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...

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

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

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...

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

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

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...

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

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

A man's journey through time or infinite space.

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

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 Glauber Rocha's mother Lúcia.