Vânia Debs Movies

Passages showcases Brazilian films in which the utilisation of artforms and media such as literature, painting, theatre, music, photography, radio...

In a small village in the hinterland, three stories of love and desire are changing the emotional landscape of its residents. Characters of a...

Weatherman from a TV network goes back to his hometown, Vale da Rocha, a place in Northeast Brazil, devastated by the drought. He is forced to face...

Jéssica is a teenager from Brazilian Northeast. After being abused by her stepfather, she runs away to Recife, where starts to work with...

Immersive documentary in the film editing process. Twenty Brazilian cinema editors expose the nuances of this art, its secrets and processes.

Adapted from his autobiography, the film recounts the story of Hiroito, The King of Boca do Lixo (a region in downtown São Paulo of the...

Serginho has a hard time finding his place in the world as he works with his uncle at the market, supports his depressed mother, and takes care of...

A documentarist is convinced by her son to travel to Brazil's Northeast so she can throw his dad ashes at São Francisco river.

The film narrates, from an intimate point of view, the daily life of President Dilma Rousseff in her official residence, the Palácio do...

The cultural differences between the several generations of the rural maracatu: an afro-indigenous ritual which originated in the sugar mills of the...

Eccentric Durval is a bit like the record shop he operates with his mother: rundown and pathetic. When their home becomes too much for his mother to...

A Lebanese photographer living in Brazil in the '30s manages to film the band of Lampião, a legendary Brazilian bandit.

The making of an unfinished film about phobias. Says the director. Behind the screens, he discusses at length (with e.g. Coffin Joe) about the...

Couple prepare their "great voyage" in all details, not forgetting the flowers, music and luggage.

Camila is in her mid-twenties and her life has been thrown into chaos ever since her boyfriend threw her out of their apartment during a bitter...

To pursue the woman of dreams, there are lovers capable of delving into a strange journey - through all the genres and styles that cinema has...

This communist and parliamentarian leader was arrested and tortured, and became famous for having written the "Minimanual of the Urban Guerrilla"....

Tropicália was a Brazilian cultural movement that occurred between 1967 and 1968, inspired by Oswald de Andrade's anthropophagic ideals, pop...