Silvio Tendler Movies

In a small island convulsed by the 1959 revolution, Santiago Álvarez used the Seventh Art as a political weapon and created an aesthetic that...

The interview, held on January 4, 2001, was the last given by Professor Milton Santos, who died from cancer on June 24 of the same year. The...

How is it possible to boost ways of leading one's life? What are the differences between the interpretation of life, from the scientific conception...

Documentary about Brazilian history, from 1945 until the 70s, focusing on president Juscelino Kubitschek, his political rise, his philosophy of...

Personal records of characters of the student movement, of the youth's cultural activity, song. poetry, and theatrical plays made by militants in the...

Chronological profile of Brazil's student activism, from the 30s to the occupation of UNE's headquarters in Rio de Janeiro, 2007.

Built as a letter to JK in his centenary, the film shows what remained in the memory of Brazilians 26 years after his passing in a car accident in...

The Method shows and reveals the knowledge and tools used by great documentary filmmakers on the challenge of representing the reality.

The film comes to show how we are eating poorly because of an agrarian model based on agribusiness. The danger is both for the workers, who...

Sonhos Interrompidos showcases the popular movements that planted new seeds, from which new utopias emerged. The work revisits struggles driven by...

In 2000 a group of homeless people decide to go to a shopping mall to protest, to confront the misery of the excluded middle-class consumption.

The clandestine congress of the National Union of Students, held in October 1968, resulted in the collective arrest and registration of 700 students...