Helena Ignez Movies

In a small town in Minas Gerais, the arrival of a young priest causes a commotion in the conservative atmosphere of the place, aggravated by the...

Sônia and her homosexual brother are both believed by their mother to be possessed by the devil. She works as a prostitute in the streets of...

70 years ago, a visionary management in education and culture as a political strategy for the dissemination and development of Bahia gave rise to an...

Two years of research and visits to collections, cinematheques and museums; almost seventy interviews that generated 30 hours of recorded material;...

The feature-length documentary Fakir portrays the success of fakirism in Brazil, Latin America and France. This circus art origin show is presented...

Daily scenes of a grotesque family living in the metaphorical island of Babaloo.

Elias sees his world threatened when his ex-wife, one recovering junkie, asks for the guard of their son. Fito is in desperation for losing his...

Ângela Carne e Osso (Angela Meat and Bone), a young nymphomaniac, lives surrounded by delinquents, and exerts intense allure on them,...

Follows the story of Opinião, a theatre group created in 1964 during the early Brazilian dictatorship period to oppose the government through...

In 1965, a year after the military coup in Brazil, an oasis of freedom opened in the country's capital. The Brasília Film Festival: a landmark...

Documentary about Brazilian filmmaker Glauber Rocha, one of the most important names in the Cinema Novo, with interviews with some of his friends and...

Based on true events in Rio de Janeiro, in 1960, when a gang having the infamous outlaw Tião Medonho as a leader performed a sensational...

Ugly, Me? is a film manifesto made from a workshop for actors called Characters in Search of a Movie, in 'La pa', 'Rio De Janeiro', extended to Paris...

Filmed over six years in four countries: Portugal, Brazil, Colombia and United States, this romantic drama tells the story of Luzia, a Brazilian...

The story of Tuã, a Black oncologist who, as a child, leaves Brazil with his mother after his family endures a series of tragedies during the...

"All Paulos in the World" is a cinematographic essay about Paulo José, one of the greatest artists in Brazil, in the year in which he turns 80...

For this behemoth, Bressane took his opera omnia and edited it in an order that first adheres to historical chronology but soon starts to move...

Ana, a Portuguese actress, dives into Brazil's current atmosphere of identity and political crisis while trying to portray in a feature film the...