Gilberto Gil Movies

In 1976, Gilberto Gil traveled to Lagos (Nigeria) with the purpose of participating in the Second Festival of Black Art and Culture. The event had...

Live performance by brazilian singer Ivete Sangalo recorded at Salvador, Brazil, presented by MTV.

Jubiabá is a French-Brazilian film based on the homonymous novel by Jorge Amado. The film tells the story of the interracial love between the...

A look at the Brazilian black movement between 1977 and 1988, going by the relationship between Brazil and Africa.

A documentary on the amazing Brazilian music movement known as Tropicália.

The lives of Luhli and Lucina, two especially important artists in the alternative cultural scene during the 1970s. In a time when transgression,...

The documentary presents an overview of Vladimir Carvalho's cinematographic career, from the very beginning, as a co-writer of “Aruanda”...

Deformed form by which the word "beast" (medieval weapon) is pronounced in the north of the Brazilian state of Bahia and was still present in the...

Rogério Duarte is one of the most important names in Tropicália, a Brazilian cultural movement of the 1960s. The plastic artist was one...

The confrontations and conflicts between the city of Padre Cicero's pilgrims and the attempts to develop the region.

In 1996, filmmaker André Luiz Oliveira started preproduction of Viva o Povo Brasileiro, a film adaptation of the novel by João Ubaldo...

In 1982, the Arpoador Beach, in Rio de Janeiro, received the first "incarnation" of Circo Voador, a venue for artists of diverse aspects showing...

Festive Land examines one of the largest and most extraordinary popular celebrations in the world, the week-long Carnival that brings more than two...

This film shines a light at the story of Jards Macalé, polemic artist and controversial character of Brazilian culture over the last four...

Documentary about Brazilian poet Waly Salomão, for whom life was always a fictional film and poetry was a way to expose any naturalistic...

The film records the commemorative tour of the ten years of the career of the Bahia singers Caetano Veloso, Gilberto Gil, Maria Bethânia and...

This film describes some of CC’s success stories and gives insight into where we’re headed.