Carlos Diegues
Birthday: 1940-05-19
Place of Birth: Maceió, Alagoas, Brazil
Biography: Carlos José Fontes Diegues OMC, known as Cacá Diegues (Maceió, May 19, 1940 – Rio de Janeiro, February 14, 2025), was a Brazilian filmmaker. He was one of the founders of Cinema Novo.
Movies
The Good Cinema
An authentically marginal cinema created in Catholic university in Brazil. One of the most intriguin...
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Summer Showers
70-year-old widower living in a poor Rio de Janeiro suburb falls in love again when he finds a woman...
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Neville D'Almeida: Chronicler of Beauty and Chaos
This film seeks to rescue the role of filmmaker Neville D'Almeida by using many rare images, numerou...
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Looking for Black Orpheus
Documentary about Marcel Camus' 1959 film Black Orpheus, its cultural and musical roots, and its res...
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Consideração do Poema
Carlos Drummond de Andrade's poetry is read by exponents of Brazilian culture, such as Chico Buarque...
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Glauber Rocha - The Movie, Brazil's Labyrinth
Documentary about Brazilian filmmaker Glauber Rocha, one of the most important names in the Cinema N...
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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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Arroz, Feijão e Cinema
Arroz, Feijão e Cinema is a record of the transformative impacts that a popular movie theater, Ponto...
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Torquato, Imagem da Incompletude
A reflection on the works and thinking of the last years of production by Torquato. Such as the maga...
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Improvised and Purposeful: Cinema Novo
Originally produced for German TV, Improvised and Purposeful is a firsthand look at the "Cinema Novo...
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At the Edge of the Earth
On 17 May 1931, the young director Mário Peixoto released his masterpiece "Limite" in a premiere in ...
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Depois do Transe
The documentary "Depois do Transe" covers the entire process of creating the masterpiece "Entranced ...
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Dossiê Jango
João Goulart (known as Jango) had been democratically elected president of Brazil, but was expelled ...
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Em Quadro: A História de 4 Negros nas Telas
A documentary that tells the history of 4 famous actors in Brazil....
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Tudo Por Amor ao Cinema
A documentary on Cosme Alves Netto (1937-1996), former head of the Cinematheque of the Museum of Mod...
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Rio's Love Song
Four love stories which portray a wide gamut of emotions and desires against the backdrop of Rio de ...
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Coisa Mais Linda - Histórias e Casos da Bossa Nova
Documentary about the birth of bossa-nova, in Brazil, and the major stars of this musical style....
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Quando a Coisa Vira Outra
Vladimir Carvalho's Cinema of Inequality marked the documentary filmmaker's trajectory over decades ...
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Roberto Farias - Memórias de um Cineasta
Filmmaker Roberto Farias' passion for cinema is revealed by his daughter Marise Farias through an in...
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Giovanni Improtta
Giovanni Improtta is a criminal who wants to climb the social ladder and become a law-abiding citize...
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Dib
Documentary that addresses, through the testimony of directors and actors, the work of Dib Lutfi, co...
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The Suns of Easter Island
Six people find a mysterious mark in the center of their left hand and all independently go to Easte...
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Pitanga
This documentary investigates the aesthetic, political and existential trajectory of emblematic Blac...
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Nelson Sargento
Biographical portrait of samba dancer Nelson Sargento in Morro da Mangueira, Rio de Janeiro....
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Memórias do Grupo Opinião
Follows the story of Opinião, a theatre group created in 1964 during the early Brazilian dictatorshi...
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Cinema Novo
A deep investigation, in the way of a poetic essay, on one of the main Latin American movements in c...
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For All - O Trampolim da Vitória
1943, World War II. The northeastern coast of Brazil is an strategic region for the Allies. Giancarl...
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Brazilian Cinema in the 20th Century
Two years of research and visits to collections, cinematheques and museums; almost seventy interview...
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Ferreira Gullar: Arqueologia do Poeta
The intense life of Ferreira Gullar, one of the most influential poets in Brazil, is revisited by hi...
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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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Referências
During a showing of rare Afro-Brazilian Cinema films at the Cinematheque of the Museum of Modern Art...
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Armando Costa: “Televisão pra Mim Não é Bico”
Armando Costa was one of Brazil's most successful authors, both in terms of audience and critical ac...
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