Directing

Esdras Baptista

Acting credits

In Esdras Baptista's film archives, kept at his home for decades, one can feel the fervor of those who believed in a new tomorrow. Filmed in Brazil in the early 1960s, in the heat of a libertarian political movement, the filmmaker's images materialize the incandescence of collective desires at the historic moment of their emergence. Utopia, though unattainable, is never a mere abstraction. A force that mobilizes actions and feelings, it constitutes the impetus necessary for human existence.

A Film to Remind Us of Utopia

2026

Behind the camera

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Visita do governador Negrão de Lima a canteiro de obras, em 1956

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Fidel Castro no Rio de Janeiro, 1959

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Footage of Yuri Gagarin's visit to Brazil in 1961.

Visita de Yuri Gagarin à UNE, em 1961

1961

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Recepção a Osvaldo Torrado, presidente de Cuba, no Palácio Guanabara, em 1960.

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Campanha O Petróleo é Nosso, déc. 1940

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Works on Rua Farani, reception of the Cuban ambassador and Dom Jaime Câmara, day of scouting, nakedness of the employees of the Guanabara Palace. Film 16mm, PB, silent. Directed by Esdras Baptista, 1961. LUPA-UFF collection.