Orlando Senna

Directing

Orlando Senna

Born 1940-04-25 · Lençóis, Bahia, Brasil

Orlando Sales de Senna (Lençóis, April 25, 1940) is a Brazilian filmmaker, writer and journalist.

Acting credits

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O Artesão de Sonhos

2008

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

Ser Tão Cinzento poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Ser Tão Cinzento

2011

The Screenwriter poster
8.0

32 renowned Brazilian screenwriters of the contemporary Brazilian cinema talk about their creative processes. From the concept of script to their agreements and disagreements, going through their experiences with filmmakers, their reaction to the finished film, critic, and even controversies on auteurism.

The Screenwriter

2012

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

Caveira My Friend poster
6.5

The adventures of a gang of thieves and murderers led by violent Caveirinha. A radical disruption proposal from the postulates of the Cinema Novo, a film with a loose narrative structure. Through the actions of a group of outlaws, the director sews in scenes that propose iconoclasm and elation as forms of opposition to the military dictatorship oppression.

Caveira My Friend

1970

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NR

Since the 1970s, Roberto Pires has militated against the use of nuclear energy. For that, he went looking for the biggest Brazilian name in this subject, César Lattes, professor of Nuclear Physics at UNICAMP. Believing that nuclear energy could, in the long run, extinguish human life. With the collaboration of Orlando Senna, he writes the screenplay for the film “Abrigo Nuclear”, an ambitious production, science fiction film entirely produced and shot in Bahia. With little money, armed with his creative ability, Roberto builds a 'spaceship' and a studio in the backyard of his house. He calls children, relatives and friends and begins production on “Nuclear Shelter”, which is released in 1981. With statements by Orlando Senna, Laura Pires, Nonato Freire, among others, the documentary "Bahia SCI-FI" intends to explore the universe that surrounded Roberto Pires, Bahia and the possible nuclear war of the late 1970s and early 1970s. 1980.

Bahia SCI-FI

2015

O Amor Dentro da Câmera poster
NR

O AMOR DENTRO DA CÂMERA is an essay documentary that tells the story of Conceição and Orlando Senna, pioneers of Audiovisual, who live a romance of almost 60 years, crossed by the History of cinema and Latin America. Intimate and metalinguistic, portrayed in the warmth of the home and through archival materials, when telling a love story, it takes us through the cinematographic and political networks that have woven across the continent.

O Amor Dentro da Câmera

2021

Depois do Transe poster
2.0

The documentary "Depois do Transe" covers the entire process of creating the masterpiece "Entranced Earth", which was released and awarded at the Cannes Film Festival in 1967. "Entranced Earth" charmed the world and won great admirers such as filmmaker Martin Scorsese and the writer Marguerite Duras, who at the time considered a "fabulous filmic opera."

Depois do Transe

2006

Sol da Bahia poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Sol da Bahia

2019

A Última Vanguarda poster
NR

70 years ago, a visionary management in education and culture as a political strategy for the dissemination and development of Bahia gave rise to an artistic vanguard that still impacts Brazilian culture today.

A Última Vanguarda

2024

O Outro Lado da Memória poster
NR

In 1996, filmmaker André Luiz Oliveira started preproduction of Viva o Povo Brasileiro, a film adaptation of the novel by João Ubaldo Ribeiro. Principal photography went on for nine years, but the production was shut down after a series of unfortunate events. This documentary retells that story, repurposing the fictional footage and chronicling the work both in front and behind the scenes.

O Outro Lado da Memória

2018

Iracema poster
7.4

A girl from the countryside goes to the city of Belém to take part in the Círio de Nazaré celebrations. Led to prostitution, she wishes to move to the wealthiest Southeast region of Brazil. In a dance club, she meets a truck driver that transports wood. Dreaming with the big city, she asks for a ride, and the two begin a journey through the Trans-Amazon road. In tension with the Brazilian military authorities of the time, the film registers several aspects of the Amazon social tragedy – forest fires, slave work and child prostitution. Awarded in several international festivals, the film was forbidden by Brazilian censors. It was only released years later, winning the Brasília Film Festival in 1981.

Iracema

1976

Cego Aderaldo - O Cantador e o Mito poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Cego Aderaldo - O Cantador e o Mito

2012

A Grande Feira poster
8.4

The naive sailor Ron arrives in Bahia to visit the famous Água dos Meninos street market. There, however, he is passed behind by the prostitute Maria, lover of the bandit Chico Diabo, who stabs him. He, however, can't forget her.

A Grande Feira

1961

O Guarani poster
8.0

No synopsis available yet.

O Guarani

2007

Glauber Rocha - The Movie, Brazil's Labyrinth poster
6.3

Documentary about Brazilian filmmaker Glauber Rocha, one of the most important names in the Cinema Novo, with interviews with some of his friends and colleagues.

Glauber Rocha - The Movie, Brazil's Labyrinth

2003

Cinema Novo poster
6.7

A deep investigation, in the way of a poetic essay, on one of the main Latin American movements in cinema, analyzed via the thoughts of its main authors, who invented, in the early 1960s, a new way of making movies in Brazil, with a political attitude, always near to people's problems, that combined art and revolution.

Cinema Novo

2016

O Cinema Segundo Vladimir Carvalho poster
4.0

The documentary presents an overview of Vladimir Carvalho's cinematographic career, from the very beginning, as a co-writer of “Aruanda” (1960), directed by Linduarte Noronha, to the present day. With Vladimir himself as the main narrator and illustrated by scenes from his films, the documentary also features interviews with Gilberto Gil, Orlando Senna, Arnaldo Carillo, Dácia Ibiapina, Fernando Duarte, Sérgio Moriconi, among others.

