Cinema Do Brasil On Demand

As part of the Brasil Festival Amsterdam (from october until november 2011), IDFA focuses on the development of the Brazilian documentary in the last ten years. IDFA TV presents seven documentaries about the Brazilian society that have previously been screened at IDFA.
 

Black against White

On the soccer field of a southern suburb of São Paulo, a match between blacks and whites has been played for thirty years.

Born to Be Blind

Strikingly visualised portrait of three blind sisters from Campina Grande in Brazil, who survive by singing in the street.

Naná's Diary

Brazilian singer and percussionist Naná Vasconcelos goes to Bahía to search for the spiritual and ethnic soul of his music.

On the Street

Director Sérgio Bloch has created a portrait gallery of street vendors and pavement artists in Rio de Janeiro. He interviews these people, whose personal lives take place largely in public, and films...

Phiro

Poetic close-ups of an old man, whose solitary life is captured in tightly framed shots.

Rio, a Day in August

Filmmaker portrays some regular passengers on a commuter train in Rio de Janeiro.

Saba

A beautifully filmed but gloomy portrait of the day in the life of two Brazilian hundred-year-olds: their home, their bodies, and how they are waiting.
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