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Cavi Borges
Born November 12, 1975 · Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (age 50)
Cavi Borges is director, producer and entrepreneur in the film industry. He is the founder of Cavídeo, a producer and distributor of independent films. He has directed 14 feature films and 42 short films. Produced 60 lengths and 112 short films and won several awards at national and international festivals. In two decades it became the great name of independent Brazilian cinema working and contri…
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A Distração de Ivan · 2010A Distração de Ivan
2010
Movie
Celebrazione · 2023Celebrazione
★ 6.02023
MovieDrama
A tribute to Pier Paolo Pasolini's centenary. The film tells of his visit to Rio de Janeiro in 1970, returning from Argentina in the company of singer Maria Callas, when he met the young soldier Joaquim.
House 9 · 2011House 9
★ 7.52011
MovieDocumentary
In the 1970s, in the midst of a military dictatorship, composer Jards Macalé and filmmaker Luiz Carlos Lacerda (Bigode) shared a house in Rio de Janeiro - which became a center of convergence for musicians, filmmakers and writers, and where they performed classic films and songs of Brazilian culture.
City of God: 10 Years Later · 2013City of God: 10 Years Later
★ 6.82013
MovieDocumentary
City of God – 10 Years Later investigates what happened to the actors who took part in the award-winning film directed by Fernando Meirelles and Katia Lund. This documentary shows what City of God’s worldwide success meant to their lives. Were the actors prepared for the film’s success? Did the social background of some of them prove stronger than the opportunity that came their way?
Craft · 2011Craft
★ 6.62011
MovieDrama
Bianca manages a precarious living as a talented but underemployed actress in Rio de Janeiro, performing for private events dressed as movie icons. Troubled by the belief that she has missed her big break, Bianca's situation is upturned by an audition that leads to a rare opportunity.
Reviver · 2018Reviver
2018
Movie
Greg (Jorge Caetano) is a screenwriter hired to write a script about Maria Guaranis, a radical-style artist who has gone missing. As the author produces the script, he ends up identifying with Maria and getting lost in the creation process.
Seventy · 2013Seventy
★ 6.32013
MovieDocumentary
In 1970, Brazil was in the throes of a military dictatorship that lasted 20 years. Persecutions, arrests, killings, kidnappings. The film Seventy rejoins 18 characters of this story, forty years later. The film mixes the excitement of revisiting the past with a vision, sometimes even good humored of everything they lived. Many years afterwards they relive their experience of pain, violence and survival, of rebuilding their own story and continuing to believe in the possibility of improving the world.
White House · 2025White House
★ 6.52025
MovieDramaComedy
Dé, Adrianim and Martins are three black teenagers from Chatuba, Rio de Janeiro. When Dé receives the news that Almerinda, his grandmother, is in the terminal phase of Alzheimer's disease, he decides to enjoy the last days of her life together with his two best friends.
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Sigilo Eterno · 2018Sigilo Eterno
2018
MovieDrama
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