Movies: Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva

The fading of composer Zé Keti’s career. The sad portrait of Brazilian Congress closed in 1977. The pain of a mother who lost her 15-year old daughter run over by a car. The Brazilian Presidents since Castelo Branco. Characters and settings registere...

In the late seventies, a group of Brazilian documentary filmmakers traveled to the ABC region in the suburbs of São Paulo with the purpose of recording a wave of worker strikes taking place in response to the negligence of the increasingly powerful a...

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Documentary on the history of syndicalism in Brazil....

Brazil enters a great political turmoil after president Dilma Rousseff has been ousted through an impeachment process....

A documentary about the 1979 workers strike....

Darcy Ribeiro was a renowned anthropologist, politician and writer. In this documentary, Maria Maia seeks to expose a bit of his personality with testimonials from friends, collaborators and speeches by Darcy himself....

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This documentary shows a country that has lifted 36 million people out of extreme poverty in 12 years....

Nestor Kirchner was – along with Cristina Fernandez – the central figure of Argentine politics in the first years of the 21st century in Argentina. His Government and his political leadership starred in the brightest moment since the return of democr...

In 1982, a young Lula embarks on a campaign trip to Recife where intimate moments from the leader’s trip are captured on Super 8. THE VISIT was resurrected from original archival Super 8 footage from 1982 and edited over 42 years later to create a s...

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Intermissions follows Lula during the hectic election campaign for the presidency in 2002. Lula gave filmmaker João Moreira Salles and his crew complete access, and the result is an intimate documentary of what went on behind the scenes. Sometimes, L...

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The life and trajectory of José Rodrigues Mao Jr., history professor, unionist, singer and founder of the band Garotos Podres, an iconic Brazilian punk band from the 80s....

Reporter Joaquim de Carvalho reconstructs the 580 days of Lula's unjust imprisonment, with exclusive testimonials from those who closely followed the former president's day-to-day life from the concentration at the ABC Metallurgical Union, the presen...

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