André Sampaio Movies

City of God – 10 Years Later investigates what happened to the actors who took part in the award-winning film directed by Fernando Meirelles...

Rio Branco, Acre, an Amazon city near the border with Peru and Bolivia, has been suffering the violent impacts of recent changes in trafficking...

Nothing Like Before delves into the creation of the Clube da Esquina Album (Brazil, 1972). Considered by many music critics one of the best albums of...

No measure of hellfire preaching can quell the boisterous and bawdy passions of Maracatu, an Afro-Brazilian burlesque carnival tradition with roots...

A omnibus film about protests in Rio de Janeiro during 2013.

30 years ago, director Luiz Paulino dos Santos made a poetical register of the Zoró indians. He comes back to show it to them and finds a...

A couple lives isolated in a country house at th top of a hill, full of natural beauties. Their routine is changed when an unsual group of mannequins...

The story of the most famous sound technician in cinema and television in Brazil, known as the "noise-man".

Short film based on sambas by Moreira da Silva and Jards Macalé, and on Macalé's arrest by the Brazilin military government in the...

The old man is all of us. The sea is life. The lake, solitude.

A group of young people is in a bar to drink, and they are trying to choose a story for the movie they are decided to make, but their characters are...

Brief history of the origins and developments of ayahuasca ritual in the Braziliar popular religion of Santo Daime.

Dé, Adrianim and Martins are three black teenagers from Chatuba, Rio de Janeiro. When Dé receives the news that Almerinda, his...

A film on the feud between samba songwriters Noel Rosa and Wilson Batista.