Cavi Borges

City of God – 10 Years Later investigates what happened to the actors who took part in the award-winning film directed by Fernando Meirelles and Katia Lund. This documentary shows what City of God’s worldwide success meant to their lives. Were the actors prepared for the film’s success? Did the social background of some of them prove stronger than the opportunity that came their way?

In 1970, Brazil was in the throes of a military dictatorship that lasted 20 years. Persecutions, arrests, killings, kidnappings. The film Seventy rejoins 18 characters of this story, forty years later. The film mixes the excitement of revisiting the past with a vision, sometimes even good humored of everything they lived. Many years afterwards they relive their experience of pain, violence and survival, of rebuilding their own story and continuing to believe in the possibility of improving the world.

Bianca manages a precarious living as a talented but underemployed actress in Rio de Janeiro, performing for private events dressed as movie icons. Troubled by the belief that she has missed her big break, Bianca's situation is upturned by an audition that leads to a rare opportunity.

In protest against the 500,000 deaths from COVID-19, five actresses recite poems by João Cabral de Melo Neto.

We are in the Sahara, in Rio de Janeiro, but it could be Beirut!

Joana D'Arc, a former public school teacher in Rio de Janeiro, tries to recover her home, lost to the City Hall. The trajectory is shared by the pirate fisherman Pharaó, from Guanabara Bay.

City of God – 10 Years Later investigates what happened to the actors who took part in the award-winning film directed by Fernando Meirelles and Katia Lund. This documentary shows what City of God’s worldwide success meant to their lives. Were the actors prepared for the film’s success? Did the social background of some of them prove stronger than the opportunity that came their way?

City of God – 10 Years Later investigates what happened to the actors who took part in the award-winning film directed by Fernando Meirelles and Katia Lund. This documentary shows what City of God’s worldwide success meant to their lives. Were the actors prepared for the film’s success? Did the social background of some of them prove stronger than the opportunity that came their way?

In 1970, Brazil was in the throes of a military dictatorship that lasted 20 years. Persecutions, arrests, killings, kidnappings. The film Seventy rejoins 18 characters of this story, forty years later. The film mixes the excitement of revisiting the past with a vision, sometimes even good humored of everything they lived. Many years afterwards they relive their experience of pain, violence and survival, of rebuilding their own story and continuing to believe in the possibility of improving the world.

Bianca manages a precarious living as a talented but underemployed actress in Rio de Janeiro, performing for private events dressed as movie icons. Troubled by the belief that she has missed her big break, Bianca's situation is upturned by an audition that leads to a rare opportunity.

In protest against the 500,000 deaths from COVID-19, five actresses recite poems by João Cabral de Melo Neto.

In protest against the 500,000 deaths from COVID-19, five actresses recite poems by João Cabral de Melo Neto.

We are in the Sahara, in Rio de Janeiro, but it could be Beirut!

Joana D'Arc, a former public school teacher in Rio de Janeiro, tries to recover her home, lost to the City Hall. The trajectory is shared by the pirate fisherman Pharaó, from Guanabara Bay.

Two brothers are reunited in Lisbon to throw their father's ashes in three places in Portugal. This journey opens up affective issues between the brothers, where the past and the present refer to each other.

From a lifetime, a single memory has survived. Only one.

Rap as a profession. The neighborhood as a source of inspiration for two young composers. The life of an MC and their respective fields. The language of Rap and its influence generating a new way of composing.

Rap as a profession. The neighborhood as a source of inspiration for two young composers. The life of an MC and their respective fields. The language of Rap and its influence generating a new way of composing.

During the pandemic, Alice is hospitalized with COVID-19, and when she is intubated, she finds herself in a state between life and death. Guided by Virgílio, she embarks on a journey of hallucinations, memories, and the rediscovery of cinema as her purpose in life.

Dé, Adrianim and Martins are three black teenagers from Chatuba, Rio de Janeiro. When Dé receives the news that Almerinda, his grandmother, is in the terminal phase of Alzheimer's disease, he decides to enjoy the last days of her life together with his two best friends.

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In the favela, two drug dealers decide to meet to settle scores.

During carnival Flaviana lives a pretty difficult dilemma; how to disguise from her last night lover who refuses to get out of her shower?

A film of the literary hallucinations and existential dreams of the character João, who is also José and Joyce, anthropophagically enchanted by cinema in his two hours of life.

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The mystical element plays an unusual role in the civilizing process of Brazilian society. Realms such as samba, malandragem, soccer, and Carnival reflect this process, which unfolded in the shadow of the Precarious. On the street, in the terreiro, at the bar, in the favela, at the crossroads, or on the floodplain—a multifaceted historical and cultural identity was forged, resulting from the intersection of Amerindian and African spiritualities and European popular Catholicism. Macumbaria explores the phenomenon of the “macumba complex” through the lens of historian Luiz Antonio Simas, the film’s narrator.

Short documentary film about Helena Ignez, the great actress of independent Brazilian cinema.

Short documentary film about Helena Ignez, the great actress of independent Brazilian cinema.

Short documentary film about Helena Ignez, the great actress of independent Brazilian cinema.

Vidigal Hill, 1977. A runaway group of bandits engage in a complex love triangle in the brink of the news that the corrupt Rio de Janeiro mayor decided to make everyone move out of Vidigal, aided by police forces.

A tribute to Pier Paolo Pasolini's centenary. The film tells of his visit to Rio de Janeiro in 1970, returning from Argentina in the company of singer Maria Callas, when he met the young soldier Joaquim.

Greg (Jorge Caetano) is a screenwriter hired to write a script about Maria Guaranis, a radical-style artist who has gone missing. As the author produces the script, he ends up identifying with Maria and getting lost in the creation process.

Arthur Bispo do Rosario's past is practically unknown. It is only known that he was black, a sailor and a boxer. In 1938 he was admitted to Colônia Juliano Moreira after a mystical delusion.

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Ana, a Portuguese actress, dives into Brazil's current atmosphere of identity and political crisis while trying to portray in a feature film the colourful life of famous singer and actress Carmen Miranda, who helped define Brazil's identity.

Judoka, filmmaker, producer and cultural organizer Cavi Borges has built a career driven by the same restless energy on and off the mat. The documentary follows his path from sport to cinema and shows how he became a central figure in Brazilian independent filmmaking, producing films, creating spaces and connecting artists. Between fights, film sets and international festivals, a portrait emerges of someone who turns limitations into momentum and makes another way of producing cinema possible.

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In the dressing room of the French cinema, minutes before attending a lecture, François Truffaut recalls his trajectory

Benjamim Zambraia is a young drunk who wanders around the city and is sometimes treated with pampering and sometimes with a beating by his parents (Helena Ignez and Otávio Terceiro). As in Chico's book, the boy is obsessed with a big stone.

A sensory journey in the city of Rio de Janeiro with street vendors and street artists as characters in this urban cartography in which past and present are crossed.

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Disillusioned teacher Sara and forgotten poet Francisco were once married and now decide to meet again to talk about their hopes and anxieties. The former couple ends up meeting the young Penelope who changes their lives with her free way of being.