Gilberto Gil Movies

Tempo Rei is the first audiovisual record of Gilberto Gil's vast work, celebrating the artist's thirty-year career, celebrated in 1996. Gil recalls...

Quilombo dos Palmares was a real-life democratic society, created in Brazil in the 17th century. This incredibly elaborate (and surprisingly...

Afroreggae Cultural Group DVD containing a concert and a documentary about the group's social and cultural work at the favelas in Rio de Janeiro.

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

Gilberto Gil talks with friends and share his thoughts, influences and reveal his impact on brazilian music and vision of the black people.

In this highly stylized Brazilian drama a sax player fondly remembers one wonderful night spent with his life's love and decides to find her again....

The life and career history of singer and percussionist Jackson do Pandeiro, whose originality and unusual rhythmic quality influenced several...

Jubiabá is a French-Brazilian film based on the homonymous novel by Jorge Amado. The film tells the story of the interracial love between the...

Based on the autobiography of noted music executive André Midani, André Midani — An Insider’s Story of Brazilian Music...

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...

Through clippings, the film draws a narrative line between the construction of racism in Brazil and the United States, having as base the European...

On March 16, 2020, in Brasília, an anonymous and unknown Haitian challenged the head of the nation: “Bolsonaro, it’s over. You are...

Afonsinho, Paulo Cézar Caju and Nei Conceição started their careers in the mid-1960s, a time of strong political repression in...

The film has Gal's career as its guiding principle, drawing a parallel with the movement of which the singer was the muse and one of the main...

The film follows the birth of Jorge Mautner up to his 17 years. He was born in Brazil shortly after his parents fled the Holocaust. Raised by a nanny...

After touring across Brazil — from Rio de Janeiro to Brasília, Belo Horizonte, Curitiba, and Belém — the Tempo Rei concert...

In the 1970s, "festivals" were incredibly popular in Brazil, as they were recorded before a live studio audience, and usually featured a number of...