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Bruno Jorge

Since 2003, filmmaker Bruno Jorge has made very independently over 20 films of different genres, including short/medium/feature-length, influenced by visual arts, experimental cinema and etnography. Among the various shortfilms we could mention "Setback" (best film at Festival do Rio, Lab Competition Clermont-Ferrand), Justiça ao Insulto (Cannes, Rotterdam), "November, December" (IDFA) , "Catuçaba…

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Useless Utensils

Useless Utensils · 2024

Useless Utensils

MovieDocumentary

Filmmaker Bruno Jorge makes an autoethnography by filming the characters who crossed his path during the years he lived with his family in a small rural village in the interior of Minas Gerais.

The Edge of Democracy

The Edge of Democracy · 2019

The Edge of Democracy

MovieDocumentary

A cautionary tale for these times of democracy in crisis—the personal and political fuse to explore one of the most dramatic periods in Brazilian history. With unprecedented access to Presidents Dilma Rousseff and Lula da Silva, we witness their rise and fall and the tragically polarized nation that remains.

Piripkura

Piripkura · 2018

MovieDocumentary

The last two surviving members of the Piripkura people, a nomadic tribe in the Mato Grosso region of Brazil, struggle to maintain their indigenous way of life amidst the region's massive deforestation. Living deep in the rainforest, Pakyî and Tamandua live off the land relying on a machete, an ax, and a torch lit in 1998.

The Invention of the Other

The Invention of the Other · 2022

The Invention of the Other

MovieDocumentary

In 2019, the Brazilian government coordinates the largest and riskiest expedition of the last decades into the Amazon rainforest to search for a group of isolated indigenous people in vulnerability and promote their first contact with non-indigenous. Bruno Pereira, who would later be murdered in the same region and turned into an international symbol in favor of the indigenous and the forest, leads the expedition.

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Useless Utensils

Useless Utensils · 2024

Useless Utensils

MovieDocumentary

Filmmaker Bruno Jorge makes an autoethnography by filming the characters who crossed his path during the years he lived with his family in a small rural village in the interior of Minas Gerais.

Director

The Edge of Democracy

The Edge of Democracy · 2019

The Edge of Democracy

MovieDocumentary

A cautionary tale for these times of democracy in crisis—the personal and political fuse to explore one of the most dramatic periods in Brazilian history. With unprecedented access to Presidents Dilma Rousseff and Lula da Silva, we witness their rise and fall and the tragically polarized nation that remains.

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Piripkura

Piripkura · 2018

MovieDocumentary

The last two surviving members of the Piripkura people, a nomadic tribe in the Mato Grosso region of Brazil, struggle to maintain their indigenous way of life amidst the region's massive deforestation. Living deep in the rainforest, Pakyî and Tamandua live off the land relying on a machete, an ax, and a torch lit in 1998.

Director

The Invention of the Other

The Invention of the Other · 2022

The Invention of the Other

MovieDocumentary

In 2019, the Brazilian government coordinates the largest and riskiest expedition of the last decades into the Amazon rainforest to search for a group of isolated indigenous people in vulnerability and promote their first contact with non-indigenous. Bruno Pereira, who would later be murdered in the same region and turned into an international symbol in favor of the indigenous and the forest, leads the expedition.

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