Viva o Cinema! Uma História da Mostra de São Paulo (2024)

Iron Fists and Kung Fu Kicks (2019)

The fantastic story of how an ancient martial art, Chinese kung fu, conquered the world through the hundreds of films that were produced in Hong Kong over the decades, transformed Western action cinema and inspired the birth of cultural movements such as blaxploitation, hip hop music, parkour and Wakaliwood cinema.

• Documentary
• History

In the Same Breath (2021)

This documentary recounts the experiences of people on the ground in the earliest days of the novel coronavirus and the way two countries dealt with its initial spread, from the first days of the outbreak in Wuhan to its rampage across the United States.

• Documentary

Homeroom (2021)

Following the class of 2020 at Oakland High School in a year marked by seismic change, exploring the emotional world of teenagers coming of age against the backdrop of a rapidly changing world.

• Documentary

The Italian Doctor (2020)

A young Italian doctor thrust into a COVID-19 ICU ward grapples with isolation and uncertainty with no end in sight.

• Documentary

Juan: As If Nothing Ever Happened (1987)

Documentary about the detention-disappearance of Juan Marcos Herman in the city of Bariloche during the dictatorship in Argentina.

• Documentary

The 'Frankenstein' Files: How Hollywood Made a Monster (2002)

The history of Frankenstein's journey from novel to stage to screen to icon.

• Documentary
• Horror

Elogio a la Sonrisa (2021)

• Documentary
• Family

Stille Sommer (2023)

Escape from everyday life in freedom and community and live utopias - for many organizers and artists, the secret of the music festivals that make culturally weak Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania a place of pilgrimage for tens of thousands of people every summer. But instead of freedom, community and utopia, there was one thing above all in the festival summers of 2020 and 2021: silence.

• Documentary
• Music

Dream Girl: The making of Marilyn Monroe (2022)

How did Marilyn Monroe become one of the greatest sex symbols of all time? What drove a prudish little Californian girl, who was not especially pretty nor exceptionally talented, to become this incredibly striking platinum blonde superstar? How did she become the icon capable of balancing innocence with raw sensuality, whilst continuing to captivate the masses to this day? How did she achieve this? And what price did she pay?

• Documentary

El conserje (2020)

• Documentary

To Tell the Truth: A History of Documentary Film (1928-1946) (2012)

A detailed history of documentary filmmaking in the US and the UK from 1929 to 1945. The first part, Working for Change, focuses on 1929-1941 and the social movements of the times, The Great Depression, The New Deal, and the awakening of the Leftwing in the UK. The second part, The Strategy of Truth, focuses on 1933-1946 and explores the role of film as propaganda during World War II, and the different forms it took in the US, the UK, and Germany.

• Documentary

Making Waves: The Art of Cinematic Sound (2019)

The history of cinematic sound, told by legendary sound designers and visionary filmmakers.

• Documentary
• History

Sword-and-Sandal: The Story of the Period Epic (2019)

The history of the peplum genre, known as sword-and-sandal cinema, set in Antiquity, from the silent film era to the present day.

• Documentary
• History
• TV Movie

2020: A Very Particular Year (2020)

At the beginning of the year 2020, a relentless plague sweeps the planet and, as a consequence, a global lockdown is gradually decreed: how did people from very different latitudes, living necessarily very different situations, experience this shared solitude? How did people adapt to the restriction by decree of their personal freedoms and the transformation of many bustling metropolises into ghost cities?

• Documentary

Trespassing Bergman (2013)

In the sixties, Swedish filmmaker Ingmar Bergman (1918-2007) built a house on the remote island of Fårö, located in the Baltic Sea, and left Stockholm to live there. When he died, the house was preserved. A group of very special film buffs, came from all over the world, travel to Fårö in search of the genius and his legacy. (An abridged version of Bergman's Video, 2012.)

• Documentary
• History

Favorite Daughter (2022)

A grandmother, mother, and daughter quarantine together in a Tribeca apartment as they laugh about life over wine.

• Documentary

Video Nasties: Draconian Days (2014)

The highly anticipated follow-up to their critically acclaimed VIDEO NASTIES: MORAL PANIC, CENSORSHIP & VIDEOTAPE documentary, director Jake West and producer Marc Morris continue uncovering the shocking story of home entertainment post the 1984 Video Recordings Act. A time when Britain plunged into a new Dark Age of the most restrictive censorship, where the horror movie became the bloody eviscerated victim of continuing dread created by self-aggrandizing moral guardians. With passionate and entertaining interviews from the people who lived through it and more jaw dropping archive footage, get ready to reflect and rejoice the passing of a landmark era.

• Documentary
• Horror

The Teachers: Pink, Nature Trail, Ridge between Rice Paddies, Plum (2023)

We no longer see children running around playing in the alleys of Seoul. Starting from elementary school, children go to private classes after their school. However, we see these people who are making efforts to protect children’s right to be a child and play like a child.

• Documentary

Indignité (2020)

• Documentary

Terruá Pará (2023)

Based on testimonials from key characters, such as Dona Onete, Manoel Cordeiro, Pio Lobato, among others, in “Terruá Pará”, director Jorane Castro leads us into a deep dive into the diversity of Amazonian music, providing moments of enchantment and emotion.

• Documentary
• Music