflicts of...

A man shaves under the watchful eye of a cat. His beard becomes a cat and the cat a beard. The film merges the two concepts of chimera: as a noun, it...

A film like a monument: Luz nos Trópicos is a tribute to the rich greens of the Amazon and the forests of New England in winter, celebrating...

An eye-opening he said/she said perspective on timbó fishing, a traditional practice of the Indigenous Yanomami people that involves the...