Jorge Bodanzky

Directing

Jorge Bodanzky

Born 1942-12-22 · São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil

Jorge Bodanzky (São Paulo, December 22, 1942) is a Brazilian filmmaker, screenwriter and photographer.

Acting credits

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Rito do Amor Selvagem

2019

Audácia! poster
7.5

Segment "Prólogo": interviews and scenes with some of the most important filmmakers of the "Boca do Lixo" of São Paulo. Segment "A Badaladíssima dos Trópicos x Os Picaretas do Sexo": shenanigans of a troubled fictional film production. Segment "Amor 69": Actress Maria Vargas is expected to appear nude in a scene, but ultimately refuses to do so.

Audácia!

1970

The Age of Water poster
6.0

The film warns us about the world's water crisis and the international greed for the Amazon Forest, the largest fresh water reservoir on the planet. In addition to concentrating 20% of the world's drinking water, the Amazon is the region with the greatest chance of maintaining its water sources in the next decades, thanks to the humidity of its forest.

The Age of Water

2018

Once Upon a Time There Was Iracema poster
NR

A making-of directed by Bodanzky himself, the documentary discusses the language of the film Iracema - Uma Transa Amazônica 30 years after it was made, gathering interviews with the authors, actors, critics and the filmmakers themselves.

Once Upon a Time There Was Iracema

2005

Candango: Memoirs from a Festival poster
5.0

In 1965, a year after the military coup in Brazil, an oasis of freedom opened in the country's capital. The Brasília Film Festival: a landmark of cultural and political resistance. Its story is that of Brazilian cinema itself.

Candango: Memoirs from a Festival

2020

Limites do Diáfano poster
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A compilation of some of the Super-8 materials shot by Jorge Bodanzky during the Brazilian military dictatorship, blending domestic footage, experiments with the cinematographic medium, and the traces, in an amateur format, of some of his thematic and stylistic obsessions.

Limites do Diáfano

2024

Utopia, Distopia poster
NR

Jorge Bodanzy appeals to the emotional memories of the period he spent studying at the University of Brasilia to show us a tableau of youth in the 1960s, with their dreams and expectations, their hardships, and interrupted projects.

Utopia, Distopia

2020

As Cores e Amores de Lore poster
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Directed by Jorge Bodanzky, As Cores e Amores de Lore tells the story of German painter Eleonore Koch, Volpi's only disciple who, having settled in Brazil since World War II, lived freely and intensely, always dedicated to her art. Based on a series of meetings that the director had with the painter, the film portrays the last years of her life.

As Cores e Amores de Lore

2025

Behind the camera

Terceiro Milênio poster
6.6

August, 1980. Evandro Carreira, a Brazilian senator leaves his party's office in Manaus to visit his constituents in the state of Amazonas. Interviews with farmhands, loggers, explorer Paulo Lucena, Brazilian and Peruvian Indians and a representative of the National Indian Foundation (Funai) were recorded from the city of Benjamin Constant to the village of Cavalo Cocho. A visit to the indigenous village of the Ticunas and the lands of the Maiuruna people culminate with an interview and the actions of José Francisco da Cruz, a member of the Order of the Holy Cross. Throughout the trip, the economic potential of the Amazon and its problems (corruption in the indigenous policies and the pollution produced by factories) are shown.

Terceiro Milênio

1981

Terceiro Milênio poster
6.6

August, 1980. Evandro Carreira, a Brazilian senator leaves his party's office in Manaus to visit his constituents in the state of Amazonas. Interviews with farmhands, loggers, explorer Paulo Lucena, Brazilian and Peruvian Indians and a representative of the National Indian Foundation (Funai) were recorded from the city of Benjamin Constant to the village of Cavalo Cocho. A visit to the indigenous village of the Ticunas and the lands of the Maiuruna people culminate with an interview and the actions of José Francisco da Cruz, a member of the Order of the Holy Cross. Throughout the trip, the economic potential of the Amazon and its problems (corruption in the indigenous policies and the pollution produced by factories) are shown.

Terceiro Milênio

1981

In the middle of the River, Between Trees poster
NR

Filmmaker Jorge Bodanzky gives some classes to local communties at Alto Solimões in the Amazom and collect the results.

In the middle of the River, Between Trees

2009

In the middle of the River, Between Trees poster
NR

Filmmaker Jorge Bodanzky gives some classes to local communties at Alto Solimões in the Amazom and collect the results.

In the middle of the River, Between Trees

2009

O Clique Único de Assis Horta poster
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Documentary about the Minas Gerais photographer Assis Horta, who immortalized the architectural heritage and society of Diamantina. The great impulse of his career came in 1943, with the Consolidation of Labor Laws, promulgated by Getúlio Vargas. By making mandatory a professional card with photo, Vargas gave the push that the working class needed to enter Horta's photographic studio. In the years that followed, the photographer portrayed hundreds of people. In 3x4 or full-length, many took their first portrait.

O Clique Único de Assis Horta

2015

A Igreja dos Oprimidos poster
8.0

Documentary that tells several stories: of the struggle of rural workers in Conceição to recover their union; of Dona Mariquinha, widow of a murdered squatter and her miraculous effort to survive with her six children; de Rosa and community work in the Olaria neighborhood; the peasant Pé de Ouro and his family living in extreme poverty; de Oneide, the widow of Gringo, the rural leader killed by gunmen when he disputed in 1980 the presidency of the Sindicato de Conceição, etc.

