Gilberto Gil
Birthday: 1942-06-26
Place of Birth: Salvador, Bahia, Brazil
Biography: Gilberto Passos Gil Moreira (born June 26, 1942) is a Brazilian singer, songwriter, musician, politician, and writer. With a career spanning over six decades, he is known for his significant contributions to Brazilian music and for winning Grammy Awards, Latin Grammy Awards, and the French government's National Order of Merit (1997). In 1999, he was named an "Artist for Peace" by UNESCO.
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Bios: Os Paralamas do Sucesso
The backstory and legacy of Brazilian rock band Os Paralamas do Sucesso is examined in this fascinat...
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Maria Bethânia: Música é Perfume
Brazilian singer Maria Bethania has a 40-year singing career. A documentary shows her concerts and f...
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O Cinema Segundo Vladimir Carvalho
The documentary presents an overview of Vladimir Carvalho's cinematographic career, from the very be...
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Lupicínio Rodrigues, Confessions of a Sufferer
The documentary celebrates the poetic legacy of Lupicínio Rodrigues, investigating the musical contr...
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Maria: Ninguém Sabe Quem Sou Eu
The film is an unprecedented and exclusive testimonial of Maria Bethânia from director and screenwri...
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Vinicius de Moraes
To celebrate the life and the work of a multifaceted creator – playwright, poet, partner of the most...
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Chic Show
Discover the history of the Chic Show ball, an iconic black music party in São Paulo. The event was ...
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Dzi Croquettes
A Brazilian theatre group that through talent, irony and humour confronted the Brazilian violent dic...
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Môa, Mother Africa Roots
The documentary that began together with Mestre Môa do Katendê before his political murder, tells th...
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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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Loki: Arnaldo Baptista
Loki brings the trajectory of Arnaldo Baptista from childhood, passing through the most successful p...
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I Want
Two kids merrily play make-believe inside their house, unaware of the inequality that exists in the ...
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Viramundo
Gilberto Gil is among Brazil's most famous musicians, having influenced an entire generation in Sout...
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Gal - from Tropicalism to the Present Day
The film has Gal's career as its guiding principle, drawing a parallel with the movement of which th...
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Brésil: La Révolution Tropicaliste
A documentary on the amazing Brazilian music movement known as Tropicália....
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Jorge Mautner: Son of the Holocaust
The film follows the birth of Jorge Mautner up to his 17 years. He was born in Brazil shortly after ...
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Futuro do Pretérito: Tropicalismo Now!
A look of the 21st century for one of the most important cultural movements in Brazilian history. Th...
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Gilberto Gil: Tempo Rei
Tempo Rei is the first audiovisual record of Gilberto Gil's vast work, celebrating the artist's thir...
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Dominguinhos
Through rare and precious footages and gigs with great artists such as Gilberto Gil, Gal Costa, Herm...
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Pierre Fatumbi Verger: Messenger Between Two Worlds
Inspired by the life of the french-born photographer and ethnographer, Pierre Verger, the movie foll...
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The Man Who Bottled Clouds
A host of personalities reminisce about the life and work of songwriter, lawyer, and congressman Hum...
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Tropicália
Set against the turbulent atmosphere of the 1960s, Tropicália is a feature length documentary explor...
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October
A view of Brazil's 2018 Presidential Elections, held in October of that year. The polarizing Electio...
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Os Doces Bárbaros
The film records the commemorative tour of the ten years of the career of the Bahia singers Caetano ...
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Gilberto Gil: Kaya N'Gandaya
Gilberto Gil's 2002 album combines Brazilian pop with roots reggae. Featuring 11 of Bob Marley's gre...
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Fabricating Tom Zé
The life and work of one of the most controversial Brazilian musicians, having as its backdrop Tom Z...
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The Mandarin
The history of Brazilian popular music in the 20th Century, focusing specially on the life and works...
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Bahia, For Example
Through folklore manifestations and diverse artistic expressions, the film is a document that exalts...
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Brasil
João Gilberto receives Caetano Veloso, Gilberto Gil and Maria Bethânia during the recording of his a...
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Jards Macalé - Um Morcego na Porta Principal
This film shines a light at the story of Jards Macalé, polemic artist and controversial character of...
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A Night in 67
In the 1970s, "festivals" were incredibly popular in Brazil, as they were recorded before a live stu...
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Talking Cinema
A fragmented style, patchwork of interviews with Caetano Veloso's friends, mixed with conversations,...
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Beyond Ipanema
This documentary from filmmaker Guto Barra takes you beyond the 1960s bossa nova hit "The Girl from ...
