Ava Rocha Movies

A deep investigation, in the way of a poetic essay, on one of the main Latin American movements in cinema, analyzed via the thoughts of its main...

Down on his luck and recently divorced, Paulo has begun driving a cab around Rio, hoping he’ll make enough to send his ex money to support...

A meeting with music, composer, poet and sociologist Negro Léo. He gives his thoughts on the development of music, Brazilian and international...

During one night, a woman walks through Rio de Janeiro, and hears the music around: jazz, rock, eletronica...

Vera and Gabriel, an elderly couple, navigate through past and present, telling their own life story. Their remembering, rendered in images from...

A documentary following five actresses through Santa Catarina roads as they perform the play of the title.

The film is a narrative starting from the story of Pierre and Syl, a couple that experiences the conflict between possession and freedom in a...

A documentary short on Tempo Glauber, a foundation created by filmmaker Orlando Senna and Glauber Rocha's mother Lucia in order to celebrate and...

At 84 years of age, Lúcia Rocha admitted herself to a hospital in São Paulo to undergo heart tests. Upon receiving the news about the...

A man's journey through time or infinite space.

Reviewing home videos, filmmaker Paula Gaitán constructs a curious narrative about her youth while talking to her children. A filmic note in...

Freely inspired by the poem Hierarquia (1970), by Pier Paolo Pasolini, which launches his vision of Brazil at that time, the film takes up and...

A man shaves under the watchful eye of a cat. His beard becomes a cat and the cat a beard. The film merges the two concepts of chimera: as a noun, it...

The film presents the theatrical show "Os Sertões", staged by the group Teatro Oficina during 2007, in the city of Canudos, founded by Antonio...

A documentary short on Glauber Rocha's mother Lúcia.