Jean-Claude Bernardet
Birthday: 1936-08-02
Place of Birth: Charleroi, Belgium
Biography: Jean-Claude Bernardet OMC (Charleroi, August 2, 1936 – São Paulo, July 12, 2025) was a Belgian film theorist, film critic, filmmaker, actor, screenwriter and writer, naturalized Brazilian.
Movies
The Screenwriter
32 renowned Brazilian screenwriters of the contemporary Brazilian cinema talk about their creative p...
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Copo Vazio
In the center of the city, Alain seeks to fill his void, while Miguel needs a place to stay....
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O Cineasta das Platéias
This documentary, produced by the Mazzaropi Institute, shows movie scenes, testimonials of researche...
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Person
Person is a documentary about the life and work of filmmaker Luiz Sérgio Person. The documentary bri...
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The Man of the Crowd
Juvenal is a metro driver from Belo Horizonte. Margô, a station controller. Both live in a state of ...
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1968 - Without Losing Tenderness
The story of the University of Brasília, since it was only a project in Darcy Ribeiro's head until t...
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Pingo d'Água
One country, three completely different cities. People move seeking a change not only territorially,...
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Enigma de um Dia
A museum worker - the watchman - motivated by the homonymous painting by Giorgio De Chirico, is intr...
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FilmeFobia
The making of an unfinished film about phobias. Says the director. Behind the screens, he discusses ...
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Sweet Thieves
After assaulting a Hollywood film crew, a group of residents of a community in Rio de Janeiro decide...
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Hamlet
From the murder of his father by his uncle, Hamlet is forced to confront its own contradictions and ...
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Periscópio
Élvio and Eric live alone in a small apartment without talking to anyone else. The relationship betw...
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Cantando no Chuveiro
Those who enjoy hot baths inhale its warmth, which penetrates their spirits. This makes them joyful ...
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A Navalha do Avô
Bruno is a young men from São Paulo who is proud of his growing beard. When his grandfather can no l...
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Travessia
The crossing of generations under the influence of military dictatorship and political openness. Doc...
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Orgy or The Man Who Gave Birth
A countryman kills his father and heads for the big city. On his way, he meets the most bizarre and ...
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The Destruction of Bernardet
Jean-Claude Bernardet, Brazil’s most important living film critic, is old and sick, but tries to rei...
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Compêndio da Vida de um Homem Gasto e o Seu Último Desejo Perante Ela
An old man stuck in a wheelchair has a red ball for only distraction. He throws it harder and harder...
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Antes do Fim
Jean feels trapped in the logic of longevity that the pharmaceutical industry imposes on him and dec...
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Bird Boy
Gabriel is installed next to a tree in a noble neighborhood of the city of São Paulo. Clarisse accom...
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Amador
Henrique is a filmmaker who has made films that hardly anyone saw. A marginal for lack of choice....
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A Vermelha Luz do Bandido
Experimental documentary short that debates over Rogério Sganzerla's Brazilian cult classic "The Red...
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The Prophet of Hunger
The story of a fakir who works in a decadent circus. He and his colleagues do weirder numbers each d...
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Ensaio Sobre o Fracasso
A projectionist at a porn cinema in downtown São Paulo, makes his first film in Super8, an essay abo...
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Super Oldboy
Bil is an elderly man who works as an office boy for a firm in São Paulo, as he does not pay for a b...
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Letter Beyond the Walls
Letter Beyond the Walls reconstructs the trajectory of HIV and AIDS with a focus on Brazil, through ...
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Utopia, Distopia
Jorge Bodanzy appeals to the emotional memories of the period he spent studying at the University of...
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Você tem Olhos Tristes
Luan works as an application bikeboy and faces dilemmas and prejudices in his daily delivery journey...
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Die Farben der Vögel
The scientist Udo Gierer is on the trail of Theodor Koch-Grünberg, the famous Amazon researcher at t...
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#eagoraoque
An intellectual, his questions and contradictions. How to think and act politically these days?...
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The City of Pirates
A film director faces a complex situation in the production of his new film: Laerte, the protagonist...
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Candango: Memoirs from a Festival
In 1965, a year after the military coup in Brazil, an oasis of freedom opened in the country's capit...
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Nosferatu
Nosferatu arrives in a town escaping from Van Helsing. He brings not only his curse, but ghosts from...
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