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Bahia de Todos os Sambas
Between August 23 and 31, 1983, at the "Circo Massimo", in Rome, there was a musical event that brou...
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RiP!: A Remix Manifesto
RiP!: A Remix Manifesto is a 2008 open source documentary film about the "the changing concept of co...
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Corações a Mil
University teacher investigates the life of a famous Brazilian musician, trying to discover the secr...
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They Shot the Piano Player
New York, 2010. Jeff Harris, a music journalist, sets out to uncover the truth about Francisco Tenór...
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Festive Land: Carnival in Bahia
Festive Land examines one of the largest and most extraordinary popular celebrations in the world, t...
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A Última Vanguarda
70 years ago, a visionary management in education and culture as a political strategy for the dissem...
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Born To Be Blind
Three blind sisters, Regina, Maria and Conceição, earn their living by singing in front of churches,...
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Canções do Exílio: A Labareda Que Lambeu Tudo
Caetano Veloso, Gilberto Gil, Jards Macalé and Jorge Mautner recall important moments during the mil...
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Samba Riachão
Documentary about samba musician from Bahia Clementino Rodrigues, aka Riachão....
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Dorival Caymmi - Um Homem de Afetos
An irresistible journey through the universe of the singer and composer that revolutionized the song...
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Agostinho da Silva - A Living Thought
Life and legacy of Agostinho da Silva. Traversing the biographical journey, the life and work of th...
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Phono 73: A Country and its Music
The biggest Brazilian historical festival of all time. The great cast of the 1973 Phonogram (now Uni...
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The Demiurge
A colorful feature film that mixes exile with the figure of the poet Rimbaud and the feminist revolu...
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Yorimatã
The lives of Luhli and Lucina, two especially important artists in the alternative cultural scene du...
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Rogério Duprat - Vida de Músico
Documentary about amazing Brazilian musician Rogério Duprat, main orchestrator of Tropicália, his re...
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Mito e Música: A Mensagem de Fernando Pessoa
The documentary addresses the project, which took 30 years to complete, about the recording of 44 so...
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The Long Voyage of the Yellow Bus
For this behemoth, Bressane took his opera omnia and edited it in an order that first adheres to his...
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Germano Mathias - O Catedrático do Samba
A white man, yet forged in the samba de engraxate that had its main stronghold in downtown São Paulo...
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Passe Livre
Based on the life of the player Afonsinho, who was banned from playing football for growing his bear...
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Nenhum Motivo Explica a Guerra
Afroreggae Cultural Group DVD containing a concert and a documentary about the group's social and cu...
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Ed Mort
A detective is hired by a mysterious woman to find her missing husband, a master of disguises, and i...
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Axé: Music of a People
Originally from Bahia and considered today one of the most globalised musical movements in the world...
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Viva São João!
Composer Gilberto Gil accompanies filmmaker Andrucha Waddington to the Northeast of Brazil. Among th...
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Beard, Hair & Stache
Afonsinho, Paulo Cézar Caju and Nei Conceição started their careers in the mid-1960s, a time of stro...
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Hunting Season
Hunting Season deals with the wave of homosexual murders that plagued São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro i...
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Acústico MTV: Gilberto Gil
The special record for the series Acoustic MTV meets classic in the repertoire of Gilberto Gil as "S...
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Outros (Doces) Bárbaros
Almost thirty years after the first reunion of Doces Bárbaros (four of Brazil's major popular music ...
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Pitanga
This documentary investigates the aesthetic, political and existential trajectory of emblematic Blac...
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Permanent Pan-Cinema
Documentary about Brazilian poet Waly Salomão, for whom life was always a fictional film and poetry ...
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2012: Time for Change
2012: Time For Change is a documentary feature that presents ways to transform our unsustainable soc...
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MTV ao Vivo: Ivete Sangalo
Live performance by brazilian singer Ivete Sangalo recorded at Salvador, Brazil, presented by MTV....
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Hello, Hello, Terezinha!
Hello, Hello, Terezinha! is a feature-length documentary about the country's biggest communication p...
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Chico, or the Country of the Lost Delicacy
A look into the 25 years of career of famous musician Chico Buarque and his influence in Brazilian c...
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Two Friends, a Century of Music
Two of the biggest names in 20th century pop music together on stage, accompanied by their guitars. ...
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Gilberto Gil - Refazenda
In 1975 Gilberto Gil was releasing his album 'Refazenda', and talk a little about it in this intervi...
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Rogério Duarte, o Tropikaoslista
Rogério Duarte is one of the most important names in Tropicália, a Brazilian cultural movement of th...
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Especial: Ivete, Gil e Caetano
Year-end special brought together three interpreters of Brazilian popular music - Gilberto Gil, Caet...