O Cinema Segundo Vladimir Carvalho

2001

Tocaia no Asfalto poster
6.5

A gunman is hired to kill a corrupt politician. However, the agreement is canceled. Despite being a hired killer, the man takes his job seriously and prefers to go to the end.

Tocaia no Asfalto

1962

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5.0

A behind-the-scenes look at the making of Glauber Rocha's 1980 production "A Idade da Terra" (The Age of Earth), including unedited clips taken from the sixty hours of recovered raw footage.

Anabazys: O Terceiro Testamento de Glauber Rocha

2007

No artwork available
8.0

No synopsis available yet.

Sinais de Cinza, A Peleja de Olney Contra o Dragão da Maldade

2013

Retrato da Terra poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Retrato da Terra

2004

Behind the camera

Nuclear Shelter poster
6.4

Our planet was contaminated by many nuclear explosions that left the soil and the air filled with radiation, and now the few survivors of those catastrophic events live under the ground on a shelter controlled by scientists. After an incident inside the shelter, a group of rebellious scientists defy their leadership when they find a good possibility of returning to the surface.

Nuclear Shelter

1981

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

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

Oedipus Mayor poster
5.4

Edipo, is appointed mayor of a town plunged in misery and violence. His first mission is to discover and punish the murderers of Layo, a well-known potentate of the region. His investigation is directed towards all the armed factions that exist in Colombia.

Oedipus Mayor

1996

I Didn't Know Tururu poster
5.5

As Carmen prepares to marry for the fourth time, her three sisters find themselves juggling romantic predicaments of their own in this offbeat comedy from Brazil.

I Didn't Know Tururu

2000

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

Brascuba poster
7.0

No synopsis available yet.

Brascuba

1987

Brascuba poster
7.0

No synopsis available yet.

Brascuba

1987

Cinemação Curtametralha poster
NR

Documentary-manifest in defense of the inclusion of the Brazilian short film in the national cinema circuit, accompanying each foreign feature film as a market reserve

Cinemação Curtametralha

1978

Diamante Bruto poster
9.0

No synopsis available yet.

Diamante Bruto

1978

Diamante Bruto poster
9.0

No synopsis available yet.

Diamante Bruto

1978

King of the Night poster
6.1

In the 1940s, São Paulo nightlife is the setting for Tezinho's love affairs. In love with Aninha, he needs to get away from the girl and ends up getting involved with other women, including an obsessive relationship with a prostitute.

King of the Night

1975

Caveira My Friend poster
6.5

The adventures of a gang of thieves and murderers led by violent Caveirinha. A radical disruption proposal from the postulates of the Cinema Novo, a film with a loose narrative structure. Through the actions of a group of outlaws, the director sews in scenes that propose iconoclasm and elation as forms of opposition to the military dictatorship oppression.

Caveira My Friend

1970

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Iya-Mi-Agbá

1981

Sol da Bahia poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Sol da Bahia

2019

Sol da Bahia poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Sol da Bahia

2019

Far From Paradise poster
1.0

Kim is a hitman who commits a serious mistake and is about to be executed by the criminal organization he works for. His only chance to escape punishment is to assassinate the peasant leader Bel. She is his sister and the only person in the world that he truly loves.

Far From Paradise

2020

Far From Paradise poster
1.0

Kim is a hitman who commits a serious mistake and is about to be executed by the criminal organization he works for. His only chance to escape punishment is to assassinate the peasant leader Bel. She is his sister and the only person in the world that he truly loves.

Far From Paradise

2020

Iracema poster
7.4

A girl from the countryside goes to the city of Belém to take part in the Círio de Nazaré celebrations. Led to prostitution, she wishes to move to the wealthiest Southeast region of Brazil. In a dance club, she meets a truck driver that transports wood. Dreaming with the big city, she asks for a ride, and the two begin a journey through the Trans-Amazon road. In tension with the Brazilian military authorities of the time, the film registers several aspects of the Amazon social tragedy – forest fires, slave work and child prostitution. Awarded in several international festivals, the film was forbidden by Brazilian censors. It was only released years later, winning the Brasília Film Festival in 1981.

Iracema

1976

Iracema poster
7.4

A girl from the countryside goes to the city of Belém to take part in the Círio de Nazaré celebrations. Led to prostitution, she wishes to move to the wealthiest Southeast region of Brazil. In a dance club, she meets a truck driver that transports wood. Dreaming with the big city, she asks for a ride, and the two begin a journey through the Trans-Amazon road. In tension with the Brazilian military authorities of the time, the film registers several aspects of the Amazon social tragedy – forest fires, slave work and child prostitution. Awarded in several international festivals, the film was forbidden by Brazilian censors. It was only released years later, winning the Brasília Film Festival in 1981.

Iracema

1976

Iracema poster
7.4

A girl from the countryside goes to the city of Belém to take part in the Círio de Nazaré celebrations. Led to prostitution, she wishes to move to the wealthiest Southeast region of Brazil. In a dance club, she meets a truck driver that transports wood. Dreaming with the big city, she asks for a ride, and the two begin a journey through the Trans-Amazon road. In tension with the Brazilian military authorities of the time, the film registers several aspects of the Amazon social tragedy – forest fires, slave work and child prostitution. Awarded in several international festivals, the film was forbidden by Brazilian censors. It was only released years later, winning the Brasília Film Festival in 1981.

Iracema

1976

Iremos a Beirute poster
10.0

No synopsis available yet.

Iremos a Beirute

2000

Colonel Delmiro Gouveia poster
6.3

In the beginning of the 20th Century, in the Northeast of Brazil, one of the first Brazilian industrialists is persecuted because he refuses to sell his business to a British company.

Colonel Delmiro Gouveia

1979