Benedita da Silva
Birthday: 1942-04-26
Place of Birth: Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Biography: No biography available.
Movies
Intermissions
Intermissions follows Lula during the hectic election campaign for the presidency in 2002. Lula gave...
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Babilônia 2000
Documentary on poor people living in a slum in Rio de Janeiro, on the occasion of New Year's Eve of ...
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Mulheres: Uma Outra História
Filmed as Brazil was transitioning back into a democracy after over two decades of dictatorship, ‘Mu...
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The Coup d'État Factory
Brazil has a long tradition of coup d'états. These coups would have not been viable without the supp...
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Abolition
In 1988, the centenary of abolition of slavery in Brazil, Zózimo Bulbul made this powerful historica...
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Pitanga
This documentary investigates the aesthetic, political and existential trajectory of emblematic Blac...
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De Cabral a George Floyd: Onde Arde o Fogo Sagrado da Liberdade
Through clippings, the film draws a narrative line between the construction of racism in Brazil and ...
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Filhas de Lavadeiras
Stories of black women who, thanks to the relentless toil of their mothers, were able to attend scho...
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Our Lives
The documentary addresses the stereotypes that imprison both men and women, the prejudice against wo...
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Pelé
Against the backdrop of a turbulent era in Brazil, this documentary captures Pelé's extraordinary pa...
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The Memory Thread
A panorama of the Brazilian black experience, starting with the figure of the semi-illiterate popula...
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Lobby do Batom
The most successful case of collective fight for women's rights in Brazil....
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Nelson Carneiro: Knight of Democracy
In 2018, Brazil’s 1988 Constitution turned thirty. Known as the Citizen Constitution, it was a landm...
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Toda Criança é Criança
The documentary recalls the mobilizations in favor of the Child and Adolescent Statute, when hundred...
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Se O Rei Zulu Já Não Pode Andar Nu
Video documentary on prejudice against black people in Brazil, featuring statements and interviews a...
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