Cristina Amaral Movies

With her radical voice, visceral improvisation, and unmistakable rasp, Elza Soares created a language all her own and crossed generations,...

At 80 years old, Chiara, an immigrant woman, single mother, and independent soul, sees her world collapse with the sale of the restaurant she built...

This short film was made as a study for the feature film "São Silvestre".

A look at the Brazilian black movement between 1977 and 1988, going by the relationship between Brazil and Africa.

In 1965, a year after the military coup in Brazil, an oasis of freedom opened in the country's capital. The Brasília Film Festival: a landmark...

On a same night, five people from a small country town have the same nightmare. Upon the arrival of a pilgrim, the village is taken off its mediocre...

Dadinho, an old samba composer, is taken by his granddaughter to his brother’s funeral, composer from a rival samba school. Along this path a...

A reflection on books and culture through testimonies and images from the Rio de Janeiro's National Library. In this work commissioned by the...

"Confluências" presents ways of celebrating and other ways of life in the Saco-Curtume quilombo, in the rural area of São João do...

Just released from prison, Léa returns home to the Brasilia favela of Sol Nascente and joins up with her half-sister Chitara, the fearless...

Two tales of migration. In the first, after a tailings dam disaster floods her hometown, rural worker Joana (55) moves to São...

A portrait of Brazilian actress Vera Valdez, tracing her years as a model for Dior and, most notably, Coco Chanel; her flirtation with the French New...

A story of grief, of pain: an abortion. Time becomes entangled as past, present, and future intertwine, allowing what has already happened and what...

Zu, a twelve-year-old boy on the way to buy flour for his mother, winds up in the clutches of armed paramilitary narcotics officers.

Silmara, an industrial worker and a woman of exuberant beauty, supports her arsonist father and gets involved with two different pop stars, from whom...