Movies: Walter Lima Jr.

In order to invent a region, it is necessary to create its culture, preferably with the help of cinema. Inspired by the book and play “A Invenção do Nordeste”, this is a re-editing of Brazilian films essential to the foundation of the Northeastern im...

Originally produced for German TV, Improvised and Purposeful is a firsthand look at the "Cinema Novo" movement (otherwise known as the 'Brazilian New Wave'). Director Joaquim Pedro de Andrade focuses on six Cinema Novo filmmakers working in Rio in 19...

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Year 2000. Brazil was partially devastated by the Third World War. An immigrant family arrives in a small town, which they call "I Forgot." The trio is recruited by an indigenist to pretend to be indigenous during the visit of a general. In the dilem...

After being orphaned, a boy is raised by his grandfather and uncles, rich rural landowners, on a sugarcane plantation where he grows up, studies, learns about politics, love and disillusionment....

Between August 23 and 31, 1983, at the "Circo Massimo", in Rome, there was a musical event that brought together artists from Bahia. This film brings a recording of the event, also featuring backstage, rehearsals, testimonies and some relaxing moment...

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....

Documentary on the life and work of José Lins do Rego (1901-1957), one of Brazil's greatest 20th century literary authors, writer of celebrated novels "Menino de Engenho", "Fogo Morto", "Moleque Ricardo", "Riacho Doce" and many more....

A TV reporter accidentally finds, in the subway's Lost and Found, a love letter addressed to a woman, written more than fifty years ago....

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A diary of a trip filmed by Glauber in Punta del Leste (Uruguay – 1972) that documents the reunion of the Rocha familiy: Dona Lúcia, the mother; Anecy Rocha, the sister; Paloma, the daughter, and Walter Lima Jr., the then brother-in-law, with the dir...

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Documentary about the cinema that formed the Paissandu Generation, in the 60s, and the cultural and social impact of that period for the country's history....

About the Hungarian photographer, an exponent of the history of the Brazilian documentary, directed by filmmaker Walter Lima Junior and sponsored by Petrobras....

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Historical film that rescues the memory of the early Brazilian film festivals through photos, films, testimonials, and posters....

A film in three movements. In the first one, we find a historical synthesis of Brazilian architecture, from the slaves' dwellings to the Ministry of Education Building. In the second segment, architects such as Burle Marx, Lina Bo Bardi, Grigori Warc...