Hernani Heffner Movies

In order to invent a region, it is necessary to create its culture, preferably with the help of cinema. Inspired by the book and play “A...

Experimental movie about Rio de Janeiro's Museum of Modern Art's Movie Archive (Cinemateca).

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

A documentary on the restoration of Rogério Sganzerla's 1970 film "Copacabana, Mon Amour".

The son of a filmmaker from the 1960s and 1970s searches for his father's latest unreleased work. In this search, he retells the history of...

The story of Rio de Janeiro’s movie theaters and the radical transformation they have endured since the invention of Cinema.

A short film that emulates the activities of early Brazilian filmmakers known as "cavadores".

Reminiscences (1909-26), family film by Ouro Preto filmmaker Aristides Junqueira, collection of the MAM-Rio Cinematheque and Brazilian Cinemateca, is...

A short film on Getúlio Marinho, musician and pioneer on intrudicing Afro-Brazilian religious music in the recording industry.

Juliana works in a film archive. Busy with the restoration of the pieces, she copes with decay and the constants dilemmas that's involved in film...

As a young archivist labours on the reassembly of a long-lost film print, her emotional life spirals into a tumultuous state that is mirrored in the...

Luíza documents the relocation of the collection of film documents at the Cinemateca do MAM (RJ). However, things start to get strange when...

A reflection on the works and thinking of the last years of production by Torquato. Such as the magazine "Navilouca", the film "Terror da Vermelha",...

From a screening of "Antes, o Verão" (1968) in the Cinematheque of the Museum of Modern Artes of Rio de Janeiro, in 2005, "Reencontro com o...

Searching and digging through the different resolutions that composes Brazilian cinema.