Rogério Sganzerla

Identidade

During a screening of Oedipus Rex in a run-down movie theater in downtown Rio, three peculiar characters—a frustrated projectionist, his intern, and a wandering poet—decide to interrupt the film to discuss the death of cinema. The audience revolts. So does the film.

Audácia!

Segment "Prólogo": interviews and scenes with some of the most important filmmakers of the "Boca do Lixo" of São Paulo. Segment "A Badaladíssima dos Trópicos x Os Picaretas do Sexo": shenanigans of a troubled fictional film production. Segment "Amor 69": Actress Maria Vargas is expected to appear nude in a scene, but ultimately refuses to do so.

A Cidade do Salvador (Petróleo Jorrou na Bahia)

Documentary about power and class relations in the sociocultural context of Bahia, considering the history of oil extraction in the state.

Dunas do Barato

A rescue of the history of Ipanema beach in the 1970s, when the construction of a pier changed the landscape and created fertile soil for a generation of artists and sportsmen.

Oswaldianas

Collective film with five segments around the works and life of brazilian writer Oswald de Andrade.

Copacabana Mon Amour

Sônia and her homosexual brother are both believed by their mother to be possessed by the devil. She works as a prostitute in the streets of Copacabana and he’s a servant who falls madly in love with his employer.

Belair

Between February an May of 1970, Julio Bresane and Rogerio Sganzerla made 7 films for their company Belair that were forbidden by the Brazilian censorship that reveal today images of an unique freedom.

Irani

Register a popular celebration related to a battle fought in the city of Irani, starting point of Contestado War at Santa Catarina State, Brazil in 1912.

Identidade

During a screening of Oedipus Rex in a run-down movie theater in downtown Rio, three peculiar characters—a frustrated projectionist, his intern, and a wandering poet—decide to interrupt the film to discuss the death of cinema. The audience revolts. So does the film.

Audácia!

Segment "Prólogo": interviews and scenes with some of the most important filmmakers of the "Boca do Lixo" of São Paulo. Segment "A Badaladíssima dos Trópicos x Os Picaretas do Sexo": shenanigans of a troubled fictional film production. Segment "Amor 69": Actress Maria Vargas is expected to appear nude in a scene, but ultimately refuses to do so.

A Cidade do Salvador (Petróleo Jorrou na Bahia)

Documentary about power and class relations in the sociocultural context of Bahia, considering the history of oil extraction in the state.

Dunas do Barato

A rescue of the history of Ipanema beach in the 1970s, when the construction of a pier changed the landscape and created fertile soil for a generation of artists and sportsmen.

Oswaldianas

Collective film with five segments around the works and life of brazilian writer Oswald de Andrade.

Copacabana Mon Amour

Sônia and her homosexual brother are both believed by their mother to be possessed by the devil. She works as a prostitute in the streets of Copacabana and he’s a servant who falls madly in love with his employer.

Belair

Between February an May of 1970, Julio Bresane and Rogerio Sganzerla made 7 films for their company Belair that were forbidden by the Brazilian censorship that reveal today images of an unique freedom.

Irani

Register a popular celebration related to a battle fought in the city of Irani, starting point of Contestado War at Santa Catarina State, Brazil in 1912.

Documentário

Two young men decide to go to the cinema. However, since their tastes are very strict, they end up in a quarrel.

Noel por Noel

Homage to the great Brazilian samba songwriter Noel Rosa (1910-1937).

It's All True

A documentary about Orson Welles's unfinished three-part film about South America.

My Calendar Girl

A film in which dream and reality intertwine, A Moça do Calendário tells the story of inácio, 40, married, without a permanent job. Ex-street sweeper, he works as a mechanic at Barato da Pesada, where he dreams of the calendar girl.

Anônimo e incomum

The Red Light Bandit

Born and raised in the misery of Brazilian slums, Jorge becomes a luxury house burglar in São Paulo and gets nicknamed "The Red Light Bandit" by the sensationalist press. In addition to wearing a red flashlight, he talks to his hostages in an irreverent tone and makes bold breakthroughs to later spend the money extravagantly. His world is the decadent neighbourhood of Boca do Lixo.

A Miss e o Dinossauro

A short documentary on Belair, an independent Brazilian film company that lasted for only five months in 1970.

Ritos Populares: Umbanda no Brasil

A documentary based on the book Umbanda no Brasil by the scholar Mata e Silva, who is interviewed by the director. The book studies the Brazilian religion known as spiritism, a syncretism of African beliefs and magical rites, Indian beliefs and images, and Catholic symbols.

Candango: Memoirs from a Festival

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 of cultural and political resistance. Its story is that of Brazilian cinema itself.

Extracts

Extracts is a short film with images from 1970 to 1972 in the cities of Rio de Janeiro, Salvador, London, Marrakech, Rabat and the Sahara Desert region. The images were filmed by Helena Ignez and Rogério Sganzerla in exile, in the "leaden years" of the military dictatorship.

The Monsters of Babaloo

Daily scenes of a grotesque family living in the metaphorical island of Babaloo.

Informação H. J. Koellreutter

The Woman of Everyone

Ângela Carne e Osso (Angela Meat and Bone), a young nymphomaniac, lives surrounded by delinquents, and exerts intense allure on them, dominating them all with her erotic power.

The Long Voyage of the Yellow Bus

For this behemoth, Bressane took his opera omnia and edited it in an order that first adheres to historical chronology but soon starts to move backwards and forward. The various pasts – the 60s, the 80s, the 2000s – comment on each other in a way that sheds light on Bressane’s themes and obsessions, which become increasingly apparent and finally, a whole idea of cinema reveals itself to the curious and patient viewer. Will Bressane, from now on, rework The Long Voyage of the Yellow Bus when he makes another film? Is this his latest beginning? Why not, for the eternally young master maverick seems to embark on a maiden voyage with each and every new film!

It's Not All True

Orson Welles goes to Brazil to shoot his documentary It's All True.

The Abyss

Man tries to decipher a manuscript about an ancient civilization and gets involved in strange situations. In fact, the plot is just an excuse to tackle the subjects of mysticism and human condition.