In six decades, Teatro Oficina has done more than revolutionize theatrical language in the country: the aesthetic influence of José Celso Martinez Corrêa's company extends from Tropicalism to the renewal of Brazilian audiovisual languages from the 1960s onwards. The film revisits a story that it involves personalities such as Caetano Veloso, Glauber Rocha, Lina Bo Bardi, Chico Buarque and Zé do Caixão, brings together scenic art, ecology, architecture and sexuality, and mixes art and life in the search for a Brazilian based language.
A sudden mourning brings a woman to the edge of madness. Funeral procedures, heat and a neighbor that comes to water the plants, come together in an emotional journey where it is impossible to distinguish the real from the unreal.
A short film about love and sexuality in the old age, and the struggle to overcome social conventions.
A film that mixes labyrinthine recent testimonies and historical images of the career of the tropicalista director, actor and playwright Zé Celso, of Teatro Oficina, one of the greatest personalities of the Brazilian arts of all time. The documentary acquired its main verb in four trips to key points in the trajectory of Zé: Bahia badlands, Cururipe Beach in Alagoas (where Bishop Sardinha was devoured), Epidaurus and Athens in Greece and his apartment in São Paulo.
Meet a Brazilian lady who uses marijuana for more than thirty years and shares her experiences with the drug.
At age 15, Debora shares with Hamlet the angst and doubts of her adolescence.
The theater, the actress, the actor: a love-hate relationship, a dispute, performances, the stage and life.
"Portraits and excerpts from Brazilian films from all times. Actors, directors and images that affirm cinema."
Maria Alice Monteiro de Campos Vergueiro (São Paulo, January 19, 1935 — São Paulo, June 3, 2020) was a Brazilian pedagogue, university professor and theater actress with an extensive career on stage, in cinema and on television.
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