Silvio Tendler Movies

Documentary about Brazilian history, from 1945 until the 70s, focusing on president Juscelino Kubitschek, his political rise, his philosophy of...

In the post-pandemic future of covid-19, will the centrality be the financial casino and the accumulation of wealth by an elite or a quality life for...

The film deals with the process of globalization based on the thought of geographer Milton Santos, who through his ideas and practices, inspires the...

In a small island convulsed by the 1959 revolution, Santiago Álvarez used the Seventh Art as a political weapon and created an aesthetic that...

The intense life of Ferreira Gullar, one of the most influential poets in Brazil, is revisited by his personal friend Silvio Tendler, based on his...

The Method shows and reveals the knowledge and tools used by great documentary filmmakers on the challenge of representing the reality.

Documentary about Brazilian filmmaker Glauber Rocha, one of the most important names in the Cinema Novo, with interviews with some of his friends and...

Built as a letter to JK in his centenary, the film shows what remained in the memory of Brazilians 26 years after his passing in a car accident in...

In 2000 a group of homeless people decide to go to a shopping mall to protest, to confront the misery of the excluded middle-class consumption.

A documentary on Cosme Alves Netto (1937-1996), former head of the Cinematheque of the Museum of Modern Arts at Rio de Janeiro.

Chronological profile of Brazil's student activism, from the 30s to the occupation of UNE's headquarters in Rio de Janeiro, 2007.

Maria Pimentel is one of us! A fierce activist, she was part of the founding of the Federation of Women of São Paulo in the early 1980s as a...

Silvio Tendler goes through his life remembering the movements he was part of during the brazilian dictatorship and his adherence to socialism.