Jairo Ferreira Movies

A documentary on Brazilian musician Mario Gennari and the bond between his music's sonority and the public space of the streets of São Paulo.

Symbolic film from the Underground Movement of Brazilian Cinema (Cinema Marginal) about a woman, three men and some apes. In the director's own...

The Option centers on a group of rural women who cut sugar cane and live in ramshackle highway neighborhoods. For many, their only escape to a...

A travelogue film using Pound's concept of invention as a starting point.

50 years of Brazilian history seen from the point of view of a friendship among two intellectuals.

A countryman kills his father and heads for the big city. On his way, he meets the most bizarre and allegorical types: a robber, a drag queen who...

A final conversation with departed actor, director and musical producer Julio Calasso Jr., a key character in the Brazilian artistic scene. At his...

Young son of a millionaire, obsessed with collecting used women's underwear, a butler who manages the mansion where the young man lives while his...

Documentary about the trajectory of Antônio Polo Galante, known as "The King of Boca". The film maps work and forms of production in Boca do...

An unusual look at 1978 Brasilia Film Festival and the politics that make certain films fashionable or not.

An unemployed man gets a job as night watchman that puts him in the middle of the rising violence in his neighborhood.