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All Love Songs
Chico and Ana move to an apartment in São Paulo. As they unpack Ana found a cassette tape. It's a mi...
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O Outro Lado da Memória
In 1996, filmmaker André Luiz Oliveira started preproduction of Viva o Povo Brasileiro, a film adapt...
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Copacabana, Mon Amour: A Restauração
A documentary on the restoration of Rogério Sganzerla's 1970 film "Copacabana, Mon Amour"....
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Aperana Street 52
In his film Rua Aperana 52 Júlio Bressane describes the invention of a landscape, the topology of a ...
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Torquato Neto - Every Hour of the End
The story of Brazilian poet Torquato Neto, who lived passionately through fracturous times and worke...
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Gilberto Gil Antologia Vol.1
The documentary goes through works composed by the Bahian musician between 1968 and 1987. Brazilian ...
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Dorivando Saravá, o Preto Que Virou Mar
Singer, composer, actor and painter, Dorival Caymmi was a multiple artist, but what they may not kno...
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O Barato de Iacanga
Participants recall a series of festivals held on a farm in Brazil during the '70s and '80s that evo...
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Brazil's Maria Bethânia
This is a journey of friendship, an Argentinian is going to rediscover his continent while searching...
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Refavela 40
In 1976, Gilberto Gil traveled to Lagos (Nigeria) with the purpose of participating in the Second Fe...
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O Sol - Caminhando contra o vento
Documentary about the 68-generation, told through the story of the newspaper “O Sol”, one of the fir...
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Circo Voador - A Nave
In 1982, the Arpoador Beach, in Rio de Janeiro, received the first "incarnation" of Circo Voador, a ...
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Torquato Neto, O Anjo Torto da Tropicália
A documentary chronicling the life and works of Brazilian poet, songwriter, journalist and avant-gar...
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Black Fragments of Samba - Gilberto Gil, Serene Passion
Gilberto Gil talks with friends and share his thoughts, influences and reveal his impact on brazilia...
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Infinita Tropicália
Tropicália was a Brazilian cultural movement that occurred between 1967 and 1968, inspired by Oswald...
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André Midani - An Insider’s Story Of Brazilian Music
Based on the autobiography of noted music executive André Midani, André Midani — An Insider’s Story ...
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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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Ôrí
A look at the Brazilian black movement between 1977 and 1988, going by the relationship between Braz...
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Dê Lembranças a Todos
Dorival Caymmi was one of the inventors of the Bahian imagination. In his 94 years of life, Caymmi c...
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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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A Farra do Circo
This documentary highlights the evolution of Brazil's Circo Voador venue from homespun artists' perf...
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Rio 2016 Olympic Opening Ceremony: A New World
With fireworks forming the word “Rio” in the sky and supermodel Gisele Bundchen shimmering to the tu...
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Jackson: Na Batida do Pandeiro
The life and career history of singer and percussionist Jackson do Pandeiro, whose originality and u...
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Toquinho Maravilhoso
The documentary narrates the life of Toquinho, one of the greatest Brazilian artists, a musician who...
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3 Obás de Xangô
The friendship between Jorge Amado, Dorival Caymmi, and Carybé, artists who were largely responsible...
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Nas Ondas de Dorival Caymmi
The film reveals the creation of poet Dorival Caymmi's musical works with testimonies from researche...
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Breaking Myths
“Breaking Myths” aims to open the world’s eyes to the fragile and “catastrophic masculinity” of Braz...
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Dias de Euforia
Record of the 1989 elections, when Brazil was divided between Lula and Fernando Collor. It brings to...
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Samba Infinite
During Rio's Carnival, a street cleaner struggles with the loss of his sister and his work obligatio...
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Rita Lee: Mania de Você
Just before her departure, Rita Lee writes a farewell letter to her three children and her husband a...
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Ritas
It explores Rita Lee's personal life and her creative process, revealing her musical talent and her ...
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Cazuza: Good News
It explores the last two years of Brazilian singer Cazuza's life, from his AIDS diagnosis until his ...
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Duetos
"Duetos" is the sixth compilation by Brazilian musical artist Ivete Sangalo, released on May 5, 2010...
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1964: Brazil between weapons and books
We question the most unquestionable period in our history. The result was an international investiga...
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Milton Nascimento - A Sede do Peixe
In December 1997, in Rio de Janeiro, Minas Gerais composer Milton Nascimento brought together friend...
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Gilberto Gil: Tempo Rei - A Última Turnê
After touring across Brazil — from Rio de Janeiro to Brasília, Belo Horizonte, Curitiba, and Belém —...
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