Júlio Bressane Movies

A documentary chronicling the life and works of Brazilian poet, songwriter, journalist and avant-garde filmmaker Torquato Neto, from his beginnings...

In a movie studio, the actors are getting made up and the crew is waiting to begin shooting the film. Grande Otelo, the bungling "king of the deck",...

Helena Ignez is one of the main female figures of Brazilian cinema. She developed a new style of acting. Nowadays, she directs independent films. The...

A montage of 48 Brazilian films made between 1898 and 2022. The moments, the frames, where we feel a glimmer, an innovation, some experimentation and...

Sequence plans in full freedom of investigation of bodies, of their shadows, means and desires. It is the extension of the movement and the...

Two women, long-time friends, embark on a love story. They are writers who do not write to publish but for themselves. Their mutual conversation,...

A documentary on the restoration of Rogério Sganzerla's 1970 film "Copacabana, Mon Amour".

An essay film on the editing of erotic movies.

Two maids decide to rebel against the society that oppresses them and start murdering their own mistresses.

Bressane (together with his partner Rosa Dias and young filmmaker Rodrigo Lima) guide us through the beautiful Swiss Sils Maria, where Nietzsche...

Couple whose marriage is at stake delve into the past, with the help of a diary and some home movies. In these movies, Helena, the woman's suicidal...

Inspired by Jorge Luis Borges’ The Disinterested Killer Bill Harrigan, Garoto follows a young couple who find themselves in an enchanted place...

The story of a civil servant who lives with his elderly mother. Falling in love with a corrupt politician's young and rich daughter, he abandons...

An unusual look at 1978 Brasilia Film Festival and the politics that make certain films fashionable or not.

After being orphaned, a boy is raised by his grandfather and uncles, rich rural landowners, on a sugarcane plantation where he grows up, studies,...

One of two tributes (the other is "Ver viver reviver") that Júlio Bressane dedicated to Michelangelo Antonioni.