Thomaz Farkas Movies

With death getting near, a retired officer remembers the most important passages in his life and his participation in historical events in Brazil,...

The practices of football in Brazil and the issues surrounding the sport. Press, players as a commodity, the popular passion, the practice on the...

Photographs present Hermeto Paschoal in the middle of the instruments he plays in the studio in his house. The rehearsals where the sounds are...

Testimony by instrumentalist Osvaldinho da Cuíca with historical explanation of the presence of cuíca in several countries around the...

A vision of the different forms of handicraft production in the interior of Paraíba.

The painter Juarez Paraíso describes the assembly of panels at the entrance of the Cinema Tupi, in Salvador, explaining their meaning.

The crowd is the focus of this documentary, which presents historical scenes of the Brazilian Championship. Irreverent and poetic, the movie pays...

In the interior of Paraíba a tournament between cowboys who must demonstrate mastery in knocking an ox down by the tail while they ride.

The origins of "cangaço", armed brigands in the Northeast between 1935 and 1939, interviews with some survivors of the fighting, police and...

The disorderly growth of large urban centers in the country and the discussion about the development and existence of cultural spaces. Based on the...

Report of a crawler, who helped the steering wheels to find traces of the cangaceiros in the caatinga and their knowledge to survive in this...

Viramundo shows the saga of the northeastern migrants that arrive in São Paulo, beginning with a train arriving and ending with a train...

From the clay used to make tiles or clay clay, an image of Lampião, the king of Cangaço, begins to emerge through the work of...

Salvador, Bahia, Brazil, during the dictatorship of Getúlio Vargas. Outlaw Tonio is involved in a conflict between strikers and the police....

A year in the life of a samba school, from the first rehearsals to the parade on the avenue.

ABC of a Strike captures the 1979 metal workers strikes outside of São Paulo. The footage sat untouched until after the death of...

After years lost in a ingrate job, Hugo decides to take a drastic measure: to compensate for the time he lost, he will rob the bank in which he...

In the beginning of the 20th Century, in the Northeast of Brazil, one of the first Brazilian industrialists is persecuted because he refuses to sell...