Dercy Gonçalves

"Portraits and excerpts from Brazilian films from all times. Actors, directors and images that affirm cinema."

The father of a family of lower middle class of São Paulo dies. But he did not realize this and starts to watch the reactions of his children and the collapse of the fragile family structure. Based on a novel of Mário Bortolotto.

A group of explorers travels the unexplored regions of the Amazon.

Madame Janete is an aging music hall star who insists on doing roles far beneath her real age, and whose secretary keeps her fans in a payroll. One day she meets young author Paulo and falls for him; but he is in love and engaged to ballerina Vilma, and misunderstandings abound.

Manicurist finds out she's the daughter of a rich baroness, and inherits her fortune. Now, she'll have to fight her mother's parents, with help from some of her friends.

Zé da Bomba dreams of being rich, and his neighbour dreams of being an artist and having an affair with him.

A man who's memorized his town's telephone directory tries his luck on a TV Show. But a small group of people who control the bettings in town try to get advantage of his simple-mindedness.

Alligator raiser from the state of Mato Grosso, Brazil, travels to his nephew's, and takes the maid Etelvina for his nephew's wife.

Bums find $15,000 in trash, but the money belonged to criminals.

Life and work of brazilian actor, poet and songwriter Mário Lago.

Januário is a con man who, with the help of his equally con-artist friends, stays at the luxurious Hotel Palácio, posing as a rich cocoa farmer in order to rob and deceive tourists. Ananásia is a widow who also becomes a guest at the same hotel, with almost the same plan: to pretend to be a millionaire in order to marry some wealthy "old man". Januário and Ananásia immediately begin dating. However, their lies about their wealth make them targets of international jewel thieves who were among the guests.

Ms. Violante Miranda is a bordello owner who raises a small girl as her own granddaughter. When she gets a little older, she is sent to study in Europe, and when she returns, she becomes a socialite, rejecting her previous milieu and her "grandmother".

The fading of composer Zé Keti’s career. The sad portrait of Brazilian Congress closed in 1977. The pain of a mother who lost her 15-year old daughter run over by a car. The Brazilian Presidents since Castelo Branco. Characters and settings registered through the keen and sensitive perspective of photographer Orlando Brito, in a career spanning 50 years as a professional. From the political sidelines to the lives of Brazilians from the interior, Brito recalls experiences and discusses the role of the photographer and the pain of registering someone’s grief.

In a Rio de Janeiro after the catastrophe, only the hills were immune to a flood that left the asphalt submerged. While the Navy is rationing provisions and some are sacrificing themselves to avoid starvation, a diver goes to the bottom of the sea and finds a submerged civilization there.

Hello, Hello, Terezinha! is a feature-length documentary about the country's biggest communication phenomenon. Politically incorrect, radical, renewing, Chacrinha changed Brazilian television forever and expressed a Brazil that was around it, but was not perceived. The film tells the great adventure of Abelardo Barbosa through the eyes of the presenter. It gathers the nuclei of its constellation - chacretes, fledglings and artists who passed through its programs - to identify their individualities and their emotions.

Renato has fallen in love with his neighbor Marta, but their families don't get along. To try to solve the problem, each one takes their own family to a picnic in Paquetá, where everyone will have to interact.

The love misadventures of a teacher, a woman who gives up living in a big city in order to teach country children how to read and write.

Alvarenga and Ranchinho have a law firm in a small village and go to Rio de Janeiro to hire artists for the village's radio station.

Jair Rodrigues, the portrait of an artist from a Brazil so close and yet so distant.