THEME EXPLORATION

Brazilian identity

12 films · 3 directors

Tracing the thread…

FILMS THAT EXPLORE THIS
In a Year with 13 Moons
In a Year with 13 Moons
1978 · Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Adam Resurrected
Adam Resurrected
2008 · Paul Schrader
Die My Love
Die My Love
2025 · Lynne Ramsay
Layla
Layla
2026 · Amrou Al-Kadhi
A Idade da Terra
A Idade da Terra
1980 · Glauber Rocha
Nazarín
Nazarín
1958 · Luis Buñuel
Quick
Quick
1932 · Robert Siodmak
The Whole Town’s Talking
The Whole Town’s Talking
1935 · John Ford
Reindeer Games
Reindeer Games
2000 · John Frankenheimer
Aga's House
Aga's House
2019 · Lendita Zeqiraj
The Death of a Composer: Rosa, a Horse Drama
The Death of a Composer: Rosa, a Horse Drama
1999 · Peter Greenaway
Cabo Negro
Cabo Negro
2024 · Abdellah Taïa
DIRECTORS WHO EXPLORE THIS
Nelson Pereira dos Santos Brazilian

Poetic documentation of marginalized Brazilian lives through socially conscious, humanist cinema.

 Glauber Rocha Brazil

Pioneer of Cinema Novo who used bold, experimental filmmaking to critique colonialism and explore the complexities of Brazilian consciousness and social inequality.

 Fernando Meirelles Brazil

His films like 'City of God' and 'Blindness' viscerally examine contemporary Brazilian social stratification, urban violence, and the fragmentation of Brazilian identity.