A Igreja dos Oprimidos

1986

A Igreja dos Oprimidos poster
8.0

Documentary that tells several stories: of the struggle of rural workers in Conceição to recover their union; of Dona Mariquinha, widow of a murdered squatter and her miraculous effort to survive with her six children; de Rosa and community work in the Olaria neighborhood; the peasant Pé de Ouro and his family living in extreme poverty; de Oneide, the widow of Gringo, the rural leader killed by gunmen when he disputed in 1980 the presidency of the Sindicato de Conceição, etc.

A Igreja dos Oprimidos

1986

Gitirana poster
7.0

Yesterday, the inhabitants of the Nordeste had to abandon their land for lack of water. Today, floods are driving them out... Deprived of their roots, the people continue to remain faithful to their traditions and beliefs, while progress is imposed by the power of money.

Gitirana

1975

Gitirana poster
7.0

Yesterday, the inhabitants of the Nordeste had to abandon their land for lack of water. Today, floods are driving them out... Deprived of their roots, the people continue to remain faithful to their traditions and beliefs, while progress is imposed by the power of money.

Gitirana

1975

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A performance-driven documentary and panel discussion where diverse thinkers and communication experts debate the internet and the birth of cyberculture, using Gilberto Gil's song Pela Internet as its narrative anchor.

Transanarchy (2011)

Once Upon a Time There Was Iracema poster
NR

A making-of directed by Bodanzky himself, the documentary discusses the language of the film Iracema - Uma Transa Amazônica 30 years after it was made, gathering interviews with the authors, actors, critics and the filmmakers themselves.

Once Upon a Time There Was Iracema

2005

Os Mucker poster
7.0

In 1873 in Rio Grande do Sul, a group of peasants come together to form a community of brothers, arousing the enmity of the rest of the population. They are immigrants from the German region and develop a communitary social model, having the Bible as a code of morals, faith and conduct. The group's economic independence ends up irritating the locals to the point of provoking successive aggressions that culminate in a bloody massacre.

Os Mucker

1979

Embu poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Embu

1968

Pandemonium poster
5.0

No synopsis available yet.

Pandemonium

2010

Jari poster
7.5

Documentary filmed in the Jari Project area – multinational enclave, located between Pará and the then Federal Territory of Amapá, on the occasion of the visit made to the Project by the Parliamentary Commission of Inquiry about the devastation of the Amazon. Jari is the largest known land occupation in the Amazon, and probably the largest in the world, to belong to a single owner, the American millionaire Daniel Keith Ludwig.

Jari

1979

Navigating the Amazon: A Voyage with Jorge Mautner poster
NR

In March 2006, the team for the Navegar Amazônia project left the Jandiá Channel in Macapá, bound for Belém. On board a regional boat, adapted with a modern multimedia laboratory, were the project team and thirty persons, including musicians and filmmakers. The objective was, along the way, to offer workshops in music, cinema, photography, video and art to the population visited on the river's edge. The documentary is a record of the interaction between the guests and the local population. The Navegar Amazônia project captures and conveys contents of the Amazon in a unique way: from the heart of the forest and from the river to the world.

Navigating the Amazon: A Voyage with Jorge Mautner

2006

Navigating the Amazon: A Voyage with Jorge Mautner poster
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In March 2006, the team for the Navegar Amazônia project left the Jandiá Channel in Macapá, bound for Belém. On board a regional boat, adapted with a modern multimedia laboratory, were the project team and thirty persons, including musicians and filmmakers. The objective was, along the way, to offer workshops in music, cinema, photography, video and art to the population visited on the river's edge. The documentary is a record of the interaction between the guests and the local population. The Navegar Amazônia project captures and conveys contents of the Amazon in a unique way: from the heart of the forest and from the river to the world.

Navigating the Amazon: A Voyage with Jorge Mautner

2006

Brasília em Super 8 poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Brasília em Super 8

1970

Um Olhar Inquieto: O Cinema de Jorge Bodanzky poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Um Olhar Inquieto: O Cinema de Jorge Bodanzky

2026

Amazônia, a Nova Minamata? poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Amazônia, a Nova Minamata?

2022

Sociologia da Crise poster
NR

The documentary questions the knowledge of sociology in the face of the crises of the contemporary world. Experts in the subject discuss and evaluate the usefulness of this discipline and propose new ways for its application.

Sociologia da Crise

2011

Sociologia da Crise poster
NR

The documentary questions the knowledge of sociology in the face of the crises of the contemporary world. Experts in the subject discuss and evaluate the usefulness of this discipline and propose new ways for its application.

Sociologia da Crise

2011

Sociologia da Crise poster
NR

The documentary questions the knowledge of sociology in the face of the crises of the contemporary world. Experts in the subject discuss and evaluate the usefulness of this discipline and propose new ways for its application.

Sociologia da Crise

2011

Ruivaldo, O Homem que Salvou a Terra poster
8.0

In Brazil, in the State of Mato Grosso do Sul, in the region of the Rio Taquari, the increasing and continuous silting of the rivers has led to the overflow of waters and the flooding of lands over the years, causing significant changes in the lives of its inhabitants. This has made it impossible to cultivate the soil and raise livestock, a form of livelihood for local families. Member of one of these families, Ruivaldo Nery Andrade, our guide character, struggles to save his farm, through the construction of a manual system of dikes to contain and alter the course of invading waters and, thus, resume his activities and guarantee the survival of the land.

Ruivaldo, O Homem que Salvou a Terra

2019