Silvio Tendler Movies

A documentary on Cosme Alves Netto (1937-1996), former head of the Cinematheque of the Museum of Modern Arts at Rio de Janeiro.

The film shows the resistance movement of the residents of Favela do Vidigal against the removal order, an important chapter in the history of Rio de...

Wagner Tiso is one of the leading arrangers of Brazilian music, also working as a conductor, composer, and pianist.

Chronological profile of Brazil's student activism, from the 30s to the occupation of UNE's headquarters in Rio de Janeiro, 2007.

The story, controversies, victories and defeats of Carlos Marighella, one of the leaders of the armed struggle against the military dictatorship in...

The clandestine congress of the National Union of Students, held in October 1968, resulted in the collective arrest and registration of 700 students...

Built as a letter to JK in his centenary, the film shows what remained in the memory of Brazilians 26 years after his passing in a car accident in...

The world post-World War II and its transformations; the utopias that were created and the barbarity that have marked it. The dismantling of the...

In 2000 a group of homeless people decide to go to a shopping mall to protest, to confront the misery of the excluded middle-class consumption.